Proposed Class Schedule for Mixing and Remixing Information

Last revised: January 17, 2006

DayDate Subject
                    

1

01/18/06

Introductory class
                    
          

Learning about Flickr as an end-user

2

01/23/06

Overview of Flickr as an application

3

01/25/05

Flickr: Tagging, Sets, Pooling -- and social picture sharing
               

4

01/30/06

Flickr: RSS and Atom (syndication) I

5

02/01/06

Flickr: RSS and Atom II: Blogging integration, first look at the Flickr APIs
               

6

02/06/06

Flickr Hacks and Flickr Toys (remixing Flickr)

7

02/08/06

Thinking about other applications using what we've learned about Flickr
               

8

02/13/06

Presentation of Project Proposals: I

9

02/15/06

Guest lecture (TBD)
               
     

President's Day

      
               

Learning the Flickr API

10

02/22/06

Introduction to the APIs in general & first pass at the Flickr API
               

11

02/27/06

Review of XML, unicode, web services

12

03/01/06

Get-oriented parts of the Flickr API
               

13

03/06/06

Scripting language interfacing to Flickr

14

03/08/06

Set-oriented parts of the Flickr API
               

15

03/13/06

HTML DOM, Javascript & API: I

16

03/15/06

HTML DOM, Javascript & API: II
               

17

03/20/06

Mapping APIs, AJAX, Geobloggers, and Flickr

18

03/22/06

Other APIs: amazon, google, ebay, etc
               
     

Spring Break

  
          

Remixing and Inventing

19

04/03/06

Review of previous concepts; Project Discussions II

20

04/05/06

Frameworks for remix
               

21

04/10/06

Firefox extensions and Greasemonkey I

22

04/12/06

Firefox extensions and Greasemonkey II
               

23

04/17/06

OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Office, and smart documents

24

04/19/06

TBD (based on class interest, project proposals)
               

25

04/24/06

TBD (based on class interest, project proposals)

26

04/26/06

TBD (based on class interest, project proposals)
               

27

05/01/06

TBD (based on class interest, project proposals)

28

05/03/06

Project Presentations
               

29

05/08/06

Reflection on what we've learned

Note on final section of the course: The focus of this section of the course is on bringing two (and ultimately more) things together.   (e.g., Flickr and mapping).  An organizing question is where can these meeting places and frameworks be.  We will examine different frameworks, putting an emphasis on Firefox and the Greasemonkey extension.   Learning how to use greasemonkey is a good way to learn about remixing many aspects of the Web, especially what is in the web browser.  Depending on the interests of the students and what students are focused on for their projects, we will also consider looking at the following topics: