Jim,
As you know, I've already given a lot of thought during many years about
what role technology should play in the Music and Music Industry majors.
The question of curriculum content is affected by the availability of
qualified staff.  You and your colleagues have always been very generous
with your time in offered extra instruction, and recently, I had a very
positive discussion with Deb Farro-Lynd about subjects taught in CSCI 100.
The article I sent you seemed to wander around about various course goals
of what it called "Computer Science."
The course outline you sent is interesting.  Naturally, I'd like to see a
course that deals specifically with the needs of our Music and Music
Industry majors.  
You asked what such a course would look like for my majors.  If I write
the course outline, will you staff it???
Thanks very much.
Janet


Dr. J. Nepkie

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On 4/5/12 7:24 AM, "Greenberg, Jim" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Janet, (and TB)
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>Thanks for this article.  This is a legitimate question for campuses to be
>asking themselves.  Over the years I have been asked to do as many as 45
>guest lectures in any one semester.  Often these lectures are to infuse
>some crucial aspect of CS from the perspective of the course.  I've done
>everything from networking, security, programming, web design, basic
>microcomputers, social networking, how to write API's for social
>networking tools, XML, HTML, etc., etc.  The author makes a good point by
>wondering if even one course would be enough.  CS has bifurcated on a
>regular basis since its inception in the late 70's/early 80's.  What CS is
>today is perhaps a dozen different disciplines.  Which CS should be
>taught? 
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>I for one think that what people are really asking is how to make students
>productive in, and more aware of, the new cyber infrastructure emerging
>from the Internet and the explosion of devices. A small, but growing
>number of scholars in this area, refer to this as learning how to manage
>your presence in cyberspace.  Gardner Campbell now at Virginia Tech is a
>well known face in this group.  When I taught New Media for our
>Communication's Dept.  I tried to do just this.  I could send a number of
>papers and videos on this to you or the TB list if people were interested.
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>I've attached the Syllabus for this course and here is an outline of the
>main topics. 
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>Week 1: Exploration of New Media and the Conversation Prisim
>Week 2: The Faustian Bargain in and Unanticipated Consequences of These
>Technologies
>Week 3: As We May Think  (how these technologies maybe changing the
>fundamental ways we think and construct knowledge)
>Week 4: Network Neutrality (How the Internet works and why we should care)
>Week 5: Blogs, Wikis, and other Participatory Technologies
>Week 6: Why the Facts No Longer Matter, or how these technologies amplify
>the spectacle
>Week 7-9: Cool Tools (here we spend two or three weeks looking at Internet
>based tools) Including, but not limited to, Facebook, Twitter, Diigo,
>Zotero, Foursquare, 4Chan, Google, Evernote, Skype, YouTube, Vimeo, Ning,
>Grou.ps, etc.  
>Week 10: We look in depth at Twitter and consider what an API to it would
>do and look like.
>Week 11: Widgets, Gadgets, Nuggets and How Sites like iGoogle, Ning, and
>others work
>Week 12: Virtual Worlds
>Week 13: Augmented Reality
>Week 14: Mobile Technologie
>Week 15: The future (Nanotechnology, wireless, etc.)
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>What would such a course look like for your majors?
>
>Mr. James B. Greenberg
>Director Teaching, Learning and Technology
>Center 
>Milne Library 
>SUNY College at Oneonta
>Oneonta, New York 13820
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>email: [log in to unmask]
>phone: 607-436-2701
>fax:   607-436-3677
>Twitter: greenbjb
>
>"Ignorance is curable,
>stupidity lasts forever"
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>On 4/5/12 6:13 AM, "Nepkie, Janet" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/castingoutnines/2012/04/04/making-comput
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>>r-science-a-requirement/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
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