Class and Due Dates for Required Assignments and Project Work
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Topic
and Readings
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| Class 1
Tues: Jan. 9
Weds: Jan. 10
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Why SmartGirl? Part
I
Introduction to the Course and to SmartGirl
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Class 2
Tues: Jan. 16
Weds: Jan. 17
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Why SmartGirl? Part II
The Gender Gap in Technology, Math, and Science
Workshop: Introduction to the Internet
Assigned Readings:
Millar, M.S. (1998). Cracking the Gender
Code (pp. 11-24). Toronto: Second Story Press.
Cooper, J. and Weaver, K. (2003). Gender and Computers: Understanding the
Digital Divide (pp. 1-39). New Jersey: Erlbaum.
Fisher, A. and Margolis, J. (2002).
Unlocking the Clubhouse: The Carnegie Mellon Experience. SIGCSE Bulletin, 34 (2), pp. 79-83.
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Class 3
Tues: Jan. 23
Weds: Jan. 24
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Who are SmartGirls? Part
I
Early Adolescent Development
Workshop: Introduction to HTML Assigned Readings:
Schave, D. and Schave, B. (1989).
Early Adolescence and the Search for Self (pp. 1-16). New York: Praeger.
Eccles, J. and Gootman, J. (2002). "Adolescent Development." Community Programs to Promote Youth Development
(pp. 41-65). Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
Haag, Pamela (2000). Voices of a Generation (pp. 3-24). New York: Marlowe
& Company.
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| Class 4
Tues: Jna. 30
Weds: Jan. 31
ASSIGNMENT:
SmartCenter Project
Due: Prior to Class
Submit comments in the assignment section of CTools, including your login name and title of your report. Worth 3 hours of lab time. |
Who are SmartGirls? Part II
Concerns of Adolescent Girls
Workshop: Writing Age Appropriate and Topic Relevant Survey Questions
Assigned Readings: Dake, J., Price, J., and Telljohann, S. (May 2003). The
Nature and Extent of Bullying at School. Journal of School Health,
73 (5), pp. 173-180.
Bearman, S.K., Presnell, K., Martinez, E., & Stice, E.
(April 2006). The Skinny on Body Dissatisfaction: A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Girls and Boys. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 35 (2), pp. 229-241.
Walcott, D., Pratt, H., and Patel, D. (May 2003). Adolescents and Eating
Disorders: Gender, Racial, Ethnic, Sociocultural, and Socioeconomic Issues.
Journal of Adolescent Research, 18 (3), pp. 223-243.
Bay-Cheng, L.Y. and Lewis, A.E. (Spring 2006). Our "ideal girl": Prescriptions of Female Adolescent Sexuality in a Feminist Mentorship Program. Journal of Women and Social Work, 21 (1), pp. 71-83.
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| Class 5
Tues: Feb. 6
Weds: Feb. 7
PROJECT WORK:
Survey Questions
Due: Fri., Feb. 9 by 5pm
Submit in discussion section of CTools.
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Who are SmartGirls? Part
III
The Impact of the Media
Workshop: Peer Review of Survey Questions
Assigned Readings:
Kaiser, S. (2003). Fashion, Media
and Cultural Anxiety: Visual Representations of Childhood. In Fortunati,
L., Katz,J. and Riccini, R. (Eds.), Mediating the Human Body (pp. 155-161).
New Jersey: Erlbaum.
Larson, R. (October 1995). Secrets in the Bedroom: Adolescents' Private
Use of Media. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 24 (5), 535-550.
Kaplan, E.B. and Cole, L. (Spring 2003). "I Want To Read Stuff On Boys": White, Latina, and Black Girls Reading Seventeen Magazine and Encountering Adolescence. Adolescence, 38 (149), pp. 141-159.
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| Class 6
Tues: Feb. 13
Weds: Feb. 14
ASSIGNMENT:
Personal Website
Due: Prior to Class
Post the address of your website in the assignment section of CTools. Worth 2 hours of lab time.
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Defining our Role at SmartGirl,
Part I
Role Model, Sponsor, Mentor or Muse
Workshop: HTML
Assigned Readings:
Crosby, Faye J. (1999). The Developmental
Literature on Developmental Relationships. In Murrell, Audrey J., Crosby,
Faye J., & Ely, Robin J. (Eds.), Mentoring Dilemmas (pp. 3-20). Mahwah,
New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Sullivan, A.M. (1996). From mentor to muse: Recasting the role of women
in relationship with urban adolescent girls. In B.J.R Leadbetter &
N. Way (Eds.), Urban girls: Resisting stereotypes, creating identities (pp.
226-249). New York: NYU Press.
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| Class 7
Tues: Feb. 20
Weds: Feb. 21
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Defining our Role at SmartGirl, Part II
Limitations to Our Interactions
Workshop: Analyzing survey responses
Assigned Readings:
Federal Trade Commission (2000). How to Comply with the
Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule. Washington, DC.
SmartGirl's Privacy Policy http://www.smartgirl.org/about/privacy.html
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| Class 8
Tues: March 6
Weds: March 7
ASSIGNMENT:
Exploring MySpace
Due: Prior to Class
Go to www.myspace.com and locate one profile that endangers an individual due to the information given in their profile. Submit comments and post profile in the assignment section of CTools. Worth 1 hour of lab time.
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Defining
our Role at SmartGirl, Part III
Social Networking, Cyberbullying, and Digital Citizenship
Workshop: HTML
Assigned Readings:
Hewitt, B. (June 2006). MySpace Nation: The Controversy. People, 65 (22), 113-114.
Li, Q. (2006). Cyberbullying in Schools: A Research of Gender Differences.
School Psychology International, 27 (x), pp. 000-000.
Ribble, M.S., Bailey, G.D., and Tweed, R.W. (September 2004). Digital Citizenship: Addressing Appropriate Technology Behavior. Learning & Leading with Technology, 32 (1), pp. 6-11.
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| Class 9
Tues: March 13
Weds: March 14
PROJECT WORK:
Research Paper Due
Friday, March 16 by 5pm
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Reshaping SmartGirl, Part
I
Encouraging Self-Esteem
Workshop: HTML
Assigned Readings:
DuBois,D., Lockerd, E., Reach, K.
and Parra, G. (November 2003). Journal of Early Adolescence, 23 (4), 405-434.
Eccles, J. and Gootman, J. (2002). "Personal and social assets that promote well-being." Community Programs to
Promote Youth Development (pp. 66-85). Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
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| Class 10
Tues: March 20
Weds: March 21
ASSIGNMENT:
Game Design
Due: Prior to Class
Use reading for this week to design a computer game that you think would be engaging for women. Submit design to the assignment section of CTools. Worth 1 hour of lab time.
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Reshaping SmartGirl, Part II
Designing for Women
Workshop: HTML
Assigned Readings:
Sadowska, N. (2002). Women's Internet
Sites: A Search for Design Strategies to Engage the Female Viewer. In Consalvo,
M. and Paasonen, S. (Eds.), Women and Everyday Uses of the Internet (pp. 90-107).
New York: Peter Lang.
Cassell, J. (In Press).
Genderizing HCI. MIT Media Lab.
Farmer, Melissa (2001). Games for girls going...going...gone? Game
Developer, 7, 63-64.
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| Class 11
Tues: March 27
Weds: March 28
ASSIGNMENT:
Personal Website Updates
Due: Prior to Class
Update personal website using skills learned during semester. Submit summary of your changes in the assignment section of CTools. Worth 2 hours of lab time.
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SmartWomen of the Past and Future
Women and Computers
Workshop: Designing an Effective Presentation
Assigned Readings:
Light, J. (2003). Programming. In
Lerman, N., Oldenziel, R. and Mohun, A. (Eds.), Gender and Technology (pp.
295-326). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins.
Shade, L. (2002). Women as Cyberagents. In Gender and Community in the Social Construction of the Internet (pp. 33-54). New York: Peter Lang.
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Class 12
Tues: April 3
Weds: April 4
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Open Class Period for Final Project Work and Questions
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Class 13
Tues: April 10
Weds: April 11
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Final Presentations
5 minute presentation should incorporate some combination of the following elements:
- Your inspiration for the project
- Justification for the project based on your mid-term paper
- The story of your project (problems and successes you encountered,
dynamic nature of your project)
- Demonstration of your project
- Final thoughts (future directions for project, impact on your
coursework, etc.)
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PROJECT WORK
Final Project Due:
Friday, April 20, 2007 by 5pm
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Final Project Deadline
Due:
- Final project on CD or in your Public File (has to be somewhere in your Public folder or we cannot access it) in IFS/Mfile.
- Printed description of project, with names of group members.
- Special instructions about what needs to be completed (this should be very minor details) by SmartGirl
staff or other relevant information you think we should know.
- List of files you are turning in (including images, html, folders, etc.)
- If you are working with another organization, an evaluation form completed by the person you were working with (faxed to Tiffany Marra at (734) 764 - 9533).
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