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August 24 – Introductions August 29 – Writing Assignment Due: Your Biases, Location & Experience Read everything on the “Forum FAQ” at http://ucahonors.org/forum/faq.php August 31 – Scavenger Hunt Discussion (Mega List of Online Communities) September 5 – Scavenger Hunt Discussion (Mega List) September 7 – Honors College: Origins and Academic Culture (Special Guest: Rick Scott) September 12 – Generate Discussion Topics September 14 – Origins of HCOL (Special Guest: Mike Allen) September 19 – Reading and Dissecting a Threaded Conversation

Quiz on Terminology, Jargon, Technical Elements September 21 – The Technological Transformation of the Knowledge Profession September 26 – Writing Assignment Due: Threaded Conversations

Finish Powazek September 28 – Moderation (Special Guests: Cindy Lea & Garrett Steele)

Begin Roleplay: Moderating an Internet Forum October 3 – Moderation Roleplay and Discussion, cont. October 5 – Moderation, concl. & Karma System October 10 – Class Topic October 12 – Class Topic

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October 17 – Class Topic Writing Assignment Due: Pineapple Wiki October 19 – No class (Fall Break) October 24 – Class Topic October 26 – Class Topic

Writing Assignment: Group A Presentation Essay Due October 31 – Group A Presentation #1: Status Cue/Reputation Management Systems (B Believing, C Doubting)

Writing Assignment: Group B Presentation Essay Due November 2 – Group B Presentation #1: Status Cue/Reputation Management Systems (C Believing, A Doubting)

Writing Assignment: Group C Presentation Essay Due November 7 – Group C Presentation #1: Status Cue/Reputation Management Systems (A Believing, B Doubting) November 9 – NetGrrrls (Special Guest: Amanda Dougherty)

Finish Smith & Kollock November 14 – Class Topic November 16 – Phil & Donna Gone to Philly

Writing Assignment: Group B Presentation Essay Due November 21 – Group B Presentation #2: NCHC Training Sessions (A Believing, C Doubting)

Writing Assignment: Group C Presentation Essay Due November 23 – No class (Thanksgiving Holiday) November 28 – Group C Presentation #2: NCHC Training Sessions (B Believing, A Doubting)

Writing Assignment: Group A Presentation Essay Due November 30 – Group A Presentation #2: NCHC Training Sessions (C Believing, B Doubting) Finish Bell & Kennedy

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December 5 – Begin Final Presentation on HCOL 2.0 December 7 – Continue Final Presentation December 11-15 Finals Week – Finish Final Presentation

MEGA LIST OF ONLINE COMMUNITIES

Honors College Online http://ucahonors.org/ MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html Idealist.org http://www.idealist.org/ Nerve.com http://www.nerve.com Fiction Alley http://www.fictionalley.org/ Friendster http://www.friendster.com/ SuicideGirls http://suicidegirls.com/ Wikipedia Community Portal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_Portal

BoingBoing http://www.boingboing.net/ Dogster http://www.dogster.com/ BookCrossing http://www.bookcrossing.com/ OnionStreet http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/communities/onionstreet/ National Geographic Education Network http://www.ngsednet.org/ We-make-money-not-art http://we-make-money-not-art.com/ Rockeboom vlog http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/ Digital Lives

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/digital_lives/ SHARE Home Page http://www.shareyourstory.org/ The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ The Math Forum http://mathforum.org/ The Official Nevermore Website: This Godless Endeavor http://www.nevermore.tv/ CJR Daily http://www.cjrdaily.org/ Everything About Old English Sheepdogs http://www.oes.org/ English Mastiff Online Community http://www.mastiffonline.com/ Rice Lake Online Virtual Community http://www.ricelakevirtualcity.com/ Gaia Online http://www.gaiaonline.com/ Offtopic.com http://forums.offtopic.com/ The Awful Forums http://forums.somethingawful.com/ IGN Boards

http://boards.ign.com/ VW Vortex http://forums.vwvortex.com/ Christian Forums http://www.christianforums.com/ PbNation http://www.pbnation.com/ Becker-Posner Blog http://becker-posner-blog.com/ Honda-Tech http://www.honda-tech.com/ Daily Kos http://www.dailykos.com/ Jedi Council Forums http://boards.theforce.net/ Diablo 2 http://forums.d2jsp.org/ A.V. Club Bulletin Boards http://www.avclub.com/content/forum http://www.avclub.com/content/blog C6 Corvette Forum http://forums.corvetteforum.com/index.php AnandTech http://forums.anandtech.com/

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Broadband Reports http://www.dslreports.com/forums/all Gamespy http://archive.gamespy.com/forums/ GameFAQs http://www.gamefaqs.com/ General [M]ayhem http://www.genmay.net/ Pinoy Exchange http://www.pinoyexchange.com/ Digital Photography Review http://www.dpreview.com/forums/ Slashdot http://slashdot.org/ IMDB Message Boards http://www.imdb.com/boards/ The Conservative Loon http://conservativeloon.blogspot.com/ Disney Discussion Forums http://www.disboards.com/ Sputnik Music http://www.sputnikmusic.com/forums/ JJB for *NSYNC Fans http://p099.ezboard.com/bjjboard

Digital Spy http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/index.php?s= IdolForums http://idolforums.com/ Bodybuilding and Fitness Board http://forum.bodybuilding.com/ Ars Technica http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve Republican National Convention Blog http://rncnyc2004.blogspot.com/ Fan Forum http://www.fanforum.com/ RealGM http://www.realgm.com/boards/index.php Essembly http://www.essembly.com/ Jolt forums http://forums.jolt.co.uk/ Xbox Forums http://forums.xbox.com/ Big Soccer http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/ FatWallet http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/

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Rotten Tomatoes Forum http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/index.php The Superhero Hype! Boards http://www.superherohype.com/forums/ Wizards of the Coast http://boards1.wizards.com/ AVS Forum http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/ Reef Central http://reefcentral.com/forums/index.php Killer Movies http://www.killermovies.com/forums/ The 2+2 Forums http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/ubbthreads.php The Straight Dope http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/ Team Xbox http://forum.teamxbox.com/ The Ill Community http://community.allhiphop.com/ Allakhazam http://everquest.allakhazam.com/ Second Life http://secondlife.com/

H-Net http://www.h-net.org/ India Forums http://www.india-forums.com/ tranceaddict http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/ CruiseCritic http://boards.cruisecritic.com/ SOHH http://forums.sohh.com/index.php SkyscraperCity http://skyscrapercity.com/ RPGnet http://forum.rpg.net/ Neowin http://www.neowin.net/forum/ Fucked Company http://bbs.fuckedcompany.com/ Democratic Underground http://www.democraticunderground.com/ The Student Room http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/ GoLiveWire http://www.golivewire.com/forums/

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deviantART http://forum.deviantart.com/ Sybermoms http://sybermoms.com/forums/ motheringdotcommune http://www.mothering.com/discussions/ boards.ie http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/ Shroomery http://www.shroomery.org/forums/ubbthreads.php Party East Carolina http://www.partyeastcarolina.com/default.aspx Penny Arcade http://www.penny-arcade.com/forums/ Glock Talk http://www.glocktalk.com/ Student Doctor Network Forums http://forums.studentdoctor.net/ Internet Infidels http://www.iidb.org/vbb/index.php Rapture Ready http://www.rr-bb.com/ The Wolf Web http://www.thewolfweb.com/message.aspx

TeenSpot http://www.teenspot.com/boards/index.html Lonely Planet http://thorntree.lonelyplanet.com/ MysticWicks http://www.mysticwicks.com/ Above Top Secret Conspiracy Community http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/index.php BrownPride http://boards.brownpride.com/ubbthreads.php Alternative Nation http://www.alternativenation.net/forums/ LazyForums http://www.lazyfuck.net/index.php Perspectives http://www.perspectives.com/forums/ Prison Talk http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/ Jehovahs Witness Discussion Forum http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/default.ashx Catholic Answers Forum http://forums.catholic.com/index.php HysterSisters http://www.hystersisters.com/vb2/index.php

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BlogRing http://www.blogring.net/index.php?act=idx bus web board http://buslist.org/phpBB/ Black Sheep Forums http://www.bsforums.com/ Strange Talk 3.5 http://strangetalk.net/ The New Café http://newcafe.org/ MySpace http://www.myspace.com/ Bianca http://www.bianca.com/ Achenblog http://blog.washingtonpost.com/achenblog/ Craigslist http://sfbay.craigslist.org/ Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ Xanga http://www.xanga.com/ Blogger http://www.blogger.com/start

LiveJournal http://www.livejournal.com/ MetaFilter http://www.metafilter.com/ Technorati http://www.technorati.com/ Cybertown http://www.cybertown.com/main_ieframes.html Trench Wars http://www.trenchwars.org/Trench/ De Digitalestad http://www.dds.nl/ ICQ Community http://www.icq.com/ Google Groups/Usenet http://groups.google.com/ MSN Groups http://groups.msn.com/home.msnw?pgmarket=en-us Sci-fi Meshes http://www.scifi-meshes.com/ Yahoo! Groups http://groups.yahoo.com/ Talk City http://www.talkcity.com/homepage.htm?flash=y

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The WELL http://www.well.com/ The Fray http://fray.com/index-old.shtml iVillage http://www.ivillage.com/ Harvard LearnWeb

http://learnweb.harvard.edu/ent/home/index.cfm Christian Chat Rooms http://chat.wwcol.com/ Meetup http://www.meetup.com/ SeniorNet http://www.seniornet.org/php/default.php