1. CCT 300 Spring 2006 Lecture 1: Introduction to Course

2. Course Outline Instructors Text(s) Times and Approaches Resources - Pro Shop, WebCT, Wiki

3. Important Notes Honesty and plagiarism http://www.utoronto.ca/ota/issues/plagsep.html Access to Learning Due Dates

4. Professional Etiquette Cooperative, constructive dialogue is key Conflict and conflict resolution

5. Assignments Film analysis of Network (1976) Wiki - essential form and structure of media (more on this shortly) Culture Jamming/Social Influence project Test and its format

6. Critical Analysis of Media What does this mean, exactly?

7. Critical Analysis Analysis of media form, structure - genre and canonical works Analysis of overarching economic, social, political ramifications of mediated reality

8. Media and Media Form What is a medium? What differentiates one medium from another?

9. Brainstorming In groups, list all media forms you can think of Be as specific as possible - e.g., not just “television” but specific forms of TV programming - e.g., reality TV, sitcoms, news programming forms, etc. How would you define them?

10. Wikispaces What is a wiki? Canonical wikis What is Wikispaces? Tips on good wiki citizenship

11. Basic Wiki Writing Creating/editing pages History and revision Creating external/internal links Editing menus/sidebars Adding images, improving layout

12. Using the course Wiki Requirements for the assignment Use in the course as a whole

13. Next Class Movie Night! (Analysis of Network (1976) due 30th of May…)