1. Electronic Media and Discourse Amy Bender University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

2. Plan for time together Didactic session-issues with media Seminar-Mending Wall Coaching-practice big ideas with brevity

3. Social Networking Sites Our Use Facebook Twitter Others? Texting, instant messaging, blog posting, email

4. Link between media and physiology Does the media actually change the way our brains function? Privacy issues-apps to locate friends that are using media, tracking devices in cell phones, Gestures, emotions, and moods our representations of ourselves in the world are changing Desire of immediacy and connection

5. Use of sites and our future discourse Smart phones and iPads mush my toddlers brain? Speed of communication detrimental to thinking? (Sponge Bob study, Wall street journal) Prewritten posts to sway thinking on issues (Morgan Stanley) Flaming (hitting send button too soon)

6. Be the change Positive views-immediacy of social language creates opportunities Communication of logistics “ Forced to compress message into fewer words, each word works harder and carries more meaning ” David Gelernter Accessible when you choose to allow it Use as instructional tool-enhancing texts

7. Seminar Mending Wall

8. Practice Twitter Write message 140 characters to sum up big ideas in seminar Difference between thin and thick tweets, hash tags, etc. Share with group