"The Plan"

Essentially... we always have to have a plan...
In elementary school they create the plan for you.
In middle school they warn you that if you don't have a plan you're high school years will be ruined.
In high school you realize that you never actually needed a plan, but that college is where the plan needs to be directed.
You get in, CONGRATULATIONS!  You now GET to pay ten's, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars to make another plan. "The 4 Year Plan" (if you're lucky).

As a woman, we make our 10 year plans... those that include when we will:
graduate
   meet the 'man of our dreams'
       get proposed to
           be engaged
              get married
                  have the 'Time alone"
                       and finally ... when we you will have your own little sprout.

As a man you make the simplest of plans... you will:
eventually meet someone, and eventually get married.  Eventually have kids, and when the time is right, you will eventually buy that 1955 Dodge you've always dreamed of fixing up.

So what's the point?
Here's yet another plan to add to the many my life contains.  Self inflicted or not.

Digital Ethnography Spring 2011


I am ultimately not going to do a week by week plan, but rather make a list of everything I need to get done for this project (considering I'm not sure how long each step will ultimately take).  This will most definitely be added to on a continual basis.


Reading:
Wesch's article
Outliers
Mediated
Teaching as a subversive activity
Manifesto of Media Freedom
Actions:
Observe professors in a setting where they are students (math department, english, engineering...etc)
-Do they act like students
-Do they text, sleep, doodle
-Are my, and the generation before reacting the same way?
Speak to media professors
Research the development of new teaching medias. (ex chalkboards meant mass teaching)
Interview Bonnie Lynn-Sherow
Interview Carlos Castillo
Take a poll of how many students use Cramster
-to learn, or to cheat?
Blogs/Vlogs on 'good professors
Research Drunk History
Use Denise's story about Public school