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Episode 1 Overview Listen to Professor Grey’s starting announcement that he has received a message from the future! Professor Grey's Surprise [Video file, 2: 05 min] 2. Listen to the opposing perspectives from the two organizations struggling over the purpose and control of the internet. Greetings from the Collective [Video file, 3: 56 min] A Warning from Fortress 9 [Video file, 3: 45 min] 3. Review the websites for The Collective and Fortress 9. Class Forum 1: The Future of Cyperspace (M 1 D 1) For this inaugural forum you want to introduce yourself and respond to your classmates’ introduction and get to know each other. You will need to help each other in solving the secrets of cyberspace. Essential Question How has cyberculture effected the construction and relationship between online and offline identity? Game Objectives 1. 2. 3. Identify some ways the Internet/World Wide Web influences how humans construct their identity in the post 1990’s world. Create an avatar using an image and brief back-story that presents an online identity Explore the possibility the Internet will become a space for people to peacefully coexist that excludes difference

Resources for Investigations VIEW PROFESSOR GREY’S BRIEFINGS Briefing 1: The Rise of the Internet and World Wide Web A brief history of the internet and World Wide Web. Briefing 2: Web 2. 0: The World Wide Web Today [Week Two]-adaptive release Professor Grey talks about the current state of the web and its users. Briefing 3: Culture: A short lecture on some ways to define culture. READ Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid? ” http: //www. theatlantic. com/magazine/archive/2008/07/ is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/The Atlantic, (July 2008); Scroll down to the end of the article and click the print option This celebrated and controversial article argues that the Internet has changed peoples’ brains in some alarming ways. Optional Resources View optional Resources

Resources for Investigations VIEW PROFESSOR GREY’S BRIEFINGS Briefing 1: The Rise of the Internet and World Wide Web A brief history of the internet and World Wide Web. Briefing 2: Web 2. 0: The World Wide Web Today [Week Two]-adaptive release Professor Grey talks about the current state of the web and its users. Briefing 3: Culture: A short lecture on some ways to define culture. READ Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid? ” http: //www. theatlantic. com/magazine/archive/2008/07 /is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/The Atlantic, (July 2008); Scroll down to the end of the article and click the print option This celebrated and controversial article argues that the Internet has changed peoples’ brains in some alarming ways. Optional Resources View optional Resources

Investigations INVESTIGATIVE REPORT Based upon Professor Grey’s briefings and the readings you are asked to compose a short 100 -250 word manifesto for cyberspace. A manifesto (think of Marx and Engle’s Communist Manifesto), like a declaration (the one you read from Barlow or more famously The Declaration of Independence that Barlow invokes), is a blueprint for what you would like to see happen now in terms of the organization, future development and governance of cyberspace. Challenge 1: Rise of the Information Tidal Wave Complete Challenge Journal CHALLENGE 2: Weaving the Web Complete Challenge Journaling is considered by some to be a lost art. We sometimes think of journals as private forms of writing like a diary but this is not true. Great journal writers like Henry David Thoreau often shared their journals with friends like the venerable Ralph Waldo Emerson. The journal records one’s daily activities. This aids one’s memory and also contributes to larger stories such as an autobiography or larger narrative like Thoreau’s Walden. Writers like Thoreau did keep daily journals and they often wrote long hand crafted letters. Continue reading more on the Journal CLASS FORUM 2 Avatars: Creating a Unique Online Self From the beginning of the web individuals have created avatars as online personae to conduct online activities whether dating, chats, or participating in Multiuser Dungeons. Avatars give people a sense of anonymity and allow for the exploration of identity not easily realizable in the physical world except perhaps at Halloween. This online difference allows for shy introverts to become extroverts (in text at least) and even for Caucasians to be black and males to be females. In James Cameron’s epic film Avatar (2009) the avatars were a genetically engineered cyborg race called the Ne’vi. For your second introduction you are asked to create an avatar or use a pre-existing one and introduce that avatar to the class with a back-story or brief biography about the avatar. The avatar can be as close or as far for your embodied or physical, ‘real world” or off line identity as you want. It is important to provide a graphic for your avatar. This can be humorous, as some people use cats or dogs for their visual presence online, or you can draw a picture or use a copyright free image from the web that you feel represents you. For additional credit you can use the free avatar creation program: (30 XP)Dopple. Me: http: //www. doppelme. com/. The company name is derived from a German word doppelganger which means double. The concept of a person having a second and very different identity to their typical everyday public identity is predated the by over a hundred years, think of Robert Louise Stevenson’s famous novel the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. In that novel, Mr. Hyde represented the dark side of the esteemed Dr. Jekyl. Think of your own identity- do you have a double nature or is your online self similar or to your offline self?

Journal (continued) With the advent of the Internet, the journal has been replaced by blogs and hand written letters replaced by email. In this course you will not be recording daily activities, though such a practice could be beneficial if you chose to do so, but you will practice journaling about specific topics for the duration of the course. You will use the journal feature of Blackboard. If you want to continue journaling beyond this class you can use a new online journal format such as Penzu(https: //penzu. com). Your journal entries can be anywhere between 50 words and 250 words. Journal writing is informal and you will be awarded points based on the depth and clarity of your thought. The idea is to practice reflection or thinking about your experiences. • Journal Entry 1 Meditation and Digital Distraction (30 XP) - Professor David M. Levy from the University of Washington has developed a method for helping students, workers and others to deal with the scattered, hectic multitasking reality of the digital age. Dr. Levy uses meditation as a way to recover a state of contemplation amidst the accelerated pace of 21 st century life. In order to alleviate the stress of today’s life you must first understand where stress comes from and how it affects you. For this journal entry keep a log of every email you either send or read for a 2 day period during the first two weeks of class or Episode 1, and note the following in your journal. Time of the email Primary purpose of the email What were you thinking when reading or writing this email? What were you feeling when you read or sent this email? Be precise. An example from an old of an Professor Grey log follows. Thursday 6/26/14 1. Time: 1: 55 PM Purpose: email to Dr. H. at Michigan State to ask about serving on a panel discussion in Washington D. C. this coming October. Thoughts: Wanted her to be on the panel because of her expertise, but wondered if she would come all the way from East Lansing? Feelings: I felt anxious not knowing the answer, but also fragmented as I tried to watch the World Cup Score between the U. S. and Germany on Yahoo while typing the email. Eyes move back and forth between 2 monitors, and leaning into the keyboard-hurried. 2. Time: 2: 18 Purpose: email from Vice Provost who recommended a new white paper on how to assess the value of games in learning using psychometrics. Thoughts: Great, I can use this in my own white paper I am writing for Excelsior. Feelings: Happy- U. S. lost 0 -1, but still advances in the World Cup. The white paper is 160 pages and very technical- anxious, and wanting to leave for day but must attend a meeting. Typing fast and making mistakes. 3. Time: 3: 15 Purpose: Deleted a series of six useless emails from various e-publications trying to recommend courses, selling products or announcing information. Thinking: I can leave on time at 4: 00 with a clean email in box. Feeling: relieved, more relaxed, ready for a long weekend and no need to check email until later tonight.

Midterm Project: Internet Innovation Topic Selection POINTS: 10 XP DUE DATE: End of Episode 1 (The complete project due in Episode 4 will be worth 100 XP. ) In Episode 4 Professor Grey would like you to submit a report on one of the important figures or organizations of the Internet. Your report can be three double spaced pages, five pages if you compose a multimedia report (texts and images), or 8 slides if you submit a Power Point or Prezi report. Please let Professor Grey know your subject by the end of Episode 1. You are definitely allowed to reference Wikipedia in this course, but you cannot compose your entire report solely using How will assignments that resource. Please make use of Excelsior College’s excellent virtual library and librarians. be handled/ displayed? For this Episode please submit your choice of topic to Professor Grey via the drop box. View Possible Choices for Mid-term Report Midterm Project: Internet Innovation Topic Selection POINTS: 10 XP DUE DATE: End of Episode 1 (The complete project due in Episode 4 will be worth 100 XP. ) In Episode 4 Professor Grey would like you to submit a report on one of the important figures or organizations of the Internet. Your report can be three double spaced pages, five pages if you compose a multimedia report (texts and images), or 8 slides if you submit a Power Point or Prezi report. Please let Professor Grey know your subject by the end of Episode 1. You are definitely allowed to reference Wikipedia in this course, but you cannot compose your entire report solely using that resource. Please make use of Excelsior College’s excellent virtual library and librarians. For this Episode please submit your choice of topic to Professor Grey via the drop box. View Possible Choices for Mid-term Report

Possible Choices for Mid Term Report • Tim Berners-Lee (Founder of World Wide Web) • The Electronic Frontier Foundation • The Deep or Hidden Web • Napster (music file sharing pioneer website) • Bill Gates (Microsoft) • Steve Jobs (Apple) • Google • Mark Zuckerberg(Facebook) • Twitter • Bit Torrent • e. Bay • Amazon. com • Cyberpunk (science fiction genre) • Wikipedia • Professor Henry Jenkins (U. S. C. , chief proponent of Participatory Culture) • Howard Rheingold (virtual community pioneer) • Massively Muliplayer Online Games • Second Life (a virtual world) • Bitcoins (virtual currency) • Tamagotchi (virtual pets) • Internet Addiction(s) • Meetup. com (a social club site for meeting in the ‘real world’) • Chatroulette (a radical video chat tool invented by a Russian teen) • Square-(e-commerce tool invented by founder of Twitter) • Paypal (online payment system) • Flickr-(1 st major online image sharing site) • Instagam (super popular photo and video sharing) • You. Tube (online video publishing) • Pierre Levy- French philosopher and expert on cyberspace • Pinterest-(highly popular site for collecting and saving everything you find on the web) • Netflix • Craig’s List • In. Ste. DD (Innovative Support to Emergencies, Diseases, and Disasters) • Cyberbullying • Wiki. Leaks-online journalism site that publishes secret information • Tumblr- extremely popular micoblogging site • Reddit- extremely popular user generated site for social and entertainment news • Fitbit- a wearable device that tracks your sleep, eating, and exercise habits on a continual basis • Fight for the Future- organization that advocates for digital rights against copyright restrictions etc. • Drudge Report-site aggregates new stories around the world, broke the Monica Lewinsky case • Techdirt-a blog that expose little know technology news • Piracy-anything dealing with ways of circumventing corporate/governmental control of the Internet • Hacker- a computer term with various and contradictory meanings from criminal to creative • Creative Commons- a license that allows for free distribution of otherwise copyrighted material • Alibaba- a giant Chinese version of e. Bay. • Open Educational Resources-resources available on the internet without charge such as short stories, films, lesson plans, art work • MOOCs-Massively Open Online Courses- a new trend where universities offer free course to the public • Feminist Frequency-a charity/video blog use to offer a critique of male biases in video games • e. Harmony- a large online dating service • Tinder- a mobile dating app that uses geolocation features • Grindr- an i. Phone app using geolocation, primarily for gay men • iphone- Apples’s pioneering Smartphone

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Resources for Investigations VIEW PROFESSOR GREY’S BRIEFINGS Briefing 1: The Rise of the Internet and World Wide Web A brief history of the internet and World Wide Web. Briefing 2: Web 2. 0: The World Wide Web Today [Week Two]-adaptive release Professor Grey talks about the current state of the web and its users. Briefing 3: Culture: A short lecture on some ways to define culture. READ Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid? ” http: //www. theatlantic. com/magazine/archive/2008/07 /is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/The Atlantic, (July 2008); Scroll down to the end of the article and click the print option This celebrated and controversial article argues that the Internet has changed peoples’ brains in some alarming ways. Optional Resources View optional Resources

Resources for Investigations VIEW PROFESSOR GREY’S BRIEFINGS Briefing 1: The Rise of the Internet and World Wide Web A brief history of the internet and World Wide Web. Briefing 2: Web 2. 0: The World Wide Web Today [Week Two]-adaptive release Professor Grey talks about the current state of the web and its users. Briefing 3: Culture: A short lecture on some ways to define culture. READ Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid? ” http: //www. theatlantic. com/magazine/archive/2008/07 /is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/The Atlantic, (July 2008); Scroll down to the end of the article and click the print option This celebrated and controversial article argues that the Internet has changed peoples’ brains in some alarming ways. Optional Resources View optional Resources