I'm not really one for tooting my own horn, but I wanted to let everyone know about a course I'll be teaching at Syracuse this spring on Network(ed) Rhetorics. I've posted the official course description, and over the next month or so, I'll be resuscitating the weblog of the same name that I started this past spring and using it as the official site for the course.

I'm excited about the course because I think we'll be reading alot of really good, recent work on blogs, wikis, social software, network studies, etc. I'm also going to try and push the envelope in terms of conducting as much of the course as possible online, and that's where the "invitation" part of my title comes in. I've spoken with a few people, but hammered out nothing definite in this regard: if there are others out there who are teaching c&w grad courses, and would be interested in coordinating some of the readings and/or even setting up opportunities for collaboration across institutions, that's something that I'd be interested in working on. If there are students outside of SU who'd like to join the online portion of the class (and perhaps even earn credit for it as an independent study at their home institutions), that's something I'd also be interested in. And of course, I invite anyone who's interested to read along and/or participate in discussions as the mood hits them.

I'm hoping not only to introduce the students in the course to the study of networks, but also to get them practicing as much as possible the kind of network literacies that people like Adrian Miles and Jill Walker have talked about. And to do that, the course itself has to be networked. Bottom line is that I'm inviting anyone with some interest in these topics to help me do that.

I'll drop a note here when I've got the course weblog up and running. Until then, I'll continue posting at Collin vs. Blog, and I welcome any comments or thoughts about the course as I'm building it.

cgb