Teaching TiddlyWiki?

[Steven Schneider]

Hi folks,

In my previous/future life as a faculty member at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, I developed a course called "Designing and Writing Interactive Texts" for both graduate and undergraduate students.

In my current life as an academic administrator, I'm helping develop a suite of courses to be offered this summer offering opportunities to students to study the pandemic from a variety of perspectives (sociological, anthropological, historical, etc) while creating, designing, building, making, writing, ... "artifacts" -- writing, arts, presentations, TiddlyWikis!

To teach an undergraduate class requires a Master's degree. To teach a graduate class, a PhD, a terminal Master's degree (MFA), or ABD in a PhD program is required.

100% online, of course. Mixture of sync or async possible; depending on faculty and student preferences.

The course could be modeled on my course, "Designing and Writing Interactive Texts' (http://designwritestudio.com,) which uses Tiddlywiki as a tool. Or build an entirely new course or build upon the open source teaching material available. 

Salary is our typical adjunct faculty salary.  Summer is based on # of students, and faculty can set minimum (4) and maximum (??) that they would be willing to teach.  For example, 16 undergraduate students @ 3 credits = ~$3200, courses run either 6 or 8 weeks.  

Interested?

Send an email to Andy Russell, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. 

https://sunypoly.edu/faculty-and-staff/andrew-russell.html

Courses, or similar courses that will be offered this summer, with a focus on creating texts (wikis) that interpret, collect, analyze, annotate, process, or otherwise manipulate & design, readings or discovered texts reflecting a particular perspective viewpoint on the COVID-19 global pandemic.

https://sunypoly.edu/academics/majors-and-programs/ms-information-design-technology/course-descriptions.html

IDT 575 Designing/Writing Interactive Text (3)
Explores the contemporary practice of writing in digital environments, with an emphasis on hypertext and hypertextuality. Reviews the history of writing, and the notion of interactivity. Techniques for writing digital texts with navigational and semantic elements are presented and practiced. Students design and write wikis featuring words, images, video and audio, and use a variant of Markdown to structure elements and render documents and texts consistent with contemporary standards of design and presentation.

https://sunypoly.edu/academics/majors-and-programs/communication-information-design-cid/course-descriptions.html

COM 375: Designing and Writing Interactive Texts
Examines and applies techniques associated with designing and writing interactive texts, ranging from traditional web pages to wikis, social networking platforms and stand-alone works of fiction and non-fiction. Analysis of contemporary applications of interactive text in digital culture and professional environments. Emphasis on creating original works as well as reengineering existing linear texts in interactive platforms. Prerequisite: ENG 101 or permission of instructor.