Structure (or Building Blocks)

Framework	Overviews, perspectives, and strategic vision of tools and methodologies for 21st century media literacy.
Technologies and impact	Discussions on applications and technologies. Lectures will be enhanced through guest speakers' stories. System development life cycle (SDLC) will be applied to class lectures on selected applications.
Project management	Key concepts explored and applied to research and team projects to facilitate internalizing core principles.
Evaluation and analysis	Review, evaluate, and apply critical thinking to technologies and methodologies.

Required Reading

• Available in CUA's bookstore: Engard, Nicole C., Editor (2009). Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data. Information Today, Inc.: New Jersey.
  
• Selected articles identified weekly by professor and available under weekly readings.

Weekly Syllabus

The weekly syllabus below is based on Catholic University's spring 2010 academic schedule. See the following calendar for more information: CUA's Academic Spring 2010 Semester calendar.

Week	Meeting Date	Topics	Guest Speakers**	Major Assignments
1	Monday, January 11	Framework: Introductions and overview (life-long learning models)
2	Monday, January 25	Framework: Strategic management issues as it relates to library technologies and project management	Sam Clay	Team projects (survey)
3	Monday, February 1	Project management: Developing a business case	Ulla de Stricker (WebEx)
4	Monday, February 8	Technologies and impact: Traditional and non-traditional library catalogs	Deb Hunt (WebEx)	WBS (drafts)
5	Monday, February 15	Technologies and impact/Evaluation and analysis: Playing in sandboxes		Sandbox (Part 1): Pecha Kucha presentations
6	Monday, February 22	Technologies and impact: eLearning models
7	Tuesday, February 23	Project management: Team Projects Working Week
8	Monday, March 1	Technologies and impact: Websites and collaborative models	Aaron Krebeck
9	Monday, March 15	All Four Building Blocks: Business Case & Project Planning	All Students	Business cases + presentations
10	Monday, March 22	Evaluation and analysis: Social media strategies	Dianna Wiggins (WebEx)	Project Plans
11	Monday, March 29	Evaluation and analysis: Evaluation models including narrative techniques, after action reviews (AAR) and anecdotal learning	Peter Hobby	Sandbox (Part 2): Envisioning the possibilities
12	Monday, April 12	Technologies and impact: Search engines and beyond	Dave Forbes Sharon Flank, Ph.D.
13	Monday, April 19	Technologies and impact: Information, assets, and knowledge management systems	Richard Huffine
14	Monday, April 26	All Four Building Blocks: Delivering Value	All Students	Final product/deliverables + presentations
No class	Monday, May 3 by 4:00 PM	Evaluation and analysis: My Top Picks	All Students	My Top Picks