Another thing I'd like to do throughout the six weeks is have people make trenchant summaries --probably as excerpts-- of useful materials that I find and assign or they find as they explore. But that effort needs to be guided, and informed by some sort of overall design for finding and then situating items. "Situating" is largely a matter of putting books and other texts into frameworks: temporal, subject, issue...
Many of the links on my 1999 Technology page and computer generalia pages lead to relevant documents, some of which would be good centerpieces for particular classes.
Finding stuff is also an important part of this 'reading' component, and clearly involves development of portable skills. THe constant question is: if we wanted to know about xxx, where would we look? And what kinds of questions would get us the answers we think we want? And how shall we maximize the opportunities for serendipity? And, of course, how shall we process what we find?
Here's an example of a gargantuan resource that should be better understood and better used: ACM Digital Library. I dipped into interactions, an interface design magazine published bimonthly, and found articles on Adobe (article by Katya Rimmi) and Stanford (article by Terry Winograd) and Xerox PARC...