Unit III: Mediated Experience
Project 3: Screen Self Portrait
» Part 1 (multimodal webpages) due 06-Dec
— Part 2 (Summary & Reflection) due 07-Dec
- reminder: Optional Exercise (extra credit points)
Week 15
M 11/30 Workshop: Project 3
- focus: ScreenSelfPortrait intro & overview (objectives & method)
— mediated experience, identity in/through technology and culture (digital media)
- activity: sketching identity public and private, social/cultural and personal
— discuss ideas from “Snapshot Portrait” (Exercise 4)
→ Participatory Culture techniques: “experience avatars” (identity interface?) & multimodal composing with media readymade and custom
— “personal database” sampling (see video below)
- looking ahead: sketch/map (outline) project…
— begin compiling & creating materials for composing
→ consider website to use for part 1: Wix.com, Weebly.com, WordPress pages (others? Jimdo? Moonfruit?)
W 12/02 Workshop: multimodal composing, media editing, expressive pages
- focus: using media readymade (sampled), edited, created
→ preparation = have compiled, consider uses (sketch/map), begin editing/authoring
- activity: peer feedback & assistance with key composing techniques:
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image editing/collage — Pixlr.com
GIF creator — GIPHY
audio editing — Audacity
video edit/create — WeVideo - looking ahead: continue sampling, editing, creating media; begin creating site
» Anonymous Survey / Feedback Form
F 12/04 Workshop: multimodal / expressive web pages
- focus: arrangement / organization; creative logic of Participatory Culture and Network Rhetoric (composing self-portrait of digital identity)
→ preparation = work-in-progress (website)
- activity: peer feedback & assistance
— digital rhetoric (purpose, style, modes, approach, strategies, rationale)
→ take notes during discussion, for Poetics/Summary (part 2)
- looking ahead: Part 1 complete/finalized 12/06 (post link on your blog or in D2L)
— Part 2 (Poetics & Reflection) due 12/07 (Monday night)
Experimental Past Projects by Students in GH Classes (Google Doc — Sign-in Required to view link & doc below)