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, Wee​bly​.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: 
  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)