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Screen Self Portrait

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Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait

» Part 1 (mul­ti­modal web­pages) due 06-Dec
— Part 2 (Poet­ics & Reflec­tion) due 07-Dec (Mon­day night)

 
Week 15

M 11/30   Work­shop: Project 3

  • focus: Screen­Self­Por­trait intro & overview (objec­tives & method)
    — aesthetic-affective par­a­digm, medi­ated expe­ri­ence, Electracy
     
  • activ­ity: expe­ri­ence avatars & mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing with media ready­made and custom
    — “per­sonal data­base” sam­pling (Blog entry 5)
     
  • 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: 

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  • discuss/review: select­ing site for composing
     
    → past stu­dents’ projects, exam­ples of sev­eral sites
  • look­ing ahead: con­tinue sam­pling, edit­ing, cre­at­ing media; begin cre­at­ing site 

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» Anony­mous Sur­vey / Feed­back Form
 

 
 
F 12/04   Work­shop: mul­ti­modal / expres­sive web pages

  • focus: arrange­ment / orga­ni­za­tion; work­ing in Electracy
    → 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 (mul­ti­modal web­site) complete/finalized 12/06 — link from your blog (or in D2L)
    » Part 2 (Poet­ics & Reflec­tion) due 12/07 (Mon­day night) 

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Video Project

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Unit 1: Belief — Story — Orality
Project 1: Dig­i­tal Nar­ra­tive of Belief — mul­ti­modal video

 
Week 4
Mul­ti­me­dia Story (3−5 mins.) — Cre­at­ing Video (Sept 12–19)

» Time­line (more details below)

    • over week­end:
      • Reg­is­ter for WeV­ideo and check out program/interface
        → WeV­ideo Tuto­r­ial Videos (page)
      • Final­ize story; outline/script; con­tinue storyboarding

     
    Mon­day 9/14 Work­shop

    • for class: have nar­ra­tion recorded and ini­tial mate­ri­als in WeVideo
    • in-class work­shop: cre­at­ing project (ini­tial steps); adding mate­ri­als (images, audio, video); media tips, sources, tools (see below); dis­cuss nar­ra­tion approaches & ideas
    • ICYMI: “WeV­ideo — Get­ting Started” video tuto­r­ial (9÷12)

     

    (Tue-Thur: com­pose & edit video)
    Wed hybrid work: progress/status + peer feedback/assistance

    • 1. sta­tus report (with brief notes)
      2. class­mate reply (with feedback/suggestion or assistance)
      — see page for instructions

     
    » Fri 9/18 Work­shop: Video Work-in-Progress

    • activ­ity: peer feed­back (every­one bring head­phones!); trou­bleshoot / tech support;
      last steps for final­iz­ing (pub­lish, post, share)

     

    • Fri-Sun: Final Stage work
        Video final­ized & pub­lished Sat 9/19
        Com­po­si­tion Sum­mary doc­u­ment posted Sun 9/20 (see prompt)

     
     
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    Digital Storytelling

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    Unit 1: Belief — Story — Orality
    Exer­cise 1: Con­ven­tions of Narrative

     
    Week 3
     
    M 09/07   Labor Day — No Class

     
    » Due (09-Sep): Exer­cise 1

    • post on your blog (Word­Press) by class-time Wednesday

     
     
    W 09/09   Dis­cuss: con­ven­tions of nar­ra­tive (exam­ples from exercise)
    → for com­pos­ing dig­i­tal sto­ry­telling project

     

     

      — for Fri­day class: choose/decide story for project; out­line to storyboard/sketch
      plus: watch Shipka video & read Alexan­der excerpt

     
     
     
    F 09/11   Dis­cuss:
    excerpt from The New Dig­i­tal Sto­ry­telling (pp. 83–9) by Bryan Alexan­der (2011) PDF

    • focus: media + genre con­ven­tions, tech­niques, choices
    • Activ­ity write/sketch in class: sto­ry­board your video (Project 1)
      + publication/circulation map (media, plat­form, audience)
      — for blog entry 1 (post during/after class) 

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    • Resource: Cen­ter for Dig­i­tal Sto­ry­telling (2010)
      “Script­ing” & “Sto­ry­board­ing” excerpts PDF


     
     
    » for M 9/14 work­shop — video work-in-progress