M 11-Jan read (for class): Internet Invention Chp 1 (18-42): “Mystory”
- Discuss: Part One “Career Discourse” (Popcycle, Humanities)
W 13-Jan read: Bobby Rabyd, Sunshine ’69 (1996) Discuss: New Media / Hypertext
- * Note: I still need to see everyone’s introductions on their blogs — specifically: grade, major/minor, technical skills and web/creative experience, and enrollment rationale.
(I need this info in order to arrange groups. Please post ASAP.)
note: weekly blog entries normally due Wednesday evening;
suggest writing / posting first entry before Thurs class (when you have time).
R 14-Jan Screening:
- Y tu mamá también (Dir. Cuarón, 2001; 105 min.)
F 15-Jan Discuss: all assigned material to date, including blog entries.
(quiz? Take notes while reading…)
- Discuss: Method: Films & Project 1 (1st Component)
- Due: First Blog Entry
Can you meet Period 11 (6:15pm) on Thurs?
- Yes (79%, 15 Votes)
- No (21%, 4 Votes)
Total Voters: 19
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Questions & Prompts for blogging thus far
(prior to Internet Invention reading)
— What is your “working definition” of expression?
— What recent example of culture or media has caused you to think differently, upon “engaging” with it (however defined)?
— What is your earliest memory of using computer and digital communication technology? Can you recall your life before acquiring ready/frequent access to 1) computers and 2) Internet / Web? (were these distinct events, or have you grown up using computers with Internet connectivity?)
Q. What is your initial conception of our course title, “Writing through Media”?
Given the two senses of the term “media” — 1) medium, form; 2) content — are you thinking of it as a composite of both categories?
Need to contemplate and differentiate this… likewise, consider “Internet” and “Web” (or “the Web”?).
suggested exercise: start noting your understanding of concepts before “Googling” them; then, note any observations or reflections subsequently….
— even better, note unfamiliar terms in your reading Internet Invention: more for yourself for later, to see when you “get it,” but also for speculating (blog) and for inquiring directly (class).
Of course, I’m quite interested to learn the outcome of your searching class terms! (Any observations so far?)
Any luck with the course title?
(Hopefully not from the Web: only participants in our course can define, through demonstrations during our experiment!)
“Wide Images” (from Ulmer’s site)
Frank Gehry
Albert Einstein
Manet’s Olympia
That “working definition” of expression was a lot harder to pin down then I thought it would be.
Here is my blog link. I don’t think you posted it on the sidebar
http://sonyplay1.wordpress.com/