Assemblage Expression

» note: “Inventory” pages fully updated (late / “overdue”) — required for group work.
 
» over weekend, collaborate with group (online).

 
 
M 15-Feb read: Strickland & Lawson: Slipping Glimpse

Presentations: Groups 1 & 2
— review Presentation Page
Collaborate online in advance, preparing specific points for class (required)
 
— review Project 1 page

 
W 17-Feb read: Strickland & Lawson: Vniverse

Presentations: Groups 3 & 4
 
Weekly Blog Entry: optional / extra credit
» suggest: entry about Strickland (as relay); or Exercise: “Micro Scenes” (p.92)

 
 
R 18-Feb “Studio”: Workshop (praxis, “tech-support”)—Project 1

» Due: (before class) Workshop Prep.

 
 
F 19-Feb “Studio”: Composition Work (independent)

Note: necessary to show progress (“in progress”) this afternoon,
in place of today’s class (otherwise, no Att/Part. credit).

S 20-Feb          » Due:  Project 1

update: (posted by/on “Saturday night” — no deadline time now,
but I will check pages on Sunday morning.)
 
— deadline for email to guarantee reply: 8pm
(I will certainly read and try to reply afterward;
definitely send any “emergency notifications” regardless.)

• preview/test image software (any of these free, web-based programs):
  Pixlr; Phoenix; or Photoshop (requires registration);
  optional (less dynamic):
  Picknik (collage); Wordle (text clouds; two key tricks here)

   

• review assignment (including updates after Wednesday class)
   

• Finish collaborating with group, online discussion (for continued participation/presentation credit) — especially about Relay lesson/rationale and pending questions.
   

• Post a new blog entry with
  • at least one question (conceptual or formal) — including request for specific technical instruction in Studio Workshop;

  • tentative topic for Part I, and whether “discovery” or “founding invention”; also, qualify how part of Career dimension, if necessary (e.g. related/general field, to which your career relates; this is flexible, but rationale is important);
    — with provisional idea for sources (both scholarly and otherwise).

   
   

• Update blog:
  • Create new Project page (with 3 sub-pages)
     

  • Fix blog layout/org. formatting, if necess.
    (e.g. Pages: Inventory, Project 1; Entry Categories: Weekly, Exercise, other, etc.)
     

  • Attempt any design techniques you’ve not tried thus far, in a test entry or page:
    • Embedding media: Image, Audio, Video (from Web)

    • Uploading from cpu. (to Media Library or Page/Post)
    • Formatting an entry, including text styles, links, Lists, and Blockquote
      (these have buttons in toolbar)
    • Making an image a hyperlink (“Insert” command);
       

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    • Formatting an entry in HTML view (cf. Webmonkey):
      e.g. < HR > (horizontal line, like ^that^);
      centering lines of text,
      embedding objects (like Google Map);
      creating a Table to arrange/display mixed media (see below).
      Webmonkey Table basics

     

  • » note: all of this constitutes attending Thursday’s class with adequate preparation (Att./Part. credit); I will gladly demonstrate how to design or fix something (within limits of assignment scope and free Wordpress account features), as long as you have attempted already (e.g. embedding and resizing images) and posted a question for “tech support.”

   

  Technical Instructions(from Wordpress):
  • Embedding Images

  • Video Instructions (for YouTube; cf. Google, Vimeo, etc. on page)
  • Adding Audio Instructions
  • Google Maps

   
   
   

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  a table layout allows better formatting of text and images…           without needing to make an image in photoshop, which you’d hav to edit everytime means editing & uploading for each change.
  	You’ve already seen several examples on this blog so far

  
   
   

  Tags: career, chora, electracy, Family, institution, method, mystory, new media, popcycle, relay