“Assemblage Expression” Final Project
» Due: Sat 24-Apr (11pm deadline)
» update: Reflection page can be posted on Sunday (if necessary; penalty-free)
“Resource Directory”
- Assignment Page (updated)
- Tech Support (layout guide)
- Blog Discussion (new comments, useful to review)
- Strongly suggest reviewing all instructions and criteria.
Deadline for email, to guarantee reply in time to revise/apply: Sat 24-Apr 6 pm.
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M 12-Apr Conclusion (299-324): “Culture Wars or Syncretism?” — A Consultation (postponed)
Example: aporia visualization (not WideSite) — myOptica (ghink, 2008)
W 14-Apr Strasser & Coverly, in the white darkness (2004)
Blog Entry — Workshop prep. (due by class-time Thurs.)
R 15-Apr “Studio”: Workshop (poetics & praxis)— Project 3 (part 1)
F 16-Apr Mark Amerika, FILMTEXT 2.0 & Jim Andrews, Nio (2001)
R 08-Apr No Class (away at conference — reporting “assemblage expression” developments)
» Groups 4 & 1: Prep. for presentations; blog discussion, over weekend. — Assignments
F 09-Apr No Class (away at conference — linking aesthetics & ethics)
» re-view elec. lit. by Coverley & Morrisey for Inventory — discuss online? (particpt. credit)
— suggested Relay reading for Inventory (scheduled for next Fri.):
Sat 10-Apr Due: Inventory Update
[ 6 new items, including media selection from personal database. ]
Sun 11-Apr Due: Exercise 5 (“Automatic Emblems” & “Default Moods”) — Prompt
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(recommended reading) Divided Attention. By David Glenn. The Chronicle Review 31 Jan 2010.
- Disciplinary / Institutional perceptions; highly relevant for our experiment.
- Indeed eager to know your perspective; strongly encourage discussion (below) or a blog entry — participation / blogging e.c.
- 02-Feb: see imaginary exchange below for prompt
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praxis (— noun; plural: praxis or praxes)
- practice, as distinguished from theory; application or use, as of knowledge or skills.
- convention, habit, or custom.
- a set of examples for practice.
(from syllabus)
Blog Entries (10 minimum; 200 words. Credit/no credit assigned.)
Every student will create and maintain a blog throughout the semester, beginning week 2 and due each Wednesday except when noted (e.g. project weeks). Entries are informal and ungraded, except for credit. This is an on-going “Research Journal, ” testing ideas and compiling “materials” for the projects: associative links and media, questions and hypotheses; observations and insights—particularly connections between media within and outside of class.
Elaborating upon this, “orientation” and specific suggestions about blogging below.
(update) Additional tip from Monday’s class in comment.
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As promised yesterday…
Not official yet, but soon; feel free to peruse now and to let me which films you’ve seen in a comment below… or, in your first blog entry. (More about blogging, including tips and prompts/Qs, coming soon.)
update: we will create our blogs during class tonight (Thursday), in the Weil Hall lab.
By class-time Thursday Friday, please create your blog; then, post your link in a comment below.
In your first entry, please briefly introduce yourself: flexible expectations for this, but please include
major/grade and your “technical experience/proficiency level” (with technology, web pages, social media, etc); rationale for taking course; your “working definition” for “expression”; and any other interesting information you’d like to share.
Register @ Wordpress
WP Support site
Technical Instructions for Blog Setup:
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Spring semester 2010…
Greetings, Writing Through Media class!
As I will update this blog throughout the term, be sure to check regularly — especially our class schedule. Bookmark, subscribe to the RSS feed (reader required, e.g. GoogleReader),
or view on your mobile using the new site mode for touchscreen format (e.g. iPhone, BB Bold).
Most immediately, review the syllabus and schedule of readings and class sessions.
