Month: March 2016

Filtered Reality

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Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait


Week 11

M 28-Mar In­tro: Unit 3 “Ex­pe­ri­ence Par­a­digm” — Overview Video

  • Dis­cuss: Ret­tberg, See­ing Our­selves Through Tech­nol­ogy: How We Use Self­ies, Blogs and Wear­able De­vices to See and Shape Our­selves (2014) eBook

    Chap­ter 1 “Writ­ten, Vi­sual and Quan­ti­ta­tive Self-Representations”
     
    → quotes doc be­low

  • Fo­cus (unit theme): rep­re­sent­ing ex­pe­ri­ence & iden­tity — aes­thetic or quan­ti­ta­tive…
     
    → ideas from Blog En­try 3 + Wieseltier­jan ar­ti­cle + Ul­mer videos (be­fore break)
     
    * “Ap­pa­ra­tus The­ory” chart: Oral­ity | Lit­er­acy | Elec­tracy
     



W 30-Mar hy­brid work: on­line dis­cus­sion be­low



F 01-Apr Quan­ti­fied Dig­i­tal Iden­tity

  • read & dis­cuss: Ret­tberg Chap­ter 5, “Quan­ti­fied Selves”
    — fo­cus: “Quan­ti­fied self-representation” (dis­tinct an­gle of medi­ated expe­ri­ence & dig­i­tal iden­tity)
    » key top­ics: “dataism,” tech-cultural fil­ters, capta, “ma­chine vi­sion”; “dig­i­tal traces” & curated/logged iden­tity
    → quotes doc be­low
     
  • also watch Idea Chan­nel: “How Pow­er­ful are Algo­rithms?” (2014)
     
  • Ac­tiv­ity: start “snap­shot of Ma­chine Vi­sion” (data­base iden­ti­ties) for blog en­try
     
    » look­ing ahead: Exer­cise 4 and Project 3
    → Tu­to­r­ial Video for Ex­er­cise (watch by/on Mon­day)



» Blog En­try 4: ma­chine vi­sion of “me” — Data­Self Snap­shot 

    — start dur­ing class; due Sat­ur­day
  • use 2 concepts/terms, at least one quote/passage from chap­ters; plus 2 me­dia in­stances (min­i­mum), em­bed­ded in en­try
  • com­pose snap­shot “data por­trait” of [your] dig­i­tal traces/footprints, quan­ti­fied iden­tity collected/measured across net­works & data­bases (24−48 hours)
    — use me­dia not as exam­ple (vi­sual) but to com­pose this snap­shot por­trait 




Publish Webtext

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Unit II: Proof – Argument – Literacy 

Project 2: Analytic Webtext
— “Rhetoric of [Discipline]”

    due dates:
  • 3/14 Com­pleted for Work­shop
  • 3/15 Fi­nal­ized / Pub­lished as Web­text
  • 3/16 Sum­mary & Re­flec­tion


Week 10


M 14-Mar Project Work­shop:

  • prepa­ra­tion: en­tire es­say com­posed; web de­sign started (pages + me­dia)
     
  • focus/activity: peer feed­back — dig­i­tal rhetoric for in­tended au­di­ence
     
    → project de­sign (text + me­dia, pages); sites (Wee­bly, Google Sites, Word­Press); strate­gies & dig­i­tal me­dia (im­ages, an­no­ta­tions, screen­cast); trou­bleshoot­ing
    re­source: De­sign Guide in­struc­tion page
     
  • fo­cus / look­ing ahead: completing/finalizing web­text
    → Due 3/15: post link on Project 2 Page of your blog 




W 16-Mar In­di­vid­ual Con­fer­ences — by ap­point­ment

» Due 3/16: Part 2 (Sum­mary & Re­flec­tion) — Page on your blog




F 18-Mar  Blog En­try 3 (prompt be­low)



*over Spring Break: op­tional Blog En­try and op­tional Ex­er­cise — prompts be­low



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Composing Analytic Webtext

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Unit II: Proof – Argument – Literacy 

Project 2: Analytic Webtext
— “Rhetoric of [Discipline]”

    due dates:
  • 3/11 Draft for Peer Re­view
  • 3/14 Com­pleted for Work­shop — fi­nal­ize Web­text De­sign
  • 3/15 Sum­mary & Re­flec­tion


Week 9


M 07-Mar Project Work­shop:

  • prepa­ra­tion: sources fi­nal­ized; notes on all cat­e­gories — use Google Doc Guide / Work­sheet
    (make a copy and com­plete)
     
    → cre­ate out­line (essay/webtext sec­tions) & be­gin draft­ing
     
  • re­view: objec­tives, top­ics, strate­gies — an­a­lytic writ­ing for pur­pose & au­di­ence
     
  • Activity/focus: orga­ni­za­tion, arrangement/sections, out­line
    — Pur­due OWL — Out­lines
     
    next steps: out­line top­ics; be­gin draft­ing — for Peer Re­view Fri­day




W 09-Mar hy­brid work

  • Draft Project Sec­tions (web­text pages)
     
  • dur­ing class time: Post in dis­cus­sion thread be­low “sta­tus up­date” & class­mate re­ply (see de­tailed prompts)
     
    » rhetor­i­cal & com­pos­ing strate­gies for draft — espe­cially sections/topics (ratio­nale), address­ing imag­ined audi­ence, help­ful re­sources con­sulted, etc.
     
  • for Fri­day, con­sult the De­sign Guide in­struc­tion page
    — be­gin con­sid­er­ing form (web­text with vi­sual me­dia), if not yet de­sign­ing
     




F 11-Mar  Project Work­shop:

  • Peer Re­view ac­tiv­ity — draft due

  • fo­cus: arrange­ment, ana­lytic writ­ing style, audi­ence con­sid­er­a­tions
     
    » Peer Re­view Guide — Google Doc
     
  • in­tro: project de­sign (text + me­dia, pages); sites (Wee­bly, Google Sites, Word­Press); strate­gies & dig­i­tal me­dia (im­ages, an­no­ta­tions, screen­cast)
     
    *look­ing ahead: cre­ate web­text project (for Mon­day work­shop) — fi­nal ver­sion due 3/14 PM
     








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