Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait

» Part 1 (mul­ti­modal web­pages) due 24-Apr
— Part 2 (Poet­ics & Reflec­tion) due 25-Apr (Mon­day night)

• re­minder: Op­tional Exer­cise (ex­tra credit points) 

Week 15

M 18-Apr Work­shop: Project 3 In­tro & Overview

• 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 for discovery+invention (Blog en­try 5)
   
• look­ing ahead: sketch/map project (out­line pages/segments)
  — be­gin com­pil­ing & cre­at­ing mate­ri­als for com­pos­ing
  → con­sider web­site to use for part 1: Wix​.com, Wee​bly​.com, Word­Press pages
  (oth­ers? Jimdo? Moon­fruit?)

W 20-Apr hy­brid work — Work­shop: mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing, me­dia edit­ing, expres­sive page/segment de­sign (dig­i­tal rhetoric)

• 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: 
  im­age editing/collage — Pixlr​.com (Sup­port)
  GIF cre­ator — GIPHY
  au­dio edit­ing — Audac­ity
  video edit/create — WeV­ideo
• discuss/review: select­ing site for com­pos­ing; arrangement/organization fo­cus
   
• look­ing ahead: con­tinue sam­pling, edit­ing, cre­at­ing me­dia; be­gin cre­at­ing site…
   

F 22-Apr Work­shop: mul­ti­modal / expres­sive web pages

• fo­cus: arrange­ment / orga­ni­za­tion; work­ing in Elec­tracy (aes­thetic mode)
  → prepa­ra­tion = work-in-progress (web­site started)
   
• activ­ity: peer feed­back & tech 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 04/24 — link from your blog (or in D2L)
  » Part 2 (Poet­ics & Reflec­tion) due 04/24 (Mon­day night)