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Paradigm Rhetoric

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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)
 


Week 16

M 25-Apr Dis­cuss: Project 3 out­comes and in­sights

  • Part 2: Sum­mary & Reflec­tion — due Mon­day night
     


    • » look­ing ahead: com­plet­ing revi­sion of project 2 for port­fo­lio (op­tional)




W 27-Apr hy­brid work  Blog En­try + Dis­cus­sion

  • due class time: blog en­try (200 words, infor­mal dis­cus­sion; me­dia, any form); 
    → see prompts be­low (choose 1)
     
  • Dur­ing class time: in com­ments be­low, post link; read classmate(s) en­try and dis­cuss
     
  • op­tional par­tic­i­pa­tion: com­pose re­ply to classmate’s en­try 

    → prepa­ra­tion for Fri­day:
    re­view syl­labus for course goals (and “Inter­est Inven­tory” memo?) + all course work + com­pile links (and screen­caps?)



F 29-Apr Last Class — Salu­ta­tions!

  • Dis­cuss: Port­fo­lio Reflec­tion (Exer­cise 5)
     
    → tuto­r­ial: con­vert­ing Word­Press site to sta­tic port­fo­lio (op­tional)
     


» op­tional: re­vised project + revis­ing memo/summary

    Revi­sion Memo (2−3 para­graphs): iden­tify spe­cific changes and com­pos­ing strate­gies, as well as how improv­ing the effectiveness/outcomes to­ward the par­tic­u­lar objec­tives — and any in­sights or self-assessment con­se­quently.
    → post memo file in D2L 


» Due (S 04/30): Port­fo­lio Re­flec­tion
— post doc (or link to screen­cast) in D2L
 







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ScreenSelfPortrait

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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)


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: 

  • 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) 



Sensory Experience

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Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait



Week 12

M 04-Apr Dis­cuss: Aimée Knight, “Reclaim­ing Expe­ri­ence: The Aes­thetic and Mul­ti­modal Com­po­si­tion” (2013) PDF in Drive

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W 06-Apr hy­brid work :

  • Dis­cuss Knight arti­cle plus Vaid­hyanathan chap­ter: “The Googliza­tion of Mem­ory: Infor­ma­tion Over­load, Fil­ters, and the Frac­tur­ing of Knowl­edge” PDF (Drive & D2L)

    → fo­cus: expe­ri­ence quan­ti­fied into information/data…?
     
  • par­tic­i­pa­tion: Com­ment & Re­ply in dis­cus­sion thread be­low
    → see Prompts here




F 08-Apr Dis­cuss: Expe­ri­ence Quan­ti­fied & Sen­sory (Knight & Vaid­hyan­than read­ings)

    activity/focus: Exer­cise 4 com­po­si­tion



» Exer­cise 4 (due 04/09): Sen­sory Expe­ri­ence Quan­ti­fied & Unclas­si­fi­able (10 points)








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