Thursday, April 29, 2010

... this is it!

> If you want to make an html link (for example, in a Google Map) the code is as follows:Replace url with the url you want to link to. Replace link with whatever you want - it's the text that will be clickable, blue, and underlined. All the others aspects of the code must remain the same (spacing, quotes, etc.). Also, don't forget that if you're putting this into a Google Map placemark you need to do it under the...

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

The end is near....

> Collaborative Trailer. What do you think?> Work on collaborative essay.> Present Creative Galleries.> Complete ESEI evaluatio...

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Thursday time

Trailer! Check it out.> Collaborative trailer. Goal: to make a single video trailer about the whole course and the topic "What is a multimedia author?" Possible soundtrack for trailer.> Goal: to make a single essay about the course and topic. Work on collaborative essay.> Work on creative galleri...

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Tuesday April 20

> We will make a collaborative trailer for the entire class. It will include "snippets" from everyone's project. These might be a few images, some text, some sound, .... etc. The trailer and the collaborative document are a statement on the class as a whole (along with your individual projects). What should we include in the trailer? Write a blog post on what we should include from your project - the post may be text or may be an image or a link or some combination. The goal is to create a post with your thoughts on your...

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Tuesday April 13

YouTube DownloaderCool joke song Remember: for Thursday's class (4/15) we meet in Colson 130 to hear the presentation by digital poet and critic Loss Glazier. I will take attendance: find me and let me know that you're there, and I'll mark you present.> Audacity is a free, flexible sound editor. It is more powerful than the free editors included with most computers. (I would say it is on a par with or slightly better than Garage Band.) Download. Be sure to also download and install the LAME mp3 encoder in order to make mp3s....

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Time for Thursday the 8th of April

http://www.as.wvu.edu/english/mapping_home.html> Return to the collaborative document. Work in partners: one person writes, the other helps. Continue to edit and add to the document, but also do the following: choose a paragraph and work on the "writing style." Try to retain the interest of the individual writer's style and argument, but also edit the paragraph to be less of an individual statement and more of a paragraph in an essay. In short, normalize the paragraph style so that it is part of the larger, emerging essay....

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Tuesday April 6.

> Hear about the status of a few creative projects. Questions in general?> Topic: Images and video for collaborative gallery. I will talk about images and videos a bit, and then you can work on your projects. If there's time we'll work on the collaborative document, otherwise we'll do that on Thursday.> For images, Photoshop is the best, but for images that will go on the web, there are free alternatives that work just as well. Try pixlr. Play with it!Two tips: 1) Use Layers. 2) Save as a .jpg (photographic images)...

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Almost spring break, on Thursday the 25th

> How to make a blog narrative. Try one out!> How to make a Google Maps narrative. Try one out!> Hear about some projects (if there's time). Don't forget the revised essay is due after Spring Bre...

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Tuesday 3/23

> Please learn to post links in your blogs and not long urls as text!> Research topic: Twitter. Social networking tool or new form of communication? Affordances and biases?Basic question: what are you doing? Micro-blog with 140 character limit per post. Reverse chronological, like blogs. Even more immediate and ephemeral than blogs. Important characters: # to tag and @ in reply to. Business model: paid tweets.> You will make a creative gallery linked to your blog, where you extend your topic through something (or ...

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Sunshine and Thursday March 18

> Talk about Creative Gallery> Blogs> Work on the collaborative text. General question: What are the shared claims? What is the logic of the claims? Goal: re-organize the document to follow some sort of organization/logic.First, return to your writing in the collaborative text, and see if you want to revise. Add and expand as you see fit.Then work on re-organizing. Rearrange sentences, paragraphs, and ideas to make the collaborative document stronger. Follow your sense of how the pieces fit together. Write linking sentences...

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

It's Tuesday March 16 and time for ENGL 303

> Workshop essay. Due: Blog post with draft of essay. Remember, the final draft is due April 6.> Take a moment to make sure your essay is in Google Docs and linked to your blog. Write a short note in the blog post where you reflect on the essay: What do you like about it? What needs the most work? Also, use the sharing button to make your essay editable by anyone: select Sharing > Get the Link to Share > and select the boxes to allow others to view and edit. The link should be the one you posted in your blog!>...

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Activities for Thursday March 11

> Remember for Tuesday: draft of essay (the final essay is 2000 word minimum, not including Works Cited; the draft should be as substantial as you can make it), for review in class. The draft should be posted or written in Google Docs and linked onto your blog.The very first YouTube video, from April 23rd, 2005.Noah's YouTube Portrait over 2356 days.> YouTube is the 4th most visited site on the net, after Google, Yahoo!, and Facebook. Write a blog post on how the "author" is constructed on YouTube. You don't need to discuss...

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Get it together for Tuesday the 9th

> Attendance and getting grades back> Hear about some projects, starting with "punch lines" (which is also the hook, the deep point being made)> Question: how does Facebook construct the author? The point of the question is concrete description of a medium (as you will need to do in your project). Assume "the medium is the message," i.e. the medium determines the message we get. What can we say about Facebook? How do we "know someone" through Facebook? What kind of self does it present? What structures or patterns?...

Thursday, March 4, 2010

It's here! March 4

> Diigo bookmarks> Working on the essay (draft due 3/16). Over the last three weeks, you heard mini-lectures summarizing and organizing arguments in relation to the class, on the follow topics:What is an author?NarrativityRemix CultureSocial Media (Here Comes Everybody)and GamingIn writing your essay, you must make use of at least one of these areas (make use of = quote the work, engage with the arguments, and make it part of your thinking). Write a new blog post about which of these you will use. (You can use more than...

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

March March March 2

> Due: Two resources to Diigo + annotated bibliography with at least ten sources, of which at least two must be from Project Muse and/or JSTOR, revised for grading. Note: if you're having trouble with formatting the annotated bibliography om your blog, you could try putting it in Google Docs and linking it to your blog. (You'll write your essay in Google Docs.)> Diigo bookmarks> Research topic: gamingWho plays games? What games do you play?Do games supplant narratives/writing as privileged cultural forms? (over 72%...

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Here it is: Thursday the 25th

> Diigo bookmarks> Research topic: Here Comes Everybody, through end. Look at this silly but fun video about social networks, resonating with many of Shirky's points:Some other points Shirky raises:Our social networks are typically small and densely interconnected because of "homophily" i.e. that we tend to be connected to others with similar interests..... and therefore those people connected to us are more likely to be densely connected to us in other ways, and are likely to be connected to others with similar interestsSuch...

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Tuesday the 23th is here

> Diigo bookmarks> Research topic: Here Comes Everybody, chap. 6-8.> Last names A-K go to the shared document (email link was sent last week) and respond to at least two other students' writings by discussing similarities/relations to your topic. The connection might be in content or in argument or otherwise. Where is their project like yours? Where does it differ? Obviously, choose to respond to a project that you see in some sort of relation to yours. Discuss similarities and suggest examples that you are working...

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Welcome to Alaska? Um, no Thursday the 18th

> Diigo bookmarks> Returning grades> Research topic: Here Comes Everybody, chap. 4-5.> Work on shared document. In a new blog post, write a brief summary of your project so far. The summary should contain three parts, with each at least a sentence in length; it can be broken into three parts or formed into a single paragraph.The first should state the topic you are working on (fan fiction, music remixing, etc.). State it as specifically as you can. The second should state what is at stake in the topic. What are the...

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Warm up for Tuesday the 16th

> Diigo bookmarks> The Power of Organizing Without Organizations> Annotated Bibliographies. Let's look at some! What is the argument? What is the claim?> Windows MovieMaker... at some point...

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Here we are on Thursday the 11th

> Preview/trailer revised for grading is due today.> Diigo bookmarks.> Annotated bibliographies. Due 3/2, with at least 10 entries, including two from Project Muse/JSTOR. An annotated bibliography is an alphabetical list of resources for your project. Use it as an intermediate stage between your research and writing your essay. Entries in the annotated bibliography are crucial resources for your thinking. The annotations can develop directly into text for your essay.The first part of the annotated bibliography is correct...

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Welcome to Tuesday, 2/9

> Diigo bookmarks> Remix Culture. Remixs: Hitler Downfall parodies, Barack rolled, Tiger Woods voicemail, Buffy vs. Edward> Read and comment on at least two blog posts> Look at trailers/previewsDon't forget that trailers/previews are due Thursday! We'll also discuss annotated bibliographies on Thursd...

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Thursday's here, what to do?

> Diigo bookmarks> Research topic: What is/was an author? (First mini-lecture to accompany your research). Michel Foucault “What is an Author?" ( for the essay: click on the link above, click on "Here is the link" and then on the download link).> Work on trailers.> For Tuesday, don't forget to read the intro and first chapter to Lessig's Remix (link on syllabus) and write a blog post (prompt on syllabus) + two Diigo bookma...

Monday, February 1, 2010

Yes, Tuesday the 2nd is here!

> Due: Two bookmarks to Diigo + blog post with link to draft preview/trailer.> Discuss and workshop previews/trailers. Look at the blog list. Look at / read the preview/trailer post of the blog above yours. Write them a brief response. Give your reactions - love it, hate it? - and suggestions for improvement. Once you finish your response, go to the next one up - if you get to the top, go to the bottom of the list - and respond to at least two blogs in total.> Work on previews/trailers.> Consider the text in your...

Thursday, January 28, 2010

What to do on Thursday January 28

> Remember: for Tuesday, create a draft of a video (draft = as much as you can get done, a useful start...), upload it to your blog or to YouTube. We'll work on it in class. Plus two more Diigo bookmarks.> Look at one set of Diigo bookmarks.> QuickTime or ... ? There is a useful help page for QT (access the help menu on the player). You can use other tools instead of QT, but talk to me about it first. Where to get materials? Take them with your camera, make them with your tools (Paint, Photoshop, etc.), find them online...

Monday, January 25, 2010

Tuesday time

> Diigo bookmarks> Continue with QuickTime tutorial. Finish with QT presentation/tutorial from last class. Upload video to YouTube and/or blog.> Where to get source materials for your preview/trailer? Creative Commons Search is a good place to start, but you can find other links on the syllabus.> How to put an image in your blog and how to make links in your blog ...> Look and hear some blog posts about "previews/trailers." Keep in mind that a preview/trailer for a movie contains selections that tease and interest...

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Thursday calling

Diigo linksGroups > brainstorm topics... what is your topic?Big group > Talk about topics...Preview/Trailer > A thoughtful and interesting intro to your topic, at least 30 seconds of video / music / text (you figure out the combination!) uploaded to YouTube / embedded in your blog. Think of movie trailers: snippets, highlights, headlines, bullet points... Get materials from YouTube, Google Images, from your own camera, from the resources listed on the syllabus... (you figure out the sources!). What to use?For Tuesday...

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

It's Tuesday!

Blogs > Note: Make sure your blog posts have titles! That way they're linkable on the blog stream... Second, make sure comments are enabled on your blog (you should see a comments field at the end of your post; otherwise, go to Dashboard > Settings > Comments). Today: we'll read blog posts about Tenner/Lethem and comment on at least two other student's blog posts. Start down the list with the first blog after yours... As you respond, consider the following: What do the readings say about authorship, voice, originality,...

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Thursday 1/14

1) The internet and the World Wide Web: what's the difference?View source and HTML: a basic page.2) Blogs: Publishing online made easy..Make your Google Doc account and your blog (put your name in the blog title!) "Hello world": your first blog post! Then: write a brief posting in your blog in response to the prompt here.3) What is QuickTime?4) Brainstorming topics... and looking ahead.Don't forget the Diigo bookmarks for Tuesday: you must sign-up for Diigo and install the toolbar in order to bookmarkDon't forget the reading...

Friday, January 8, 2010

Welcome to Multimedia Writing!

This is the blog for the spring 2010 Multimedia Writing (ENGL 303) course at West Virginia University, taught by Sandy Baldwin. The class meets Tuesday and Thursday from 1600-1715 in Colson G18. Check here for class announcements, activities, and resources. The class syllabus and policies are available as a Google Doc and are also linked on the list at le...
 

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