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 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 ...

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...

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!>...

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...

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?...

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...

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%...