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:

1. What is an author?
2. Narrativity
3. Remix Culture
4. Social Media (Here Comes Everybody)
5. and Gaming

In 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 one.) Think over the lectures - you may want to look at the Google Doc presentations as reference - and consider which ones makes the most sense for you. Think of it as a theory for your essay. Then consider how you will use this theory. In particular, how does it let you specify the two guiding questions of the course - 1) what is a multimedia author? and 2) how does multimedia writing enable new forms of creativity? - in terms of your topic? What arguments and/or evidence will you adapt?

Before you finish the blog post, do the following. Based on your thinking so far, including your annotated bibliography and your trailer, what are the broad themes and arguments of your project? Remember: an argument involves a thesis, a position that you are taking and arguing for, and that someone could potentially argue against. Then, write a single sentence that sums up your project. It could be in question form or statement form, it could be causal (that was then, this is now, etc.), it could be funny or serious, but either way: make it provocative, the punch line, the slogan for your work.

Post it to your blog!

> Hear as many of these as possible.

> Google Docs intro. Remember, you will write your essay on Google Docs. 2000 word minimum, not including Works Cited. Here's a link to Google Docs.