> 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 several things) you make. What can you make? Whatever you want! You might: make an iPod-ready soundtrack for your project, using audio that you find or create; make a hyperlinked story presented on a blog; make several YouTube videos; make a presentation with images and animation; make an online game; make a remix of the project, mashing up text images…; what else? All of the above and more...
Over the next several classes we will cover tools and techniques for text production, audio, and video. By mid-April, you should have a good plan for and drafts of one or more creations for your gallery. The remaining classes after that will be devoted to working on your gallery and showing it off.
> Look at examples. Revise your blog post: what are your thoughts right now about the creative gallery? Share some blog posts with the whole class.
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