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Welcome to New Media Writing
1. Call Roll
2. Read and Discuss the Syllabus
3. For Next Time:
4. Getting Our Hands Dirty: Opening Dreamweaver and Photoshop
5. Logging Out (Don't Forget)
6. Getting Our Hands Clean |
Thursday, January 21
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For Today You Were To
For Next Time
- Bring the Chow book
- Read "Whitsun Weddings" by Philip Larkin
Questions?
- books
- USB drives
- PDF file (Murray)
Computer Labs and schedules (ITSS)
See Labs and schedules (ITSS) |
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Janet Murray
Chapter 3: From Additive to Expressive Forms
1. Quiz
2. What is New Media, and how is it different from "writing environments"?
3. Resources
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Tuesday, January 26
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For Today You Were To
- Bring the Chow book
- Read "Whitsun Weddings" by Philip Larkin
For Next Time
- Complete the exercises in Chow's Chapter 4 and bring the results to class on your USB drive.
Questions?
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Whitsun Weddings
We will discuss how this poem achieves meaning through contrast, tension, and narrative. Then we will talk about how New Media provides its own "tropes" for authors to achieve the same kinds of "dialogic" meaning.
Resources
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Chow Chapter 3
To complete this exercise, insert your USB drive into your computer's USB slot, and Chow's CD into the CD drive. Then--together--we will follow Chow's direction starting on page 32
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Thursday, January 28
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For Today You Were To
- Complete the exercises in Chow's Chapter 4 and bring the results to class on your USB drive.
For Next Time
- Complete the exercises in Chow's Chapter 5 (Linking)
Questions?
Troubleshooting Chow's Chapter 3 Exercises
Moving into our USB Drives
On the top level of your USB drive, create a set of folders that look like this:
www
>>4250
>>>>exercises
Setting Up a "www" site
Today we will set up a site corresponding to our Web space ("www") on the server (see Chow page 479).
When you set up your "Remote Info," use the following values
- FTP Host: www.d.umn.edu
- Host Directory: www/
After testing the connection, be sure to unclick the "Save" box next to password
Export the "www" site to the top level of your USB drive: see Chow 36.
Publishing the Exercises
Move the Chow Chap_03 folder to "Exercises" and then follow Chow's steps for posting all the contents of your "4250" folder to the Web, starting on page 482.
Posting the URL
See the Moodle forum, "Chow C3"
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Dialogic Aspects of Writing:
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Tuesday, February 2
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For Today You Were To
- Complete the exercises in Chow's Chapter 5 (Linking) and bring the "Chap_06" folder to class on your USB drive.
For Next Time
- Chow's the exercises in Chapter 6 (CSS and Page Properties) and bring the "Chap_06" folder to class on your USB drive. (Note that this is one of the most important chapters in Chow.)
Digital Nation on PBS tonight at 8:00
See the trailer at "Frontline: digital nation: press release | PBS"
Questions or Observations on the New Media Writing Project?
See the assignment page. Questions?
Troubleshooting Chow's Chapter 5 Exercises
Publishing the Exercises
- In Dreaweaver, import your "www" site information (www.ste file)
- Using your Mac's Finder, copy the Chow Chap_05 folder to "exercises"
- Follow Chow's steps for posting the "Chap_05" folder to the Web, which start on page 482.
Posting the URL to Moodle
- Using Firefox browser, visit your "index.html" page inside of the"Chap_05" folder online
- copy the URL of the "index.html" page
- Visit the Moodle forum, "Chow C5" and reply to my introductory message at the top.
- Paste the URL in the message window, and then highlight the URL and make it clickable by chosing the link icon above the message window (icons may not show unless you're using Firefox!).
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Dialogic Aspects of Writing and New Media Writing:
We will attempt another "un-quiz" using Moodle today, looking at the poem At the Galleria Shopping Mall, by Tony Hoagland. A discussion will follow.
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Thursday, February 4
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For Today You Were To
- Chow's the exercises in Chapter 6 (CSS and Page Properties) and bring the "Chap_06" folder to class on your USB drive.
For Next Time
- Complete the exercises in Chow's Chapter 7 (Typography) and bring the "Chap_07" folder to class on your USB drive (in www/4250/exercises)
- Bring in a URL of an online text (site, blog, page, project, etc.) that might serve as an example of a "New Media Writing Project" as defined by the assignment. Note that your example may exemplify some aspects of the assignment more than others.
Questions or Observations on the New Media Writing Project?
See the assignment page.
Questions?
New Folder Regime
Set up the folders on your USB drive as you see below. See the notes below about the logic and workflow of these:
stuff_4250
>>chow
www
>>4250
>>>>exercises
>>>>>>chap_4
>>>>>>chap_5
>>>>>>chap_6
www.ste
The "stuff" folder should contain everything for this class except the files and folders that actually go up on the Web.
The "chow" folder should contain the files and folders you took off the CD-ROM that came with the book. These should be the original, pristine versions of the materials.
The various "chap_X" folders inside of "exercises" should contain the versions of the Chow-book materials that you are editing, or have completed. From now on, whenever Chow says to copy one of his folders "to your desktop," copy it instead to the "exercises" folder. Once you've copied the "chap_X" folder to "exercises," then you should set up a site for it, as Chow directs.
Troubleshooting Chow's Chapter 6 Exercises
Publishing the Exercises
- In Dreaweaver, import your "www" site information (www.ste file)
- Using your Mac's Finder, copy the Chow Chap_06 folder to "exercises"
- Follow Chow's steps for posting the "Chap_06" folder to the Web, which start on page 482.
Posting the URL to Moodle
- Using Firefox browser, visit your "abouttea.html" page inside of the"Chap_05" folder online
- copy the URL of the "index.html" page
- Visit the Moodle forum, "Chow C6" and reply to my introductory message at the top.
- Paste the URL in the message window, and then highlight the URL and make it clickable by chosing the link icon above the message window (icons may not show unless you're using Firefox!).
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Dialogic Aspects of Writing:
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Tuesday, February 9
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Roll
For Today You Were To
- Complete the exercises in Chow's Chapter 7 (Typography) and bring the "Chap_07" folder to class on your USB drive (in www/4250/exercises)
- Bring in a URL of an online text (site, blog, page, project, etc.) that might serve as an example of a "New Media Writing Project" as defined by the assignment. Note that your example may exemplify some aspects of the assignment more than others.
For Next Time
- Copy the "Chap_08" folder from "Chow" to your "exercises" folder (www/4250/exercises), and then complete the exercises in Chow's Chapter 8 (Working with Tables).
- In a reply to the Moodle discussion "Sample NMW Project," explain how the New Media text you found (see today's assignment above) illustrates two or more of the criteria of the assignment.
For clarity's sake, refer to the criteria by number as listed on the assignment page.
Be sure to paste in the URL where the text can be found online, and make that URL clickable (or explain how we would find the text if it's not on the Internet).
Questions or Observations on the New Media Writing Project?
See the assignment page.
Questions?
Troubleshooting Chow's Chapter 7 Exercises
Publishing the Chapter 7 Exercises
- In Dreaweaver, import your "www" site information (www.ste file)
- If your Chap_07 folder isn't already in your folder "www/4230/exercises," use your Mac's Finder to copy the Chow Chap_07 folder to "exercises"
- Follow Chow's steps for posting the "Chap_07" folder to the Web, which start on page 482.
Posting the URL to Moodle
- Using Firefox browser, visit your "index.html" page inside of the"Chap_07" folder online
- copy the URL of the "index.html" page
- Visit the Moodle forum, "Chow C7" and reply to my introductory message at the top.
- Paste the URL in the message window, and then highlight the URL and make it clickable by chosing the link icon above the message window (icons may not show unless you're using Firefox!).
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Dialogic Aspects of Writing:
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Thursday, February 11
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Roll
For Today You Were To
- Copy the "Chap_08" folder from "Chow" to your "exercises" folder (www/4250/exercises), and then complete the exercises in Chow's Chapter 8 (Working with Tables).
- In a reply to the Moodle discussion "Sample NMW Project," explain how the New Media text you found (see today's assignment above) illustrates two or more of the criteria of the assignment.
For clarity's sake, refer to the criteria by number as listed on the assignment page.
Be sure to paste in the URL where the text can be found online, and make that URL clickable (or explain how we would find the text if it's not on the Internet).
For Next Time
A. The Challenge of Criteria 3: Visit at least three examples posted in the Moodle Forum "Sample NMW Project" (not just the message, but the texts it links to as well) and reply to each of the three posts, commenting on the degree to which the text there would fulfill, or not, the dialogical properties of writing as defined in Criteria 3 of the assignment, or in the idea of "Elaborated/Literary" discourse.
B. Write a "prospectus" of a New Media Writing Project that you might consider constructing:
1. a title
2. a one- or two-sentence description (beginning with a word/phrase that designates the "class" as well as various "differentiating terms"):
Samples
- "Sorry, Everybody is a blog that invites US citizens to apologize to the world in advance for the actions of President George W. Bush after his reelection. These submitted apologies comprise pictures of citizens holding up apology notes."
- PostSecret is a blog that hosts an ongoing community art project where people
submit their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.
- Implementation is serial novel written to be printed on sheets of stickers, which is about psychological warfare, sex, terror, identity, and the idea of place. We will make these sheets available via the Web, with instructions asking people to print, peel, and paste the stickers in public areas around the world, and then submit photographs of the stickers, in situ, to be compiled on the project's blog.
- N_o_o_nQ_u_i_l_t is a Web site that invites writers to submit 100-word entries based on a noon-time story / observation from their part of the world. These prose poems are assembled in a navigable quilt design, where the visitor can click open a "patch" to read an entry that appears in a pop-up window
- Cruelest Month is an email narrative which will be performed in daily installments starting in April, and incorporate local and national news; UMD-based locations, events, and objects; and a Web site. The story follows the lives of four, fictional UMD students who are working together on a Web-based sociology-class project about ghosts in Duluth, and invites readers to submit messages as new characters to become part of the story as it is distributed to the audience of subscribers.
3. a one-sentence explanation of the potential audience or participants: their tastes, culture, models, politics, location(s), affiliations, etc.
4. terms from Murray's P.E.P.S that describe the "New Media" aspect of the project, in order of their relevance and application.
5. a one-sentence speculation on the "dialogical tensions" in the project (see the assignment's criteria #3). For example, Cruelest Month explores the tensions between the scientific study of cultural phenomena (ghosts) and the palpable, emotional, and interpersonal experience of them.
Questions?
Troubleshooting Chow's Chapter 8 Exercises
Publishing the Chapter 8 Exercises
- In Dreamweaver, import your "www" site information (www.ste file)
- If your Chap_08 folder isn't already in your folder "www/4230/exercises," use your Mac's Finder to copy the Chow Chap_08 folder to "exercises"
- Follow Chow's steps for posting the "Chap_08" folder to the Web, which start on page 482.
Posting the URLs to Moodle
- Using Firefox browser, visit your teapots.html, css-teapots.html, and rounded.html pages inside of the"Chap_08" folder online
- copy the URLs of each of the pages
- Visit the Moodle forum, "Chow C8" and choose a new discussion
- Paste the URLs in the message window for teapots.html, css-teapots.html, and rounded.html, being sure to highlight each URL and make it clickable by choosing the link icon above the message window.
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Examples of New Media Writing
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Table-Based Page Layout into a CSS-Based Layout
I will give you a handout and we will work together on creating a table-based page design. You will need to download this image to use for the page banner.
If we get sufficiently far into this exercise, I may ask you to complete it within 24 hours of class, upload it to the Web, and then send a clickable link to the page to a new discussion in the forum "Table-Based Page." I will tell you if we did not get far enough for this requirement. |
Tuesday, February 16
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Roll
For Today You Were To
A. The Challenge of Criteria 3: Visit at least three examples posted in the Moodle Forum "Sample NMW Project" (not just the message, but the texts it links to as well) and reply to each of the three posts, commenting on the degree to which the text there would fulfill, or not, the dialogical properties of writing as defined in Criteria 3 of the assignment, or in the idea of "Elaborated/Literary" discourse.
B. Write a "prospectus" of a New Media Writing Project that you might consider constructing:
1. a title
2. a one- or two-sentence description (beginning with a word/phrase that designates the "class" as well as various "differentiating terms"):
Samples
- "Sorry, Everybody is a blog that invites US citizens to apologize to the world in advance for the actions of President George W. Bush after his reelection. These submitted apologies comprise pictures of citizens holding up apology notes."
- PostSecret is a blog that hosts an ongoing community art project where people
submit their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.
- Implementation is serial novel written to be printed on sheets of stickers, which is about psychological warfare, sex, terror, identity, and the idea of place. We will make these sheets available via the Web, with instructions asking people to print, peel, and paste the stickers in public areas around the world, and then submit photographs of the stickers, in situ, to be compiled on the project's blog.
- N_o_o_nQ_u_i_l_t is a Web site that invites writers to submit 100-word entries based on a noon-time story / observation from their part of the world. These prose poems are assembled in a navigable quilt design, where the visitor can click open a "patch" to read an entry that appears in a pop-up window
- Cruelest Month is an email narrative which will be performed in daily installments starting in April, and incorporate local and national news; UMD-based locations, events, and objects; and a Web site. The story follows the lives of four, fictional UMD students who are working together on a Web-based sociology-class project about ghosts in Duluth, and invites readers to submit messages as new characters to become part of the story as it is distributed to the audience of subscribers.
3. a one-sentence explanation of the potential audience or participants: their tastes, culture, models, politics, location(s), affiliations, etc.
4. terms from Murray's P.E.P.S that describe the "New Media" aspect of the project, in order of their relevance and application.
5. a one-sentence speculation on the "dialogical tensions" in the project (see the assignment's criteria #3). For example, Cruelest Month explores the tensions between the scientific study of cultural phenomena (ghosts) and the palpable, emotional, and interpersonal experience of them.
C. Complete and post the Table-Based Page Layout exercise, and create a clickable URL in the forum, "Table-Based Page."
For Next Time
Print, read, and annotate the first chapter of Philip Roth's novella, Goodbye, Columbus. Be prepared to discuss this chapter as an example of "elaborated/literary writing": that is, writing that sets "this-versus-that" in order to defer and imply meaning (to mean more than it seems to say).
- What are some oppositions, tensions, or differences that Roth suggests in the narrative of this chapter?
- How does Roth's chapter control our reponses to these "oppositions" without explicitly telling us what to think?
- Does Roth's written point-of-view, for instance, suggest a privileging or judgement about the cultural and economic contrasts of urban Newark and suburban Short Hills?
- How are these geographic/cultural differences characterized?
- How do these differences inform our understanding or anticipation of the relationship that's starting, which will play out in the rest of the novella?
- What other "this-versus-that" contrasts do you see in this piece of writing?
- What assumptions or conclustions do you think Roth intends for the reader to make (thinking it's the reader's own idea).
Questions?
Send me Your Prospectus
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The Challenge of Criteria 3
From the three samples that you responded to in the forum "Sample NMW Project," which one best expressed the dialogical properties of writing, and best exemplifies the idea of "Elaborated/Literary" discourse reconciled with New Media?
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Table-Based Page Layout into a CSS-Based Layout
1. Questions on the Table-Based Layout exercise that I asked you to complete? I asked you to use this image for the page banner, and to send the URL to the forum "Table-Based Page."
2. We will next recreate this same page design using CSS for Layout exclusively. I will ask you to upload the page when we're finished and to send the URL to the forum, "CSS-Based Page." |
Thursday, February 18
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For Today You Were To
Print, read, and annotate the first chapter of Philip Roth's novella, Goodbye, Columbus. Be prepared to discuss this chapter as an example of "elaborated/literary writing": that is, writing that sets "this-versus-that" in order to defer and imply meaning (to mean more than it seems to say).
- What are some oppositions, tensions, or differences that Roth suggests in the narrative of this chapter?
- How does Roth's chapter control our reponses to these "oppositions" without explicitly telling us what to think?
- Does Roth's written point-of-view, for instance, suggest a privileging or judgement about the cultural and economic contrasts of urban Newark and suburban Short Hills?
- How are these geographic/cultural differences characterized?
- How do these differences inform our understanding or anticipation of the relationship that's starting, which will play out in the rest of the novella?
- What other "this-versus-that" contrasts do you see in this piece of writing?
- What assumptions or conclustions do you think Roth intends for the reader to make (thinking it's the reader's own idea).
For Next Time
Read Joan Didion's "Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream"
Questions?
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Goodbye, Columbus, and the Challenge of Criteria 3
Today, we'll try to answer the questions in today's assignment above, using specific examples from the text of Roth's Goodbye, Columbus.
Are there ways that some of the "Sample NMW Projects," you found express similar dialogical properties? Properties of "Elaborated/Literary" discourse? |
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A New Page using your CSS-Based Layout
I will give you a copy of the handout "CSS Layout: New Page, Existing Style Sheet."
Save the result in your "www/exercises/table_based" folder, upload it to the Web, and send create a clickable URL in a new dicussion to the forum, "CSS New Page Old Styles"
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Tuesday, February 23
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For Today You Were To
Read Joan Didion's "Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream"
For Next Time
1. Work on your New Media Writing Project, which will be due two weeks from yesterday (Monday)
2. Complete the exercise, "Banner Techniques (Photoshop)"--if I assign it at the end of class today.
3. Bring in a URL of a page, some part of which demonstrates an example of a New Media Trope at work. Feel free to conceive and name your own trope.
Questions?
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"Dreamers of the Golden Dream"
What are some tropes (moves) that Didion makes as a writer to give meaning and effect to this essay? |
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Banner Techniques (Photoshop)
Visit the page "Banner Techniques" and download the two image files (somewhere on your USB besides your "www" folder)
I will give you copies of the handouts: Banner 1 and Banner 2.
Post the final image to the Web, and send a clickable link to it in a new discussion in the forum, "Banner Techniques" |
Thursday, February 25
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For Today You Were To
1. Work on your New Media Writing Project, which will be due two weeks from yesterday (Monday)
2. Bring in a URL of a page, some part of which demonstrates an example of a New Media Trope at work. Feel free to conceive and name your own trope.
For Next Time
1. Work on your New Media Writing Project, which will be due two weeks from yesterday (Monday)
2. Complete the exercise, "Banner Techniques (Photoshop)"--if I assign it at the end of class today.
Questions?
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New Media Tropes
Follow the directions in the Wiki "New Media Trope" to post the URL you found.
See "All in the Family" (a New Media Writing project created by former 4250 student Rachel Moeller). |
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Complete Banner Techniques (Photoshop)
Visit the page "Banner Techniques" and download the two image files (somewhere on your USB besides your "www" folder)
I will give you copies of the handouts: Banner 1 and Banner 2.
Post the final image to the Web, and send a clickable link to it in a new discussion in the forum, "Banner Techniques" |
Tuesday, March 2
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For Today You Were To
1. Work on your New Media Writing Project, which will be due two weeks from yesterday (Monday)
2. Complete the exercise, "Banner Techniques (Photoshop)"--if I assign it at the end of class today.
For Next Time
1. Work on your New Media Writing Project, which will be due next Monday by noon.
2. If needed, complete the exercise, "Banner Techniques (Photoshop)" and send a clickable link to it in a new discussion in the forum, "Banner Techniques".
Questions?
...about the New Media Writing Project?
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Complete Banner Techniques (Photoshop)
Visit the page "Banner Techniques" and download the two image files (somewhere on your USB besides your "www" folder)
I will give you copies of the handouts: Banner 1 and Banner 2.
Post the final image to the Web, and send a clickable link to it in a new discussion in the forum, "Banner Techniques"
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New Media Tropes
We'll discuss more of your "New Media Tropes"
I will ask you to name your trope, and create a 400 (w) x 275 (h) pixel screenshot of your trope (on a Mac: Command+Control+Shift+3, then paste into a new Photoshop document). Post both as a reply to your own message. For more on screenshots on a Mac, see Taking Screenshots in Mac OS X. |
Thursday, March 4
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For Today You Were To
1. Work on your New Media Writing Project, which will be due next Monday by noon.
2. If needed, complete the exercise, "Banner Techniques (Photoshop)" and send a clickable link to it in a new discussion in the forum, "Banner Techniques".
3. Come in prepared to work on your New Media Writing Project in class.
For Monday, March 8
- Complete your New Media Writing Project,
- post it to its own folder inside of the "4250" in "www,"
- visit the home page with your browser, and copy the URL,
- create a clickable URL to it as a reply to my message in the forum, "NMW Projects."
For Next Time
1. Write and bring in your commentary for the New Media Writing Project.
2. To prepare to talk about our next assignment, bring in the URL of an online (new media) parody--that is, a parody of a Web site, a news source, social network, etc.
Questions?
...about the New Media Writing Project?
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Studio Day
Though you are working individually, do plan on staying and being productive and collaborative until 9:15.
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Tuesday, March 9
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For Monday, March 8 You Were To
- Complete your New Media Writing Project,
- post it to its own folder inside of the "4250" in "www,"
- visit the home page with your browser, and copy the URL,
- create a clickable URL to it as a reply to my message in the forum, "NMW Projects."
For Today You Were To
1. Write and bring in your commentary for the New Media Writing Project.
2. To prepare to talk about our next assignment, bring in the URL of an online (new media) parody--that is, a parody of a Web site, a news source, social network, etc.
Collect Commentaries
Post parody URLs
...in a reply to the first message in the forum "Parody Examples"
For Next Time
The Wiki "Parody Terms Applied" is composed of pages for each critical term we will talk about today. Send an entry to at least three of the pages of this Wiki. Each entry will comprise:
1. a clickable URL to one of the parody/satires from the "Parody Examples" forum (or a new one you found)
2. a detail of a screen shot inserted into the Wiki page, no more than 150 pixels wide. To create a screen shot on a Mac: While viewing the page in your browser, hit Command+Control+Shift+3, then paste into a new Photoshop document. For more on screenshots on a Mac, see Taking Screenshots in Mac OS X.
a paragraph of commentary on how the parody at that URL exemplifies (or does not exemplify) the critical term at the top of the page.
Questions?
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Working Into the Next Assignment
Let's talk about the key, critical terms of this project in terms of a particular example:
Examples:
Key Terms
- genre: a type of writing or communication, distinguished by its characteristic features, styles, audience, and use (collectively known as conventions). Examples: house renovation blogs, Amazon music page.
- conventions: the features and styles that compose a genre.
- parody: an imitation of a serious work for satirical or comic purposes
- target: in a satire or parody, the particular social or cultural phenomenon being revealed or criticized, especially pretenses, subtexts, or concealed agendas.
- façade: the literary effect of writing/designing in the "voice" of a character to make that character reveal more to the reader than he/she realizes. On a Web site, the facade is often created through "consistent inconsistencies."
- pretense, subtext, concealed agenda: in a satire or parody, the gap between the character as publicly presented and the who or what character actually is.
- (sub)culture: sets of social practices that constitute shared ways of seeing, acting, and being.
- satirical intention: the ridicule of a social phenomenon, practice, or type, ideally to criticize and reform some representative vice or weakness for the general benefit of human society.
- literary intention: the aesthetic presentation of character(s) and situation(s) to tell or suggest a story.
- story: a set of cause-and-effect conditions presented to move a reader/viewer emotionally and intellectually.
- "not men but manners": The eighteenth-century satirical novelist Henry Fielding said, "I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species."
Terms for Satirical Modes to Avoid or Transcend:
- travesty: the treatment of a noble and dignified subject in an inappropriately trivial manner. A crude form of burlesque.
- burlesque: comic imitation of a serious literary or artistic form that relies on an extravagant incongruity between a subject and its treatment. Generally, burlesque is broader and coarser than parody.
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Thursday, March 11
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For Today You Were To
The Wiki "Parody Terms Applied" is composed of pages for each critical term we will talk about today. Send an entry to at least three of the pages of this Wiki. Each entry will comprise:
1. a clickable URL to one of the parody/satires from the "Parody Examples" forum (or a new one you found)
2. a detail of a screen shot inserted into the Wiki page, no more than 150 pixels wide. To create a screen shot on a Mac: While viewing the page in your browser, hit Command+Control+Shift+3, then paste into a new Photoshop document. For more on screenshots on a Mac, see Taking Screenshots in Mac OS X.
a paragraph of commentary on how the parody at that URL exemplifies (or does not exemplify) the critical term at the top of the page.
Post parody URLs
...in a reply to the first message in the forum "Parody Examples"
For Next Time
1. Have a good Spring Break
2. Come in with a prospectus of your Parody Project idea, which includes:
- a one- or two-sentence description of your target (see also [sub]culture, "not men but manners" below).
- a one sentence description of the genre you will parody
- a URL to an example of that genre, or a fuller description (such as a published article or commentary).
- a sentence that explains the gap or discrepancy that will help produce the facade (see also "pretense, subtext, concealed agenda")
3. Remember the Parody Project will be due two weeks after we come back.
Questions?
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Working Into the Next Assignment
We'll start with the pseudo instructional series You Suck at Photoshop, housed at Big Fat Unversity.
Today, we will discuss some of your examples of these key ideas in the Wiki "Parody Terms Applied"
Key Terms
- genre: a type of writing or communication, distinguished by its characteristic features, styles, audience, and use (collectively known as conventions). Examples: house renovation blogs, Amazon music page.
- conventions: the features and styles that compose a genre.
- parody: an imitation of a serious work for satirical or comic purposes
- target: in a satire or parody, the particular social or cultural phenomenon being revealed or criticized, especially pretenses, subtexts, or concealed agendas.
- façade: the literary effect of writing/designing in the "voice" of a character to make that character reveal more to the reader than he/she realizes. On a Web site, the facade is often created through "consistent inconsistencies."
- pretense, subtext, concealed agenda: in a satire or parody, the gap between how the character is publicly presented, and who or what that character actually is.
- (sub)culture: sets of social practices that constitute shared ways of seeing, acting, and being.
- satirical intention: the ridicule of a social phenomenon, practice, or type, ideally to criticize and reform some representative vice or weakness for the general benefit of human society.
- literary intention: the aesthetic presentation of character(s) and situation(s) to tell or suggest a story.
- story: a set of cause-and-effect conditions presented to move a reader/viewer emotionally and intellectually.
- "not men but manners": The eighteenth-century satirical novelist Henry Fielding said, "I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species."
Terms for Satirical Modes to Avoid or Transcend:
- travesty: the treatment of a noble and dignified subject in an inappropriately trivial manner. A crude form of burlesque.
- burlesque: comic imitation of a serious literary or artistic form that relies on an extravagant incongruity between a subject and its treatment. Generally, burlesque is broader and coarser than parody.
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Tuesday, March 23
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For Today You Were To
1. Have a good Spring Break
2. Come in with a prospectus of your Parody Project idea, which includes:
- a one- or two-sentence description of your target (see also [sub]culture, "not men but manners" below).
- a one sentence description of the genre you will parody
- a URL to an example of that genre, or a fuller description (such as a published article or commentary).
- a sentence that explains the gap or discrepancy that will help produce the facade (see also "pretense, subtext, concealed agenda")
3. Remember the Parody Project will be due two weeks after we come back.
For Next Time
A. Write and bring in
two paragraphs concerning your Parody Project:
- 1. The first paragraph should describe one specific example of the facade that will appear in your project: what the viewer will see, read, etc. from your narrator or character, and what the viewer will understand to be the case behind that character's/narrator's facade.
- 2. The second paragraph should explain what you are intending to suggest and observe with the facade.
B. Complete the Mock Up Page Exercise if you didn't already in class.
Questions?
...about the Parody Project?
Send Me Your Prospectus:
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Satirical Facade
The example (again) of You Suck at Photoshop (diagram). Compare possibilities of Bringing Easy Money Management to Mac Users. |
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Mock-Up Page
In Dreamweaver, import your "www" site. We will post this exercise in a folder "www/4250/exercises/mockup and create a clickable URL in a reply to the forum "Mock-Up Page."
Use a Web page such as YouTube's home page as an original.
Resources
- Command: screen shot to clipboard on Mac: Command+Shift+Control+3
- What the Font
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Thursday, March 30
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Roll
For Today You Were To
A. Write and bring in
two paragraphs concerning your Parody Project:
- 1. The first paragraph should describe one specific example of the facade that will appear in your project: what the viewer will see, read, etc. from your narrator or character, and what the viewer will understand to be the case behind that character's/narrator's facade.
- 2. The second paragraph should explain what you are intending to suggest and observe with the facade.
B. Complete the Mock Up Page Exercise if you didn't already in class.
For Next Time
In the voice/person of a character who is not you, write a commentary on an image that functions as a facade. Use the technique of "sliding" we learned from "My Last Duchess." Bring the caption and the image into class on your USB drive.
Questions?
...about the Parody Project?
...about the "Mock-Up Page" Exercise?
Return of the New Media Writing Projects
I will return these projects to you at the end of class today (please remind me) |
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Your Paragraphs...
...about your facade and what you found yourself suggesting and observing.
"My Last Duchess" (Robert Browning)
I will give you a copy of the poem on a handout
Technique: Sliding on a detail. |
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Image Map (Hot Spots) in DW
How to add links to the images in your "Mock-Up Page" Exercise
Image Slicing
See Image Slicing in Photoshop CS3 |
Tuesday, March 30
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Roll
For Today You Were To
In the voice/person of a character who is not you, write a commentary on an image that functions as a facade. Use the technique of "sliding" we learned from "My Last Duchess." Bring the caption and the image into class on your USB drive.
For Next Time
Bring in all materials to work on your Parody Project in a Studio Session. The project will be due (posted to the Web, URL sent to a forum TBA) by Monday, April 4 at noon. The Commentary will be due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, April 5.
Questions?
...about the Parody Project?
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Criteria for the Parody Project
See the assignment page.
To use Howard Mohr's phrasing from How to Talk Minnesotan: A Visitor's Guide, what would "a guy" ask about if a guy had a question on each of these criteria?
Your "My Last Duchess" Imagetexts
Compose your image/word combinations in a reply to my first message in the forum "'My Last Duchess' Imagetexts." (Note: You will need to upload your image in a new folder "www/4250/exercises/imagetext" and then link to the URL in order to insert it into your forum posting). (As an experiment, also try to compose the same image/text combination in the Wiki "My Last Duchess Imagetext")
Once you and your classmates have posted, I'll ask you to reply to the one that you think most successfully uses the facade effect to create a rich sense of character, story, satire, etc. |
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