http://dl.dropbox.com/u/45170337/WAM%20Podcast.m4a

Final blogs

Final blogs are due Thurs, Dec 17 by 5:00PM. When you are ready to “turn in” your blog, send me an email at bellwoar at illinois dot edu. If you want comments on your blog, please indicate that in your email and I will send you a copy of the rubric after I calculate grades.

rubrics for final project and final blog

rubric for final project

rubric for final blog

Presentation assignments:

Thurs, Dec 3: Parker & Vince, Liz & Davis, Amanda & Tom, Lochlan & Patrick, Steven & Julie

Tues, Dec 8: Danny & Bridget, Brian Doyle & Jen, Katie & Christine, Brian Baxter & Georgia

class 11/12

in-class

• review Final project prompt
• partner and theory assignments
• view video projects

homework

• video project writing (blog post, 500-word rationale) due Thurs, Nov 19 via email
• Final project proposal (500 words) due Thurs, Nov 19 via email. Your proposal should summarize the theory you chose and tell me your plan for the project. Will you create an artifact or performance? Describe all the media/mediums you will use. How you plan on representing/remediating the theoretical ideas of your scholarship? What parts of the things we’ve already done in class do you plan to draw on/incorporate?

Final Project Theory List

Classical Rhetoric:
Read Overview; choose between Brooks & Mara, Fleckenstein, or Rice; read Prior et. al. Core Text; and choose one Prior et. al. node to read
Ball and Hewett, Eds. Special Issue “Classical Rhetoric and Digital Communication: A Canon Blast into the Net” Kairos 11.3 Summer 2007.

Activity Theory:
Read Introduction; choose one article each from “Producing Work and the Economy,” “Producing Selves in Community,” and “Producing Education.”
Bazerman and Russell, eds. Writing Selves/Writing Societies: Research from Activity Perspectives.
Lochlan and Patrick

Genre Theory:
Read Introduction; Choose 3 articles
Bazerman, Bonini, and Figueiredo, eds. Genre in a Changing World.
Brian Doyle and Jen

Feminist Theory (and Technology):

Haraway, Donna. “A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s”
DeVoss, Danielle. “Rereading Cyborg(?) Women: The Visual Rhetoric of Images of Cyborg (and Cyber) Bodies on the World Wide Web”
Christine and Katie

Theories of Place:
Discourses in Place: Language in the Material World- Ron Scollon and Suzie Wong Scollon

Chapter 1: Geosemiotics
Chapter 4: Visual Semiotics
Chapter 5: Interlude on Geosemiotics
Brian Baxter and Georgia

(Video)Game theory:
Nakamura, Lisa. “Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game: The Racialization of Labor in World of Warcraft”
Murray, Janet. “Toward a Cultural Theory of Gaming: Digital Games and the Co-Evolution of Media, Mind, and Culture.”
Brooker, Will. “Camera-Eye, CG-Eye: Videogames and the “Cinematic”

or, if you can get it:

James Paul Gee: Part 1 from What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy

Comic Theory (you have to get the book)
Scott McCloud Understanding Comics (the rest of the book)

New Media Theory I:
Marshall McCluhan- “Part I” from Understanding Media
Vince and Parker

New Media Theory II:
Lev Manovich: Chapter 1 – “What Is New Media?” from The Language of New Media
Lev Manovich-  Chapter 6. “What Is Cinema?” from The Language of New Media
Amanda and Tom

Visual Rhetoric:
James Elkins. Visual Studies.
Bridget and Danny

Visual Rhetoric II
Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright. Practices of Looking.
Liz and Davis

Final Project: Remediating Theory

For your final project in Writing Across Media, you will be creating a polished artifact utilizing the skills and techniques acquired over the course of the semester. While the requirements for this project are simple, the work that you do here should reflect your finest and most thoughtful work to date. First, you will read a small body of scholarship that focuses on a theory related to work we have done in WAM. Then, you will work to remediate that theory using several modalities–in other words, the tools and methods we have utilized this semester and others you might bring to the table. I’d like for you to explore the theory thoroughly and then demonstrate your understanding of the theory in a way other than the typical alphabetic text representation. Simply put, do what you’ve been doing all semester!

The amount of work you do here should be the equivalent of a ten page research paper, but of course, there need not be any traditional “pages.” I assume that most of you will choose to do a time-based project/presentation, if so, please limit it to 7-10 minutes. In your initial proposal, due on the 19th, you should tell me your plan for the project including all of the media/mediums you will use and how you plan on representing the theoretical ideas of your scholarship. The most important part of the proposal and the project will be a display of your ability to think deeply about both the theory you will be covering and the concepts that we have discussed this semester. Final written “artifacts” should be at least 1000 words.

Time line:

• Assign project and choose theory: Thursday Nov 12
• Project proposal (one per partnership) due on Thursday the 19th (500 words) via email to bellwoar at illinois dot edu
• Have reading nearly completed by the 21st
• Final project due December 3rd, Presentations the 3rd and 8th

class 10/5

in-class

• workshop projects: every group member should check in with Hannah either in person or via email about their progress

homework

• video projects due, Nov 10 group

 

Video project screening

As we did with the podcasts, you are responsible to comment on the blogs of the students whose videos we screened on the day we didn’t screen your video.

Sign-ups are as follows:

Tues, Nov 10: Liz & Georgia, Steven & Danny, Brian Baxter & Lochlan, Katie & Jen

Thurs, Nov 12: Amanda & Julie, Tom & Bridget, Parker & Patrick, Brian Doyle & Christine, Vince & Davis

class 11/3

in-class

• take a few minutes to answer one of your video project partner’s questions (or someone else’s if they haven’t posted questions). also, write about how you think Ede & Lunsford’s discussions of authorship and collaboration apply to the collaborative video project you’re working on
• sign up for presentation day
• work in groups. I will return proposals and check in with each group individually

homework

• thursday will be a workshop day. you must check in with me somehow, so if you use class time to work somewhere else, each group member must send me an email letting me know what you did during class time
• bring some footage to class on thursday if you want to participate in an i-movie demo. I will also be available to help you troubleshoot your projects

class 10/29

in-class:

Watch these videos from Writing with video students:

Jonathan

Farah

homework:

• Read Ede & Lunsford “Intertexts” and “The Concept of Authorship”
• post 3 questions to your blog on the Ede & Lunsford readings

resources:

• Cameras are available in Rm 288 English building.
• Take a look at dropbox. You get 2GB for free, and this might be a better way to display your videos than Youtube.