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Due Today:
Final Paper Revision
Class does not meet. Post your final revision to Turnitin.com.
Due Today:
Portfolio 3
Class will not meet on this day. Submit your final online portfolio by posting a link here.
Assigned Text:
Ex 5: Of Emergence and Knowledge in the [??] Era
You name the era we are heading into.
Write a three-page paper that demonstrates your ability to apply assigned readings to your own experience reading (and studying, and analyzing, and annotating) an academic etext.
As with the other exercises, I am expecting you to engage meaningfully with direct quotes taken from our assigned readings.
This assignment also asks you to report your first-hand experience with ebook tools and resources that are currently available.
Write a three-page paper that demonstrates your ability to apply assigned readings to your own experience reading (and studying, and analyzing, and annotating) an academic etext.
As with the other exercises, I am expecting you to engage meaningfully with direct quotes taken from our assigned readings.
This assignment also asks you to report your first-hand experience with ebook tools and resources that are currently available.
- A Kindle is available for you to check out at the library; I have pre-loaded it with some media-related books.
- I will also loan my own Kindle overnight if you schedule with me in advance.
- If you have an iPhone, you can use the Kindle app.
- You can also download a free Kindle reader for a PC or Mac. (There are plenty of free Kindle books.)
- As of April 14, there are about 10 iPads at SHU. I don't know who will get them, or whether they will be available for students to try out. If you can get ahold of an iPad, wonderful!
- I have not tried it out, but here is a link to a free trial of a "PDF Annotator" tool. Is it useful for scholars? Can you find a different tool that might be better?
- books.google.com (see for yourself whether Darnton's hopes/fears for Google are accurate)
Creative Presentation 4.
Topic: defend a particular position on anything we've covered in the course. (While I am giving you free reign to choose a topic from any unit, I am asking you to choose something specific. Please feel free to run ideas past me.)
Medium: your in-class presentation should demonstrate your successful engagement with, and use of, digital technology, in a manner that emphasizes the unique qualities of digital media.
Samples (to get you thinking)
Topic: defend a particular position on anything we've covered in the course. (While I am giving you free reign to choose a topic from any unit, I am asking you to choose something specific. Please feel free to run ideas past me.)
Medium: your in-class presentation should demonstrate your successful engagement with, and use of, digital technology, in a manner that emphasizes the unique qualities of digital media.
Samples (to get you thinking)
- Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us (see also "Parisian Love" and Google's "Search Stories" tool that makes a (shortened) version of a similar thing -- you'd need to string several of these together to make a full presentation)
- Scrolling palindrome text
- I used Screencast on my MacBook to create the interactive fiction playthroughs. Is there a game, or a website, or a database, or a piece of software that you could demonstrate (or critique)? (The IT department may be able to let you use a Mac in order to do the capturing. Contact Mary Spataro at spataro@setonhill.edu.)
- It is possible to add buttons to YouTube videos, so that a viewer could choose to play clip A or clip B -- so you could make a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure video. (Note that, if you use copyrighted material, YouTube may take your video down at any time. FYI.)
- Prezi is an alternative to PowerPoint that might appeal to visual-spatial learners. (Here's a Prezi I created for News Writing last fall.)
- Such Tweet Sorrow (Twitter-based reworking of Romeo & Juliet)
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