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FOR FRIDAY, DEC. 5 We will be meeting (in our usual classroom) AT 1:00 PM, one half-hour earlier than usual. Bring your lunch if you'd like. We have eight presentations to go, and with this additional half hour we should be able to finish them all. This means we will NOT have to meet next week! If you are missing anything, have not presented, have not turned in your portfolio, etc. please be sure to see me and get your stuff in by Friday. I will accept nothing after that date without prior arrangements. Presenters: Emily Boerman, Christina Brown, Molly Henning, Christiana Hugo, Elyse Fisher, Dane Curth, Amelia Glazier, Rachel Loria

FOR MONDAY, NOV. 27 Your portfolios are due. Feel free to send me questions or drafts, but if you send them at the last minute I cannot promise you I will get to them. Be sure your portfolio is neatly put together, organized well, AND CLEARLY LABELED. In class we will continue with presentations, starting with those who were supposed to go last week.

MONDAY, NOV. 24 - PRESENTATIONS Ashley Arquette, Courtney marting, Latisha Misenhelder, Brittany Dixon, Simone Boos And here's the rubric for the reflection:

FOR FRIDAY, NOV. 21 Complete drafts of everything--last editing day before presentations!

FOR WEDNESDAY, NOV. 19 We'll be back in the classroom - last day for style, then Friday last day for editing. Get stuff finished and bring it in if you'd like any kind of feedback from your peers. SCHEDULE FOR PRESENTATIONS Monday, Nov. 24 - Ashley Arquette, Courtney marting, Latisha Misenhelder, Brittany Dixon, Simone Boos Monday, Dec. 1 - Brandt Ayoub, Amanda Bacome, Emily Noss, Pauline Hagedorn Wednesday, Dec. 3 - Rachel Loria, Joye Kallgren, Amelia Glazier, Dane Curth, Jeremy Suave Friday, Dec. 5 - Emily Boerman, Christina Brown, Molly Henning, Christiana Hugo, Elyse Fisher

FOR MONDAY, NOV. 17 We got the SAC 110 lab, both for Monday and Thursday evening. So I will eat my lunch in the lab--workshopping on your remixes from 12:30 - 2:30 (when I must leave pronto). But we will have more time again Thursday evening from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in the SAC 110 lab. Please plan on using your time well-- we only have these few hours to work together and get help.

FOR FRIDAY, NOV. 14 Another group workshop day. Bring all your newest writing for others to edit. Time is getting shorter, so don't put off these revisions! (only one more full week of classes before presentations!).

FOR WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12 More of the same--and keep bringing me drafts!

FOR MONDAY, NOV. 10 Keep drafting. Keep getting me drafts to read. And bring all your drafts to class again for more style work.

FOR FRIDAY, NOV. 7 Keep drafting. And bring any drafts to class that you would like people to work on, as it will be a group revision workshop day. Also bring anything for me if you want me to read another draft. The handout for the the portfolio and presentations is now up and on the "Handouts and REadings" page. Email me if you have questions.

FOR WEDNESDAY NOV. 5 Please keep drafting. Start adding in creative/interesting punctuation (try for at least a few per page). Bring drafts again for Wednesday for more style work. I will have a handout for the portfolio for you, since many of you are feeling a little uneasy without one!

FOR MONDAY, NOV. 3 Draft of last paper due. Remember that you'll want a total of 20 or so pages altogether. This may sound like a lot, but I assign my 100 students about 15 pages and my 101 students over 40 pages total, so y'all don't have it too bad. And this can include metacommentary/reflection on your remix as well. Print your draft and bring it to class, along with some of your older writing. We're going to start working on crafting fabulous prose!

FOR FRIDAY, OCT. 31 (HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!) Please find and upload to your wiki page a video or moving image for analysis. The richer and more rhetorical the clip, the better. Be prepared to talk about your video to the class.

FOR WEDNESDAY, OCT. 29 Please find at least three photographs and either bring them to class or post them to your wiki page. If you put them on your wiki page, be sure to go into Fireworks and make it small enough to fit on the page as well as exporting it so it isn't a huge file. These images can be anything you want, but think about what you might want to write about and find images you find intriguing or worth writing about. A lovely sunset is, after all its beauty, just a lovely sunset. Sources for images: [|flickr.com] [|deviantart.com]

FOR MONDAY, OCT. 27 Please work on any remediation writing you might want to do for any unit: keep in mind that you need one re-mediated project for your portfolio. You have several weeks so no reason to panic, but I will expect creativity on these. Also please read the following chapter from Susan Sontag's book "On Photography." Write a journal about what you have read and bring your journal to class for discussion.

FOR FRIDAY, OCT. 24 We will again meet in the lab to work on iMovies and webpages. These are more difficult and time consuming, so it would be a good idea if you were prepared ahead of time with images and text you might want to use. Please make sure you are comfortable and have spent significant time playing around with Fireworks and PowerPoint so that they will not be any problem for you to use as we work in the other two environments, both of which rely on Fireworks. A revised version of the Fireworks instructions on how to put the leaf in the snow is on the Handouts page. Please be sure you can at least tackle this basic skill.

FOR WEDNESDAY, OCT. 22 We will be meeting in SAC 110 both Wed. and Fri. to do some technical workshopping. If you have images or text that you would like to work with, please have it saved to your Othello account or saved on a thumb drive to bring with you. If not, you will be working with random images and text.

FOR MONDAY, OCT. 20 Please have a first draft of your next paper(s), printed out, and bring them to class. We'll work on rhetorical analysis as well, so if you weren't in class on Wednesday, still bring your article and your ideas about the questions below.

FOR WEDNESDAY, OCT. 15 On the "Handouts and Readings" page are all the genres we looked at today. In class you will be doing a rhetorical analysis of the writing you had today in class (Chance just pick one). Before coming to class, read carefully for the following: Author’s thesis or purpose Author’s level of critical thought on the topic Author’s organization of ideas Author’s ability to back up her/his claims Author’s style and its effect Author’s appeals to your sense of logic (Logos) Author’s appeals to your emotions (Pathos) Author’s appeals to her/his credibility (Ethos)

Some questions to ask: a. Does this author convince me or at least make me think? How does s/he accomplish this? What texts are most convincing? Least convincing? Are there some hard and fast facts, well-supported, or some excellent logic that makes me agree? b. How does this article make me feel? How did the writer get me to feel this way? What specific texts accomplish this feeling? Do I have mixed emotions? Why? Is there some conflict? What is it? c. Do I trust this writer? Why? What is it specifically that makes me believe that this person is credible? Do I like her/him? Why? Do I respect her/him? Why?

Also bring back your "positive" ads: I'd like to work with these if we have time.

FOR MONDAY, OCT. 13 (NO CLASS FRIDAY DUE TO A DEATH IN THE FAMILY) Three things: One: Write. Write. Write. Get going on your draft(s). If you're struggling to know what you want to write, starting with genre can help. Choose a genre and see what kinds of ideas and issues might fit. Remember that you need two products: a short and a long or a genre that you re-mediate or remix. Two: Unlike the kinds of ads we have focused on so far, I'd like you to find POSITIVE representations in advertising: those that do not assume we're mindless, bigoted, automatons. Those that think outside the box and allow people to think for themselves, leaving positive images associated with whatever they ar trying to sell or convince you of. Three: Think about genre: what makes a genre? How do we know? What makes one different from all others? In what ways are they the same?

FOR WEDNESDAY, OCT. 8 On the "Handouts and Readings" page is a reading packet. In this packet, read essays 1,2, and 3, "Racism and Sexism in Advertising," "Beauty and Violence," and "Some Don't Like Their Blues at All." Journal on at least one of these, and as you journal, consider the (original) audience, genre, and purpose of these articles.

FOR FRIDAY, OCT. 3 Editing! First, revise your paper according to the feedback you got today in group workshops. Second, you and one other person are panel experts for one particular editing concern. It is your job to polish up on this editing tool and be ready (bring handbook, handouts, online helps) to class. Some handouts are on the "handouts" page, but not one for every group. You may have to go online or get a handbook and look things up. http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ is an excellent website with lots of help. Panels consist of the following:

Parallel Structure - Molly, Joye Eliminating "To Be"isms - Christina, Dane Punctuation Sophistication - Jeremy, Brittany Passive/Active voice and Usage - Simone, Amelia Introductory phrases/clauses (variety of -ing phrases, -ed phrases, etc) - Emily B, Brandt Sentence Variety - Latisha, Emily N. Transitions - Rachel, Chance Wordiness/Conciseness - Courtney, Ashley Commas -- CC, Christiana

FOR WEDNESDAY, OCT. 1 Please read the two papers you decided on for your group and complete the, one for each paper you read. Please bring them to class, along with a copy of your own paper. If you were absent, your group should be contacting you to tell you whose papers to read. Remember to give those in your group plenty of time before class Wednesday (at least 24 hours) to read and respond to your paper. Groups are as follows (their emails are on the "student pages" page):

(NOTE: Y'ALL HAVE A NEW GROUP MEMBER--PLEASE CONTACT HER PRONTO) Molly Henning Christina Brown Jeremy Sauve
 * Pauline Hagadorn**

Rachel Loria Brandt Ayoub Courtney Martin CC (Elyse) Fisher

Simone Boos Dane Curth Emily Boerman Latisha Misenhelder

Amanda Bacome Emily Noss Amelia Glazier Chance (Daniel) Baldwin

Ashley Arquette Joye Kallgren Christiana Hugo Brittany Dixon

NO CLASS FRIDAY, SEPT. 26 FOR MONDAY, SEPT. 29 - first draft of paper, including visual representation of data, due. Please bring two hard copies:one for me and one for class.

FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 24 Nothing specific, but your first drafts are due next Monday, so get started writing!

FOR MONDAY, SEPT. 22 All research must be done. Bring your results, your surveys, etc. to class. Please also read for Monday

NOTICE: WE ARE ALL CLEARED FOR SURVEYS. PLEASE POLISH THEM, I'LL CHECK THEM, THEN ASK AWAY! DEADLINE IS STILL FRIDAY.

FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 17 Polish surveys, interviews, observations. Bring to class Wednesday Read “Beauty” online. Write response and make connections to your research and paper. Think “genre” as well.

BEFORE MONDAY'S CLASS: YOU MUST GET YOUR TOPIC APPROVED BY ME IN TIME TO WRITE YOUR PROPOSAL. SEND ME AND EMAIL AND I WILL RESPOND ASAP.

FOR MONDAY, SEPT. 15 Research proposal due. See Paper 1 handout for details.

FOR FRIDAY, SEPT. 12 Please journal in response to Wednesday's activity: Did you find out anything interesting about the way people perceive you based on your things? Did anything surprise you? Are the things they said about you pretty close to being correct? Think more about how people judge you based on what they see and how you tend to do the same and, of course, why.

You will be beginning a research project next week using field research (interviews, surveys, and observations). Using the theme of this course, start thinking of what you might want to research.

FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 10 Please bring to class several (5 minimum) items that you feel represent you well: photographs, t-shirts, jewelry, diary/books--virtually anything you'd like. If it's big, please take a picture of it and bring in the picture.

FOR MONDAY, SEPT. 8 1. Please complete your wiki page if you were unable to do so in class. Remember to include the following: At least one photo of yourself At least one paragraph describing yourself At least four links to outside pages At least one video clip (optional) At least one other image that represents something significant about you. And remember, this page represents you. Be sure that you edit your writing and present yourself in a way that Alma College would find tasteful.

2. Please write a one-page or more reflection about yourself and your digital identity. Some possible questions to answer: How do you represent yourself online? Where are you represented? Do you have avatars? Are you in Second Life? How does your digital identity differ from what people might think of you in person?