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FOR FINALS WEEK There is much concern that some of you will need additional help, so I will be in our classroom--SAC 307--on Tuesday night at 7:00 to help anyone who needs last minute help. Please don't come with hours of work left to do; I'd like to only stay a couple hours.

Our final exam period is on Thursday, Dec. 17, 9:00 - 11:00 am. During this time you will give your presentations. Please remember to look over the rubric for the presentations, as they are worth a lot of points (see Handouts page).

FOR THURSDAY, DEC. 10 At this point you will want all your pages done so we can concentrate on publishing, which, as you know, can be sometimes challenging and time consuming...we'll want all hour to get this done.

FOR TUESDAY, DEC. 8 By this time you will want to have all your image headers done and your template done, as well as your respective pages. You will want to, by class time, be ready to begin inserting all your text and images. If you get behind this timeline I recommend, you will have difficulty finishing in time. Please stay on top of this.

FOR THURSDAY, DEC. 3 Please have your autobiography outlined, summarized, and ready to put into a web page. It would also be beneficial to have your mapping done. We will spend Thursday on making your images and your headers. Also bring me your storyboard from Module 5 if you forgot to turn it in.

NOTE: SEVERAL OF YOU HAVE NOT GOTTEN YOUR MODULE 5 IMOVIE TO ME. PLEASE UPLOAD THIS TO MOODLE PRONTO--YOU ARE LATE AND YOUR GRADE IS DROPPING!!!!!

FOR TUESDAY, DEC. 1 No homework. Enjoy your break and be safe.

FOR TUESDAY, NOV. 24 iMovie presentations! Also have your storyboard to turn in--I will collect them. Please put your movies in __**Moodle-**__-there is a link for you there.

FOR THURSDAY, NOV. 19 Storyboards and images due. We'll get right to work on iMovies.

FOR TUESDAY, NOV. 17 Your websites are due (Module four). You will all present. Because we lost a day for Module Five (iMovie) you also must have your storyboards done and your images done by Thursday as well. Please have the hardcopy storyboard for class and all your modified images saved where you can access them. In class we will then simply go about making movies. We will only have the one day. Here are the instructions for these two parts: STEP ONE: STORYBOARDING 1. When you make an iMovie, the biggest mistake you can make is to begin putting it together when you don’t know exactly what you are going to do. Winging it will cause you more problems than you can imagine. IMovie is not very forgiving if you set it a certain way and then change your mind. Thus you will begin with a “storyboard.” A storyboard is an outline of what images you want to use and in what order, what transitions you will use, with the text to go with each image. This all is to be drawn out on paper. 2. Once your storyboard is complete, start collecting images. Try to grab a couple for each frame just in case they don’t turn out like you want them to. STEP TWO: WORKING WITH IMAGES 1. Once you have collected all your images, each of them must be enhanced in some way. You can grayscale them, blur them, add to them, color parts of them—do something (keep it simple) to each image to enhance the rhetorical effect. 2. Of the images you choose, at least three have to go through some kind of change. For example, remember the iMovie about rhetoric I showed a long time ago? In that were “vessels” that started out empty and shifted to a vessel with a face in it. (We are not vessels). There is also an image that begins with lots of black and a picture on the top right. Then it shifts to the same image with another added below. Then another, where an image is added top left, then bottom left. The idea is to convey meaning through these shifts.

FOR THURSDAY, NOV. 12 Well it looks like no one is ready to present on Thursday, so we're shoving presentations back a day. Thus presentations will be Tuesday, Nov. 17 and we will only have one day to work on your next module on iMovies. It's a trade-off, but the vote was unanimous. So get done what you can by Thursday and we'll finish up then. Also many people have not responded to the last "reading" (Lessig's video) so please do so if you haven't already.

FOR TUESDAY, NOV. 10 Your website should be nearly complete. We will go over publishing and work out any glitches in class--you will have all of class to work on your pages. Presentations begin Thursday--everyone must be ready as I will choose you at random to present. Remember that you are teaching content as well as describing your design choices. Remember as you describe to use rhetorical terms and ideas, CRAP principles, and visual rhetoric. I HIGHLY suggest having your presentation scripted, at least on note cards. Spontaneity does not make good presentations!

Just wanted to share my joy with you. This is just too funny! Yay digital Rhet! media type="youtube" key="BtUpnQDe9_U" height="344" width="425"

NOTE: It is now 5:00pm on Tuesday, Nov. 3. Everyone who has not uploaded their Module 3 PowerPoint and their Module 3 Reflection to Moodle or their wiki is considered late. At this time tomorrow you will be 2 days late. At this time Thu. you will be 3 days late. Etc. Each day late reduces your grade by 5%. Get this work uploaded (I know you did it--I saw it in your presentation!!) and send me an email to let me know it's there.

FOR THURSDAY, NOV. 5 Please read Lawrence Lessig's "Who Owns Culture?" and respond on the "Readings" page. Also make sure you and your group are all caught up with one another. By Thursday you should have completed: 1) your web site definition and appropriate folders 2) your page background, text, links, visited links choices (they should be the same for everyone in your group), and 3) any images you think you want on your page. Also be sure to bring a thumb drive so you can save your work--getting on your file share isn't always possible. If you have done some work already and saved it to your file share, please resave it to a thumb drive as well. Trust me: this is a lot of work and you don't want to lose it.

FOR TUESDAY, NOV. 3 Your Module 4 was due Thursday--Please be sure that it is uploaded to Moodle. I also need your "brief explanation of choices" document: tell me why you chose your background, did image transitions, chose font, etc. Either put it in Moodle as well, email it to me, or put it on your wiki page (let me know where it is). I cannot grade your module it if I don't have these things! Also read Scanlan's "The Web and the Future of Writing" and respond on the readings page. Make sure you are caught up with your group on your web design as well.

FOR THURSDAY, OCT. 29 1) Module 3 (PowerPoint) is due! Please be sure to go over the handout carefully to make sure you've met the requirements and haven't missed anything essential. Also look over the rubric; use it as a checklist. 2) Also read and respond in the discussions tab to Scott Berkun's "The Role of Flow in Web Design" on the "Readings" page. 3) Do your research for you group and post it to your group wiki page. Do this well before class time so that your group has time to read it.

FOR TUESDAY, OCT. 27 Nothing is due. Enjoy your break and be safe. Module 3 will be due Thursday.

FOR TUESDAY, OCT. 20 After a class discussion, I have decided to have ONLY YOUR PAPER due. Your module 3 will not be due till the following week. I will have a revised schedule for you after break.

FOR THURSDAY, OCT. 15 This will be our last day before midterm, before your Module 3(Pp) and Project 2(rhetorical analysis) are due. Please bring to class anything and everything you would like help with or would like to work on. It is a free day--but I expect you to use the time I give you well. So plan on coming with lots to do.

If you want to rewrite your first paper, you __must__ see me this week. My office hours are M-Th 2:30 - 4:00, SAC 339. If this time doesn't work for you, let me know and we'll schedule a different time.

For those of you who did NOT give me a draft of your rhetorical analysis, I would HIGHLY SUGGEST bringing a draft with you to class Thursday so you can get feedback--from me and/or your peers. Many who did turn in a draft had SIGNIFICANT work to do, so don't imagine that you have it all sewn up.

I have uploaded a PowerPoint on PowerPoint (which we watched and discussed in class) and a rubric for Project 2 on the "handouts" page.

FOR TUESDAY, OCT. 13 We will begin work on Module 3 (handout on the handouts page--if you missed class, please go read this). If I did not get a draft from you in class, you may email me one sometime before midnight Sunday for some feedback.

FOR THURSDAY, OCT. 8 Rough draft of Project 2 (rhetorical analysis) is due. A *very prescriptive* handout with the elements I expect is on the handouts page. Please bring 3 hard copies to class.

NOTICE: IF YOU HAVE DIFFICULTY IN MODULE 2 EXERCISE 4 EXPORTING AS A JPG, GO TO EXPORT PREVIEW. AT THE TOP CENTER IS "SAVED SETTINGS" WITH A DROPDOWN MENU. CHOOSE "SMALLER JPG" AND THEN "OKAY". THIS SHOULD WORK.

FOR TUESDAY, OCT. 6 Module 2 (Fireworks) is due. You will be presenting Activities 3,4,5,and 6 to the class and briefly explaining your choices. Project 2 (Rhetorical Analysis) rough draft due Thursday, so at least have steps one and two (deciding what you'll analyze and the background research) done by Tuesday. I'll be going around the class and asking what you're doing. Be prepared to answer.

FOR THURSDAY, OCT. 1 Your final draft of Paper One (Digital Literacy Autobiography) is due. Please bring a hard copy to class, along with your first draft with my comments and the worksheets your peers filled out. A rubric for this paper is on the "Handouts" page.

FOR TUESDAY, SEPT. 29 Many of you were not in class today; if you did not get a draft to me, it is late. I will still look at it, but you won't get feedback from your peers unless they are willing to do it outside of class. Please email me your draft pronto. I will not accept a rough draft after Sunday midnight (Monday morning). The final draft of this first paper is due next Friday--they are worth 200 points. I'm not sure why they are not being taken very seriously by some of you, but you're only hurting yourself.

Monday we'll be moving on to Unit 2. Please read Wysocki's "Multiple Media of Texts" and respond on the "Discussions" tab.

FOR THURSDAY, SEPT. 24 Project One (rough draft) is due!!! Please bring 3 hard copies of your draft to class. Also make sure your Module One is uploaded to your wiki space (and be sure to name it with your last name before you upload!)

FOR TUESDAY, SEPT. 22 Read and respond to Mary Hock's "Understanding Visual Rhetoric" in the "discussion" tab on the "Readings" page MODULE ONE is due (both parts). Be ready to present it to the class--explain the poem/lyrics and their meaning and how your visual text enhances that meaning. Be sure to send me your fonts or save your document as a pdf file.

FOR THURSDAY, SEPT. 17 Jake is right--Berger's article is too difficult for y'all to get to. So read "Digital Literacy" by Yorem-Ashet Alkalai instead and post a response.

FOR TUE. SEPT. 15 Please read Nabeth's article on the "Readings" page and respond to the Nabeth thread--either my post or to someone else's post--on the discussion tab of the "Readings" page. NOTE: Under the discussion tab where it says **"New Message" do not fill this in**. Instead, click on the link that I have posted that says "Nabeth and DSEs" and respond to that directly.

Also, since we did not have time for the "Identity" exercise, please open the "Identity Exercise" handout from the "handouts" page. Read the instructions and choose three of the listed sites. Be prepared to talk about three sites when you come to class Tuesday.

IF YOU MISSED CLASS - be sure to read the syllabus and the "schedule for 1st half of the semester" (Handouts page). We went over them in class.

FOR THUR. SEPT. 10 Have your wiki completed. Instructions are on "Handouts " pg.