Daily Tasks

Today we will wrap up in-class activities. Our main aim will be to ensure that everyone is up to speed on remaining tasks. 

Recall that our final is on Friday the 6th from 4:00-7:00PM. All materials are due by 7:00PM on Friday. If you have completed your portfolio, you can check that it… More

Today we will start with an in-class writing activity. Use this link to compose as I guide you. Your brainstorm text will be in this list.

I will then… More

Today we will review some of our portfolio videos:

http://altscholarship.com/argunet/node/307

http://altscholarship.com/argunet/node/304

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Today, we will look over a couple of extra video portfolio examples:

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Today, we will spend some time gathering materials for our portfolios. I will guide us through the process. The first step is to open your portfolio draft, and then Edit the posting. Next, we will add items. Here are the items to collect… More

Today, we will review the portfolio video assignment.

Next, we will talk about storyboard and narration. There is an organic process to developing a solid narrative for a portfolio video. I will demonstrate with some quick… More

Today, we will try some improv video composing. Follow these steps:

First, download this image and open it on your computer.

Next, open our class web site,… More

Today we will start with some logistics related to our end-of-semester activities. We will review the schedule and talk about the portfolio video assignment.

We will then go… More

Today, we will look over a few examples of GIFs:

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Today we will take a few minutes to experiment with skills helpful to the animated GIF project. Before getting started, you will need to make sure to have the Snagit free trial downloaded and installed. You will next need to identify a… More

Today we will work online to prepare for our animated GIF and Instagram stories activities. Here are the tasks:

Use Adobe Creative Cloud to download Adobe Premiere RUSH.

From the Home screen of Adobe RUSH, use the Learn option to watch several tutorials to get the feel for the… More

Today, we will go over steps for uploading your meme images. You will use the Meme Images posting type to upload.

Then we will explore a few additional aspects of Photoshop that make fuller use of layers. I will guide… More

Today we will have a guest lecture related to the readings from last night.

Once the lecture is over, we will review some of the improv collages we created on Monday, and… More

Today, we will begin by discussing our reading, I was struck by these:

The more we understand about memes and their mutations, their origins, and how quickly these are accepted by other individuals, the more we will… More

Today, we will review some visual strategies, starting with some of the samples collected from our reading.

Some topics we will take up include:

• How do images argue?
• What is the relationship between words… More

Today we will begin by discussing the podcast drafts that were posted with Monday's daily task:

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Today, we will focus most of our activities on composing our app arguments. To get started, we will discuss some of the brainstorming and improvisational work from last week.

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Today, we will learn how to create some color schemes and add them as assets to an XD project. We will also learn to set some character styles so that they can be re-used in your projects. We will do this by creating a "design" art board for your project. Follow these steps:

First open… More

Today, we will reflect on our podcast activities, and then review revision steps for our audio essays. We will start by listening to one of our audio essay samples:

Today, we will hear the podcast of Danielle, Alexis, Trent, Ekta, and Daniel.

Once we have finished the podcast, we will review the homework for the weekend:

Revise your Twitter Report

Make sure you have Adobe… More

Today, we will quickly review our next assignment, the App Argument.

Next, we will hear from:

Adysen, Jeff, Alex Trippi, Alex Weiss as they deliver their podcast

Once we are finished, we can use any extra… More

Today, we will quickly review our portfolio assignment and a sample portfolio. Next, we will experience the podcast performance of:

Anthony, Maddy, Shayan, Hope, Ethan.… More

Most of the day will be devoted to our first podcast performance. Before starting we will go over the steps for revising your Twitter reports, looking at a few aspects including tone, … More

Today we will select the dates for the podcasts, and then conduct the dry run of your performances.

First, we will choose dates by drawing.

Next, we will pick find spots to do a dry run of the podcast. One group can stay in our classroom. We will then look for open classrooms.… More

Today we will do more hands-on work to prepare for our podcasts. We will split things into three segments: 

1) Making a Soundboard

First, in your group, make final decisions about the media clips you will use for the podcast. You should have several clips linked to the google doc… More

Today, we will strategize about how to interact with one another in a podcast setting. To do so, we will

critique some student samples:

Today, we will begin our work on our collaborative podcasts. The first two aspects will involve in-class individual and group brainstorming. I will provide handouts to facilitate.

For the rest of class, conduct research related to your sub-topics and identify at least two potential media… More

Today, we will start by critiquing some of our audio essay drafts:

Today we will do some listening to help us think further about differences in composing with print, visual, and audio materials. 

We'll start by watching two reflections on the composing of an audio essay and the nature of podcasts.

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Today we will spend a few minutes thinking about strategies for "editing for voice." To work, we will look at some of our script drafts:

http://altscholarship.com/argunet/sites/default/… More