Schedule
JANUARY 11: NARRATIVE AND TECHNOLOGY
Introduction
Setting up your Pitt UNIX Account & FTP
Digital Photography 101
Web Design Studio
Eliza/Doctor (1964, Joseph Weizenbaum)
JANUARY 18: First Generations: Hypertext & Interactive Fictions (click & type) & Web Design
DUE:
Digital Millenium Copyright Act
Library of Babel (1941, Jorge Luis Borges)
my body - a wunderkammer (1997, Shelley Jackson with sound by John Wesley Harding and HTML coding by Ken Fricklas)
Galatea [2000, Emily Short (web-version, 2007)}
Change the Code, Save the Text [2010, Gavin Jocius]
Homepage posted on website
Blog Entry #1
JANUARY 25: ELIT: Electronic Literature (making it legit for the Academy)
DUE:
Girl's Day Out [2004, Kerry Lawrynovicz]
Mandrake Vehicles [2006, Oni Buchanan]
Makers (2009, Cory Doctorow, ch 1-40]
Web Writing I: Fanfic for Makers
Blog Entry #2
FEBRUARY1: Storytelling for the Public: Podcasts, Serial Fiction & Digital Storytelling
DUE:
This American Life: 20 Acts in 60 Minutes (2003, NPR)--mp3 pay download
House on Loon Lake (NPR, 2001)Makers (2009, Cory Doctorow, ch 41-81]
Web Writing 2: Fanfic for Makers pt. 2
Blog Entry #3
FEBRUARY 8: NETWORK FICTION & Sound Design
DUE:
Inanimate Alice [2005, Kate Pullinger and Chris Joseph] -- all episodes
Flight Paths [2008, Kate Pullinger, Chris Joseph, et al] -- all episodes
Web Writing 3: Podcast Script due
Blog Entry #4
February 9: Special Event: Wednesday, 5-6, 324 CL:
Prof Tara McPherson, "Color Coding: On Race and UNIX at Mid-Century?"
FEBRUARY 15: Digital Storytelling & Video
DUE:
Inanimate Alice [2005, Kate Pullinger and Chris Joseph] -- all episodes--continued
Flight Paths [2008, Kate Pullinger, Chris Joseph, et al] -- all episodes-continued
Center for Digital Storytelling (Various authors. Watch ALL categories: community, education, family, health, identity and place).
Web Writing 4: Podcast Rough Cut due
Blog Entry #5
FEBRUARY 22: Digital Storytelling...in Print: Post-Print Fiction & Visual Protocols
DUE:
Mark Z. Danielewski's Only Revolutions --- Read print book following the book's navigation instructions, read through Hailey/Sam p. 180
Read the entry for "Constrained Writing"
Web Writing 5: Podcast Final Cut due
Blog Entry #6
March 1: Digital Storytelling...in Print: Post-Print Fiction & Listening to Podcasts
DUE:
Mark Z. Danielewski's Only Revolutions --- Read to end of print book following the book's navigation instructions.
Web Writing 6: Twitter Narrative: Constrained Writing
Blog Entry --NO Blog post due. With your partner, you must complete the Wiki assignment that we started last class.
March 8: Spring Break
March 15: Video Editing
DUE:
Complete Adobe Photoshop Tutorial
Complete Premiere Tutorial
Web Writing 7: 1) Draft script for 2-3 minute creative critical video project on Only Revolutions ; include a separate description of the style of your video 2) Bring in scratch still, audio and video footage to work with (on your USB drive)
Blog Entry #7--DIY Video Making.
March 22: WebComics
DUE:
Aaron Diaz Art Blog: Two Posts--> 1 || 2
Web Writing 8: 1) Movie Poster & 2) Rough Cut of Creative Critical Video Poster
Blog Entry #8: Formatting in Webcomics
March 29: Flash Fictions & Comic
DUE:
The Virtual Disappearance of Miriam
Blog Entry #9: Musings on possible final project
April 5: Interactive Narrative
DUE:
Wilderness Downtown - HTML5 "trailer"
Donnie Darko - a film "trailer"
Web Writing 9: Final Creative Critical Video Due
Web Writing 10: Final Project Proposal
April 12:: Final Projects
DUE:
You will present Rough Cut of Final Project
Web Writing 11: Final Project "Rough Cut"
APRIL 19: SHOWCASE!! Presentations & PARTY!!!!
FINAL PROJECTS/PRESENTATIONS DUE
APRIL 26: Final work due, presentations & PARTY!!!!
ALL WORK DUE --You must have all work uploaded to your website and turn in your USB drive with all work, drafts, project files by 4:30pm in 526CL