Professor Jamie Skye Bianco
Fall 2009, University of Pittsburgh
Tuesdays, 6-8:50PM, 423 CL
ENGLIT 2504 - 1010
Office Hours, Tuesdays, 4-5, and by appointment
Office Location: 1502a CL (enter through 1501)
Schedule (subject to Change)
September 1: |
Introduction
Multimodality, Addobe CS4, Workshop Model, Learning through Failure
Technical Learning, Creative Critical Work, Affective & Emergent Pedagogies
The Project
Source Assignments
MM Assignments
Static Web Design I: Dreamweaver, HTML
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| September 8: |
Static Web Design II: Dreamweaver, XHTML |
Workshop:
Acquire domain, set up FTP, upload Index. Pitt web space.
Source Assignment:
-Theodor Adorno, "The Essay as Form" from The Adorno Reader
-New London Group. (1996). "A Pedagogy of New Literacies: Designing Social Futures." Harvard Educational Review, 66 (1), 60-92. (Available through PittCat) or
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| September 15: |
Static Web Design III: Dreamweaver, CSS [SAMPLES FROM CLASS] |
Source Assignment:
-Computers and Composition
-Gunther Kress & Theo Van Leeuwen, "Introduction: Multimodality" from Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication
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| September 22: |
Static Web Design IV: Dreamweaver IV, CSS
Begin working with Images I: Photoshop/Bridge, the Basics |
Workshop:
Present Rough Websites Source Assignment:
-Computers and Composition
-Gail E. Hawisher & Cynthia L. Selfe, "Literate Lives in the Information Age" from Literate Lives in the Information Age
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| September 29: |
Working with Images II: Photoshop/Bridge, Masks & Layers
Sound I: Production: Soundbooth/Audacity, Capture & Editing |
Source Assignment:
-Computers and Composition Online
-Anne Frances Wysocki, "Opening New Media to Writing: Openings and Justifications" from Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition
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| October 6: |
Sound II: Production: Soundbooth/Audacity, Capture & Editing |
Schedule meeting with JSB (Oct. 1-Oct. 19)
Bring in ideas/Recordings for Podcast/Sound Essay
Source Assignment:
-Computers and Composition Online
-Gunther Kress & Theo Van Leeuwen, "The Meaning of Composition" from Reading Images
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| October 13: |
No Class: Pitt on Monday Schedule |
Work on Websites & Sound Projects
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| October 20: |
Video I Production I: Premiere, Capture & Editing Video & Sound Premiere/Photoshop/Soundbooth/Audacity
Editing, Compositing, Key Frames, Transitions
Sound III: Podcasts, Sound Objects, Sound Essays: SoundBooth |
3 Final Project Sketches due
Workshop:
Present Podcasts/Sound Projects Source Assignment:
-Kairos: an Online Journal of Rhetoric Technology and Pedagogy
-Gunther Kress & Theo Van Leeuwen, "Design" from Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication
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| October 27: |
Video II Production III: Premiere/Photoshop/Soundbooth/Audacity
Editing, Compositing, Animation (PS), Titles, Exporting
Integration: Putting the media together
Final Project Planning |
Proposal for Final Project due
Workshop:
Work on Video Roughcuts
Source Assignment:
-Kairos: an Online Journal of Rhetoric Technology and Pedagogy
-Danielle DeVoss et al, "The Future of Literacy" from Literate Lives in the Information Age
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| November 3: |
Class Cancelled |
Work on Websites & Videos
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| November 10: |
Present Final Websites & Videos I
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Present Video Final Cuts &
Present Final Website Designs (complete though you will continue to add)
Source Assignment:
-Vectors
-Stuart A. Selber, "Rhetorical Literacy: Computers as Hypertextual Media, Students as Reflexive Producers of Technology" from Multiliteracies for a Digital Age
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| November 17: |
Present Final Websites & Videos II |
Present Video Final Cuts &
Present Final Website Designs (complete though you will continue to add)
Source Assignment:
-Vectors
-Mary Kalantzis & Bill Cope, "A Multiliteracies Pedagogy" from Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures
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| November 24: |
Present Final Websites & Videos III
: class canceled |
CLASS CANCELED: too many folk out of town for Thanksgiving holiday to hold workshop & response
Source Assignment:
-Johndan Johnson-Eilola, "The Database and the Essay: Understanding Composition as Articulation" from Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition
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| December 1: |
Present Final Websites & Videos III
: make-up session
Teaching Multimodality: MM Essays and/or Digital Storytelling: begin discussion of course readings
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Present Video Final Cuts &
Present Final Website Designs (complete)
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| December 8: |
Animation & Transcoding: Flash/Photoshop/Flash Encoder
Teaching Multimodality: MM Essays and/or Digital Storytelling: discuss course readings
Evaluations |
Brief studio practice with Flash
Discuss all course readings & reviews: Please read peer reviews in preparation for class
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| December 15: |
The BIG NIGHT! |
Final Project Presentations -- PUBLIC!
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