week four: September 14-18
For the visual rendering assignment, communicate a keyword to the audience using visual tools. You may try a new tool like piktochart or picmonkey. You are not limited as to visual composing tools. Some students will be creating paper renderings of which they then upload photos to their sites.
Explain the meaning of your rendering in a couple of sentences.
Publish it to your weebly site.
Create a link or other navigation from your weebly homepage to your visual rendering. Give it a name, and use that name for your link or tab name.
Finalized criteria for the assignment (collaboratively written by Eng 363ers):
This assignment should show critical thinking about media by using content to portray a intentional core message in adding a unique layer of complexity to a media-related issue or idea.
The meaning of the visual assignment should be clear to the readers and concise in its message.
It should include the student's own interpretation and demonstrate originality and quality.
It should demonstrate complexity of thought through its meaning or visual display. Alternatively, it might demonstrate complexity through research.
-deadline: Friday September 25
for Friday Sept 18:
--attempt your visual rendering, draft 1; due 9/25 (see criteria below)
--make a homepage using weebly.com or update an existing one
--be ready to talk about the ww/airbender articles; blog on one or both
(don't pay weebly to connect your domain to your weebly site; we'll do it for free in class)
media studies keywords from Nakamura (gaming) and Lopez (Airbender)
(from "viral me": affective labor)
racialization
labor
leisure
fandom
chauvinism
orientalism
free/paid labor (for fb/in WoW)
playing to produce capital for fb vs work-playing to play the rent
opportunities to showcase asian and asian american talent (casting, representation)
casting asian roles with asians
whitewashing
relates to asian american visibility/ representation on youtube
fan activism
fan outrage
essentialized (fixed)
stereotype
writing/media keywords from same:
primary text:
weak storyline
weak characterization
entertainment vs accuracy
typecasting
respectful representation
race-specific casting
quality (good or bad)
Monday: bring your sketched visual rendering plus one- or two-sentence explanation of the concept you are trying to portray.
Explore piktochart or picmonkey as possible tools (graphics, maps, charts).
Share the visual examples you chose and, as a class, norm them on a complexity level from 1-10.
For Wednesday: sign up for Domain of One's Own and register your domain name.
Wednesday: build a free weebly site which will house all of your assignments for the class and eventually be part of your personal domain.
If time: read student blogs from week 3 in class
chapters: 65 (world of warcraft), 67 (airbender)
Friday blog
For the visual rendering assignment, communicate a keyword to the audience using visual tools. You may try a new tool like piktochart or picmonkey. You are not limited as to visual composing tools. Some students will be creating paper renderings of which they then upload photos to their sites.
Explain the meaning of your rendering in a couple of sentences.
Publish it to your weebly site.
Create a link or other navigation from your weebly homepage to your visual rendering. Give it a name, and use that name for your link or tab name.
Finalized criteria for the assignment (collaboratively written by Eng 363ers):
This assignment should show critical thinking about media by using content to portray a intentional core message in adding a unique layer of complexity to a media-related issue or idea.
The meaning of the visual assignment should be clear to the readers and concise in its message.
It should include the student's own interpretation and demonstrate originality and quality.
It should demonstrate complexity of thought through its meaning or visual display. Alternatively, it might demonstrate complexity through research.
-deadline: Friday September 25
for Friday Sept 18:
--attempt your visual rendering, draft 1; due 9/25 (see criteria below)
--make a homepage using weebly.com or update an existing one
--be ready to talk about the ww/airbender articles; blog on one or both
(don't pay weebly to connect your domain to your weebly site; we'll do it for free in class)
media studies keywords from Nakamura (gaming) and Lopez (Airbender)
(from "viral me": affective labor)
racialization
labor
leisure
fandom
chauvinism
orientalism
free/paid labor (for fb/in WoW)
playing to produce capital for fb vs work-playing to play the rent
opportunities to showcase asian and asian american talent (casting, representation)
casting asian roles with asians
whitewashing
relates to asian american visibility/ representation on youtube
fan activism
fan outrage
essentialized (fixed)
stereotype
writing/media keywords from same:
primary text:
weak storyline
weak characterization
entertainment vs accuracy
typecasting
respectful representation
race-specific casting
quality (good or bad)
Monday: bring your sketched visual rendering plus one- or two-sentence explanation of the concept you are trying to portray.
Explore piktochart or picmonkey as possible tools (graphics, maps, charts).
Share the visual examples you chose and, as a class, norm them on a complexity level from 1-10.
For Wednesday: sign up for Domain of One's Own and register your domain name.
Wednesday: build a free weebly site which will house all of your assignments for the class and eventually be part of your personal domain.
If time: read student blogs from week 3 in class
chapters: 65 (world of warcraft), 67 (airbender)
Friday blog