Activities for T 9/15

Extra time > You can revise your research proposal up until midnight on Tuesday. Remember, the proposal is not the "content" but a set of questions (and to a lesser degree, assertions) arrived at through the content. For example, your proposal is not to "discuss website x" but to discuss "question a" and "question b" about multimedia authorship "using website x as evidence." Similarly, your assertions would attempt to answer the questions. Try to include preliminary assertions in your proposal; developing the assertions will be the primary focus of the "theory" project. (Look at syllabus...)

Diigo bookmarks > arguments and assertions about multimedia authorship

Image Editing > Pixlr

Presentation> Look at Google Docs

Creating your theory >

• Think of movie trailers: You are creating a "trailer" for your project.
• Start from an assertion about the "premise" of your project. A premise is a claim - not your claim but a claim that is implicit in your content and grounds the topic. A premise asks for your recognition and belief. Every cultural topic starts from a premise.
• Work from the premise to other premises to create a guide to the project. Connect premises to create relays that tie the parts of the project together.
• Relay: start from your premise and add to it. Premise + a + b + c. "Authorship is [this] according to [this] + "and this implies/relates to/contrasts to"
• In creating your relays and building them into a guide, work from your "gut," from what seems right to you. Trust that you are interested in the topic for good reasons - this is your theory of the topic, and you are part of the network of culture that the topic exists in. Make associations, create an assemblage, and worry about filling it out later. Speculate and expand.
  
• The guide can be as long as you want or need. The relays can go on and on. No need to create the first part, second part, third part, etc.; but "this part," "that part," "another part," and worry about order later.
  
• Use assertions, claims, propositions.
• Use analogy, e.g.
  

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• Combine the text with images - not images that illustrate or provide example of the "content" but images that deepen and develop the theory
• Think of an emblem or logo: What is the logo for your project?
  
• Insert images into your Google Docs presentation. Note: You can simply drag and drop images into your Google Docs presentation or you can use the Insert Image button on the toolbar.
• Insert videos. Use the Insert Video button.
• As you revise, draw on your bookmarks and the research materials presented in class.

Visual Thinking > Wordle, Thinkmap , Wikipedia Storyboards, Google Images Sample Storyboards, More Sample Storyboards, More Sample Storyboards