Activities for R 11/19

Continue to play with video.

Blog about creative galleries. Where are you at? What problems are you facing?

Work on collaborative document > Choose one point and expand it to at least a paragraph.

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A scary night in Pittsburgh.


Penguins on YouTube


Multiple YouTube Examples. These are done quickly - they are just the same video copied over and over. Why not use different videos and sequence them to tell a story?

Activities for T 11/17

The Big Word Project
Subservient Chicken

Create a movie > Windows Moviemaker. (Moviemaker is free but limited. It can only work with files that Windows Media Player works with, i.e. .wmv. and .mpg.)

Where to get movies?

• Make your own using a camera or cellphone
• Make a text-based movie
• Download and remix movies from the web. Search Creative Commons, Internet Archive

Save the movie as .wmv or .avi. Upload it to your blog and YouTube.

Activities for R 11/12

Look at Google Docs templates > From Google Docs go to Browse Template Gallery.

Audio > Look at audio and Audacity postings from last class. GarageBand tutorials. Example: Murmur


Edit collaborative document > Work on essential logic of the argument. Work by groups, below:
Group 1: Alexander, Balnionis, Bergamo, Caughie, Ehrlich, Graff, Miller, Simmons, Spencer, Yoder
Group 2: Alonso, Berardi, Castillo, Center, Garland, Lewis, Reedy, Skomorucha, Suder, Zarkades

Activities for T 11/10

Return to today's blog post > What will you do for your creative gallery?

Example from last year: "I recorded a musical piece and created a Facebook group, allowing members to listen to the song and write their own lyrics. For the final project, I used a set of lyrics as inspiration, and the same general music, with variations here and there."

InBFlat again

This week > Audio. Goal: Create an audio file by the end of the week. Host it at Box.net. Be sure to enable enclosure links to link to the file from within a Blogger post. To do so: go to Settings > Formatting tab and set the "Show Link fields" option to "Yes."

Where to get sounds?

• Make your own with a mic or straight into a computer
  
• CCMixter andCreative Commons (Jamendo) and CC-Wired mix
  
• Freesound
• Open Music Archive
  
• Hippocamp
• Micromusic
  

How to edit sounds?

• Download Audacity
• Audacity tutorial
• Don't forget the Lame MP3 encoder
• Download additional plugins

Work on collaborative document.

Activities for R 11/5

For those working on Fan Fiction, look at the Organization for Transformative Works.

Creative responses working with text >

Creating hypertext fiction. Examples of collaborative blog-based fiction: A Million Penguins and Flight Paths. To create write hypertext fiction on your blog:

1. First create a new blog by going to your Blogspot dashboard and selecting Create a Blog.
2. Write your story. Plan at least one fork per post i.e. two links coming off each post.
3. Think about the type of story and genre that requires forking. Try this science fiction beginning: "The last person in the world sat in a room. There was a knock at the door. The question was: to open it or to remain seated?"
4. Make links off the words "open" and "seated." Make sure you are in the "Compose" mode. Add a link to "open.html" on the word "open" and to "seated.html" on "seated." Now create a new post and give it the title "open" (without quotes). The link from the first page will go to this new page. Do the same for seated, and continue to write your story this way.
   
5. Create a link from your main blog to the story blog. Important: link to the individual posting that starts the story, rather than the blog as a whole.
6. For example. Here's the story of the last person in the world.
   
7. Next, try Hypertextopia, a visual hypertext form.

As alternative, write a story or a novel using Twitter or Facebook or email or txting or something else. Do it on your own or invite collaborators. Here's an example of Neil Gaiman's Twitter novel . Make use of comments, links, photos, etc. Here's a list of fictional blogs or flogs. Another possibility: create the life and story of a character with existence across multiple sites...

Try a Google maps story. Place and location are powerful storytelling devices. Mapping is fundamental to narrative. Here's Google maps for telling meteor landing sites. Why not use this to tell a story? Here's an example: The 21 Steps. (Note: loads slowly if at all. Here's an image from it.) Here's another in German: Senghor on the Rocks. Here's Joyce Walks (James Joyce Google mapped).

1. Go to Google maps and go to My Maps.
2. Create a new map. Give it a title.
3. Add locations to the map. Write text into the location. This is your story! You can also add images, videos, audio, etc.
   
4. Add lines, other features.
5. Be sure to click Done when you are done editing.
6. Click on the Link button in the upper right to get the html code to paste into your blog. You can embed your map directly into your blog!
   

Translation text. Use online text to create new work in/across languages.

1. Take an English text and translate back and forth into other languages. Use any languages you want - use several.
2. Use any text you want - perhaps something of your own or tou might use a Dickinson poem or Bush quotes .
3. Use Google Language Tools, Babelfish, Lost in Translation, or other tools.
4. Post the original and translated text on the blog, and tell what tools you employed.
5. Next, try to Shannonize a text or Dialectize a page.

Please look at shared document and make adjustments! Add, re-order, comment.

Code for adding images to Google map nodes:
Note: be sure to add in "Edit html"



View My Amazing Adventure in the Barcelona in a larger map

Activities for T 11/3

The Creative Gallery > You will make creative gallery linked to your blog, where you extend your topic through something (or several things) you make. What can you make? Whatever you want! You might: make an iPod-ready soundtrack for your project, using audio that you find or create; make a YouTube video; make a presentation with images and animation; make a remix of the project, mashing up text images…; what else? All of the above and more...

Over the next several classes we will cover tools and techniques for text production, audio, and video. By Thanksgiving break, you should have a good sense of one or more creations for your gallery. After Thanksgiving, classes will be devoted to working on your gallery and showing it off.

Creativity is inherent in multimedia. The author and the user blur together. Try detournement as a method... (but you can choose other approaches as well)

Dagwood explains!



Return to blog post > Think about a "creative response" to your topic. What will you do? What will you create?

Shared document > boiled down to outline/bullet points. Please go and read and see if you want to add or rearrange. Next step: each will write three paragraphs into the outline, emerging from your project.