READING: If you have not already done so, please read the Florey essay. I would also like you to watch the Web 2.0 video at least once more...but watch it "at your own pace," pausing and rewinding whenever necessay so as to grasp the content AND the form fully. Take some additional notes while doing so.
WRITING: The first component of your initial writing assignment for the week is to find a diagram on the world wide web, save it to your photobucket account, and then embedded it into a post. Take, for instance, the cutaway diagram from the DIII-D National Fusion Facility's plasma chamber to the left; fun stuff, indeed (click on image for bigness). Then, write a 300 word response to the diagram you chose that contains at least two hyperlinks. Some points of inquiry you may want to follow with relation to your diagram are: What are the ramifications of diagramming while writing in a virtual environment? How do diagrams function, in general, as well as within the context of writing and on the web? How does the diagram you selected function as a learning device? What was the original context of the diagram? How does the meaning of the diagram alter now that it has been extricated from the original context? What our your responsibilities as a writer when removing a diagram from its original context? What details are important within the diagram? How are they labeled? Are they labeled? How would you have labeled them differently? How could you label them differently? What the heck does any of this have to do with writing anyway? DUE: Thursday, September 11th @ 2:00PM.For your second writing assignment of the week, select a video from Youtube and embed it into a post. Write a 300 word observation of the video, selecting details that you believe to be important. Remember, the video itself is more than content; while what's happening in the clip is a good piece of information to convey to your reader in some circumstances (i.e. the narrative), one must also be cognizant of (if not more invested in) the visual and auditory elements, as well as the manner in which the creator of the video filmed (recorded) and edited the material. DUE: Sunday, September 14th @ midnight.
Below is an example of how to insert video clips into your posts via embedding. Enjoy Charlie the Unicorn:
And just for chuckles, here is another video of your favorite chum, Salad Fingers:
EXTRA CREDIT: As I mentioned in class, your first extra credit assignment of the semester will be this weekend on Saturday, September 13th @ 7:00PM (NOT Sunday!). To receive 1 extra credit point for this event, you must a) attend the entire reading, b) take some notes during the reading, c) write a 300 word response about 1 of the poems that was read, or a particular phrase you found intriguing, and d) post it on your blog by Saturday, September 20th @ 9:00PM. The information on the reading is as follows:
Please join us this Saturday at 7pm at the Sheldon. Click here for directions from NWU.
The Clean Part Poetry Reading Series, presented in the Ethel S. Abbott auditorium, showcases innovative poets from across the country. The public is invited to this free event in which the poets Laynie Browne and Ange Mlinko will be the readers.
Browne's most recent collections are The Scented Fox, recipient of the 2007 National Poetry Series Award, selected by Alice Notley (Wave Books), Daily Sonnets (Counterpath Books, 2007), and Drawing of a Swan Before Memory, winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series (University of Georgia Press, 2005). With others she helped organize the Ear Inn reading series in New York. She was a member of the Subtext Collective in Seattle, and is now as part of the POG Reading Series Tucson Arizona. She has taught creative writing at The University of Washington, Bothell, at Mills College in Oakland, California, and at the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona, where she is currently developing a new a poetry-in-the-schools program for K-5 schools.
Ange Mlinko is the author of two books, Matinees (Zoland Books, 1999) and Starred Wire (Coffee House Press, 2005) which was a National Poetry Series winner in 2004, and a finalist for the James Laughlin Award. Her poems are about urban life, about language and its failings, about the things we see and do not see. She is often compared to Frank O'Hara. The New Yorker praised her "unique sense of humor and mystery."She has taught poetry at Brown University, the Naropa University Summer Writing Program, and Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco.
The Clean Part Poetry Reading Series, presented in the Ethel S. Abbott auditorium, showcases innovative poets from across the country. The public is invited to this free event in which the poets Laynie Browne and Ange Mlinko will be the readers.
Browne's most recent collections are The Scented Fox, recipient of the 2007 National Poetry Series Award, selected by Alice Notley (Wave Books), Daily Sonnets (Counterpath Books, 2007), and Drawing of a Swan Before Memory, winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series (University of Georgia Press, 2005). With others she helped organize the Ear Inn reading series in New York. She was a member of the Subtext Collective in Seattle, and is now as part of the POG Reading Series Tucson Arizona. She has taught creative writing at The University of Washington, Bothell, at Mills College in Oakland, California, and at the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona, where she is currently developing a new a poetry-in-the-schools program for K-5 schools.
Ange Mlinko is the author of two books, Matinees (Zoland Books, 1999) and Starred Wire (Coffee House Press, 2005) which was a National Poetry Series winner in 2004, and a finalist for the James Laughlin Award. Her poems are about urban life, about language and its failings, about the things we see and do not see. She is often compared to Frank O'Hara. The New Yorker praised her "unique sense of humor and mystery."She has taught poetry at Brown University, the Naropa University Summer Writing Program, and Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco.
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