Readings are due on the date listed (e.g. read the Picturing Texts introduction prior to class on Jan 22)
Week 1
Jan 20 Introductions
WATCH: Scott McCloud, “The Visual Magic of Comics”
Jan 22
READ: Picturing Texts Introduction
TOOL: Basic Blogging, pbworks. Create LR pages for yourself in your LR folder, write one observation, take the quiz.
Week 2
Jan 27
READ: Ways of Seeing Ch1 (video)
TOOL: Creative Commons, Copyright, Fair Use
Jan 29
READ: Picturing Texts Ch 1
DUE: LR A1/A2
TOOL: Library Resources
Week 3
Feb 3
READ: Ways of Seeing Ch 5-7 (text)
DUE: Short Analysis 1
TOOL: Image Editing
Feb 4
READ: Picturing Texts Ch 6
TOOL: Blogging Redux
Week 4
Feb 10
READ:“The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (on pbworks)
TOOL: Basic HTML
Feb 12
READ: Warner, “Publics and Counterpublics” (on pbworks)
DUE: Short Analysis 2
Week 5
Feb 17
NO CLASS – POOR WEATHER DAY Come prepared to discuss Warner again on Thursday 02/19.
Feb 19
READ: READ: Warner, “Publics and Counterpublics” (on pbworks)
Week 6
Feb 24
“Multimodality In Motion”
Feb 26
DISCUSS: LR expectations
WORKSHOP: accessibility
TOOL: photo editing
Week 7
Mar 3
DUE: Visual argument 1.1
WORKSHOP: video production
Mar 5 – No Class, Poor weather day
DUE: LR Self Evaluation, midterm survey
Week 8
Mar 10
WORKSHOP: video and image production:popcorn maker, popcorn maker tutorial
DISCUSS: Annotated Bibliography
Mar 12
READ: “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”-on pbworks
READ: 30% feedback
Week 9
Mar 17
SPRING BREAK
Mar 19
SPRING BREAK
WEEK 10
Mar 24
DUE: Annotated Bibliography
WORKSHOP: 30% feedback/make a pitch.
Mar 26
READ: Remediation Ch1
DUE: Group decisions
WEEK 11
Mar 31
Guest Lecture – Audience Analysis
DUE: Visual Argument 1.2
April 2
READ: “Image Events Guerrilla Girl Style”
WEEK 12
April 7
READ: #Ferguson
Tool: graphing
April 09
READ: #Ferguson
WEEK 13
April 14
READ: Picturing Texts Ch 7
April 16
Workshop: Final Project Peer Review
WEEK 14
April 21
DUE: Final Project v1
Conferences
April 23
Conferences
WEEK 15
April 28
Presentations
May 5
Presentations
May 7
Presentations
Finals Week Final Project v2, LR final evaluation are due by midnight May 15.