Activities

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bt9F7tKcZcU ||  || How to share Google Presentations Reviewing personal presentation and initiate critique. CC as the standardization of Copyright law -- Media acquisition, copyright, story construction || Google presentation about yourself. Raise awareness about the constrains imposed by authoring software. || Ken Robinson - Changing Paradigms - Working outside the boundaries of our current ideological system. || Emphasize the role of design within different kinds of rectangles. TV. Magazines. Books. Computer. || Enjoying restrictions. Explain Pew selection as a restriction that is meant to propel forward the creative process and the learning outcomes. Screencapturing homework - ComS106 Unit 9 minus last 4 entries. Review topic in class assignment - Peruse the database, what calls your attention? Why? How could it work for a presentation? Present and get feedback from class. ||  || Voluntary presentation of topic (and some interesting factoids of what you selected) Introducing Planning Analog. In class activity: Draw a house in Google Docs Presentation. Reflect on how the tool was useful for this process. Discuss the limitations of the software to perform tasks. Discuss the benefits of using different (analog) media to initiate the creative process. || Topic. Link to screencapture. Insist in extracting rectangles with information from everyday experiences. Visual Literacy awareness. ||
 * **Week** || **Activities** || **Due** ||
 * Week 1 || Create a Google Account. Google Documents. Google presentations.
 * || Reflection of current state of Multimedia Presentations.
 * Week 2 || Chapter 1. Blank canvas. Flickr use to find imagery that describes the meaning of what was read in the chapter. Copy images from Flickr and paste them directly into the whiteboard. Develop visual literacy as we discuss the different choices for each of the topics. (Set up whiteboard to have the largest possible size.) || Raise awareness of the role of the rectangle in the communication processes. ||
 * || Continue discussion about the introductory knowledge in the book. Develop visual literacy. Expand onto effective communication through visuals. The task is not only about reading images well but also about selecting images that others will read in the same manner.
 * Week 3 || Chapter 2. Reflection on the creative process. The role of repetition and training. Differentiation, not abnormalcy, to make an impact. We certainly will fail in this process and that is ok, the important things is that each experience brings up new knowledge. Finding time to reflect. Take risks within what is possible (audience expectations).
 * || Voluntary presentation of screencapturing homework.