Change your blog title.

Note:  Before you do, record your first blog title in the Google Doc linked here:  

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oHYoxnTy9ZJZZzZ3p60TUNJUsUeuj6Z_-jn0OeFg51A/edit?usp=sharing

I’m enjoying the inventive spirit with which you are blogging.  Some of you are maximizing your word choices and maximizing the flexible capabilities of the blog’s writing space.  Thanks for that.

Here’s your next charge.

Use this link for a short screencast (using Jing) that explains how you can change your blog title.  (Aside: You will not be able to change your blog url without making a new blog.)

http://screencast.com/t/6LVRWZ367

After you learn how to change your blog title, change it.  The new blog title should reflect some aspect of you and of your writerly self.  The new title might suggest whether or not you identify yourself as a writer — or whether or you prefer expressing yourself in some other manner.  The new blog title might also suggest something about what you are learning in this course.

After you change it, craft a 250-word homework blogpost explaining what the new title means.  You could also suggest its relationship to the previous title.  Remember your blog title may resonate for you personally, but you will have to represent its significance for your readership.

This assignment is due by Monday, December 9th.

 

Homework for 11/4: Guidelines for Completing “What counts as writing” Project

  1. Decide what your question is.  Riff on “What counts as writing?” or “what is happening to writing?”
  2. Decide whether you will work in WordPress or Prezi.
  3. Select six separate texts (that is, alphabetic text — aka your writing, a peer’s writing, oran expert’s writing — or video or audio or image or movie) and think about how they might respond to your question.  (See no. 1 above.)
  4. Create a two or three page transcript (aka a kind of omniscient voiceover for your presentation) that unifies the texts (aka the materials you identified in no. 3.).

Step 4 is due next Thursday, Nov. 14th and should be posted on your blog.  If you like, you can rehearse your transcript by recording it using the program screencastomatic  or Audacity.  Feel free to use the Mason Recording Studio.

A Public thank you to Justin Hodgson.

We are so lucky to have received a video response directly from Justin Hodgson on the class’ questions about “A Post-Production Turn: New Media, New Practice, New Ontology” published in Textshop Experiments.

Let’s watch it before tomorrow’s class, so we can have a discussion about it.

Here’s a link to his blogpost with the response attached:

https://justinhodgson.com/2019/10/26/a-response-to-wsc124/

And here’s a direct link to his video response:

Thank you, Justin.  We will make good use of this.

 

 

Due today! Transformative Learning Grant

Dear HCLAS Students:
This email is just a reminder that the deadline to submit your application for an HCLAS Transformative Learning Grant is close of business on Tuesday, October 15.  You might want to use some of your free time during break to prepare your application.
You can find all the information about the grant at this website:
Please remember that eligibility for the grant is restricted to individuals who
  • Are undergraduate students in Hofstra College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (either with a major in HCLAS or undeclared), including students with a double major with a second major in any other Hofstra School or College
  • Have demonstrated financial need as verified by Student Financial Services
  • Have a project that meets the parameters laid out in the grant information
Funds awarded to applicants who apply by the October 15, 2019 deadline are to be used in projects in the January 2020 intersession or the Spring 2020 semester.
There will be another application deadline in March 2020 for projects for Summer 2020 or Fall 2020.
I wish you all a happy, healthy, fun and safe Fall Break!
Sincerely,
BR

Work on Jay David Bolter’s ch. 1 “Introduction: Writing in the Late Age of Print” from Writing Space

Inclass for Thursday, 9/26

Sign up in the attached Google Doc to record your excerpt from Jay David Bolter’s Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext and the Remediation of Print. New York: Routledge, 2001, rpt. 2009.  Plan to work on your recording for about a half hour.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11sR4RV9BGvJq9uQHhUKMI-kX5A174n31Lrg0c_kp3Ls/edit?usp=sharing

You can get the key for the 205 Mason Recording Studio from the WSR administrative assistant, Amanda Schmidt, in room 124A Mason.

During our class meeting on Thursday, please do stop by my office, 121 Mason Hall, with your questions.

Homework for Tuesday, 9/30

Now that you have recorded an excerpt from Jay David Bolter’s ch. 1 “Introduction: Writing in the Late Age of Print,” it’s time to blog about it.  What are your first thoughts about writing space metaphorically and actually?  How does a particular writing space (or a reading space) influence your experience of a text?  Do you think that the study of the changing nature of writing spaces will impact your own writing?  Why or why not?

After you recall and respond to these questions, think about how this chapter might serve us as we consider the making and the re-mediating of writing into digital forms.  (In other words, suggest a reason why we are reading Bolter for this class.)

Write a 250-word blogpost.  Cite Bolter in your Works Cited (in MLA format); cite any other materials you might choose to reference.