http://engl489.rid.olfo.org Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:29:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://engl489.rid.olfo.org/2009/11/criteria-from-the-foster/ Hi everyone, Doug Walls will be speaking in class on 10/27. Please read and watch his Kairos piece and send me questions for Doug. He has also requested that you watch the following three videos for homework: Ira Glass video on storytelling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qmtwa1yZRM A Vision of Students Today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o A (Re)vision of Students Todayhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln6WUy29fAA http://engl489.rid.olfo.org/2009/10/skype-guest-speaker-series-2/ Please send me your reading questions for Donnie Sackey via e-mail before class on Tuesday. Remember: I'd like you to focus on the New London Group/Watkins readings and the topic of making scholarly arguments in other media and genres. For folks absent from class last week, here's the reading for our ... http://engl489.rid.olfo.org/2009/10/skype-guest-speaker-series-1/ Seminar: Q: Did making the xtranormal videos help you to conceptualize your project differently? How? How was this similar or different to writing the 200 word proposal? (Samm) http://www.xtranormal.com/watch?e=20091005163534498 (D) http://www.xtranormal.com/watch?e=20091005195705145 (Sarah) http://www.xtranormal.com/watch?e=20091002133158711 (Becci) http://www.xtranormal.com/watch?e=20091005233336807 ---- Workshop: Second half of class: share proposals with each other. Collectively help each other search for sources! Initial bibliography is ... http://engl489.rid.olfo.org/2009/10/xtranormal-videos-and-questions/ 1) What does Watkins define as a text? 2) Discuss how Watkins uses the "L" example to argue for popular identification with other texts. 3) What is he trying to argue when he shows an image of a playground and says "this is not fun" 4) Summarize his argument for understanding the combined ... http://engl489.rid.olfo.org/2009/10/watkins-discussion-questions/ "Of the modes of meaning, the Multimodal is the most significant, as it relates all the other modes in quite remarkably dynamic relationships. For instance, mass media images relate the linguistic to the visual and to the gestural in intricately designed ways. Reading the mass media for its linguistic meanings ... http://engl489.rid.olfo.org/2009/10/what-do-you-think-whats-the-significance-for-21st-century-composers/ Please also remember to start your research journal! I'll ask for your web addresses next week. http://engl489.rid.olfo.org/2009/09/homework-for-thursday-october-1/ For homework please answer and e-mail your responses to ridolfo@gmail.com. Please include your last name and course number in the subject line. 1) Please describe your background in writing. What kinds of experiences are associated with it? What do you hope to learn about it? 2) Describe your ... http://engl489.rid.olfo.org/2009/09/first-day-survey/ http://engl489.rid.olfo.org/2009/09/welcome-to-english-489/