i.p. portfolio/ multimodal info

Here's what you need to include in the I.P portfolio:

• Cover sheet
• Rubric
• Final draft (STAPLED!!)
• Annotated bibliography (the one I commented on)
• Outline (again, the one you gave to me)
• First draft (same as above)
• Peer reviewed draft (printed with the comments)

Okay, and here's the info for the Multimodal Argument:

Website builders:

• Google sites
• Wix
• Weebly
• DevHub
• SnapPages
• Webs
• GetShopped
• Webnode

Online tools:

•Pixlr.com (free photoshop)

•TinEye.com (reverse image search)

•Harmony Drawing Tool (draw online)

•PhotoshopLady.com (tutorials)

•Color IQ Test

•Goo.gl (shorten URLs)

Any questions, just email me! I will get back to you Monday morning. Try to meet with your group before class on Monday (if you can't over the weekend or Monday morning, try to meet sometime on Monday). You should have a website started by Monday at some point. 

yay! new design!

what do you think?

intro to multimodal argument (friday)

On Friday we'll begin the very last unit of the semester! Crazy how time flies (when you're having fun, right?) Okay, so you do have some reading for Friday: Supplemental Guide, pages 55-60. Easy enough! 

Also, please send your peers their papers today, so they have sufficient time to revise. As I mentioned in class, go over the paper and make any other comments you want to, correct grammar, etc., and then write a 150-200 word end note detailing your suggestions for their paper's improvement. Use the rubric as a reference for this end note, so you are hitting all of the important points in your review.

BY THE WAY, I was a little disgruntled to find that many of you merely googled "ineffective websites" instead of finding them on your own. Shame, shame, shame. 

I think that's all. See you Friday!

prompt for wednesday 03.28

Okay. For Wednesday's blog post, you'll do a couple of things:

• First, I want you to look at the problem you identified in your previous blog post, and tell us how you solved the problem. Paper revisions are about solving problems, so I want you to make sure you are actually taking the responsibility of resolving these issues. 
• Second, I want you to list (and give links to) four effective websites and four ineffective websites. For the next unit, we will be focusing more in-depth on visual rhetoric, specifically websites. I want you to start thinking about what you think is effective/ineffective about websites. Does it accomplish what it's trying to? Is the information organized in an intuitive, logical manner? What makes you want/not want to revisit a website? Obviously, we haven't talked about any sort of design principles in class, but I want to know what you know right off the bat. 

Sound fair? Buenisimo. See you in class on Wednesday! (HBLL 2232)

for friday

Hello all! Here's what's going to happen Friday:

I'm going to email you a couple of Issue Papers to read over. You will read the papers alongside the rubric and tell me what grade you would assign each of the papers based on the rubric. Then we'll discuss them in class. I'm trying to track down a couple of examples so you have a good range and a lot of examples to work with. So you should be getting a paper from me within a few hours.

Make sure to comment on your classmates' blogs! Oh, and thanks for your participation in the debate today. I had fun! And I think it was a productive activity.

Alrighty, I will see you Friday!

....and one more thing

The Steven Church reading is up on the website: http://ers.byu.edu/

Have fun!

for wednesday

Amigos,

Good luck with your IP rough drafts. To offset the amount of work you'll do, the blog post won't be too intense. Just paraphrase the following paragraph WITHOUT patchwriting:

“We do not in everyday life reflect much on how one people’s ‘myth’ may be another people’s religion or episteme. What ‘we’ label ‘myth’ from other cultures then translates into the ‘that’s just a myth!’ formula that implicitly sustains the value of our own beliefs. Thus trivialized—though in different ways—both outside and within Western culture, ‘myth’ in common English-language usage today is the object of exoticizing amusement or dismissal; it is deprived of its associations with history, knowledge, and vision—what has made myth culturally valuable and has most fascinated scholars of myths and traditional narratives” (Bacchilega 25).

Also, at the end of the blog post, I want you to think of something you've struggled with in the Issues Paper writing process and tell us what it is. Then when you comment on your peers' posts for Friday, you can help each other out by responding to the problem. 

Make sense?