All good suggestions.
Please modify the module. Make your presentation follow the design of a magazine/newsletter -- WIRED a fine model or a newsletter. If you are familiar with McLuhan, then you might want to take a look at some of his experimental works like The Medium is The Massage that borrows from print advertising to discuss the networked world and how it will change the sensorium as well as rhetoric [the art of effective communication]. I know at least one of you is familiar with McLuhan, but if you are not, then please take a look at his work.
Instead of focusing on one chapter, please focus on one issue that strikes you as significant in the social history of graphic design. It can be something concrete like the use of writing tools or mechanisms or something more abstract like identity or time or space/place.
You might focus more on some chapters than others, but it is the themes and details that run through the entire history that I am interested in examining.
OK?
[btw, I was waiting for everyone to respond with an email to me about module 1 before I started to respond back in a trickle ... but now I think I might have left a few hanging waiting for everyone. So, write me again [if I haven't talked w/ you on email about module 1] or write me for the first time.]
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Monday, September 8, 2008
Module Two Proposal
Please look at this sample of a potential way to post the work collaboratively, but with everyone doing their own work.
Paul Czech has suggested a newspaper format.
http://www.paulczech.com/t&tTimes/
What I would like now is to collect your ideas about what you can contribute (e.g., a 1250 word article on the ideas to focus on from module 2; an equivalent comic strip on the ideas to address in module 2; an equivalent advertisement; a video; or something else).
I would like to appoint Paul Czech as the technical editor, but we also need an editor and compiler of the issue -- looking for volunteers. Also, if you have some hidden talents, then let us know.
This is meant to be a way to graphically [or electronically] express complicated ideas about texts and technology in history.
Paul Czech has suggested a newspaper format.
http://www.paulczech.com/t&tTimes/
What I would like now is to collect your ideas about what you can contribute (e.g., a 1250 word article on the ideas to focus on from module 2; an equivalent comic strip on the ideas to address in module 2; an equivalent advertisement; a video; or something else).
I would like to appoint Paul Czech as the technical editor, but we also need an editor and compiler of the issue -- looking for volunteers. Also, if you have some hidden talents, then let us know.
This is meant to be a way to graphically [or electronically] express complicated ideas about texts and technology in history.
Saturday, September 6, 2008
OK, Go Slow Media
I only heard comments from three of you about the video blog idea. Those three were thrilled, and recommended that the rest of the class do all the difficult technical work [hahaha -- just half-joking]. They were scared. So, we'll wait -- but I do want to investigate electronic forms of representation [electronic representation in terms of Ong's schema]. I'm less concerned with technical skills, but wonder if we can begin to think of the writing as analogous to this second-orality. To consider the presentation of your work in terms of a change in the way we communicate? We no longer live in a culture dominated by print-based sensorium [print used as Ong uses it].
Only one of you has sent me a brief line or two on your intention in assignment one and what you accomplished, but nothing fancy needed -- just a sense that you thought about presentation [in terms of Ong and grammatology] as much as the content.
What I looked for in the projects was three columns [or the mention of three systems]. Beyond that I looked for a level of detail and nuance that would quickly and easily give the user a sense of what each of those three systems entail in terms of production, consumtion, and even in terms of identity formation. What I looked for in the time-line was a sense that you fully and completely appreciated key moments in the development of these systems and in the overlap of the systems. So, even now we have many oral cultural traditions thriving: learning to cook, praying or talking-in-tongues, singing, and more. Obviously, the dominant forms inflect [infect] everything, and I wanted the time-lines to express this intermingling as well as the development of each of the three systems.
Beyond that I want you to express the information using aspects from each of the systems -- well, especially the electronic system.
As you can surely witness yourselves, your classmates have set the bar very high. We should collect this work in a public place and allow other T&T students to study it and cite it -- certainly it would be useful for undergraduates and even K-12 students.
More soon. Why is it that the blog, email, etc. leads back to the epistlery or e-pistle?
Only one of you has sent me a brief line or two on your intention in assignment one and what you accomplished, but nothing fancy needed -- just a sense that you thought about presentation [in terms of Ong and grammatology] as much as the content.
What I looked for in the projects was three columns [or the mention of three systems]. Beyond that I looked for a level of detail and nuance that would quickly and easily give the user a sense of what each of those three systems entail in terms of production, consumtion, and even in terms of identity formation. What I looked for in the time-line was a sense that you fully and completely appreciated key moments in the development of these systems and in the overlap of the systems. So, even now we have many oral cultural traditions thriving: learning to cook, praying or talking-in-tongues, singing, and more. Obviously, the dominant forms inflect [infect] everything, and I wanted the time-lines to express this intermingling as well as the development of each of the three systems.
Beyond that I want you to express the information using aspects from each of the systems -- well, especially the electronic system.
As you can surely witness yourselves, your classmates have set the bar very high. We should collect this work in a public place and allow other T&T students to study it and cite it -- certainly it would be useful for undergraduates and even K-12 students.
More soon. Why is it that the blog, email, etc. leads back to the epistlery or e-pistle?
Friday, September 5, 2008
Thanks
I've had a chance to look over all of the projects. I studied some of the projects during the day on Thursday multiple times. Amazing work. You should study each other's projects carefully. The level of design in some of the projects is remarkable, and the projects offer a copious summary of Ong's work and much more above and beyond the assignment's requirements. Individual evaluations will follow in email -- perhaps you can write to me with your self-evaluation -- not saying good or bad, but talking about what you intended and what you accomplished. In the meantime, please look through these remarkable projects. Thanks.
Those of you who are teaching now might think about how we could use these projects to appeal to students who very well might live most of the time in an electronic-orality. We might also think about how these projects could teach my colleagues who really have no idea of our doctoral program's focus, or why we should study technological change in terms of literacy, communication, or identity formation. You have gone far in answering that question in pithy and delightful ways. Congratulations.
Those of you who are teaching now might think about how we could use these projects to appeal to students who very well might live most of the time in an electronic-orality. We might also think about how these projects could teach my colleagues who really have no idea of our doctoral program's focus, or why we should study technological change in terms of literacy, communication, or identity formation. You have gone far in answering that question in pithy and delightful ways. Congratulations.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Adam Fields - Assignment One (Ong)
Hello all,
Here are the links to my timeline and charts. I've confirmed that everything works in both Firefox and Safari, but let me know if you have another browser and I'll make the necessary arrangements.
I had loftier designs on the timeline (but couldn't learn the html to execute them), but I'm happy with how it turned out.
Maggie Cotto: Ong Module 1
Hi everyone,
All files are in pdf format. To view the timeline: right click> rotate clockwise> view at 150%. The chart and works cited pages should be straightforward. Thanks to John B., Sonia and Paul.
http://macotto.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/ongtimeline.pdf
http://macotto.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/ongmodule1mc.pdf
http://macotto.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/ongworkscited2.pdf
All files are in pdf format. To view the timeline: right click> rotate clockwise> view at 150%. The chart and works cited pages should be straightforward. Thanks to John B., Sonia and Paul.
http://macotto.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/ongtimeline.pdf
http://macotto.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/ongmodule1mc.pdf
http://macotto.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/ongworkscited2.pdf
John Lamothe's Module 1
Here's my timeline and chart. Thanks to Paul and Sonia for the tremendous help.
The links should be live with the timeline. The video clips of McLuhan and Derrida are especially interesting in my opinion.
I posted the chart as both a Photoshop JPEG. Please let me know if there are problems viewing it in a larger format.
John L.
Sonia's Ong assignment
Here are my chart and timeline. Thanks to those who helped!
You'll probably have to view them online, rather than printing them, because of the page size.
Sonia
Paul Czech: Assignment 1
Hi all,
Here are links to my work...I really enjoyed working on this project!
Paul's Timeline
Paul's Chart
Also, thanks to all those who helped...John, Stacey, Meghan and Sonia... :-)
Paul
Here are links to my work...I really enjoyed working on this project!
Paul's Timeline
Paul's Chart
Also, thanks to all those who helped...John, Stacey, Meghan and Sonia... :-)
Paul
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