Schedule

This outline is subject to change depending on the time necessary for students to demonstrate proficiency in the tools covered and to complete each successive project

TH, 9/8

Begin Project 1 due 12/08

Introductions: Review syllabus and class website.

Workshop: Set-up WIX site for everyone.

Note: Web 1 students can leave after setting up a WIX site and emailng me – Web 2 students stick around.

Homework:

1, Email me your new website URL - include your name and the name of the class.

2, Watch this 2-minute animation - Marshall McLuhan, “The Medium is the Message.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko6J9v1C9zE and then read this article – “What is the Meaning of The Medium is the Message?” by Mark Federman

http://individual.utoronto.ca/markfederman/article_mediumisthemessage.htm

T, 9/13

Begin Project 2 - due 9/22

Discussion: Review “The Medium is the Message.”

Extensions or amputations? Is technology changing us? Lets ask the internet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ARooFFot94

A brief and animated history of the GIF

Workshop: Making GIFs Tutorial

Homework: Come to the next class prepared to explore the idea of what an animated GIF self-portrait could be

TH, 9/15

Workshop: GIF self portrait

Homework: Read “If it doesn’t exist on the Internet, It doesn’t exist “by Ken Goldsmith (discussion on 9.27) http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/goldsmith/if_it_doesnt_exist.html

T, 9/20

Workshop: GIF self portrait

TH, 9/22

Project 2 due by end of class - GIF Class portrait

Students MUST have a preliminary web-site up and running by the end of this class so we can have the links working on the class website. Complete and save your GIFs on Neil's flash drive.

T, 9/27

Critique: Project 2 Class portrait GIF gallery and student websites in-process

Discussion: “If it doesn’t exist on the Internet, It doesn’t exist “by Ken Goldsmith

Who's Ken Goldsmith??????

* If It Doesn’t Exist on the Internet, It Doesn’t Exist

Kenneth Goldsmith reads poetry at White House Poetry Night - video

Wasting time on the Internet - video

Assume No Readership

Great, great lecture - video

The Fair Use Doctrine

UBUWEB

Discussion: An Introduction to Twine and Hypertext Literature