3.2 Prewriting

Spend 20 minutes blogging (in free-writing or in an informal reflection) on the following topic.

What do you think "archeology" is about? What influences your conception of the discipline?

Unit 3 Conference Dates

April 3
10am Square Headed Spouse
11am Teacher's Pet

April 6
10am Purple Cobras
12:30pm Super Llamas

3.1 Draft Workshop and Revision

In the last 5 minutes of class, I will ask you to find a partner outside of your group with whom to make an "appointment" to complete the draft workshop. In the 5 minutes -or during your outside of class appointment- you should design a short draft workshop to perform on your personal web sites. This draft workshop should take about 20 minutes to complete, i.e. each partner should spend about 20 minutes providing feedback. This feedback may be verbal, alphabetic, etc. Proof of the feedback - provided by the web designer or the responder - should be posted with a link (saved as "test1.html", "test2.html", etc) to the web designer's blog no later than Thursday, March 30 at 10pm. The final 3.1, with revisions, is due posted to the web designer's blog by 9am on Friday, March 31st. This version should be saved as "index.html" and any additional pages maybe saved by the name you choose.

Archeology Unit Syllabus

Fri. Mar. 24 Debut and Debrief U2P/ Archeology Assignments
HW: Reading a web page critically assignment

Mon. Mar. 27 Web Design Workshop
HW: Collect web site materials

Wed. Mar. 29 3.1 completed in class
HW: DW and revision, ARTIFAQ research tutorial

Fri. Mar. 31 Library Session
3.1 due
HW: Complete 3.2 prewriting

Mon. Apr 3 Visit to Ackland Museum
HW: Complete blogging reflection, harvest digital stills

Wed. Apr 5 Scholarship as an interactivity
HW: Complete blogging assignment

Fri. Apr 7 Introductions and Conclusions-Cyberstyle
HW: Draft 3.2

Mon. Apr 10 3.2 DW: Paramedic method
HW: Revise 3.2

Wed. April 12 Group Drafting Day
HW: Complete U3P, revise 3.2

Holiday Friday Apr 14

Mon. April 17 Group Drafting
HW: Continue drafting U3P, revise 3.2

Wed. April 19 Unit 3 Project DW: Paramedic method
3.2 due
HW: revise Unit 3 Assignment

Fri. April 21 Debut and Debrief of Unit 3 Project
HW: Blogging Reflection

Archeology Unit Assignments

3.1 Personal Web Page
This individually authored personal web page should be designed to target friends, family, or people of similar interest. A successful page will have a sense of unity, include at least one link to an internal page, at least one link to an external page, 100 words of text and an image. You will draft this page in class, draft workshop and revise for homework.

Draft completed in class: March 29
Draft Workshop and revisions completed for homework: March 29-March 30
Final draft due in class: March 31

3.2 Museum Description
This individually authored 500- word web page should discuss the historical, artistic, and archeological significance of one of the ancient Mediterranean artifacts on display at the Ackland Museum. A successful description will include images of the item and engagement with scholarly articles and/or other sources.

Draft workshop: April 10
Final draft due: April 19

Unit 3 Project: Web Tour of Mediterranean Artifacts
This group authored web-based “tour” of Greek, Roman, and Middle Eastern artifacts should include pictures and descriptions of 4-5 artifacts from the Ackland Museum, pertinent internal and external links, a title, and a 500-word introduction to the collection that unifies it through archeological conventions. The tone should be accessible to the intended museum audience.

In-class group drafting: April 12 and April 17
Draft workshop: April 19
Final draft due: April 21

U2P Draft Workshop

In this draft workshop, we will view each of the digital videos as a class. You should take notes on your initial impressions for a minute after each movie. Once we are finished viewing and recording our initial impressions as a class, you should pick two videos (not your own) to view again. As you watch, record positives, negatives, and questions that arise. When you are finished with each video, record your comments -both the initial impressions and your in-progress comments- in one of the group member's blog.

Square Headed Spouse
Taylor
Book
Paul
Josh

Teacher's Pet
Denise
Andy
Brian
Ashelyn
Brittany

Super Llamas
Johnna
Leanne
John
Brianna

Globo Gym Purple Cobras
Arden
Jessica
Justin
Jeff

2.2 Draft Workshop

This draft workshop asks you to riff the read/respond/read-and-take-notes draft workshop pattern we have used for earlier assignments. In this draft workshop, you will work with your group, viewing and responding to the clips of two other groups.
You should watch the clips, briefly discuss your initial responses to the clips with your fellow members, and post one or two sentences of reflection into one of the drafting group's blogs. As you watch a second time, you may want to pause the clips to discuss the strengths and weakness you see, and the questions you have for the drafting group. As a group, develop one or two for each category. Post these reflections into the drafting group member's blog.

You should complete the process above for the two groups assigned to you below.

Globo Gym Purple Cobras should respond to Teacher's Pet and Super Llamas.

Teacher's Pet should respond to Square Headed Spouse and Super Llamas.

Square Headed Spouse should respond to Globo Gym Purple Cobras and Teacher's Pet.

Super Llamas should respond to Square Headed Spouse and Globo Gym Purple Cobras.

Event in the Pit at noon on 3/3

At around noon on March 3, a UNC graduate drove a rented SUV into The Pit intentionally hitting nine people for unknown reasons. Since The Pit is a place where many people congregate at lunch time, especially people in our class, I sent out an email asking folks to let me know that they are okay.

Below are the folks I have heard from so far:

Brittany
Taylor
Jeff
John
Ashelyn
Brian
Johnna
Justin
Leanne
Jessica
Brianna

Information on this already surfacing in the media: WRAL, CNN.com, and The News and Observer. However, The DTH is covering this in the most complete way.

I think we are all feeling relieved that no one was seriously injured in this assault. But the seemingly randomness of this event can be a jolting, disquieting experience that may knock us temporarily out of our feeling of safety in a place that feels like home. If you are feeling unsettled or want to talk confidentially with support counselors, call 966-3658.

Posted at 12pm on Sunday, March 5

U2P Prewriting #1- Storyboard

After/during/while you have create(d) your storyboard for 2.2, create a preliminary storyboard for the U2P. Think about your 2.2 clips will fit with your analysis. How should your analysis be manifested? How will you use clips from the film? What is the thrust of your analysis?

This storyboard doesn't need to be "finished", but you should create something to work from. Spend about 30 minutes on it and post it to each group members' blog.

2.2 Group Prewriting Assignment- Storyboard

In this group prewriting assignment, you will plan your digital annotated bibliography by "storyboarding" the scenes you will use to convey the summary and evaluation of your critical sources. This storyboard should be a visual representation in simplified of each "shot" or "scene" you'll use. There is no minimum or maximum number of boards you should create, but as a group you should put in about 30 minutes of thinking into designing your bibliographic clips.

You may use CD or hand drawn boards scanned into a computer file. (You may scan at the Collaboratory in the UL.) Every one should have a link to this board in his/her blog by Monday.

The Syllabus has been revised

I have changed things a bit to give you a little more time to finish the 2.2 and U2P.

Copyright and New Media Assignment

You have completed the Information Ethics Tutorial, but what does all this stuff mean for you as a student in a computer-assisted writing course?

Using sources like those aggregated at the Library's E-Reference Link on Copyright and Wikipedia, define the following sources in your own words. (Make note of where you got the information from which you are building.) Post your definitions in your blog.

1. failing to cite vs. copyright violation
2. Creative Commons
3. Fair Use doctrine
4. wiki
5. social software
6. patent vs. copyright
7. Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998
8. Project Gutenberg
9. Licensing
10. orphan work
11. Public Domain

APA Exercises

Back by popular demand- Citation exercises! This time, we will review APA.

Round Up of Ethnographies

With your group, spend 10 minutes preparing an informal briefing for the class on the ethnography you went over for homework. Your briefing should be about 2 minutes; not all group members need speak during this briefing but your talk should have some discernible order and be helpful to the class in understanding how evidence, subjectivity, and medium are negotiated in ethnography. You may put together a PowerPoint if you find that helpful.

Some questions you might want to consider follow.

1. What was this ethnography about?
2. How was it conducted?
3. Who is the intended audience of ethnography? How can we tell?
4. What were the biases/subjectivities/assumptions/authorities of the ethnographer(s) in relation to the subjects? In relation to the audience?
5. What is the delivery format? How does it get to its audience? How does that matter?
6. What are some "good" things about this ethnography? What are some "bad" things?
7. What are some things we can learn from this ethnography - as positive or negative examples- to help with our digital ethnography?

Rubric for Unit 2 Project

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