eng/ims 224, feb 21st 2013

TODAY

1) Quiz (yikes!)2) The Reading – Interfaces3) More on the Visual-Verbal argument

(including a challenge)4) Activity: a good use for Comic Sans5) Homework

QUIZ TIME! Get out a sheet of paper and write your name at the top.

Number each response as you go. You need to get three of six correct to avoid the wrath of Dr. Phill. :)

Question 1: What is the problem that plagues the Indian scholar in the story shared in the first few paragraphs of the article?

Question 2

What is the key idea/thesis of the article?

Question 3

What do the authors mean by “interface?” Give a specific example.

Question 4

Fill in the blank:

“The rhetoric of technology obscures the fact that, within our current educational system-even though computers are associated with the potential for great reform-they are not necessarily serving _________ ends.”

Question 5

How does the reading define the term “Bricolage?”

Question 6

What does the reading indicate as "the violence of literacy?"

Now let’s discuss the reading

Selfe and Selfe ask us to think very seriously about the interfaces used by computers and computer software.

The article is old(ish) for the field, but the topic remains of key importance to our considerations. On the following slides are some interfaces. Let’s look at each and talk about the assumptions it makes about users (or the identities it inscribes onto users).

Visual Verbal Argument

Remember that this project will incorporate elements of the visual– in other words, images– and verbal– words.

The meme stuff we worked on last class COULD turn into a final submission for this project.

My challenge to you

If you want to create a meme for your project, my challenge to you is to try to get it to “stick” on the net. See if you can get other people to circulate it.

That is how memes work, after all.

Another way to make a visual-verbal argument…is to remix something visual, using new words or new variations on the visuals, to make a new argument.

The important part is that your argument is clear and resonates with the audience.

Activity: remixing comics

I have placed a zip on Niihka called “comic.” In it, you will find the images on the next few slides. I want you to use them– either straight up or editing using the panels– to add words and create some sort of new argument. You can edit them however you wish, and you’re welcome to go to the web to find other pieces if you so desire.

When you finish

Save your file as a jpg or png and email it to me at alexanp3@miamioh.edu