SHORT REVIEW FOR FINAL TEST ON THUR

SHORT REVIEW FOR FINAL TEST ON THUR @ 3:30

remember, we are having a final test thurs. this means you DON"T have to come to the final slot.
THE LAST DAY OF CLASS IS THURS!!!




1. THE EVOLUTION OF THE WEB / FUTURE OF THE WEB
FROM WEB 1.0 TO WEB 2.0 TO WEB 3.0


The Future of the Web:

view:
Evolution Web 3.0 
(SIZE, CLOUD COMPUTING SEMANTIC WEB)

"The computer in your cell phone is a million times cheaper, and a thousand times more powerful, and 100 times smaller than the biggest computer at MIT in 1965.. So what used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket...
What fits in your pocket today will fit inside a Blood Cell in 25 years"

Ray Kurzweil Raymond "Ray" Kurzweil ( born February 12, 1948) is an American author, inventor and futurist.

view:
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang/eng//id/38




TALK ABOUT YOUR  Conclusions about Catfish

2. GO BACK AND CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS WITH YOUR CONCLUSIONS ABOUT CATFISH IN MIND:

Open Source and Crowdsourcing.

What are the values implicit in both collaborative open source activities and "crowd-sourced" activities on behalf of a corporation, school or organization? Has the open source movement created new forms, or just copies of old ones? What are the possibilities, here, for new cultural and economic institutions, and how might they be improvements on the status quo? 


Whither the Individual?

As we join groups and social networks from affinity sites to Facebook, are we extending and expanding  identities, or increasingly conforming to the cookie-cutter profiles demanded of these interfaces? Is the loss of "personal space" and "reflection" so many users complain of merely the necessary surrender of "ego" as we learn to participate as members of a more evolved "collective organism" of "hyper-people?"

Folksonomy and the Folks.

Does the rise of the amateur lead to an unnecessary devaluation of the professional? Do collective online activities promote a new form of participatory democracy and the development of new and accurate folksonomies, or rather to they lead people to overestimate the value of their unconsidered posts and opinions? Do representative democracy,  academic disciplines and other seemingly elitist artifacts fall by the wayside?

Today many TV shows and advertisements try to look amateurish or "homegrown" to emulate what is often seen on the Web. Do you think professional production values will continue to drop, or do you think amateur user-generated content will get better over time? WHY??



 3. EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP. BANKSY, SHEPPARD FAIREY, TACTICAL MEDIA AND CULTURAL MEME. 

see:
TACTICAL MEDIA STUDY NOTES 
and
extit study notes


BE ABLE TO DESCRIBE THE GRAFFITI ART MOVEMENT AND TALK ABOUT TERRY GUETTA IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE MOVEMENT. 


BE ABLE TALK ABOUT THE THE RISE OF REALITY ENTERTAINMENT IN RELATION TO BOTH FILMS.


FINALLY, TALK ABOUT VECTOR ART IN ILLUSTRATOR AND IT COMPONENTS


paths, anchorpoints, line, stroke, fill

Finish Catfish.. Posting due Tues.

Start catfish at 37min...

we are going to finish this..

Due Tues. a blog posting giving your analysis of "catfish" how does it fit in to our larger discussions of democratized media and web 2.0?

Use examples from class, other videos, and readings

equivalent to 3 or more pages..

START CATFISH TODAY

next time start at 36:36

so many people were missing last time, we couldn't start CATFISH YET.. so we are starting it TODAY..

for THUR. please read the articles (about the film) posted below

thanks,

CATFISH: a docu-drama---hitchcock meets jersey shore

Review: Catfish, a documentary that begins as a love story, shifts into a mystery, and ultimately ends as a somewhat touching and sad portrait of life.

Catfish is a difficult film to review, as the biggest moment in this documentary is also the one that can’t be revealed without spoiling it for anyone that has yet to see it.  It is a documentary from filmmakers Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman that focuses on Schulman’s 24-year old photographer brother, Yaniv “Nev” Schulman, as he experiences a shocking surprise stemming from a romance that began on Facebook.  If you have seen the trailers or commercials, then you know that the film is based around this surprise, and the rest of the plot revolves around this major twist like planets orbiting around the sun.  But what you won’t gleam from the trailers is that while the surprise might be the driving force of the documentary, the film really shines in the deep and thoughtful examination of why things are the way they are in the first place.  In doing so, it elevates Catfish from the internet cautionary tale that it could have been, to something far more.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/entertainment/catfish-review/

Catfish is a 2010 documentary film involving a man being filmed by his friends as he builds a romantic relationship on the social networking website Facebook with an attractive girl, and the mysterious results  when they all go to visit her.

Plot: In late 2007, filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost sensed a story unfolding as they began to film the life of Ariel’s brother, Nev. They had no idea that their project would lead to the most exhilarating and unsettling months of their lives. A reality thriller that is a shocking product of our times, Catfish is a riveting story of love, deception and grace within a labyrinth of online intrigue.

READ THIS FOR NEXT tues:

GUARDIAN UK REVIEW

LINK TO FILM

http://www.free-tv-video-online.me/player/divxden.php?id=7jaykhwc0z0j

FINISH WATCHING EXIT / blog posting due thur

START AT 1:10


THEN WE WILL DISCUSS AND I WILL GIVE YOU ASSIGNMENT DUE THUR.

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WAS THIS A "PRANKUMENTARY"

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article7041650.ece

http://www.fastcompany.com/1616365/banksy-movie-prankumentary 

Possible Topics:

Compare and Contrast the work of MBW to that of other street artists profiled in the film. How does it stand up?

What does the anonymity of Banksy say to the audience and to the ideas behind his work?

Would MBW's quick rise to fame have been possible without the internet or global networking?

How Did this documentary compare to reality TV?

Do you feel that "Mister Brain Wash" is a legitimate artist who is creating meaningful art?

What does the street art movement say about our voyeuristic culture of surveillance?

What do you think about Terry Guetta's idea of the importance of filming everything. Was he famous before his art? What happened to his family?

Does the fact that the work is illegal change the meaning of the work? Does it weaken or empower it?


DUE THUR.
Create a blog posting equivalent to a 3 page paper (single-spaced) that initially analyzes Banksey's Exit through the gift shop, describing the over arching meaning and point, followed by answering one of the questions from above.

continue watching exit through the gift shop

continue watching Exit through the gift shop. possibly finishing.

start at 24:24

private lives as public theater: from Wells to Banksy

Some Background into our culture of Surveillance:

In recent years, televisions's reality shows and talent competitions have offered people a conflicted chance at fame, while various kinds of Web-Based social media have pioneered new forms of communication that people increasingly use to perform their private lives as public theater.

Durning the same period, governments worldwide have asserted vast new powers of surveillance, placing unwitting "participants" on an entirely different kind of stage.

Discussion Topics:

What are some examples of Web-Based social media have pioneered new forms of communication that are used to put our private lives of public display?

How important is "fame" to the average person?

Do people follow the trends set by popular media?

Is it appealing for people to invite others to view our private lives?

Soliciting the collaboration of others with (and without) their knowledge:

Orson Wells

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_for_Fake

Culture Jamming

Culture jamming, coined in 1984, denotes a tactic used by many consumer social movements^[4] to disrupt or subvert mainstream cultural institutions, including corporate advertising. Culture jamming is often seen as a form of subvertising. Many culture jams are intended to expose apparently questionable political assumptions behind commercial culture. Common tactics include re-figuring logos, fashion statements, and product images as a means to challenge the idea of "what's cool" along with assumptions about the personal freedoms of consumption.

Culture jamming sometimes entails transforming mass media to produce ironic or satirical commentary about itself, using the original medium's communication method. Culture jamming is usually employed in opposition to a perceived appropriation of public space, or as a reaction against social conformity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_Fairey

Banksy is an anonymous British graffiti artist, political activist, film director and painter. Hissatirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world

Street Art, Situationists and 

Détournement and 

Dérive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International

And: EXIT THROUGH THE GIFTSHOP..

Watch in class

start at 24:24

Rasterizing Vectors and Vectorizing Rasters

1. Tutorial Rasterizing vectors

show the vector text in photoshop

explain rasterization

explanation of optimization of vector graphics (rasterizing) from .ai to .jpg/gif

2. Tracing Bitmaps in Illustrator

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/illustrator/cs/using/WS714a382cdf7d304e7e07d0100196cbc5f-6229a.html

due Thurs.

1. Posting with your illustrator art on your blog next to the original graphic you reproduced.

2. a second posting, with a trace of a bitmap photograph, vectorized using the live trace option in illustrator

***how to imitate a scanner darkly in Illustrator CS5


 

ILLUSTRATOR STUDIO

-Review of Illustrator techniques: Groups, importing bitmaps, layers / Arrangement

-Creative Suite Help Files

DUE BEGINNING OF CLASS TUES

FOR MONDAY BRING IN YOUR .AI FILE ON YOUR USB DRIVE.

POST ANY ISSUES OR QUESTIONS IN REGARDS TO ILLUSTRATOR ON YOUR BLOG

Intro To Illustrator

Today we will have an introduction to vector graphics in Illustrator

I WOULD ADVISE TAKING NOTES SO YOU WILL BE ABLE TO REMEMBER THE TOPICS AND TECHNIQUES COVERED TODAY.

Topics:
Adobe CS5
Proprietary Software and peripherals / protocol
What are Vector Graphics?
Uses
Anchor Points / Paths
Fills
Strokes
Shape Tools
Line Tool
Type Tool
Pen Tool (lines / Bézier curves )

Importing Bitmap images

File Types -- .AI .PDF

BLOG POST DUE THUR


You will need to locate a piece of vector art that you will be reproducing for an illustrator project.
I'll give you details in Class
This will need to be posted on your blog for Thur.

review for test

Today i'll give you guys a review for our test on Thur.

Discussion----Where do we go from here? Evolution of the Web

1. DISCUSS YOUR ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS POSTED ON YOUR BLOGS FROM LAST TIME
FROM WEB 1.0
to
Web 2.0
to

(Chris Anderson- the long tail, Jimmy Wales, Larry Lessig)

2. DISCUSSION OF WEB 3.0

lets watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGg8A2zfWKg

Where to go from here?

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/web-30.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web

semantic web video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGg8A2zfWKg

TIM BERNERS LEE ON THE SEMANTIC WEB: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeUrEh-nqtU&feature=related

3. WHEN CORPORATIONS BORROW FROM THE FRINGE CASE STUDY OF TACTICAL MEDIA ART (MEDIA BELOW)

4.  DEBATE: THE INTERNET AND DEMOCRACY (MEDIA BELOW)

RELEVANT MEDIA:

_________________________________________

 TACTICAL MEDIA ART -- CASE STUDY

INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED AUTONOMY

GRAFFITI RESEARCH LAB - L.A.Z.E.R. TAG

PITTSBURGH'S DEEP LOCAL

_________________________

Andrew Keen: "Web 2.0 is F****d!"

Keen is caught after a few too many cocktails at a conference on networked technologies


Debate: The Internet and Democracy

Miller Center of Public Affairs
It Is Easy to Ignore Facts Online

Authority Can Exist on the Internet

No Expertise on Wikipedia or Expertise No Curators

Free Information has greater transparancy

IN CONTRAST TO Rushkoff's new book:

Program or be Programmed

Ten Commands for a Digital Age
Douglas Rushkoff

The Commands are not commandments, meant as orders from God to a population, but rather ways of taking command of any of the biases of digital media. The way to take command of digital media’s asynchronous bias, for example, is not to be “always on.”
Here are the ten from the book.


I. TIME
    Do Not Be Always On
II. PLACE
    Live in Person
III. CHOICE
    You May Always Choose None of the Above
IV. COMPLEXITY
    You Are Never Completely Right
V. SCALE
   One Size Does Not Fit All
VI. IDENTITY
    Be Yourself
VII. SOCIAL
    Do Not Sell Your Friends
VIII. FACT
    Tell the Truth
IX. OPENNESS
    Share, Don’t Steal
X. PURPOSE
    Program or Be Programmed 

Intro to Andrew Keen

1. I want to discuss some of the things that you Discovered after reading and commenting on each other's blog postings on digital nation.. I'll Take volunteers or select students to share in class THIS IS HOW YOU GET CLASS PARTICIPATION POINTS!!!

2. Pass out "The Great Seduction by Andrew Keen"

3. Have The Great Seduction Read by Thur. the 10th

and 

answer the following questions, using the reading and keen's commentary from the google talk as reference points:

1. How does Keen define Democratized media, and what are his main issues with this trend? use examples from the web in the form of links. Include this idea of "disintermediation".

2. Compare and Contrast Keens take on Social Media with Douglas Rushkoff's. What are these differences in opinion? Which one speaks to you and your own experiences and why? You may include the ideas of such utopian technophiles as Larry Lessig, Chris anderson, and Jimmy Wales (who are these guys!?)

If we have time we will watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN_n7I0PM3w

and

keen on colbert: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/91639/august-16-2007/andrew-keen

keen's blog http://andrewkeen.typepad.com/the_great_seduction/

RELATED MEDIA:

Web 3.0 the semantic web: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2102852,00.asp

The Talent Show at PS1: http://ps1.org/exhibitions/view/318

I thought you maybe interested in this: http://www.cinemablend.com/dvds/Catfish-4848.html
and exit through the gift shop

SHORT RUSHKOFF VIDEOS / WISDOM OF THE CROWD DISCUSSIONS AND RESPONSES (DUE TUES)

Case Study IS the Internet Making us smarter?(or dumber)

 2 WSJ essays:
1. Nick Car--its making us dumber
2. Clay Shirky making us smarter



____________________________________________________


 RUSHKOFF ON COLBERT REPORT:
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/238643/july-15-2009/douglas-rushkoff

RUSHKOFF'S NEW BOOK LIFE INC.


This didn’t just happen.
In Life Inc., award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and scholar Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from a convenient legal fiction to the dominant fact of contemporary life. Indeed as Rushkoff shows, most Americans have so willingly adopted the values of corporations that they’re no longer even aware of it.

This fascinating journey reveals the roots of our debacle, from the late Middle Ages to today. From the founding of the chartered monopoly to the branding of the self; from the invention of central currency to the privatization of banking; from the birth of the modern, self-interested individual to his exploitation through the false ideal of the single-family home; from the Victorian Great Exhibition to the solipsism of MySpace; the corporation has infiltrated all aspects of our daily lives. Life Inc. exposes why we see our homes as investments rather than places to live, our 401k plans as the ultimate measure of success, and the Internet as just another place to do business.

Most of all, Life Inc. shows how the current financial crisis is actually an opportunity to reverse this 600-year-old trend, and to begin to create, invest and transact directly rather than outsourcing all this activity to institutions that exist solely for their own sakes.

Corporatism didn’t evolve naturally. The landscape on which we are living – the operating system on which we are now running our social software – was invented by people, sold to us as a better way of life, supported by myths, and ultimately allowed to develop into a self-sustaining reality. It is a map that has replaced the territory.

Rushkoff illuminates both how we’ve become disconnected from our world, and how we can reconnect to our towns, to the value we can create, and mostly, to one another. As the speculative economy collapses under its own weight, Life Inc. shows us how to build a real and human-scaled society to take its place.

In Life Inc, Douglas Rushkoff presents the unnerving, unbelievable, but ultimately undeniable proof that our world has been overtaken by an absolutely artificial economy.

He shows how our most fundamental assumptions about money and commerce are actually false ones – artifacts of a 400-year-old plan by a waning aristocracy to maintain control of Western Europe. Although the architects of this corporatism have long since passed on, we still live in a landscape defined by their plans and have internalized their values as our own.

Taking on some of the biggest assumptions of our age, this is a book filled with dangerous ideas and rather unspeakable heresies:
•Money is not a part of nature, to be studied by a science like economics, but an invention with a specific purpose.
•Centralized currency is just one kind of money – one not intended to promote transactions but to promote the accumulation of capital by the wealthy.
•Banking is our society’s biggest industry, and debt is our biggest product.
•Corporations were never intended to promote commerce, but to prevent it.
•The development of chartered corporations and centralized currency caused the plague; the economic devastation ended Europe’s most prosperous centuries, and led to the deaths of half of its population.
•The more money we make, the more debt we have actually created.


FIRST WATCH IN CLASS:
 RUCHKOFF LIFE INC


1. we will find partners today to start the "Digital Nation" Discussions..

2. Under my direction we will divide into groups of 2-3
3. By the end of class you need to read your partner's essay,  and post their thesis on your blog (if not finish the entire commentary)..

followed by a in-class discussion..

DUE FOR TUES the  8TH

RESPOND ( in the comments section of your partner's blog)
YOUR REPONSE should be 1-2 pages
I also want you to read 2 other students postings and make a  response in their comments section..

MAKE SURE YOU INCLUDE YOUR FIRST, LAST NAME, AND A FULL LINK TO YOUR POSTING IN THE COMMENTS

***ALSO MAKE A POSTING ON YOUR BLOG THAT LETS ME KNOW WHICH OTHER PEOPLES BLOG ENTRIES YOU ARE RESPONDING.
(LIST OF STUDENT'S BLOGS ON RIGHT OF THIS PAGE-->)

Posting is Due Thur the 3rd

Social Media and The Wisdom of the Crowd Postings
After Finishing Digital Nation and Reading "Social Media and Web 2.0" and The Blog Posting on Transparency in Social Media

I would like to pose the Following topics taken from online talks from boingboing.net about "the crowd" - particularly the way group activity, creativity, and awareness are both enhanced and exacerbated by our digital networks. 

TOPICS LIST:

Open Source and Crowdsourcing.
What are the values implicit in both collaborative open source activities and "crowd-sourced" activities on behalf of a corporation or organization? Has the open source movement created new forms, or just copies of old ones? What are the possibilities, here, for new cultural and economic institutions, and how might they be improvements on the status quo? 


Whither the Individual?
As we join groups and social networks from affinity sites to Facebook, are we extending and expanding identities, or increasingly conforming to the cookie-cutter profiles demanded of these interfaces? Is the loss of "personal space" and "reflection" so many users complain of merely the necessary surrender of "ego" as we learn to participate as members of a more evolved "collective organism" of "hyper-people?"

Folksonomy and the Folks.
Everybody is, indeed, here now - but should everyone be here? Does the rise of the amateur lead to an unnecessary devaluation of the professional? Do collective online activities promote a new form of participatory democracy and the development of new and accurate folksonomies, or rather to they lead people to overestimate the value of their unconsidered posts and opinions? Do representative democracy, academic disciplines and other seemingly elitist artifacts fall by the wayside?

choose one of the above topics for a blog posting on the topic equivalent to about a 3 page paper ..

You can take a positive or negative stance towards your chosen topic, but you need to back up your opinions with examples from valid sources, such as the reading on social media, Rushkoff's digital Nation and other in class topics--This means to include links to your sources.

After that I am going to have you respond to each others blogs in the form of commentaries. 

First Posting is Due Thur the 3rd

FINSH DIGITAL NATION / BLOG ASSIGNMENT

Lets finish Digital_Nation..

Then we will have a discussion about the film,

If we finish today, then I will give you a blog assignment pertaining to the film.

continue watching Digital Nation !!

I believe we left off at the beginning of "South Korea's Gaming Craze"


http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/

FOR TUESDAY MARCH 1ST REVIEW ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS FROM LAST TIME..
WE WILL DISCUSS THOSE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS TUESDAY
(start video at 1:06 on Tues)

Starting Web 2.0 and Digital Nation

..
Today we are going to start watching DIGITAL NATION by Douglas Rushkoff and  Rachel Dreztin..
You will need to Take Notes during this video.



 Rushkoff and Dretzin's Digital Nation

A list of web 2.0 terminology
user-generated content
network as platform : platform as in "computing platform"- a place to launch media
folksonomy
syndication
mass collaboration
computer supported collaboration
social-software
mashups


________________

Read "Social Media and Web 2.0" and The Blog Posting on Transparency in Social Media Please answer the following the discussion questions Include any relevant links or media in  your blog entry. due Tues the 22st.

1. Today many TV shows and advertisements try to look amateurish or "homegrown" to emulate what is often seen on the Web. Do you think professional production values will continue to drop, or do you think amateur user-generated content will get better over time? WHY??
   
   
2. What social media sites do you find yourself using the most, and why? In your opinion why is Facebook so much more successful than MySpace, and do you think Facebook is "here to stay" for the long term.
   
   before answering question #3 please read the Transparency in Social Media Blog Article
   
   
3. Why is transparency such an important concept in the Social Media world? Is it MORE or LESS important in the offline world? Why?
   
   The wikipedia article on "Astroturfing" may be of help

FINAL PHOTOSHOP LAB: The HOW and WHY of Image Optimization for the Web

1. TUTORIAL ON THE HOW AND WHY OF WEB IMAGE OPTIMIZATION USING PHOTOSHOP.

2.

NOTICE:

You have Until the end of class to finish your McLuhan Compositions..

Make a blog post "McLuhan Photoshop Final Post"--Including your image and description.

Leave your self enough time to optimize your file as a .jpg or .gif not a .psd and post a thoughtful explanation with your image. ->This should incorporate the idea of content vs. message from The McLuhan reading and Lectures.

I will be here to help with photoshop questions as much as possible.

IF YOU PUT ALL THE "FINISHING TOUCHES" AND OPTIMIZE YOUR FIRST MCLUHAN PROJECT THEN YOU CAN:

****IN-CLASS MCLUHAN BONUS ASSIGNMENT:

We are going to follow up the last assignment with another photoshop in-class project.
Create another version of the last assignment.. so,
choose another example of a medium write a blog posting explaining the content, message, etc..
post this jpg on your blog at the end of class..

continue Photoshop Assignment

1. FIRST LETS LOOK AT SOME OF MY PREVIOUS STUDENT'S MCLUHAN ASSIGNMENTS:


http://erikalarkin13.blogspot.com/2010/09/mcluhan-photoshop-final-post.html
http://michaelbernardini.blogspot.com/2010/09/mcluhan-photoshop-assignment.html
http://uhlecksuhh.blogspot.com/2010/09/mcluhan-final-project.html

http://danajstephenson.blogspot.com/2010/09/photoshop-project.html

http://nicholasmehr.blogspot.com/2010/09/mcluhan-saw-developing-technology-as.html

http://deannacom155.blogspot.com/2010/09/mcluhan-final-post.html

http://mcflynfries.blogspot.com/2010/09/photoshop-final.html

http://com155medialiteracy.blogspot.com/2010/09/mcluhan-photoshop-final-product.html

http://naraque33.blogspot.com/2010/09/channeling-mcluhanphotoshop-final-draft.html

http://meganwarne1.blogspot.com/2010/09/photoshop-assignment-complete.html

http://jackiesabia.blogspot.com/2010/02/when-putting-this-collage-together-i.html

http://masterfink.blogspot.com/2010/02/medium-is-message.html

http://shootstars33.blogspot.com/2010/02/media-collage-in-photoshop-1.html

http://cassandraizzo.blogspot.com/2010/04/illustrations-separated-from-paper.html

2. Photoshop Tutorials on layering and compositing


I want to show you this ONE tutorial


Using Content-Aware Fill

You can watch more here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3IcOtynsKk&feature=watch_response

3. IN CLASS PHOTOSHOP LAB

3. .JPG POSTED ON BLOG, AND .PSD ARE DUE NEXT TUES THE 15th

Create a New Photoshop Document at a minim 1024X 768 pixels, 72ppi, that composites 3-10, or more different images to create a .PSD that VISUALLY CONVEYS shows what effect or significance this medium's introduction had on society....so:

POST A .JPG VERSION OF THIS ALONG WITH A DESCRIPTION POSTED ON YOUR BLOG TUESDAY THE 15th

also

BRING THE .PSD VERSION IN ON TUES (WITH YOUR LAYERS INTACT SO YOU CAN CONTINUE WORKING)

***on tues we will have a tutorial on image optimization for the web and I will allow you some time to put finishing touches on your McLuhan assignments

Channeling McLuhan into Photoshop

"The efficiency of the machine age cannot discover anything worthwhile now."
Marshall McLuhan, WIRED magazine interview

1. watch some videos from www.marshallmcluhanspeaks.com 

2. Look at some of your examples of mediums

3. Photoshop Composite techniques

setting up a document

Layers

image size

canvas size

selection tools.. filters, layer effects

cut/paste

cropping

save as .PSD

save for web and devices

4. Channeling McLuhan into Photoshop (progress due Thur. 10th)
choose one of the three mediums you found from your previous assignment.
making the distinction between the content of your medium and how McLuhan would see the Message caused by this innovation


Create a New Photoshop Document at a minim 1024 X 768 pixels, 72ppi, that composites 3-10, or more different images to create a .PSD that VISUALLY CONVEYS shows what effect or significance this medium's introduction had on society

SAVE YOUR PROJECT, RETAINING THE LAYERS AS A .PSD

SAVE THIS .PSD ON YOUR FLASH DRIVE AND BRING IN YOUR PROGRESS FOR NEXT CLASS.

so, for next class you need a your flash drive with .jpgs of mediums, and one .psd where you will composite your.jpgs, we can continue the work on this next time.

continue with Mc Luhan

1. Discussion of "Understanding Media: Extensions of Man (1964)" -- "Medium is the Message" 

ASSIGNMENT FOR NEXT CLASS

Have the rest read by next class

2. Watch  www.marshallmcluhanspeaks.com 

ASSIGNMENT FOR NEXT CLASS

3. Post in 3 examples of current "mediums", innovations/inventions/breakthroughs in communication..applying McLuhan's idea to current technology, along with visual examples of these mediums..

One of these should be an example of interactivity.

and

Have the rest of the Mc Luhan text read  by next class

Post these examples as a single blog entry by next class (tues the 8th) , but also save them to your USB drive.

4. IF WE HAVE EXTRA TIME AT THE END, WE WILL LOOK AT PHOTOSHOP CS5!!

Set Up Blogs / Intro to McLuhan

Did everyone get the USB 2.0 flash drive?

DISCUSSION  TOPICS FOR TODAY:

• WHAT TECHNICALLY GOES INTO A BLOG
• HTML
• CSS STYLESHEET
• CMS (CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSETM)
• USER GENERATED CONTENT
• WEB 1.0 VS. 2.0

Most of the class today will be used setting up the class blogs on http://blogspot.com / http://blogger.com

You will need to goto BLOGSPOT and login with your google account.

Next click on the option to Create a new Blog and follow the instructions..

You may use whatever template you like, add plugins, stylesheets, etc.

I encourage you to make this a personalized space..

REQUIREMENTS FOR BLOG:

 your blog URL can be whatever you would like it to be, but I suggest to make it something that you will remember.. like the class blog hub URL, http://medialit113spring2011.blogspot.com/

Your Blog Title needs to be your first and last name. This is what allows me to easily find your blog and grade your work.

The class blog title is Media Literacy Spring 2011. This is what appears on the top of the page.

You will need to Add the gadget or plugin to your blog called “blog list”

This is done in the administration/dashboard section of your blog, as demonstrated in class.

Once you add the “blog list” plugin, you need to make sure that the class hub’S URL is added to your page, and your URL is added to the class blog.

***This should not be done as a blog “following”. You must use this “blog list” plugin in order to get your work graded properly. It is your responsibility to make sure your blog is listed on the Class Hub. Otherwise your work may not get graded for the semester.

HAND OUT THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE BY MARSHAL MCLUHAN

From, UNDERSTANDING MEDIA – THE EXTENSIONS OF MAN (pdf download)

FOR TUES THE 1ST, YOU NEED TO HAVE PAGES 1-11 IN THE MCLUHAN TEXT READ, READY TO DISCUSS.

MEDIA LIT COURSE INTRO

MEDIA LITERACY – Spring 2011

COM155-113

Location: LT209

Class Time: Tues and Thurs 3:30 pm - 4:45

Faculty: Tyler Jacobsen, Assistant Professor,
Media Arts - Interactive Media / Game Studies

tyler.jacobsen1@marist.edu

Office Hours LT134a: Tues 1-3, Wed 11-1, Thur 12-3

TODAY WE WILL PASS OUT AND REVIEW THE SYLLABUS:

• theory
• practice

and 

GO OVER CLASS EXPECTATIONS / REGULATIONS:

• computers use in class
• outside work (in lab)
• class blogs
• Assignments finished before class begins

FOR NEXT THURS I NEED YOU SET UP A BLOGSPOT / GOOGLE ACCOUNT @http://blogspot.com SO YOU CAN MAKE A BLOG FOR THE CLASS

We will go over details about how to create your course blog for the semester, and link it to the class blogspot hub