week 6 : 2 may
crediblity and storytelling

agenda

• Guest Lecture: Barbara Warnick - credibility (evaluation)
• Discussion: credibility in the blogosphere
• Discuss Writing Assignment 1- Change
  • Review, evaluate/assess
• Explore Seattle - small group work
  • FIRST story (coffee shop or Ballard story) due next week (week 7). Submittal process just like bios.
  • Design Team - meet with Kathy
  • Copy Editors - meet, review bios (already submitted) and develop an agreed upon set of tasks, process (recognizing that Jyotsna "goes first" since her content is ready to proof)
  • Remaining class members: Shanna, please re-assume PM role and guide group through identification of who has not signed up for stories and encourage students to commit something online ... ditto annotated lists.
    
    Those working on annotated lists, decide on min-max word length for annotation and how to measure site credibility for including in resource section. Once consensus is reached, modify the Assignment Sign Up page to reflect those details.
  
  
  

assignments

• Change story evaluation:
  Create a new Word document – in it, note your thoughts (suggestions for improvements, kudos) about each student’s story. After you’ve reviewed everyone’s work – revisit your own story. What would you do differently, if anything? What has this exercise affirmed? Send these to me as an e-mail attachment by end of day Wednesday, please. I will share comments (anonymously, of course).
• Reading Assignment:
  • Group 1 (Andrea, Camille, David, Drew, Ingrid, Jyotsna, Meg, Sakina, Simon): Digital TV in the convergent environment, Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE; Jan/Feb 2001
  • Group 2 (Brian, Craig, Dian, Erica, Jing, Mark, Robert, Shanna): Providing Ubiquitous Gigabit Networks In The United States (pdf). IEEE, 14 March 2005
• Bring to class next week: four photos that make up a story - we will create a Flash slideshow in-class-lab in preparation for final project
• Practice recording yourself. Record something short that you've written (a blog post, part of your Change story). Resource: Writing for the Ear. Please upload to student server or Bryght as mp3 before class.
• Back-Story: Matt's Speaker Evaluation - also, Nancy's and Dan's

resources

• Thinking About Web Aesthetics, Lynda Weinman
• Sources - photos: Flickr and BuzzNet (communities - some photos are available - check rights). iStockPhoto (inexpensive, free watermarked proofs). NASA, National Archives, FreeFoto, Gimp-Savvy Archive (gov't sources). stock.xchg, morguefile, Pixel Perfect Digital, OpenPhoto.net, PDPhoto. Links to clip art
• Sources - sounds: FlashKit, Sound FX, FWS, Beeps and Sound Effects from Partners in Rhyme
• Sources - music: Public Domain Music, Royalty Free Music, Creative Commons Audio, Wikipedia PD/Copyleft music list, Free iTunes songs, Free and Legal Music Track Wiki (downloader beware)
• Technology Futures (blog focusing on broadband)