Monthly Archives: January 2016

Visual Rhetoric Week 3 (Friday): Reviewing Project One Progress

Today’s plan: Review homework from last week Generate rubric for project 2 Discuss reflection paper Work time

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Visual Rhetoric Week 2 (Friday): Gries, Presidential Posters, and Photoshop

Today’s plan Quick review of Gries Assignment One: Presidential Poster Obama Hope materials and processes Vector images and Adobe Illustrator Photoshop Friday (two projects)

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Advanced Composition 2.2: Cicero and Faulty Foundations

Today’s plan: Lecture on Cicero Questions about Curiosity

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Visual Rhetoric 2.2: Photoshop Workshop #2

Today’s plan: Gries Reading Highlights Photoshop Tutorial #1: Working with layers Photoshop Tutorial #2: Recreating Obama Hope Homework

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Advanced Composition 2.1: Isocrates, Pragmatism, and “State” Education

Today’s plan Set up Twitter accounts and some follows Share a blog post or two Discuss Isocrates (Question: tell me about what kind of math courses you have taken) Homework

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Visual Rhetoric 2.1: Gries, Obama Hope, and the Presidential Poster Assignment

Today’s plan: Project One Description Recipe Assignment (in groups, on Canvas) Homework: Reading and Presidential Poster Research Assignment

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Visual Rhetoric (Friday) Week One: Introduction and Photoshop Workshop

Today’s Plan Syllabus overview (11:00-11:15) Introduction to (Visual) Rhetoric / What is New Materialism? (11:15-11:45) My review of White Space (11:45-11:50) Looking at your objects / First Day Attendance (11:50-12:20) Break (12:20-12:30) Photoshop tutorial (12:30-1:35) Zip it and ship it … Continue reading

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Advanced Composition 1.2: Plato’s Republic

Today’s Plan: Post blog URL’s to Canvas Two volunteers to read their blog post to open discussion Plato’s Republic VII Discussion posts (3:00-3:10) Homework (3:10-3:15)

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Visual Rhetoric 1.2: Adobe Photoshop

Today’s Plan Quick review of White Space Photoshop Tutorials Zip it and ship it (1:35) Homework

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Advanced Composition Week 1.1: Plato

Today’s plan: Why Are You Here? Syllabus Introduction to Plato, Greek Conceptions of Philosophy and Rhetoric Writing with Direct Quotations Homework

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