Category Archives: technology

Visual Rhetoric 11.2: Infographic Project

Posted on March 24, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan: Finish Book Production Presentations Introduce Infographic Project Introduce (Briefly) the Final Project Homework Infographic Project For our third project, we will be creating infographics. In preparation for today’s class, I had you read two short articles, “What is … Continue reading →

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Visual Rhetoric Week 9 (Friday): Book Production Presentation

Posted on March 11, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan : Book Cover and Jacket Book Production Presentation Book Production Project Rubric Garr Reynolds and Presentation Zen Design Canvas assignment: Make a Zen Presentation Hand back posters Work Time Homework Book Cover and Jacket Today I wanted to … Continue reading →

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Visual Rhetoric 9.2: Book Production Presentation

Posted on March 10, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s plan: Book Production Presentation Details Presentation Zen Guidelines Book Production Presentation As I mentioned last class, the final component of our second project is to develop a presentation that “pitches” your book design. The hypothetical scenario here is that … Continue reading →

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Visual Rhetoric 8 (Friday): Creating a Master Page

Posted on March 4, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s plan: Review Golden Section and a few tools Review Typography calculator One last wrinkle Creating a Master Page in InDesign Review of Production Concepts: Basic Book Design We’ve spent the last few weeks working on InDesign and the technologies … Continue reading →

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Visual Rhetoric 8.2: Generating a Layout Grid (in InDesign)

Posted on March 3, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan: watch a few tutorials do some math create a master page in InDesign for your poetry

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Visual Rhetoric 7 (Friday): Production Research and InDesign

Posted on February 26, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan: Review Project Two Confirm Project Two Groups Golden Section/Ratio and Page Design Book Production Research Project Break InDesign #7 Review Project Two Let’s (finally) do this. Book Production Project Today we begin our second project of the semester. … Continue reading →

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Visual Rhetoric 6 (Friday): Book Production Project

Posted on February 19, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan: Remix Posters Introduce Project 2 Watch “Work of Art” Form Groups (Canvas Thread) Break InDesign Workshop: Lesson 3 Homework Book Production Project Today we begin our second project of the semester. It is my goal that we finish … Continue reading →

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Visual Rhetoric 6.2: InDesign

Posted on February 18, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Class: Quick Note About Citrix Documentation InDesign Chapter 1 Review Questions (pg 29) Working with InDesign: Chapter 2 Homework

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Gmail is Awesome

Posted on February 7, 2012 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today I discovered that gmail prompt you with the question “did you forget to attach a document” if you write “attach” in an email and then hit send. Neat stuff. I was telling a student that I attached a reading … Continue reading →

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Digital Humanities

Posted on December 29, 2011 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

A friend emailed me Feisal G. Mohamed’s response to Fish’s recent discussion of digital humanities. Here’s my response. I think there’s two basic genealogies to digital humanities/technology studies. Reductive? Sure. But helpful. The first traces back to Heidegger’s “Question Concerning … Continue reading →

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