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Visual Rhetoric 7.1: Book Production Research

Today’s Plan: Handing back posters (missing a few names) & Mid Semester Grades Review Groups / Projects / Poets Production Research Homework

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Visual Rhetoric 6 (Friday): Book Production Project

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 For the next few weeks, you will be using InDesign and Photoshop to design, arrange, flow, … Continue reading

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Advanced Composition: 6.2 Your Freshman Year

Today’s Plan: Discussing Nathan ZeFrank on college Tell me about your Freshman Year

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Visual Rhetoric 6.2: InDesign

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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Advanced Composition 6.1: Contemporary Questions on Higher Education

Today’s Plan: Review the essay assignment/li> Generating a sense of contemporary debates in higher education from Twitter Homework Review the Essay Assignment I want to go around the room and ask everyone two questions (feel free to answer them in … Continue reading

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Visual Rhetoric 6.1: Book Production Project

Today’s Plan: Introduce Book Project Work of Art: “Judging a Book by Its Cover” Group Formation Homework Book Production Project Today we begin our second project of the semester. It is my goal that we finish this project over Spring … Continue reading

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Advanced Composition 5.2: Freire and Lorde (Praxis as Poetry?)

Today’s plan: Discuss Readings Review Paper Assignment / Questions Homework

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Visual Rhetoric 5.2: Poster Reflection and Remix Project

Today’s plan: Poster Presentation Remix Assignment Poster Presentation Let’s take some time to talk about your projects. Remix Assignment There is one final component to Project One, and that is that I would like you to design a “remix” of … Continue reading

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One Day Crash Course: Visual Rhetoric and Presidential Campaign Websites

Today’s Plan: Quick Overview of Visual Rhetoric (with an eye toward web interfaces) (12 minutes) Flash View at Presidential Campaign Posters (8 minutes) Looking at Presidential Campaign Posters (25 minutes) Walkaway (5 minutes) A Quick Introduction to (Visual) Rhetoric Today’s … Continue reading

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Visual Rhetoric Week 4 (Friday): Poster Remixes and Make it Ugly

Today’s plan: Hang posters Introduce Remix Assignment Break Make It Ugly

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