For my blog this week, I tried assignment #2 in Johnson-Eilola's chapter. Before I comment on that though, I would like to mention that the information throughout the chapter dealing with the marketing of material now was disheartening. I don't like thinking of writing as an economic commodity with capitalist goals. It made me feel "dirty." Anyone else disturbed by this thought? However, back to the actual assignment; I must admit that it was fun and interesting to an extent, but I am still not sure how to really apply it to my classroom since I am from the old-school group of people who tend to be skeptical of random Internet searches. Anyway, here is a brief summary of the three topics I chose to search first on Google: dream visions, Dracula, and elephants (I can explain my choices to anyone who cares. I know they sound a bit warped). Anyway...
For dream visions, there were no sponsored sites on the page and the top few hits were extremely varied. Overall, there were 1,800,000 hits, but the top ones ranged from dream interpretation, to angelic encounters, to erotic/porn sites. I am not sure what this says about our culture other than we have varied ideas when it comes to dreams, none of which seem very academic (which is a shame since dream vision is a genre of medieval poetry). I am glad to say that the erotic site was 3rd and not 1st. I take some comfort in that. I also found it interesting that there were no other relevant sites listed at the bottom, like the search engine was at a loss as to how to link dream visions to other areas.
For Dracula, there was a sponsored link on the second day I looked, but not on the first. Many other relevant sites were listed (most dealing with Bram Stoker and vampires of course). My main interesting find was that the top two hits (out of 14,000,000!!!) were both to wikipedia. I am always a bit skeptical about wikipedia since I am not sure "anyone" should be an expert. Anyway, the other top hits mostly dealt with movies and books (at least it was a bit more academic than dream visions, although the one about Coppola's direction included how he yelled "whore" and "slut" during the scene where Van Helsing catches Mina--we, as a culture seem to be obsessed with sex).
For elephants, there were a whopping 14,000,000 hits (same as Dracula, how ironic), most of which dealt with nature and Africa. Many related searches were listed at the bottom. I was surprised that this was the only one of my three searches which included many sponsored sites (mostly to buy something or contribute to the preservation of these animals). There was actually a link to ebay, which I always expect to see no matter what the subject. I didn't pursue that link to see if one can buy live elephants on the site, but I wouldn't be surprised. This subject actually used up most of the screen whereas the other two left a lot of white space. I don't know what that means other than this subject may be more normal than my other two.
Overall, I am not sure what I learned from the assignment since I kind of expected the results I received (other than the erotic dream vision one). I am glad I took the opportunity to do the search assignment, but I feel it only confirmed my feelings that one should not do research randomly on the web.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Blogging and Johnson-Eilola
http://people.clarkson.edu/~johndan/workspace/
The above is to Johndan Johnson-Eilola's blog, in case anyone is interested. I was both frustrated and elated by the essay and wanted to know more about the person who wrote it. I applied activity #1 (in part) to Johnson-Eilola's blog and I was interested to see that, though Johnson-Eilola interacts with many blogs, there is little to no reader presence on his blog. No comments, no posting, etc. I think people like me probably read his site because I was familiar wtih and appreciate of some of his music blogs, comic blogs, and political commentary. But I can't figure out who (if anyone) actually reads it, because I couldn't find any reader interaction. Which seems weird.
I went through (of course) assignment 3, because who doesn't love googling themselves? I found a bunch of stuff from previous jobs, particularly when I worked as an activist years ago, some hate mail from letters to the editor I wrote, the class blog, the EGSA page, etc. Like Leta, I have no presence on the internet, save from my work. On Google I had 1,570,000 hits. There are a lot of me, it turns out. When I worked as an environmentalist I did a lot of media relations work, so had to google myself often to track the success of press releases, etc. There seem to be more of me now than there were five years ago. Now there's a highschool/college basketball star, and a choir member at Cornell.
I'm afraid that I don't entirely see the value of this assignment. I agree that it helps to demonstrate how demographic groups are constructed on the internet, which is amazingly disturbing, but on the other hand it feels kind of self-indulgent.
As far as blogging in my classroom goes, I am not inclined to do it. I could probably be convinced otherwise, but I, like Bri, am more attracted to Blackboard. And really, is there that much difference? What can you do with a class blog that you can't do with blackboard? (I'm asking in all sincerity because I don't know enough about either to make an educated choice, I think.) I'm currently taking 4 classes that have web-based components. For me, it's easier to manage all of my web-based homework/responsibilities if they%
The above is to Johndan Johnson-Eilola's blog, in case anyone is interested. I was both frustrated and elated by the essay and wanted to know more about the person who wrote it. I applied activity #1 (in part) to Johnson-Eilola's blog and I was interested to see that, though Johnson-Eilola interacts with many blogs, there is little to no reader presence on his blog. No comments, no posting, etc. I think people like me probably read his site because I was familiar wtih and appreciate of some of his music blogs, comic blogs, and political commentary. But I can't figure out who (if anyone) actually reads it, because I couldn't find any reader interaction. Which seems weird.
I went through (of course) assignment 3, because who doesn't love googling themselves? I found a bunch of stuff from previous jobs, particularly when I worked as an activist years ago, some hate mail from letters to the editor I wrote, the class blog, the EGSA page, etc. Like Leta, I have no presence on the internet, save from my work. On Google I had 1,570,000 hits. There are a lot of me, it turns out. When I worked as an environmentalist I did a lot of media relations work, so had to google myself often to track the success of press releases, etc. There seem to be more of me now than there were five years ago. Now there's a highschool/college basketball star, and a choir member at Cornell.
I'm afraid that I don't entirely see the value of this assignment. I agree that it helps to demonstrate how demographic groups are constructed on the internet, which is amazingly disturbing, but on the other hand it feels kind of self-indulgent.
As far as blogging in my classroom goes, I am not inclined to do it. I could probably be convinced otherwise, but I, like Bri, am more attracted to Blackboard. And really, is there that much difference? What can you do with a class blog that you can't do with blackboard? (I'm asking in all sincerity because I don't know enough about either to make an educated choice, I think.) I'm currently taking 4 classes that have web-based components. For me, it's easier to manage all of my web-based homework/responsibilities if they%
Johnson-Eilola’s Activity Two
I decided to try Johndan Johnson-Eilola’s Activity Two (230-31). I chose Google, Yahoo, and Ask.com as my three search engines and “neko case”, “sand castle”, and “coaching” as my three queries. See the raw data below.
After completing the searches at first glance, I noticed that Yahoo found more hits for two of the three queries. This might indicate a hierarchy in terms of scope with Yahoo at the top, Google a close second, Ask.com third.
As I looked more closely at the results, I noticed one Web site continued to pop up: Wikipedia. Each search engine found hits on Wikipedia; Yahoo included a hit from Wikipedia in the top ten of each query.
Further analysis led me to develop a better sense of each search engine’s priories. From Yahoo, a large majority of the hits in each query’s top ten seemed to be for Web sites selling something. Ask.com and Google seemed to include links to more information and news Web sites in each query’s top ten. Ask.com seemed to include links to Web sites with information about events (concerts, festivals, conferences, etc.) in the top ten for each query more frequently than the other two search engines.
NEKO CASE
Google: 1,430,000 hits
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Welcome to the Official site of Neko Case
Official site with extensive list of thanks and a showcase of women in music.
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NEKO CASE
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NEKO CASE
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Tacoma, ... Neko Case and Her Boyfriends, The New Pornographers, The Corn Sisters, The ... Neko Case (born September 8, 1970 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an ...
Quick Links: Biography - The Virginian and Mass Romantic - Furnace Room Lullaby
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Neko Case & Her Boyfriends
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Neko Case
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neko.case.com @ music.homepages.org
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Bloodshot Records
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The New Pornographers Official Website
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Event - Neko Case
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Event - Neko Case
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SAND CASTLE
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COACHING
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After completing the searches at first glance, I noticed that Yahoo found more hits for two of the three queries. This might indicate a hierarchy in terms of scope with Yahoo at the top, Google a close second, Ask.com third.
As I looked more closely at the results, I noticed one Web site continued to pop up: Wikipedia. Each search engine found hits on Wikipedia; Yahoo included a hit from Wikipedia in the top ten of each query.
Further analysis led me to develop a better sense of each search engine’s priories. From Yahoo, a large majority of the hits in each query’s top ten seemed to be for Web sites selling something. Ask.com and Google seemed to include links to more information and news Web sites in each query’s top ten. Ask.com seemed to include links to Web sites with information about events (concerts, festivals, conferences, etc.) in the top ten for each query more frequently than the other two search engines.
NEKO CASE
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Welcome to the Official site of Neko Case
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NEKO CASE
THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE, THE NEW SITE IS COMING SOON. The Tigers Have Spoken. Blacklisted. Furnace Room Lullaby. The Virginian.
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Neko Case
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NEKO CASE
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Neko Case
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neko.case.com @ music.homepages.org
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Bloodshot Records
Chicago, USA-based home of _QUOTATION_insurgent Country_QUOTATION_ music. Alternative Country news and information.
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The New Pornographers Official Website
Includes discography, audio and video files, photos, and forum.
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Event - Neko Case
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Event - Neko Case
WHEN: April 05, 2007 WHERE: Gothic Theatre,Denver,CO,80110 CATEGORY: music ...
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Neko Case: Chilling, Spacious Songs
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Mint Records
An independent record label based out of Vancouver, British Columbia.
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SAND CASTLE
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Park information, news, tickets, and available employment. Pittsburgh.
Map of 1000 Sandcastle Dr, Homestead, PA 15120
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Sand Castle Winery
A beautiful vineyard in historic Bucks County, PA. Check out our wines, corporate services and VIP tours.www.sandcastlewinery.com - 17k - Cached - More from this site
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Castles made of sand
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Sandcastle Waterpark
Area attraction. Includes web cams with information on activities, rates, policies, events, employment and location.
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South Padre Island Texas Sand Castle Days Fall Family Festival' ...
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Texas SandFest
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COACHING
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Coaching.com – business & executive coaching for leadership
...Business coaching solutions with executive coaching, personal coaching, professional coaching and corporate coaching to enhance leadership skills ...
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Positive Coaching Alliance
Information on awards, location, partnership programs, description of the organization, upcoming events, news items and membership details.
Map of 3430 W Bayshore Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94303
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No Blogging for me...
Instead of doing a Johnson-Eilola activity, I will take the cheap copout to discuss blogging in my classroom. While I like Johnson-Eilola's more standard blogging framework--where students read an article and then respond to it critically--I think that for blogging to work best, it must be a sustained and regular activity. As I already plan to have a course website and to use Blackboard, I think that expecting students to go to yet a third site regularly is perhaps too much. Furthermore, since I think that blogging, when done, should be done for one's exploration of oneself--at least in theory a private act--I think that if I am reading their blogs as their instructor, I will be stifling, rather than promoting, their auto-didactic pleasure. I think I might encourage my students to keep journals or to blog, it will be for their own benefit only.As I mentioned above, I do, however, plan to use BlackBoard. I haven't yet decided whether discussion posts will used, or, if they are, how frequently. While I like the idea of requiring students to think about material that we will discuss before class, I am worried about overwhelming them, which can, at least at times, lead them to turn in shoddy work and to write half-considered posts. So, I don't know that it's worth it.
Then again, I rethink my English 1000 class every 5 minutes or so, so we'll see!
Monday, April 2, 2007
Concept/Mind/Idea Map
Considering that we have effectively reached "that point" in the semester, I'm surprised my concept map does not look more scattered and lines-all-over-the-place-what-exactly-are-you-thinking than this:
Outside of my personal battle with the CMap software, I thought it was a very interesting activity, but I'm not sure if I would want to include it in class. Although concept maps can be a good way to reach students with spatial or visual learning styles, what happens when they do look very scattered? I can see how the different parts of the course fit together, but I don't know what the implications are, nor has it proved to be a particularly heuristic activity for my course design. It just helps me realize that yes, in fact, all of these ideas are related...so should I bring them all up in every class meeting and run the risk of boring my students to tears?
Rather than using the concept map as an alternative to an organizational tool (because I can really see horror stories evolving from that), I would use this as Bean suggests — something more of a preliminary brainstorming tool to find out what ideas the students are engaging with most frequently, and what ideas the students see as definitively linked to one another. This could be very helpful for narrowing the scope of a thesis to something that can be completely argued in 3-7 pages, thus to avoid the "all about" or "and then" writing that Bean so fears.
Outside of my personal battle with the CMap software, I thought it was a very interesting activity, but I'm not sure if I would want to include it in class. Although concept maps can be a good way to reach students with spatial or visual learning styles, what happens when they do look very scattered? I can see how the different parts of the course fit together, but I don't know what the implications are, nor has it proved to be a particularly heuristic activity for my course design. It just helps me realize that yes, in fact, all of these ideas are related...so should I bring them all up in every class meeting and run the risk of boring my students to tears?
Rather than using the concept map as an alternative to an organizational tool (because I can really see horror stories evolving from that), I would use this as Bean suggests — something more of a preliminary brainstorming tool to find out what ideas the students are engaging with most frequently, and what ideas the students see as definitively linked to one another. This could be very helpful for narrowing the scope of a thesis to something that can be completely argued in 3-7 pages, thus to avoid the "all about" or "and then" writing that Bean so fears.
Johnson-Eilola activity 3
I did the 3rd search engine activity. Googling "Darren Pine" brought up many sites that had a direct connection to something I'd done or was currently involved in-- I'm on the staff pages of the graduate school, the Missouri Review, Center Literary Journal, English Grad Student, and, oddly enough, I'm still listed as an adjunct professor at the St. Louis Community College. There's an interview I did back in 2000 with writer Orson Scott Card, as well as the writing lab article we all were asked to contribute, a lukewarm review of a production of my full-length play Dance of Bees, and an ad for an anthology which contains a short play I wrote. In addition to sites about something I'd done were geneological lists of other Darren Pines, and combinations of the words Darren and Pine in some respect, such as "Pine Cone #2" a painting by Darren Maurer. Of course, there were also a lot of sites on Pine trees as well. Overall, 798,000 hits.
Googling white turned up 763 million hits, compared to black which garnered 917 million. Caucasian turned up 24 million, while Asian 175 million and hispanic 45 million. Irish turned up 113 million, German 338 million, while Mexican turned up 94 million. Most of the hits were not surprising as far as content goes. Male (359 million) did not turn up as many hits as the word men (701 million), and Female (321 Million) did not turn up as many as Woman (574 million). The male sites seemed to be about men's health, though some were specifically directed to homosexuals.
When I googled my age, 35, I found a lot of articles on getting pregnant after 35. It seemed that the concern for aging was mostly directed at females.
While this was an interesting activity, I'm not sure what the point of it would be, unless it could somehow be turned into a bigger assignment. While it's interesting to note the trends, it seems that the student would have to look at the sites themselves more in-depth in order to gain anything from the assignment other than a sense of how demographics work.
Googling white turned up 763 million hits, compared to black which garnered 917 million. Caucasian turned up 24 million, while Asian 175 million and hispanic 45 million. Irish turned up 113 million, German 338 million, while Mexican turned up 94 million. Most of the hits were not surprising as far as content goes. Male (359 million) did not turn up as many hits as the word men (701 million), and Female (321 Million) did not turn up as many as Woman (574 million). The male sites seemed to be about men's health, though some were specifically directed to homosexuals.
When I googled my age, 35, I found a lot of articles on getting pregnant after 35. It seemed that the concern for aging was mostly directed at females.
While this was an interesting activity, I'm not sure what the point of it would be, unless it could somehow be turned into a bigger assignment. While it's interesting to note the trends, it seems that the student would have to look at the sites themselves more in-depth in order to gain anything from the assignment other than a sense of how demographics work.
Sunday, April 1, 2007
mapping and blogging
Okay, here's my attempt at a concept map of my English 1000 class. My brain doesn't really work spatially, so this isn't terribly pretty, but it sort of makes sense to me. I'm interested in feedback on assignment 2, as shown on the concept map (it gets bigger if you click on it); I've been having trouble all semester getting that assignment in a form I like.
I also did Johnson-Eilola's third search engine activity.
When I searched for my own name on google, I found primarily academic and professional information. Some of it was work related-- the writing lab website, etc--, some of it was writing-related-- my old opinion columns from KSU, etc.--, and some of it was info about awards I've been given (I'm putting my vice-presidentship of the English major's club at KSU in this category). I believe the only sites that didn't fit into one of these categories were the EGSA auction site (on which it announces that my scones sold for $15) and the website of my grandmother's church (which has my birthday listed).
All of these (except the one from my grandma's church) are related to acheivement. I would have next to no presence on the web were it not for these acheivements, which I think is interesting, considering that I feel that my achievements are largely a result of my socio-economic background. It was expected that I would go to college and do well there, etc. I wonder what a google search would turn up for my name if that were not the case.
I went on to search for terms that describe me. (Interestingly enough, wikipedia articles showed up near the top of almost every search.) "Female" turned up a fair number of sexually-oriented sites (the second result is about "female genital cutting"). However, I followed up by searching for "male" and found somewhat the same type of sites (the third result was "the ultimate male masturbation resource"). I haven't done enough research to make a confident argument about this, but I think the results for "female" may tend to focus more on things being done to women (like mutilation) whereas the "male" results may focus more on things men do (masturbation). I later searched for "woman" and "man" and thought it was interesting that the first sponsored link for "woman" was titled "Sexy single women," whereas no such link appeared in the "man" search.
I then searched for "caucasian," "white," "African-American," "black," and "hispanic." Although the first entry for "cancasian" is a wikipedia article about "the Caucasian race," the entries don't tend to be centered on the "race". Instead, there are articles about the Caucasus mountains, the "caucasian mountain dog," etc. "White" turned up similar results. "White people" turned up more pointed results, mostly of "white people" defining themselves in opposition to others. (or others defining "white people" in opposition to themselves.) "African American," "black," and "hispanic" turned up more relevant results than did "caucasian" or white", and they seemed to focus on group identity. I suppose the reason for this would be that caucasian or white tends to be viewed as the norm in the U.S., so caucasians tend not to be viewed in terms of skin color/ ethnicity (or at least they are not defined this way on the web).
I also did a few other searches, but these are the highlights. This would be an interesting activity to have our students do. I'm not sure if I'll use it, due to time constraints, but this could be an interesting start for a paper assignment.
I also did Johnson-Eilola's third search engine activity.When I searched for my own name on google, I found primarily academic and professional information. Some of it was work related-- the writing lab website, etc--, some of it was writing-related-- my old opinion columns from KSU, etc.--, and some of it was info about awards I've been given (I'm putting my vice-presidentship of the English major's club at KSU in this category). I believe the only sites that didn't fit into one of these categories were the EGSA auction site (on which it announces that my scones sold for $15) and the website of my grandmother's church (which has my birthday listed).
All of these (except the one from my grandma's church) are related to acheivement. I would have next to no presence on the web were it not for these acheivements, which I think is interesting, considering that I feel that my achievements are largely a result of my socio-economic background. It was expected that I would go to college and do well there, etc. I wonder what a google search would turn up for my name if that were not the case.
I went on to search for terms that describe me. (Interestingly enough, wikipedia articles showed up near the top of almost every search.) "Female" turned up a fair number of sexually-oriented sites (the second result is about "female genital cutting"). However, I followed up by searching for "male" and found somewhat the same type of sites (the third result was "the ultimate male masturbation resource"). I haven't done enough research to make a confident argument about this, but I think the results for "female" may tend to focus more on things being done to women (like mutilation) whereas the "male" results may focus more on things men do (masturbation). I later searched for "woman" and "man" and thought it was interesting that the first sponsored link for "woman" was titled "Sexy single women," whereas no such link appeared in the "man" search.
I then searched for "caucasian," "white," "African-American," "black," and "hispanic." Although the first entry for "cancasian" is a wikipedia article about "the Caucasian race," the entries don't tend to be centered on the "race". Instead, there are articles about the Caucasus mountains, the "caucasian mountain dog," etc. "White" turned up similar results. "White people" turned up more pointed results, mostly of "white people" defining themselves in opposition to others. (or others defining "white people" in opposition to themselves.) "African American," "black," and "hispanic" turned up more relevant results than did "caucasian" or white", and they seemed to focus on group identity. I suppose the reason for this would be that caucasian or white tends to be viewed as the norm in the U.S., so caucasians tend not to be viewed in terms of skin color/ ethnicity (or at least they are not defined this way on the web).
I also did a few other searches, but these are the highlights. This would be an interesting activity to have our students do. I'm not sure if I'll use it, due to time constraints, but this could be an interesting start for a paper assignment.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
assignment & blog
Since I couldn't find a place on the wiki to post my assignment (using Barnett), I'm going to post it here, and then move it over to the wiki when there's a space set up. I'm going out of town tomorrow and wanted to get this taken care of before I left.
It was interesting writing this assignment because I have a hard time articulating what I want my students to do, and why I want them to do it. This is still a draft, but I think it could be helpful. Certainly using Salvatori's suggestions is (over time) making me a better reader.
See assignment below.
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It was interesting writing this assignment because I have a hard time articulating what I want my students to do, and why I want them to do it. This is still a draft, but I think it could be helpful. Certainly using Salvatori's suggestions is (over time) making me a better reader.
See assignment below.
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[I chose to draw on the Salvatori article in Barnett because I’ve been trying to become a better reader myself, and found her techniques helpful. An assignment like this at the beginning of class may help students read more effectively, and use their reading more efficiently in a paper]
Assignment #1
Reading reflexively
Your homework for Wednesday will elaborate on the reading process we’ve been discussing. Instead of just reading this week’s assigned reading, you will respond throughout the text to the material. This means that I want you to mark up your text. Instead of just underlining a passage you think is important, I’m asking you to write (in words) in the margin, why you have underlined this section. Do you think it’s interesting? Do you disagree? Does this make you think of something else? When the author makes a statement you question, I want you to write your question in the margin. Think of this as an advanced heckling process; enter the author’s conversation and write your own questions, opinions, thoughts, etc. You will hand in your marked-up reading at the beginning of class on Wednesday.
more on boxes
While I find the notion of boxes intriguing, I don't think I will be using them in my class, at least not right off. I could see toying with the idea of a box assignment as an activity, I don't think I'd want to do it as a formal assignment. While the argument was made in the texts that the linear argument format is old-school now, it remains a fact that college comp is designed to prepare students for this linear thesis-driven, claim-making, evidence providing, conclusion making style that they will utilize in other courses. So, for me, the boxes could work as a brainstorming activity, but not as a substitute for a formal essay. How would you grade it? Formal essays have the advantage of requiring basic rules, and it is useful to us as instructors to have this criteria in mind when we're grading. Boxes seem much more like a creative art, and so that type of writing would tend to be graded using a pass/fail model, again, which makes it work for an activity, but not a full project, at least not for college composition.
On Cornell & Hypertext
I thoroughly enjoyed this stimulating article on Cornell. I especially liked the way the author used the art of Cornell to both explicate his concerns concerning hypertext and to recommend a method that might be applied to helping our students use hypertext to write persuasive arguments. I thought that the argument he made for this, framing his discussion around Mead’s notions of prefigurative culture, helped me understand just where I might fit as an instructor in this fast moving world of technology and education.
Before reading this article, I would never have imagine that a student might deliver a hypertext paper to me and call it a persuasive essay. But upon brief reflection, it makes all the sense in the world that it could happen, and probably will. And why shouldn’t it? Aren’t we already experiencing this all around us in some forms? I am thinking here of blogs, wikipedia, and so forth. Of course, students are already composing in this way whether we recognize it or not. Given this, I find Janangelo’s notion that we should consider the subject and prepare to address it the classroom very apposite.
As an instructor, I feel hesitant to leap forward and try something as daring as this, and yet I feel the attraction of what might be gained in so doing. I liked what L. M. Dryden had to say about the use of hypertext in the composition of persuasive arguments: “to put technology at the service of students, to encourage their most creative efforts in exploring the connections between literature, history, the arts, and sciences, and most important their own lives.”
Before reading this article, I would never have imagine that a student might deliver a hypertext paper to me and call it a persuasive essay. But upon brief reflection, it makes all the sense in the world that it could happen, and probably will. And why shouldn’t it? Aren’t we already experiencing this all around us in some forms? I am thinking here of blogs, wikipedia, and so forth. Of course, students are already composing in this way whether we recognize it or not. Given this, I find Janangelo’s notion that we should consider the subject and prepare to address it the classroom very apposite.
As an instructor, I feel hesitant to leap forward and try something as daring as this, and yet I feel the attraction of what might be gained in so doing. I liked what L. M. Dryden had to say about the use of hypertext in the composition of persuasive arguments: “to put technology at the service of students, to encourage their most creative efforts in exploring the connections between literature, history, the arts, and sciences, and most important their own lives.”
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
my shot at a box, part 1
So I took Donna's challenge and tried to create a "basic box" (though nothing meta- like something on composition itself or teaching). My idea was informed by a story I've been following intently: the Supreme Court case involving Joseph Frederick, the high school student in Alaska who wrote "Bong hits 4 Jesus" on a banner in defiance of his school's administration. Dahlia Lithwick has a great summary of what's went down so far on _Slate_: http://www.slate.com/id/2162161/
I'm following the story because it deals directly with free speech, something dear to me, and the issue of free speech in K-12 schools is something I've done research on (particularly the Tinker case), as well.
The image I chose is a photo of the musician Liz Phair. It's from a copy of a magazine that I have. I actually used it as the cover art for a bootleg of hers called _Pottymouth Girl_ (I thought it was appropriate). The words to the left side are the lyrics to "Canary," a song from Phair's first (highly influential) album, _Exile in Guyville_. The song is interesting to me for many reasons, but one thing that *I* see Phair doing is drawing a parallel between a child *performing*--like a canary ("I learn my name/I write with a number two pencil/I work up to my potential")--and the persona *performing* feminity (I clean the house/I put all your books in an order/I make up a colorful border)--like a canary. Then she goes back--the image evoked by "I clean my mouth/'Cause froth comes out" is one of childhood once again, of having one's mouth washed out with soap. The implication, then, is that she is being treated like a child, just as women in general are (and have been) often treated like children, that their voices are often censored or silenced. (_Exile in Guyville_ is, in fact, a song-for-song female response to the Rolling Stones' _Exile on Main Street_, and Phair was about to establish her reputation, even perhaps more so than P.J. Havery and Courtney Love--and pre-Alanis Morissette success, by the way--as arguably *the* emotionally honest, sexually frank female voice in music, following the path blazed by Patti Smith, Kim Deal, etc.).
So the move for me was to intersect this notion of women's voices being shut out--as part of their regulation to the status of quasi-children, as their somehow being inferior to men--in the past (and some could argue rightly still in the present) with the question of free speech for *actual* "children" (the term itself is highly problematic, as childhood as we now regard it is largely a cultural construct of the emergence of the leisure class--but this is highly digressive... I can, however, expand on it if any one is interested) and for adolescents, those in the liminal stage between childhood and adulthood.
So free speech is foregrounded--a topic that I'm passionately invested in, and it's tied to an image of and lyrics by Liz Phair, an artist whose work I adore; and both are then tied to an explicit statement on free speech by Noam Chomsky which appears underneath the image. Chomsky has had a huge influence on my thinking--and to me this quote states plainly my own beliefs on the freedom of speech and it ties back directly to the case before the Supreme Court.
More bong hits 4 Jesus, please.
Boxes?!?
Sorry this is a bit tardy (and probably disjointed); I was lost in the west stacks of the library and lost track of time. This is of course after feeling a bit lost last night in the readings for this week. The idea of boxes is a bit much for me to grasp at this point in the semester (too much Old English and such). However, I wonder if the problem arises more out of technology than the concept. I feel a bit unsure of technology still, since it was not a big part of my earlier education. I am hesitant to use new technologies (as many of you know I had trouble even with the wiki). Of course, I found the reading in the chapter in Wysoki's book to be a bit intimidating even without the technology. I couldn't quite get used to the structure of the text itself. It took me twice as long to read as a regular chapter because I had to adapt to the random boldness and odd shapes of text. It made me feel sympathy for my students, though, who also have to adapt to unfamiliar readings. However, I don't think the purpose of boxes should be to make a difficult task even more difficult simply because it is artful and "new." My question is how much new technology and how many new approaches should we even incorporate into our classes? Isn't it possible to overwhelm students with these new techniques? I don't want to intimidate them or overwhelm them. Does anybody else feel this way?
On a side note, I couldn't help but think about the movie White Oleander as I read. Isn't this box idea what the daughter does at the end?
I also wanted to go back to last week's readings because I never updated what bullet point I disagreed with in C/D. I wondered about the idea of comparing student progress openly. I feel this is not only a violation of FERPA, but also demeans the student to whom you are speaking. I never openly compare work. Any thoughts?
On a side note, I couldn't help but think about the movie White Oleander as I read. Isn't this box idea what the daughter does at the end?
I also wanted to go back to last week's readings because I never updated what bullet point I disagreed with in C/D. I wondered about the idea of comparing student progress openly. I feel this is not only a violation of FERPA, but also demeans the student to whom you are speaking. I never openly compare work. Any thoughts?
Wanna Box?
I must admit I'm still a bit overwhelmed by this week's readings. I can't quite wrap my mind around the concept of boxes in the freshman composition classroom. In box-logic composition, Sirc explains, "notions of articulate coherence, conventional organization, and extensive development seem irrelevant" (115). How is this unlike most other freshman writing? Isn't this the mode that we're supposed to help them out of? I'm exaggerating, of course, but I seriously wonder whether freshman students are ready for this. How, for example, will learning to compose in this manner help them when they get to their philosophy, biology, and fishery writing-intensive courses?
That's not to say that I think using internet technology is bad. Rather, on the contrary, I think that allowing students to compose using technology--sound clips, weblinks, videos, photos--would greatly enhance their experiences.
In terms of implementing an adaptation of this, I think it would go particularly well with my second assignment, where students juxtapose an essay dealing with stereotypes (particularly those related to race/class/gender) with a character in Crash. Students would then be able to write a web-based text, rather than a paper one. That said, the emphasis would still be placed on the coherent, organized, and developed essay, which would be enhanced by the technology--where the technology would allow them to input multiple forms of evidence.
Thoughts?
--Bri
That's not to say that I think using internet technology is bad. Rather, on the contrary, I think that allowing students to compose using technology--sound clips, weblinks, videos, photos--would greatly enhance their experiences.
In terms of implementing an adaptation of this, I think it would go particularly well with my second assignment, where students juxtapose an essay dealing with stereotypes (particularly those related to race/class/gender) with a character in Crash. Students would then be able to write a web-based text, rather than a paper one. That said, the emphasis would still be placed on the coherent, organized, and developed essay, which would be enhanced by the technology--where the technology would allow them to input multiple forms of evidence.
Thoughts?
--Bri
Hypertext as Learning Tool
I was particularly interested, this week, in a quotation within the Janangelo article by George Landow: "[hypertext serves] to liberate us from the confinements of inadequate systems of classification and to permit us to follow [the mind's] natural proclivities for 'selection by association, rather than by indexing'" (277). I think what Landow calls the "mind's natural proclivities for selection by association" must be taken into account when, we, as educators, attempt to introduce students to new material. The mind is not a strictly linear function, and I think that hypertexts open up an entire world of associative logic and exploration that can make the learning process much more engaging. Here, I am speaking from personal experience, because one of the crucial turning points in my education involved a hypertext. I was a senior in high school when I discovered the Beats (primarily Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs). They represented radical opposition to everything I was being taught, and, for that, I loved them immediately. It seemed like they had created an entire literary world, and that I had just discovered it for the first time. One day I stumbled upon this hypertext which still exists (though it has been stylized since 2000):
http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/page.jsp?what=BeatGen
The hypertext links together all the major authors in the Beat movement, along with the Dadas, Surrealists, and other artists/thinkers (even back to St. John of the Cross and Dante) who had inspired them. I was sucked in immediately. Not only was the content radically new, but the format was perfect. Hypertext is radically non-linear, just as these thinkers seemed to be in their approach to reality. I felt as if I were passing through a series of doors (via the links) into new territory. There was no teacher there to tell me what was "required reading" and no single, monological "text" to read from front to back. It was more like walking through a forest, or exploring a ruin. I felt like I was the only person there, and that all of this was new.
The result was that I started making connections. The fragmentary knowledge conveyed in my English classes paled in comparison. I saw how past artistic movements and paradigms influenced subsequent generations, and I started to see myself as a possible inheritor of a tradition -- rather than just a receptacle for random facts about literary history. I tracked down every book that I saw mentioned on the site, one at a time. The summer between high school and college was an intellectual awakening. By the time my undergraduate career started, I was confident and had a sense, admittedly partial, of literary history. The hypertext had opened up a world, and now I felt at home there.
I never would have had the same experience with simply linear texts and footnotes. The sense of exploration, digression and wandering was crucial to my learning. I don't know how I will incorporate hypertext into my course just yet, but I plan to try. Maybe it will strike sparks.
http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/page.jsp?what=BeatGen
The hypertext links together all the major authors in the Beat movement, along with the Dadas, Surrealists, and other artists/thinkers (even back to St. John of the Cross and Dante) who had inspired them. I was sucked in immediately. Not only was the content radically new, but the format was perfect. Hypertext is radically non-linear, just as these thinkers seemed to be in their approach to reality. I felt as if I were passing through a series of doors (via the links) into new territory. There was no teacher there to tell me what was "required reading" and no single, monological "text" to read from front to back. It was more like walking through a forest, or exploring a ruin. I felt like I was the only person there, and that all of this was new.
The result was that I started making connections. The fragmentary knowledge conveyed in my English classes paled in comparison. I saw how past artistic movements and paradigms influenced subsequent generations, and I started to see myself as a possible inheritor of a tradition -- rather than just a receptacle for random facts about literary history. I tracked down every book that I saw mentioned on the site, one at a time. The summer between high school and college was an intellectual awakening. By the time my undergraduate career started, I was confident and had a sense, admittedly partial, of literary history. The hypertext had opened up a world, and now I felt at home there.
I never would have had the same experience with simply linear texts and footnotes. The sense of exploration, digression and wandering was crucial to my learning. I don't know how I will incorporate hypertext into my course just yet, but I plan to try. Maybe it will strike sparks.
Choose Your Own Adventure.
I was interested in the Janangelo’s article this week precisely because I wasn’t entirely sure what constituted a hypertext. Thus, Mead’s idea of prefigurative culture, “one in which adults must learn from children as they teach them because the knowledge the adults grew up with is not longer fully useful” (272) seems especially useful and appropriate to me. I’m interested in the synthesis of technology and poetry, something I (obviously) know very little about. A hypertext assignment similar to the one described in “Joseph Cornell and Hypertexts” might be an excellent way for students to recognize and engage with a poem’s construction and development. An assignment that requires students to map out links between words would highlight the important associative qualities of diction within any given poem.
I’m not convinced, however, that a hypertext assignment would work well in the English 1000 classroom. I’m not sure how to emphasize the dangers of “casual accumulation and juxtaposition of readymade materials” (288) to students. I’m a bit wary of an assignment that could offer too many choices, thus overwhelming the reader (which seems uncannily like the hypertext version of Choose Your Own Adventure books). While I would like to implement such an assignment, I’m uncertain how to design and outline an effective project. Does anyone else have any brilliant ideas?
I’m not convinced, however, that a hypertext assignment would work well in the English 1000 classroom. I’m not sure how to emphasize the dangers of “casual accumulation and juxtaposition of readymade materials” (288) to students. I’m a bit wary of an assignment that could offer too many choices, thus overwhelming the reader (which seems uncannily like the hypertext version of Choose Your Own Adventure books). While I would like to implement such an assignment, I’m uncertain how to design and outline an effective project. Does anyone else have any brilliant ideas?
Boxing: Choose your own adventure or sweet science?
Here’s where I attempt to organize my thoughts on boxing/hypertext.
My initial response to Janangelo’s ideas was much like his response to his students’ projects: doesn’t meet the assignment. I spent the first few minutes of reading the article by constructing reasons to dismiss it. Then I started to see some good points, and it reminded me of other writing/art I’ve enjoyed. And I’m a sucker for anyone who quotes Eco.
I agree with his evocation of Margaret Mead’s “prefigurative” culture; I’m sure that my students will be much more technologically advanced than I am, and I believe in trying to stay current with what technology is out there- I agree with Court’s assessment that this is the wave of the future, and we’d be better off getting in on it early. I don’t think that pure prose is outmoded, though- even someone writing hypertext needs to write clearly. I don’t care if a student is able to build a website full of bells and whistles- if the prose is crap, it’s not effective communication. There’s good collage, and bad collage. Janangelo even has some caveats: “a fine collage may seem like a casual construction while being in fact a complex work of deliberate artistry representing the artist’s ability to carefully recompose existing texts in thoughtful and persuasive ways” (276). This pushes me to two points: first, the problem of getting students to see the difference between random mishmash (“casual construction”) and “complex work of deliberate artistry.” Cornell’s boxes, the mash-up Court played for us; these are examples of something complex and deliberate. But Janangelo himself points out the danger: “my concern…is that [students] may confuse the ability to link materials with intellectual enrichment, subscribing to the idea that saying all you know (or linking as much as you can find) about a topic is better than selecting your evidence based on an analysis of your reader’s questions, knowledge, and needs” (278). Further, Janangelo discusses the problem of focus: there’s no prioritizing of strongest point, no flow to argument, no sense of building a case; random “accretion,” in which the reader selects a direction apparently at random, feels more like a choose-your-own adventure paper (were those books hypertexts?).
The second point this raised in my head is that collage is art- and art is deliberately obscure in meaning. Janangelo frequently replaces “artist” with “writer” in applying his sources’ ideas to his own reading of hypertext. I have no problem with hypertext as art; my issue is that we’re not teaching art, we’re teaching argument and composition. Yes, hypertexts and collage can have effective argument, but does that mean we should teach students to compose them? If I have them write about a film’s argument, I don’t make them construct a film.
My primary concern is that I don’t think a hypertext assignment is entirely appropriate for what we’re doing. When we have students who can barely construct a complete sentence, let alone a paragraph or a four-page paper, I don’t think they’re ready for more complex forms. I’d worry that such writers would avoid real composition in favor of flash. I do think it would be good for honors-level writers, or upper-division courses; in fact, a dissertation in hypertext/multimedia form would be pretty cool, and I expect Court will pull it off. Janangelo’s goal is to “model intelligent ways of composing persuasive nonsequential text” (287), and I support that- I just don’t think freshmen writers will pull it off. I’m intrigued by the idea of a hypertext novel that includes links to its intertextual references. Eco on hypertext: “one works on its pre-existing links and can navigate this labyrinth indefinitely by establishing (and inventing) personal connections” (qtd. 277). This would be nice in Eco’s novels in particular! I could get Latin translations, see a quick précis of a medieval text to which he refers, etc.
Side notes: there’s a recent book on Joseph Cornell called _Utopia Parkway_. My art school-graduate fiancée says it’s great. Also for other examples of box-type collage, I’d suggest looking at Dave McKean’s covers for the _Sandman_ graphic novels; I’ll bring in my copy of the collected covers next time we meet in case anyone’s interested.
My initial response to Janangelo’s ideas was much like his response to his students’ projects: doesn’t meet the assignment. I spent the first few minutes of reading the article by constructing reasons to dismiss it. Then I started to see some good points, and it reminded me of other writing/art I’ve enjoyed. And I’m a sucker for anyone who quotes Eco.
I agree with his evocation of Margaret Mead’s “prefigurative” culture; I’m sure that my students will be much more technologically advanced than I am, and I believe in trying to stay current with what technology is out there- I agree with Court’s assessment that this is the wave of the future, and we’d be better off getting in on it early. I don’t think that pure prose is outmoded, though- even someone writing hypertext needs to write clearly. I don’t care if a student is able to build a website full of bells and whistles- if the prose is crap, it’s not effective communication. There’s good collage, and bad collage. Janangelo even has some caveats: “a fine collage may seem like a casual construction while being in fact a complex work of deliberate artistry representing the artist’s ability to carefully recompose existing texts in thoughtful and persuasive ways” (276). This pushes me to two points: first, the problem of getting students to see the difference between random mishmash (“casual construction”) and “complex work of deliberate artistry.” Cornell’s boxes, the mash-up Court played for us; these are examples of something complex and deliberate. But Janangelo himself points out the danger: “my concern…is that [students] may confuse the ability to link materials with intellectual enrichment, subscribing to the idea that saying all you know (or linking as much as you can find) about a topic is better than selecting your evidence based on an analysis of your reader’s questions, knowledge, and needs” (278). Further, Janangelo discusses the problem of focus: there’s no prioritizing of strongest point, no flow to argument, no sense of building a case; random “accretion,” in which the reader selects a direction apparently at random, feels more like a choose-your-own adventure paper (were those books hypertexts?).
The second point this raised in my head is that collage is art- and art is deliberately obscure in meaning. Janangelo frequently replaces “artist” with “writer” in applying his sources’ ideas to his own reading of hypertext. I have no problem with hypertext as art; my issue is that we’re not teaching art, we’re teaching argument and composition. Yes, hypertexts and collage can have effective argument, but does that mean we should teach students to compose them? If I have them write about a film’s argument, I don’t make them construct a film.
My primary concern is that I don’t think a hypertext assignment is entirely appropriate for what we’re doing. When we have students who can barely construct a complete sentence, let alone a paragraph or a four-page paper, I don’t think they’re ready for more complex forms. I’d worry that such writers would avoid real composition in favor of flash. I do think it would be good for honors-level writers, or upper-division courses; in fact, a dissertation in hypertext/multimedia form would be pretty cool, and I expect Court will pull it off. Janangelo’s goal is to “model intelligent ways of composing persuasive nonsequential text” (287), and I support that- I just don’t think freshmen writers will pull it off. I’m intrigued by the idea of a hypertext novel that includes links to its intertextual references. Eco on hypertext: “one works on its pre-existing links and can navigate this labyrinth indefinitely by establishing (and inventing) personal connections” (qtd. 277). This would be nice in Eco’s novels in particular! I could get Latin translations, see a quick précis of a medieval text to which he refers, etc.
Side notes: there’s a recent book on Joseph Cornell called _Utopia Parkway_. My art school-graduate fiancée says it’s great. Also for other examples of box-type collage, I’d suggest looking at Dave McKean’s covers for the _Sandman_ graphic novels; I’ll bring in my copy of the collected covers next time we meet in case anyone’s interested.
Thinking inside the box
Reading Joseph Janangelo’s piece, I thought about my brother, who will be a high school senior next year. I remembered how he has engaged with literature throughout grade school. Janangelo’s description of Joseph Cornell’s boxes, his collages, seems like sophisticated version of the mobile my brother made several years ago in response to Beverly Clearly’s The Mouse and the Motorcycle. Of course, I expect Janangelo to praise my brother’s project to an even lesser extent than he appreciated the two persuasive hypertexts submitted by his students. And why shouldn’t he? My brother’s project was a child’s composition, which would be inappropriate for an assignment in a college course.
My brother is a crafty and artistic person, who thinks and learns best when he can engage with the material in a tactile way. I think he could compose a more thought-out, more effective, more successful, more persuasive argument through hypertext or collage than through an essay. Although I do not think he has the computer savvy at this time to create a persuasive hypertext, I do believe that if he had the necessary skills, the way he thinks would allow him to succeed where Janangelo’s students failed.
This is all just to say that I think some students in English 1000 might better learn to use argument if their instructors encouraged them to try to be persuasive in different media. This is a hard lesson for some English 1000 instructors—especially me. The way I think expresses itself best through writing. So, teaching students to be persuasive in other media would be difficult for me. I wish Janangelo had written more about how to teach students argument using hypertexts, as well as other media.
My brother is a crafty and artistic person, who thinks and learns best when he can engage with the material in a tactile way. I think he could compose a more thought-out, more effective, more successful, more persuasive argument through hypertext or collage than through an essay. Although I do not think he has the computer savvy at this time to create a persuasive hypertext, I do believe that if he had the necessary skills, the way he thinks would allow him to succeed where Janangelo’s students failed.
This is all just to say that I think some students in English 1000 might better learn to use argument if their instructors encouraged them to try to be persuasive in different media. This is a hard lesson for some English 1000 instructors—especially me. The way I think expresses itself best through writing. So, teaching students to be persuasive in other media would be difficult for me. I wish Janangelo had written more about how to teach students argument using hypertexts, as well as other media.
Guy Fawkes does not rhyme with Box
Even though I had a similar reaction to this week's reading as Jenn did (hmmm...boxes?), I thought it would be something I might like to incorporate into the classroom. The problem I was having was exactly how to incorporate it. Maybe it was just that any essay that references both Marcel Duchamp and Walter Benjamin is automatically going to scream for my attention, but I really found myself enjoying this reading. And having seen Anne Wysocki's job talk, I was not surprised to find an innovative definition of "text" and composition throughout the piece.
I think the best example assignment was what Sirc explained in the basic form of "found image x found text x student interpretation." In a way, this reminded me of Court's lesson plan from last week about music mashups and covering as a way to introduce proper citation. This box logic assignment would involve recognizing that the image and text are someone else's works, but the student impression would then logically incorporate the two "outside sources" into a new and synthesized text.
I could also see this basic form of box logic working to help students incorporate textual evidence into their papers in terms of analysis. I think that if the students collected a number of their own impressionistic responses to an image/text/song, this could help explain how to effectively analyze a quote in an essay. That is, knowing how to discover an informed impression (not just "this quote/image is weird," but "this quote/image reminds me of...") would encourage them not to just drop the author's text into their own paragraph text and assume their readers will understand what the quote means to their argument.
I think the best example assignment was what Sirc explained in the basic form of "found image x found text x student interpretation." In a way, this reminded me of Court's lesson plan from last week about music mashups and covering as a way to introduce proper citation. This box logic assignment would involve recognizing that the image and text are someone else's works, but the student impression would then logically incorporate the two "outside sources" into a new and synthesized text.
I could also see this basic form of box logic working to help students incorporate textual evidence into their papers in terms of analysis. I think that if the students collected a number of their own impressionistic responses to an image/text/song, this could help explain how to effectively analyze a quote in an essay. That is, knowing how to discover an informed impression (not just "this quote/image is weird," but "this quote/image reminds me of...") would encourage them not to just drop the author's text into their own paragraph text and assume their readers will understand what the quote means to their argument.
Boxes... (or maybe this is next week
I must admit I did not take to the box assignment very much. I must echo our syllabus, “hmmm… boxes?” When first reading the chapter I was somewhat standoffish; I simply wanted a good ‘ol Bean reading for the week. However, once I read through Sirc’s examples for assignments creating/utilizing boxes, it made more sense. Once I got the full understanding I realized that this could be a creative, useful assignment for my class, specifically in response to my Hurricane Katrina section. As you may or may not know, during the storm many people, mostly store owners began to spray paint on their property different messages, which soon became an interesting facet to overall disaster. The simple spray paint became meaningful graffiti, which serious messages. I think that I could create an assignment using the box idea by having students search for pictures of the various graffiti (to get an overall sense), then providing them all with the same set of pics, having them interpret, and create different captions for each. Once again this would be to exemplify the many various ways different people view the same entity, and how in argument we should try to cover (at least in our understanding of our own argument/thesis) as many different p.o.v.’s as we can.
Monday, March 19, 2007
Persuasive Hypertexts and My Assignments
I am not sure if we are supposed to read articles assigned for March 22. Anyway, I read them and I am going to blog about it. I think these articles are interesting. In general, they say many things about contemporary art as well as show how we see the world in the age of Internet and how it differs from what used to be before. I liked the idea of postfigurative era. It seems to be true about adults learning from their children, especially in computers and Internet.
Joseph Janangelo demonstrates how new non-linear electronic and media texts can be persuasive. The analysis of them needs to be more complicated. Joseph Cornell’s piece of art is a unity of textual and visual images, and sound. Actually, if to speak about assignments that go beyond traditional printed essays, they already exist and are pretty common. I see PowerPoint presentation as an example of such persuasive hypertext. Does it mean “hypertexts” have already become the part of rhetoric and the part of our lives? It is so I guess, but I do not think they will replace traditional approach to rhetoric.
Actually, these readings can help in creating assignments. I think it is possible to assign a PowerPoint. One of the topics I chose for course plan is television and media. For example, students can make a presentation to support their opinion on how useful useless educational programs are (maybe, particular programs). Their presentation has to be persuasive and not just informative. I think its a good way to learn how to manage text, pictures and sound altogether and remain persuasive.
Another assignment based on our readings I'm thinking about is using stases (Fahnestock and Secor's article). Mere asking a series of basic questions about texts can help students learn how to read analytically. I would ask students to read a text and write a list of questions about the text. Then I would start a discussion, where we would find out questions that everyone asked, some specific rare questions; students would try answering each other's questions and arue their points of view.
Joseph Janangelo demonstrates how new non-linear electronic and media texts can be persuasive. The analysis of them needs to be more complicated. Joseph Cornell’s piece of art is a unity of textual and visual images, and sound. Actually, if to speak about assignments that go beyond traditional printed essays, they already exist and are pretty common. I see PowerPoint presentation as an example of such persuasive hypertext. Does it mean “hypertexts” have already become the part of rhetoric and the part of our lives? It is so I guess, but I do not think they will replace traditional approach to rhetoric.
Actually, these readings can help in creating assignments. I think it is possible to assign a PowerPoint. One of the topics I chose for course plan is television and media. For example, students can make a presentation to support their opinion on how useful useless educational programs are (maybe, particular programs). Their presentation has to be persuasive and not just informative. I think its a good way to learn how to manage text, pictures and sound altogether and remain persuasive.
Another assignment based on our readings I'm thinking about is using stases (Fahnestock and Secor's article). Mere asking a series of basic questions about texts can help students learn how to read analytically. I would ask students to read a text and write a list of questions about the text. Then I would start a discussion, where we would find out questions that everyone asked, some specific rare questions; students would try answering each other's questions and arue their points of view.
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