Agenda: Week 14

1. Get titles and abstracts to me by class today.

2. Have you submitted your NCoW project (see http://www.ncow.org/ for submission form)

3. Consider presenting your new media experience and projects at the next wpa conference. Deadline extended to 5/22. Conference is July 15-17 in Minneapolis. See draft of NCoW-related sessions at http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/597/NCoW%20Sessions-draftSMR.docx

4. Questions about upcoming presentation? See invitation below.

5. I'm collecting excepts from in your final project and/or key images. I've brought a hard drive for that. I'll bring them together into a very short trailor for our new media show to come. If possible, get those to me today.

6. Studio time! Dry run next week. Show the week after that.

Celebrating Student Writing

This went out on the various listservs today:

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Please join us for a Celebration of Student Writing presented in two parts.

Part I: Celebrating First-Year Researchers (English 102 students)
http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/csw_invitation.html

Where? Rayburn Student Center / 2nd FloorTime: Wednesday, May 13, 2009, from 2:30-4:00pm

Information about this event is available at the above link, including video from previous celebrations.


Part II: Celebrating Writing with New Media (English 597 students--graduate level)

http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/CLiC/clic-csw.htm

Where? Gee Library, First FloorWhen? Thursday, May 14, from 4:30 until 7:00

Sit down and enjoy some fabulous film created by our very own students, faculty, and staff (video poetry, comedy, documentary, memoir, activist projects, and so on)

Come join the fun!

Video created entirely from Public Domain Footage

"Collections" (2006)

"Collections" is built on shots taken from documentaries and feature films from the archive.org movie database. All these movies have a public domain license. Music comes from the same website, and is also released under creative commons license.

The rise of huge movie and music databases, publicly available and reusable, gives the opportunity to build some new constructions on little segments, fragments from lost material. Such work is never purely independant from the source material (american movie films, with well identified genre for example), but in the same time, the action of extraction and the choice of the extracted elements si purely personal.

Collections is a piece of personal writing, using images and sounds from the collective memory.

The following source are use in this film :

-- movies --
SafeRoad1935
Phantom of Chinatown
Killers from space
Carnival of Souls
AtomAgeVampire
Scarlet Street
DeathtoW1947
The Man Who Knew Too Much 1934
Daughter of horror
Nightmare Castle
Beat the devil
Passenger 1955
D.O.A. 1949
Isle of Destiny
Heavenly1920

-- music --
Edwin Morris / The heart bowed down
Radio Astronomy

-- sounds --
Chris Marker / La Jetée 
David Lynch / Mulholland Drive


This movie is part of the collection: Open Source Movies

Director: Claude Le Berre
Producer: Claude Le Berre
Audio/Visual: sound, color / BW
Keywords: mashup ; archive; movie; cinema; remix

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

Need assistance? CLiC can help!

Get it from our crew at Gee Library

Regular CLiC hours, Tuesday-Thursday, 10-2

• Sylwester is there TWR, 10-2
• Luca is there W, 10-2, and R, 9-2
• Angela is available by appointment

If none of these hours will work for you, let us know what will. We are here for you!

You can get this help in one of two ways:

1. Drop by the CLiC space in Gee Library during the hours listed above

• (The best method is for you to make an appointment with us so we can better serve your specific needs, but we welcome drop bys as well. Sometimes those questions just come to you. Or perhaps you just want to come work in our space with us on hand to help if difficulties arise. We welcome that as well!)

2. Make an appointment. If you do your work on campus, we can even come to you. We prefer for you to work on the equipment you are most familiar with. If that's in your office and you are on campus, let us know and we'll set up a time to come to you. (Unfortunately we can't yet come to you if you aren't on campus. Not yet. ;0)

Shoot us an email at clic4u@gmail.com (that's "clic" the number 4 and the letter u)

When you do, tell us:

A. When you are available

B. What you'd like to work on (including any specific questions you may have)

C. What equipment you'll be working from (ie, will you be working from your own laptop or will you be bringing your media over to work with a tutor on one of our machines? are you working from a desktop in your campus office? or something else? Mac or PC? this info will help us prepare for your visit.

Thanks!

Week 12 Agenda

1. The Converging Literacies Center

Now this ISN'T CLiC . . .



Nor is this . . .


But we've got plenty of support for you. Drop on by! Or make an appointment and we'll help you where you are and/or in the CLiC-designated spaces of the library. Let us know (see above for info).

And CLiC is growing and evolving. More equipment available soon. Fancier digs.

And you guys are in on the ground floor. Give us a workout. Help us understand how to best help you.

Here's an article describing CLiC: http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/litlang/CLiCweb/WebResources/CLiCwebsiteRev3.html

(It's been accepted by the journal Kairos and Donna and I are in the midst of some revisions)

2. Tour CLiC's evolving digs (the "CLiC you can point to")

3. Workshop projects in progress

4. Picassa tutorial

5. Workshop time

(we'll table Lessing until next time; poor guy)

Week 11 Agenda

1. Discuss "Piracy" and "Property" (Lessing)

2. Share plans/drafts from final projects

3. Sign up for breakout workshops (voluntary)

• Picasa (Sylwester?) [video tutorial]

• Wikis (Robin?)

• Comic Life (Shannon) [video tutorial]

• Others (suggestions/requests?)

4. CLiC update (CLiC is ready!)

4. Studio Time

CLASS THURSDAY (April 2)

I have to miss class tomorrow.

I must rush to Corpus Christi tonight to catch a moment with my grandmother before she goes in for emergency surgery. They don’t know that she can make it through surgery but they can’t avoid it.

Though I can't be here for class April 2, I have asked that this space be made available for you to work on your final projects.

I hope you will share your works in progress with one another. JP has one ready to share. I also wanted to draw your attention to Sunchai's video reflections on his project in progress, the trailer I understand Angela has in progress, and anything else you guys have ready to share.

I am so sorry for any inconvenience this may case. I wish it were otherwise. I can't tell you how much I wish it were otherwise.

Someone from our office will be contacting you soon.
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