You guys have shown that you’re smart, insightful composers and consumers of digital narratives. For this last blog post of the semester, read Unleashed’s Polar Seduction and watch Danielle’s Townsville and put one thoughtful, insightful, constructive response to each in the comments here.
Here it is, the last workshop of the semester!
Thursday, Dec. 5
Tuesday, Dec. 3
Here’s the workshop schedule for today, with URLs:
For Narratives 2 and 3, you will have a choice to make.
Regardless of which Narrative you choose to revise and which you choose to compose a Revision Plan for, you must also turn in a 1-2 paragraph exploration of what you’ve learned from working collaboratively on Narrative 2. What did you like about it? What did you hate about it? What did you learn about yourself and your composing style and preferences?
You may choose to revise either Narrative, and thus develop a plan for the other. I encourage you to revise the Narrative you feel most capable of improving, either for reasons of limited time or technical skill. Use the Revision Plan to set forth your vision of your most ambitious (either in size or in technical complexity) Narrative.
Both your revised Narrative and your Revision Plan will be due no later than 3pm on Monday, December 10th. E-mail both documents to me, or turn in hard copies of the Revision Plan and the URL for your revised Narrative in my office, 435 Old Mill.
As always, let me know if you have any questions.
Today we’re going to be checking out two works. Here they are:
FOR THURSDAY: BRING YOUR THUMB DRIVE TO CLASS. WE’RE GOING TO INSTALL INFORM 7 ON THEM IN CLASS.
Here’s the rest of the workshop schedule:
Thursday, Nov. 29
Tuesday, Dec. 3
Thursday, Dec. 5
In class on Thursday I’ll be handing back your grades on Narrative 1, my comments to you for your revisions of Narrative 2, and we’ll be selecting our presentation order for Narrative 3. Yes, it’ll be a big day.
On Thursday, you should have a tentative (at least) title for your Narrative, and a tentative URL. If you don’t have one or either of those, GET ONE!
UPDATE: The grades for Narrative 1 will be e-mailed to you by Monday. I’ll use the e-mail addresses you gave me on the first day of class.
For the first two Narratives, I’ve given you the freedom to choose what you wanted to compose, and in what medium you composed it. I did this because I wanted to stimulate your creativity, and to encourage you to explore both your strengths (which I anticipated you would gravitate toward for at least your first Narrative) and your weaknesses (which I knew would come up far more frequently than you had hoped).
For Narrative 3, I’m presenting you with a different sort of challenge — I’m introducing more serious constraints on the form of your Narratives. You may work collaboratively or individually, as you wish, and as you think will work best for yourself and the resulting Narrative. You must choose one of the following Narrative categories to compose:
Furthermore, because I am an especially cruel professor, you will also have to choose one of the following Narrative themes/plots to compose:
So, choose a format from the first list, and a plot structure or theme from the second, and see what you can do.
Here are the Narratives for our second day of workshopping:
It’s time to workshop Narrative 2! Here’s the slate of Narratives for Tuesday’s workshop: