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JANUARY 11: NARRATIVE AND TECHNOLOGY

Introduction

Setting up your Pitt UNIX Account & FTP

Digital Photography 101

Web Design Studio

Eliza/Doctor (1964, Joseph Weizenbaum)


JANUARY 18: First Generations: Hypertext & Interactive Fictions (click & type) & Web Design

DUE:

Digital Millenium Copyright Act

Library of Babel (1941, Jorge Luis Borges)

my body - a wunderkammer (1997, Shelley Jackson with sound by John Wesley Harding and HTML coding by Ken Fricklas)

Galatea [2000, Emily Short (web-version, 2007)}

Change the Code, Save the Text [2010, Gavin Jocius]

Homepage posted on website

Blog Entry #1


JANUARY 25: ELIT: Electronic Literature (making it legit for the Academy)

DUE:

Girl's Day Out [2004, Kerry Lawrynovicz]

Mandrake Vehicles [2006, Oni Buchanan]

Makers (2009, Cory Doctorow, ch 1-40]

Web Writing I: Fanfic for Makers

Blog Entry #2


FEBRUARY1: Storytelling for the Public: Podcasts, Serial Fiction & Digital Storytelling

DUE:

This American Life: 20 Acts in 60 Minutes (2003, NPR)--mp3 pay download

House on Loon Lake (NPR, 2001)

Makers (2009, Cory Doctorow, ch 41-81]

Web Writing 2: Fanfic for Makers pt. 2

Blog Entry #3


FEBRUARY 8: NETWORK FICTION & Sound Design

DUE:

Inanimate Alice [2005, Kate Pullinger and Chris Joseph] -- all episodes

Flight Paths [2008, Kate Pullinger, Chris Joseph, et al] -- all episodes

Web Writing 3: Podcast Script due

Blog Entry #4


February 9: Special Event: Wednesday, 5-6, 324 CL:
Prof Tara McPherson, "Color Coding: On Race and UNIX at Mid-Century?"



FEBRUARY 15: Digital Storytelling & Video

DUE:

Inanimate Alice [2005, Kate Pullinger and Chris Joseph] -- all episodes--continued

Flight Paths [2008, Kate Pullinger, Chris Joseph, et al] -- all episodes-continued

Center for Digital Storytelling (Various authors. Watch ALL categories: community, education, family, health, identity and place).

Web Writing 4: Podcast Rough Cut due

Blog Entry #5


FEBRUARY 22: Digital Storytelling...in Print: Post-Print Fiction & Visual Protocols

DUE:

Mark Z. Danielewski's Only Revolutions --- Read print book following the book's navigation instructions, read through Hailey/Sam p. 180

Read the entry for "Constrained Writing"

Web Writing 5: Podcast Final Cut due

Blog Entry #6


March 1: Digital Storytelling...in Print: Post-Print Fiction & Listening to Podcasts

DUE:

Mark Z. Danielewski's Only Revolutions --- Read to end of print book following the book's navigation instructions.

Web Writing 6: Twitter Narrative: Constrained Writing

Blog Entry --NO Blog post due. With your partner, you must complete the Wiki assignment that we started last class.


March 8: Spring Break
March 15: Video Editing

DUE:

Complete Adobe Photoshop Tutorial

Complete Premiere Tutorial

Web Writing 7: 1) Draft script for 2-3 minute creative critical video project on Only Revolutions ; include a separate description of the style of your video 2) Bring in scratch still, audio and video footage to work with (on your USB drive)

Blog Entry #7--DIY Video Making.


March 22: WebComics

DUE:

Dresden Codak (Hob Storyline)

Aaron Diaz Art Blog: Two Posts--> 1 || 2

Web Writing 8: 1) Movie Poster & 2) Rough Cut of Creative Critical Video Poster

Blog Entry #8: Formatting in Webcomics


March 29: Flash Fictions & Comic

DUE:

Youth in Lilliput

Clearance

The Virtual Disappearance of Miriam

Nawlz (season 1 & 2)

Blog Entry #9: Musings on possible final project


April 5: Interactive Narrative

DUE:

Nightingale's Playground

Wilderness Downtown - HTML5 "trailer"

Donnie Darko - a film "trailer"

Web Writing 9: Final Creative Critical Video Due

Web Writing 10: Final Project Proposal


April 12:: Final Projects

DUE:

You will present Rough Cut of Final Project

Web Writing 11: Final Project "Rough Cut"


APRIL 19: SHOWCASE!! Presentations & PARTY!!!!

FINAL PROJECTS/PRESENTATIONS DUE


APRIL 26: Final work due, presentations & PARTY!!!!

ALL WORK DUE --You must have all work uploaded to your website and turn in your USB drive with all work, drafts, project files by 4:30pm in 526CL