Portfolio Rubric

	Excellent	On Track	Emerging	Off Track
Reached a well-articulated clarity for yourself about the course content
Evidence of development throughout the course
Meaningfully apply the content of this course to areas outside WEPO—academic and nonacademic
Challenged the course material, reaching your own conclusions
Variety and breadth to the sample of documents in your portfolio
Make connections between work done in and outside of class
Make connections across and between terms we’ve worked with all semester

*Reflection will receive its own letter grade that will be averaged with this portfolio grade to yield your final grade for this assignment

PETA & SOPA

A couple stories I found in the news. PETA is going after Mario (Yes, the video game character) becuase they feel his new suit/power promotes the wearing of fur.

PETA slams Mario over use of a fur suit

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act are hitting Congress this week. Many popular websites like Facebook, Mozilla, and Google are protesting the bill and are urging users to fill out petitions to send to their local representatives.

SOPA Bill News

Remediation Keywords

Medium

Repurposing

Content

Fair use/Copyright

Fan Culture

Artistic Creativity

Convergence culture

Intellectual property

Public domain

Inspiration

Remediation Rubric

As someone kindly reminded me, I forgot to create a rubric with you all. Here is the rubric I tend to use. Please feel free to make suggestions that I will consider; otherwise, this is what I will use to assess your projects. Short and simple. To get help with your memo look on the assignment prompt where there is a list of exactly what you need to include in your memo.

	Excellent	On Track	Emerging	Off Track
The Functionality of the Remediation: it offers something new that readers can’t get from the original
Understanding of your Medium and Engagement with its Affordances: You understand the conventions of your medium and you use both them and the strengths that come with your medium
Understanding your Audience
Effectiveness of the Genre and Medium
Process Memo is a full 3-4 SINGLE-spaced pages and addresses all the components listed in the assignment prompt

Wired.com Unveils New Licensing Policy

Article found here.

Wired.com is releasing its photos from a Creative Commons license, making them available to the public. There are only a few restrictions to using their images. They wished to be cited or credited for their work and you cannot use their images commercially. They even state explicitly that their content can be used in remixes and mashups. Pretty awesome of them!

RiP: A Remix Manifesto

What do you think about Brett Gaylor's manifesto? Do you agree or disagree? In what ways does it connect to your daily life? In ways does it affect how you view your courses and your EWM major? How do you view the future of remix and remediation?

David after the dentist

Here's the original

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txqiwrbYGrs&NR=1

Here's a remix.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N618fLxQP6w

Here's Tosh.o

http://tosh.comedycentral.com/video-clips/david-after--david-after-dentist-?xrs=share_copy

Enjoy, Kari K

fsu basketball band plays bed intruder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw2gmnm7MlQ

That awkward moment when "do a barrel roll' makes you wonder about what else Google can do to your computer.

BERT

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu4ng1Kdaj1qeolwh.gif


via tumblr

Remediation and You

How does remediation connect to your personal life? Have you ever conducted a remediation without knowing it? How so? When? What was your purpose and your process?

this picture was on my tumblr dashboard. good old mccloud...

Remediation

Explore how one or more of the keywords--immediacy, transparency, hypermediacy, remediation, repurposing, refashioning--manifests itself in a specific digital space (think Facebook, blogs, Twitter, etc.)

Digital Media Rubric

- Appropriateness of genre (especially in terms of your audience)

- Development and evidentiary support of your argument

- Establishment of ethos: use of quality scholarly sources

- Argument takes a clear and persuasive position on the stance of technology in the classroom

- Arrangement and organization

Appropriate/Effective for audience

- Rhetorical analysis of project in process memo

- Design/aesthetics/creativity

- MLA/Works cited

Theory of Composition: Part Three

Revisit and revise your theories of composition to include technology and the role you feel it should (or should not) play in the classroom.

Role of Technology and Its Consequences

Think of a time you noticed a divide engendered via technology and the consequences it created.

Keywords for Print Media

Constraints
Audience
Arrangement
Genre
Style
Visual Appeal
Rhetorical Triangle
Form
Rhetorical Situation
Content

Theory of Composing: Part 2

Think back to the theories of composing you have been constructing; what role, if any, did design/visual rhetoric play? Has your theory of composing changed--in what ways yes, in what ways no? Do you see visual rhetoric/visual composition in your daily lives, and if so, in what ways?

Print Media Project Rubric

	Excellent	On Track	Emergent	Off Track
Come to a definition of your own that includes the scholars who have influenced you
Complexity of term discussion
Consideration of audience
Understands and meets the expectations of the assignment
Appropriateness of the genre
Overall arrangement
Style (Originality)
Effectiveness of the composition (Coherence)
Critical analysis of composition and audience in process memo
MLA/Mechanics