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