Information graphics or info-graphics are graphic visual representations of information, data, or knowledge. These graphics present complex information quickly and clearly. With an information graphic, anyone can develop and communicate concepts using a single symbol.
Looking to the links on the right side of this page, click on the one entitled: "40 Useful and Creative Infographics," to get ideas. Use these examples to help you create your own visual argument. For this assignment, you will will work in teams of two (at the most, three). Discuss a topic with your partner about which you strongly disagree. You'll haggle this out by email (cc me on ANGEL when you finally decide on a topic).
Next: Look up important statistics, facts and figures to back up your point-of-view. For this assignment, use 75%visual imagery, and 25% text (cited carefully). I want mostly image and less written information. Along with your partner, create a four (4) slide PowerPoint that includes the following:
1.) A title slide with both the names of the partners
2.) One slide 'for' and one 'against'
3.) A Works Cited slide
Be sure to express your point-of-view on this topic. This is a creative assignment using imagery and written language to prove a point.
You will drop your team's PPt (or PPtx) into the digital blog post (Week 2 file folder, under the Lessons Tab). Respond to two (2) other posts (300 words each) for extra credit points.
Due: January 9th, 2013, NLT 12:00 Midnight, Pacific Standard Time.
One person will have to make the drop, so assign a team leader to do that, but all are responsible to see that it's done, and all names should be on the title slide. Questions? Be sure to email them to me using ANGEL.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Blog Assignment #2
1.) Locate an image from the links to the right, the one entitled, "Library of Congress Pictures," OR
the link entitled, "500X is Photography," and choose one image.
2.) write 500-700 words about the image (in MLA format).
3.) This is an expository assignment (describe what's in the photo).
4.) Find out what you can about the photo to give your reader some sense of it's historicity (year the picture was taken, location, photographer, etc) Discuss what else was happening at that same time;
5.) What pops out at you about this image? Why did you choose it? Explain.
6.) Embed the picture into your essay (image will be sized: 1/8 - 1/4 page).
Be sure to use wrap-around text and a tag line;
7.) Include a second page with a Works Cited page that lists where you found the image, the title and author (if known), and the site where you found other information about the image/photographer.
8.) Use the dropbox in ANGEL, under the Lessons tab, the file marked Week 3
9.) Due: January 17th, 2013, by 12:00 Midnight, Pacific Standard Time. Respond to two (2) postings (300 words each) for extra credit. Make sure you choose a posting that has fewer than two (2) responses. Find the posting with one (1) or fewer responses.
the link entitled, "500X is Photography," and choose one image.
2.) write 500-700 words about the image (in MLA format).
3.) This is an expository assignment (describe what's in the photo).
4.) Find out what you can about the photo to give your reader some sense of it's historicity (year the picture was taken, location, photographer, etc) Discuss what else was happening at that same time;
5.) What pops out at you about this image? Why did you choose it? Explain.
6.) Embed the picture into your essay (image will be sized: 1/8 - 1/4 page).
Be sure to use wrap-around text and a tag line;
7.) Include a second page with a Works Cited page that lists where you found the image, the title and author (if known), and the site where you found other information about the image/photographer.
8.) Use the dropbox in ANGEL, under the Lessons tab, the file marked Week 3
9.) Due: January 17th, 2013, by 12:00 Midnight, Pacific Standard Time. Respond to two (2) postings (300 words each) for extra credit. Make sure you choose a posting that has fewer than two (2) responses. Find the posting with one (1) or fewer responses.
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Blog Assignment #3
Stuart Hall's Race, the Floating Signifier
1.) Summarize and Respond to the two videos loaded onto our blog site. Use the following urls to load the videos.
2.) Watch the video entitled, Race, the Floating Signifier: Featuring Stuart Hall, found at: http://youtu.be/bMo2uiRAf30
3.) Watch the video entitled, Art and Absence of Racial Bias, found on Youtube.com: http://youtu.be/tgFiBxSEPWA
3.) Use five terms from Stuart Hall's language in your response. Use two or more quotes from the two videos (one from each) to summarize and respond to Hall's arguments. What does Stuart Hall argue? How does the Art & Absence ... exemplify (or prove) Hall's remarks? Is race a biological issue or is it a classification constructed by (a mostly white) culture? Why? or Why not? Explain. What does Hall mean by floating signifier? Write 400-500 words (50/50 summary and response). Due: Post at this blog site February 7th NLT 12:00 Midnight, Pacific Standard Time. Respond to two (2) postings (300 words each) for extra credit points. Respond to postings with fewer than two (2) responses.
1.) Summarize and Respond to the two videos loaded onto our blog site. Use the following urls to load the videos.
2.) Watch the video entitled, Race, the Floating Signifier: Featuring Stuart Hall, found at: http://youtu.be/bMo2uiRAf30
3.) Watch the video entitled, Art and Absence of Racial Bias, found on Youtube.com: http://youtu.be/tgFiBxSEPWA
3.) Use five terms from Stuart Hall's language in your response. Use two or more quotes from the two videos (one from each) to summarize and respond to Hall's arguments. What does Stuart Hall argue? How does the Art & Absence ... exemplify (or prove) Hall's remarks? Is race a biological issue or is it a classification constructed by (a mostly white) culture? Why? or Why not? Explain. What does Hall mean by floating signifier? Write 400-500 words (50/50 summary and response). Due: Post at this blog site February 7th NLT 12:00 Midnight, Pacific Standard Time. Respond to two (2) postings (300 words each) for extra credit points. Respond to postings with fewer than two (2) responses.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Blog Assignment #4
Noam Chomsky on Occupy Wall Street Protests
1.) View the video of MIT Professor Emeritus, "Noam Chomsky on Occupy Wall Street Protests," on our blog site (it takes less than five minutes). Use the following url: http://youtu.be/5wtHTh6NZXc
or cut and paste the title (in quote marks above) into the search box on YouTube.com.
2.) After watching the video, search out another on-line source, in the New York Times, entitled, "Poet-Bashing Police," written by Robert Hass, former U.S. Poet Laureate. The essay, published on Nov. 19, 2011, discusses the officers who face off with students and the poet in Berkeley, at the very spot where the Free Speech Movement began.
Google this essay because the link has been discontinued. Use the title listed above.
3.) Google the language of the 'First Amendment.' Be prepared to cut and paste (and cite) this information.
Answer the Question: How do these protests fit in with class/race/gender inequities in the culture? Use at least one quote from Chomsky's video, one from Hass's essay, and one quote from the language of The First Amendment (google this).
4.) Write a 400-500 word summary/response in to our blog (file folder #8, lessons tab). Due: February 19th 2013, by 12:00 midnight, Pacific Standard Time. Offer a works cited portion at the bottom of your posting. Reminder: be sure to embed all quotes within a sentence. Respond to two (2) postings to get extra credit (300 words each). Choose a posting with fewer than two (2) responses.
1.) View the video of MIT Professor Emeritus, "Noam Chomsky on Occupy Wall Street Protests," on our blog site (it takes less than five minutes). Use the following url: http://youtu.be/5wtHTh6NZXc
or cut and paste the title (in quote marks above) into the search box on YouTube.com.
2.) After watching the video, search out another on-line source, in the New York Times, entitled, "Poet-Bashing Police," written by Robert Hass, former U.S. Poet Laureate. The essay, published on Nov. 19, 2011, discusses the officers who face off with students and the poet in Berkeley, at the very spot where the Free Speech Movement began.
Google this essay because the link has been discontinued. Use the title listed above.
3.) Google the language of the 'First Amendment.' Be prepared to cut and paste (and cite) this information.
Answer the Question: How do these protests fit in with class/race/gender inequities in the culture? Use at least one quote from Chomsky's video, one from Hass's essay, and one quote from the language of The First Amendment (google this).
4.) Write a 400-500 word summary/response in to our blog (file folder #8, lessons tab). Due: February 19th 2013, by 12:00 midnight, Pacific Standard Time. Offer a works cited portion at the bottom of your posting. Reminder: be sure to embed all quotes within a sentence. Respond to two (2) postings to get extra credit (300 words each). Choose a posting with fewer than two (2) responses.
Blog Assignment #5
Half the Sky
View the video entitled: "Sheryl WuDunn: Our Century's Greatest Injustice," on our blog site, or locate it by the title (in quote marks) through YouTube.com, or use the following url:
http://youtu.be/hFgPtuzgw4o
After viewing the video (it takes about 18 minutes), respond to the issues raised by the narrator.
In 400-500 words, at our class blog site (file folder for week #9), summarize the main points of this video and respond to the issues she raises about race, class, and gender. Remember to embed all quotes within a sentence and to cite correctly.
Due: Post this summary and response at our ANGEL blogspot (file folder for week # 9, lessons tab) no later than Februrary 27th, 2013, by 12:00 Midnight, Pacific Standard Time. Respond to two (2) other postings (300 words each) for extra credit. Choose postings with fewer than two (2) responses.
View the video entitled: "Sheryl WuDunn: Our Century's Greatest Injustice," on our blog site, or locate it by the title (in quote marks) through YouTube.com, or use the following url:
http://youtu.be/hFgPtuzgw4o
After viewing the video (it takes about 18 minutes), respond to the issues raised by the narrator.
In 400-500 words, at our class blog site (file folder for week #9), summarize the main points of this video and respond to the issues she raises about race, class, and gender. Remember to embed all quotes within a sentence and to cite correctly.
Due: Post this summary and response at our ANGEL blogspot (file folder for week # 9, lessons tab) no later than Februrary 27th, 2013, by 12:00 Midnight, Pacific Standard Time. Respond to two (2) other postings (300 words each) for extra credit. Choose postings with fewer than two (2) responses.
Blog Assignment #6
View the short Youtube clip entitled, The Objectification of Mimi. In this montage of Mariah Carey, various video clips are featured. The language of Laura Mulvey, cinematic feminist theorist, is superimposed throughout. Unlike Agee & Evans, who do not inform each others text/images, Mulvey's language seeks to overturn the images by explaining and contextualizing them. This choice is similar to the work of Malek Alloula, who uses the images to inform us, but keeps us from viewing them for prurient reasons. Thus, his language (and Mulvey's) acts as sites of resistance.
You'll find the video at the following link: http://youtu.be/MlYJ08v26LA
Write 400-500 words: Summarize specific scenes using at least five (5) of Mulvey's terms. Analyze those same scenes. Due: March 6th, 2013, by 12:00 Midnight, Pacific Standard Time. Post your summary and analysis on our ANGEL blog (file folder for week #10). Respond to two (2) postings (300 words each), for extra credit. Choose postings with fewer than two (2) responses.
You'll find the video at the following link: http://youtu.be/MlYJ08v26LA
Write 400-500 words: Summarize specific scenes using at least five (5) of Mulvey's terms. Analyze those same scenes. Due: March 6th, 2013, by 12:00 Midnight, Pacific Standard Time. Post your summary and analysis on our ANGEL blog (file folder for week #10). Respond to two (2) postings (300 words each), for extra credit. Choose postings with fewer than two (2) responses.
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