9/30 Intro to class
10/2 Read Able, Jessica. “Amuse Yourself” in Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio Broadway Books: New York, 2015: p 45-76. (Gauchospace). Submit reading response on your blog.
Due 10/4 Design blog post 1
10/7 Read April O'brian Horroism and Ontological Dignity. Submit reading response before class.
10/9 Read sample stories including stories on IV Living History and this short statement of storytelling principles. Submit reading response on your blog. Workshop on Storytelling.
Due 10/11 Design blog post 2
10/14 Read Cedillo, Christina V. "Diversity, technology, and composition: Honoring students’ multimodal home places." Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society 6.2 (2017). Submit reading response on your blog. You MUST send Trish your group requests before class.
10/16 In-class presentations: Pitch your story idea and design goals to the class for feedback and strategies.
Due 10/18: Design blog post 3
10/21 Arola, Kristin L. “The design of Web 2.0: The rise of the template, the fall of design.” Computers and Composition 27.1 (2010): 4-14 (Gauchospace). Intro to point-and-click web building tools. Submit reading response on your blog.
10/23 Workshop on tools for multimedia storytelling
Due 10/25: Design Blog 4
10/28 Class in the archives!
10/30 Read Sharer, Wendy B. "Traces of the familiar: Family archives as primary source material." Beyond the archives: Research as a lived process (2008): 47-55. (Gauchospace) Submit reading response on your blog.
Due 11/1: Proposal for Multimedia Story- submit on Gauchospace
11/4 – “Image-Text” by Scott McCloud and Wesch “Unboxing Stories.” and check out http://thinkingwithtype.com/ Very brief overview of photography techniques. Submit reading response on your blog.
11/6 Image editing workshop
Due 11/8 Collection of artifacts (Individual. Submit on Blogs)
11/11 No class. UCSB Holiday
11/13 – Online peer review and time for group work.
Due 11/15 – First rough/partial draft of multimedia story
Due 11/15 - Design blog post 5
11/18 Collaborative writing strategies
11/20 In class workshop on image editing.
Due 11/22 – Complete draft of multimedia story
11/25 Peer review in class. Meetings with Trish on Monday and Tuesday out of class
11/ 27 No Class
12/2 Presentation of digital stories to class.
12/2 Submit final Multimedia Story and Strategy Essay
12/4 Read: Jones and Hafner, "Mediated Me." Read these short "core values" by storycore. I also encourage you to read at least one other group's story, which will be shared on the course website on Saturday. Review class and prepare for reflection essay
Due 12/10: Final Reflection Essay
