first visrhet of 2014
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January 27, 2014January 27, 2014
TODAY1. Icebreaker: introducing
ourselves.2. Visual Rhetoric: what’s up
with that?3. So what are we going to
be doing? 4. Did someone say Tumblr?5. Activities, activities,
activities
Icebreaker
To start today, I want you to complete what is likely to be a familiar sort of icebreaker activity. You will pair up with someone you don’t already know, and over the course of a few minutes you will interview that person.
The info you need to get is on the next slide.
Find out…1) The person’s name (obviously)2) What he/she goes by (if it’s
different)3) His/her major and progress in the
program.4) Why he/she decided to take Visual
Rhetoric5) His/her favorite color 6) One piece of information that will
help all of us to remember him/her.
Now, then……let’s talk more specifically about what we will be doing as a class.
At this point, please either focus on the screen or open the website at http://www.phillalexander.com/visual
That course website, btw, will serve as our activity hub and your syllabus.
Let’s talk about class.
And now, TumblrI will show you how to start a Tumblr, so follow along if you’re not familiar with the site.
Please go to http://www.tumblr.com
Once you create your site, please email the URL to me at [email protected]
Your First Tumblr
For your first Tumblr post, I want you to give me a skills overview. On the next slide you will find a series of questions. Please answer them as completely and accurately as you can.
Skills OverviewHow much experience
do you have with:1)Adobe InDesign? Adobe Photoshop? Dreamweaver?2)Desktop publishing? 3)Document design– working on a magazine, newspaper, website, or designing any sort of paperwork? 4)Creating art? If so, what kind?5)Taking photographs? 6)Any visual rhetoric-ish skills you want me to know you have?
For Next TimeFor Thursday:
1) Start the InDesign tutorials described on the syllabus. You have time to complete these, but the sooner, the better.
2) read: Williams non-designers design book Chapters 1,2 & 3