Week #2 – Recap & Forward Motion!
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The Course Schedule page is here (this is the most important page as it hosts all of our weekly assignments and their specifications)
1. Did you Read the welcome blog post here <–it asks you to leave a comment, did you?
2. Did you Sign up for the CUNY commons and the CT101 website? Review the process for access to the CUNY commons and the CT101 website here –this post has the “how-to” video tutorial link – Read this blog post for details < —
This week, its time to get blogging! Lets learn our WordPress blogging interface, how to add text, images, GIFs, videos, hyperlinks and contextual content! Lets share some sentiments accompanied by visual media to tell our stories.
(a video recording from class will be placed here soon)
This week’s Assignment…
Assignment #1 – What Makes You Happy on the Internet?
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Your goal for this week will be to read and follow the info / links listed in this blog post for Week #2. Absorb the information and then begin to prepare and gather all of needed media, images, links and content to create and publish your first blog post here on our class website!
(This assignment was originally created by Professor Michale Smith a few years ago, it still holds true as a great example and ice-breaker for our first blogging assignment.)
In a new blog post, take the time to introduce anything you want about yourself and describe a piece, or multiple pieces of the internet that is “making you happy” this week. Share what the content is about, the media format, and the online space in which is was discovered. Let us know why this (or these things) make you happy! Make sure it’s something you can ’embed’ in your post and be sure to link back to the original source of the the item (hyperlink).
Below is an example:
I discovered recently a writer who made side-by-side comparisons of frames from the Simpsons with frames from the original movies that inspired the cartoon. I love this kind work because it shows how culture is seemingly endlessly recycled and remixed.
Also, here’s a video short from the original, famous “shower scene” from the 1960 film Psycho that the inspiration is drawn from.
For an example of “how” your assignment #1 post can look, check out professor Seslow’s example here : https://ct101.commons.gc.cuny.edu/assignment-1-example-fun/
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