Week 5: Lecture

Planning a conference schedule using notecards and dry erase markers on a white refrigerator.
Use the tools at hand to organize objects into topics or categories–in this case, notecards, dry erase markers, magnetic clothespins, and a white refrigerator.
  • Beginning of Class Writing
    • Click on the heading of this blog post title above–“Week 5: Lecture,” scroll down to the comment area, and write at least 250 words in response to this week’s readings. You can summarize the readings, you can relate the readings to your own experience or something else you have read or learned about, etc. Any writing of 250 words or more that are related to the readings are fair game for this weekly assignment at the beginning of class.
    • Post your comment after 20 minutes even if you don’t reach the 250 word minimum threshold.
    • Why we are doing this: It helps you organize your thoughts before discussion and it gives you regular writing practice.
  • Discuss this week’s readings.
  • Talk about site maps for websites and this week’s homework assignment.
  • Review homework and readings for next week.

Week 4: Lecture

boats in a bombed out Liverpool church
  • Beginning of Class Writing
    • Click on the heading of this blog post title above–“Week 4: Lecture,” scroll down to the comment area, and write at least 250 words in response to this week’s readings. You can summarize the readings, you can relate the readings to your own experience or something else you have read or learned about, etc. Any writing of 250 words or more that are related to the readings are fair game for this weekly assignment at the beginning of class.
    • Post your comment after 20 minutes even if you don’t reach the 250 word minimum threshold.
    • Why we are doing this: It helps you organize your thoughts before discussion and it gives you regular writing practice.
  • Discuss this week’s readings.
  • Talk about site maps for websites and this week’s homework assignment.
  • Review homework and readings for next week.

Week 3: Lecture

Unorganized chaos
How do you go about organizing all of this?
  • Beginning of Class Writing
    • Click on the heading of this blog post title above–“Week 3: Lecture,” scroll down to the comment area, and write at least 250 words in response to this week’s readings. You can summarize the readings, you can relate the readings to your own experience or something else you have read or learned about, etc. Any writing of 250 words or more that are related to the readings are fair game for this weekly assignment at the beginning of class.
    • Post your comment after 20 minutes even if you don’t reach the 250 word minimum threshold.
    • Why we are doing this: It helps you organize your thoughts before discussion and it gives you regular writing practice.
  • Discuss this week’s readings.
  • Conduct exercise using the photo that you brought to class.
  • Review homework and readings for next week.

Week 2: Lecture

To do this–hold a successful seminar involving lots of information, hands-on equipment, uniformity:

professor play with LEGO

You need to do this first–sorting, categorizing, creating order, etc. IA in a nutshell:

LEGO sorting table

We’ll get to do some of this LEGO sorting and planning during today’s class.

Here’s an outline of what we’ll cover:

  • Beginning of Class Writing
    • Click on the heading of this blog post title above–“Week 2: Lecture,” scroll down to the comment area, and write at least 250 words in response to this week’s readings. You can summarize the readings, you can relate the readings to your own experience or something else you have read or learned about, etc. Any writing of 250 words or more that are related to the readings are fair game for this weekly assignment at the beginning of class.
    • Post your comment after 20 minutes even if you don’t reach the 250 word minimum threshold.
    • Why we are doing this: It helps you organize your thoughts before discussion and it gives you regular writing practice.
  • Discuss this week’s readings.
  • Conduct exercises using LEGO–1 dimensional, 2 dimensional, etc.
  • Review homework and readings for next week.