Tasks Due Today

This Week’s Topics

  1. LinkedIn Learning with your Public Library Card
  2. Laying the Groundwork for Design Theory
  3. Discussion in Groups
  4. Setting up Hypothesis for offline PDFs
  5. Assignment: Reading Response 2
  6. Week 2 Agenda Checklist + Schedule Meetings

At the end of this session, students should have an understanding of the following:

  • How to use a Public Library Card to access free LinkedIn Learning videos.
  • The origins and evolution of Communication Design Theory from 1880-1930.
  • Guidelines and expectation for discussion groups
  • How to use Hypothesis with a downloaded PDF.
  • The guidelines and due date for Reading Response 2

Check In

Week 2 Check-In

Activities

Below find the information covered in this session. Complete all of the following activities, videos, and assignments.

1. LinkedIn Learning with your Public Library Card (10 Minutes)

Some of the videos we will watch today and in the future are accessible via LinkedIn Learning. You can access LinkedIn Learning for free with a New York, Queens, or Brooklyn Public Library Card. Note: The Bronx and Staten Island are part of the New York Public Library system.

Use the links below for easy access to the site and the LinkedIn Learning App:

If you don’t have a Library Card, don’t worry, anyone who lives in New York State can apply for a New York Public Library Card for free and start accessing online content immediately.

Having trouble? Don’t wait until Sunday night! Reach out to me at jspevack@citytech.cuny.edu with questions.

2. Laying the Groundwork for Design Theory (60 Minutes)

Review the presentation below and then take look at the graphic design history videos to help us lay the groundwork for studying design theory.

Laying the Groundwork for Design Theory

Graphic Design History Refresher

Many of you have taken the required Graphic Design History course, so please consider the following set of videos a review for the upcoming readings. If you haven’t yet taken Graphic Design History, not to worry, the videos in this series should give you an overview.

Please login to LinkedIn Learning with your Public Library Card (see above) and Locate the Course: Learning Graphic Design History. Watch the video collections: Introduction, 1880-1912, and 1912-1930 and complete the ungraded quizzes to test your knowledge.

After reading “Revisiting the Avant-Garde” and as you watch the Graphic Design History videos below, consider concepts and questions we’ve explored in Reading Response 1.

Do you notice similarities between avant-garde movements of the past and the design field (or the world) of today?

In what ways do today’s designers participate in, facilitate, or reject the following?

  1. Authorship
  2. Universality
  3. Social Responsibility

What idea(s) or concerns do you think will drive the Avant-Garde of the near future? Who will lead the charge?

Jot down some notes to share within your Discussion Groups.

www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-graphic-design-history/

If you have trouble accessing the LinkedIn Learning Course above, you can find it here on YouTube, but the quality isn’t very good and you won’t be able to access the quizzes.

3. Discussion Groups (30 Minutes)

The class has been randomly organized into discussion groups. Add comments to your group post in the links below. Each group’s post contains a few prompts to help us dig deeper into the ideas from “Revisiting the Avant-garde” and the design history videos above. In the comments, add your thoughts about the questions provided, and in return, ask a follow-up question to generate dialog with your group members. Respond at least 5 times in your discussion group by Friday, Sep 10th at 11:59 pm to allow time for responses. Follow-up responses should be submitted by Sunday, September 12th, 6 pm. Feel free to jump into other groups, but you must contribute meaningful discussion within your assigned group too. Note: free sharing of ideas helps us learn and it’s also part of your participation grade. 🙂

4. Setting up Hypothesis for offline PDFs (5 Minutes)

In addition to annotating readings hosted on a website, as we did last week, we can also collaboratively annotate PDFs that you’ve downloaded to your computer. This week you will be downloading a reading from the cloud and annotating it using the Hypothesis extension or bookmarklet.

  • Refer to this Annotating PDFs Tutorial for instructions on how to adjust the Hypothesis Chrome Extension to allow for PDF file annotations in the browser.
  • You may also use Firefox and the Hypothesis Bookmarklet
  • Here’s another tutorial for downloading PDFs, viewing them in the browser, and annotating in our Hypothesis Group.

5. Assignment: Reading Response 2 (2+ Hours)

Follow these assignment guidelines: Reading Response 2 – DUE 9/12 by 6pm

You will be reading and annotating the text Hall, Sean. This Means This, This Means That: A User’s Guide to Semiotics, Laurence King Publishing, 2012 (Chapters 1 & 2) with your classmates in our Hypothesis group COMD3504_OL08. Follow the instructions for annotating offline PDFs. As before, after annotating the text, create a rough draft of your response in your Research Journal. Your response should be about 200 words and checked for spelling and grammar errors. Publish your finished response on the class site, using the guidelines provided.

Resources

Week 2 Agenda Checklist

Below are all of the tasks, big and small, for this week. The deadline is Sunday, September 12th, 6 pm to allow time for review before the next agenda is posted.  Successful and timely completion of these tasks will contribute to your grade.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out: jspevack@citytech.cuny.edu

Week 2 Checklist

Tasks from the Week 2 Agenda
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