Framework
One of the goals of this course is for you to recognize the type of writer that you are. To cultivate this understanding, you will be completing a mystory through your blog posts. Essentially, this (edited version of the) mystory assignment will help you to understand how your beliefs help to shape your writing identity and style, and what was present in your past which you have taken with you in developing your identity.
Constraints: For this project, you will be uploading and perhaps remixing found pictures from the Internet. You must have permission to use and/or manipulate these pictures (Either assets in public domain, assets licensed through creative commons, or assets you have previously created or otherwise received permissions to use.)
NOTE: If you are not familiar with fair use standards, please go to http://fairuse.stanford.edu/index.html and read over the following sections: A and B under "Copyright FAQs" and All of "Fair Use" Section, all of Public Domain Section and A and B of Permissions Section.
Also, please make sure that you honor the conditions of all Creative Commons licenses that limit your use of CC-licensed material:
| This license, for example, requires that you both attribute the author of the artifact (BY) and that you share-alike (SA), i.e. that you share your work with a license identical to the one you are using. Licenses that require SA can make things pretty tricky whenever you attempt to use multiple pieces w/ different types of licenses.* |
*From Laurie Gries Writing, Theory, and Practices course at the University of Florida, Fall 2013. Available to registered and invited users of Wikispaces course wiki.
Blog Post #1 Instructions
Choose 1 or 2 sections to respond to in your blog. Please write 250 words. You can divide this word count up between the sections in whichever way you choose.
Career Discourse
A. Please choose and describe a founding figure or invention, a key concept, problem, or object of analysis in the disciplinary domain in which you foresee yourself creating a career within. Choose an image that you have a strong connection with, that you strongly identify with, even if you have never thought deeply about why you are compelled by this thing. In your description, please first help your readers understand what that thing is and then freewrite about what you find intriguing, fascinating, stimulating, inspiring, motivating (etc.) about this thing.
B. Please gather a series of pictures related to your disciplinary field and identify the personal meaning they have for you in relation to your own interests and experience. Please pay attention to random details in these pictures. Write about these details, the feelings and/or thoughts, the mood they evoke, and identify any connections you might find between pictures.
C. Please choose and describe an educational scene (positive or negative, odd or typical) in which you experienced an epiphany or moment of insight during your childhood. Narrate in detail the setting, characters, plot, and mood and then share insights you may have had during or after that moment as well as those you may have looking back on that moment.