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Blog Post Assignment: Transliteracy, Horizon, and Google.

Hi, all. So, this week, we offer three written prompts for you to consider in your blog post. The theme of this triad, in my opinion, is futurism. First, look at Brad Czerniak‘s post revising the important digital media concept of … Continue reading

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Assignment: Resources for Using Inkscape and GIMP

Watch and then execute the following tutorials, and post the results in your posts as 2 PNGs, one from Inkscape, and one from GIMP. Below the images, type something new that you discovered about each of these tools in the … Continue reading

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Assignment: Narrated Slideshow

Using Slideshare or Picasa, and Audacity. You must give an automated, video based presentation on the effective use of some combination of digital media, including but not limited to: smartphones (e.g. iPhone Facebook app) social media services (e,g, Facebook) specific … Continue reading

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Reading #2–Tracy Durham

In this week’s reading The Frankenstein Myth in Contemporary Cinema, authors Janice Hocker Rushing and Thomas S. Frentz examine three movies, Rocky IV, Blade Runner, and The Terminator to explore the idea of “an evolving dystopian shadow myth that expresses … Continue reading

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Reading 1: Media Ecology Reading

Hi everyone! Hopefully you all are safe and warm and ready for some Media Ecology – here is the link for this week’s reading ”The Humanism of Media Ecology” by Neil Postman. Don’t forget to post your responses by Wednesday at … Continue reading

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