Today we have several things on the docket.
Digital Projects
Today is a good time to check in on the final digital projects. I know many of you are interested in revising your MEmorial for inclusion in the article. Let’s talk about a timeline. I think something like this:
- Final video due on Thursday Dec 4th
- Postmortem Questions due on Saturday Dec 15th
- Jam Session, Monday, Dec 17th: working through postmortem responses, dividing up responses for synthesis
- Revision meeting: Monday, January 5th: get together to read through the manuscript, webify everything; submit
Potential Postmortem Questions
- What do you see as the purpose of Ulmer’s MEmorial genre? What passages from Electronic Monuments would you point at as a productive starting point for explicating the genre?
- What is the purpose/who is the audience for your MEmorial? What led you to this project?
- What is your favorite part/element of your MEmorial?
- What was your previous experience working with either web languages or digital video before this class? What have you found the most challenging aspect of working with digital video for this kind of project?
- How did you approach transforming your website into a video? What were the challenges? How did you resolve them?
- Ultimately, do you think a website or a video is a better medium for the goals of a MEmorial?
Web Presence
I want to spend a bit of time tonight looking around the web at academic websites. What do they look like? What kinds of materials do people include? What kinds of materials will you want to on a job search?
Let’s start there, looking at the sites of
Working With WordPress
The basics:
- Choosing an Appearance > Theme
- Customizing a WordPress theme > HTML and PHP (Elements of the page)
- WordPress provides pretty comprehensive documentation for editing a theme; let’s pay particular attention to creating a Child Theme.
- Customizing a Page
