Monday, April 19

Sam has nearly completed our poster for the final presentation. Today was a workshop!

Lisa is planning a murder mystery where John will be knocked off by one of us (please submit pictures and bios to Lcupo@kean.edu).

Sam is debating whether to do the biggest Inanimate Alice parody ever, or a locative piece (but alas the cherry blossoms. . .), or?

John seems to be working along so I am assuming that his project is going well.

Ryan is selecting music genres for his last piece - so I am assuming that is going well too.

Ania is planning a piece on the five senses(taste will be by implication? interpreted through visuals? touch the same. . ? interesting)

Justine - the changing cycles of being - the universe (sunrise/sunset) plants(trees/flowers). . .?

Nic is going to present players with moral dilemmas - or him/her control/judgment over a character

Yvonne is crafting her videos from the trip to the zoo into a series of visually or aurally parallel images/movements/relationships (the merry-go-round= animals in their cages; the baby and the peacock; the monkeys climbing and the kids. . .)

Melissa is going to extend and complicate her second project on writer's block (that's kind of funny).


Good work!

Final grades+ turning in your work

On the syllabus it states that your grade will be calculated based on:
1. Class participation, homework, journaling, review 20%
2. Short projects (hyperlinked text & non-narrative text) 30%
3. Collaborative multimedia performance project (for final class) 20%
4. Final project 30%

We did not do the collaborative multimedia performance project - so I will simply drop that out, and keep the same percentages for the other requirements, so that:

Class participation etc 25%
Short projects: 37.5 %
Final project : 37.5 %

Total = 100%

Each of you will turn in your work in a form suitable transferring to the computer at the final show at the Nancy Dryfoos Gallery; make sure I have a copy of whatever you need to set up your work no later than Tuesday, April 27. Sam and I will set up for the show to start on Wednesday, April 28.

Although you will not be in class on Monday, May 3, I will post a set of prompts I would like you to respond to - either as a blog post - or an email if you are feeling private. They will provide feedback on the course - and help me figure out what was good and what needs to be better, what to add and what to revise for the next time I teach this course.

That's about that.