Filling In

A couple weeks ago, I volunteered to fill in as class blogger for an absentee.  I procrastinated posting the blog-post for several days and unfortunately lost my bag (with my notes, as well as two textbooks) before I could post it.  I only just recovered them this week (and it was a miracle that I was able to get it back at all).  I have decided to post it now because, well, better late than never, I suppose.  I should say that I'm afraid I don't have the date, but it's probably of little consequence at this point. 

So, here's a summary of what we did in class:

• We were reminded about the upcoming conferences and that there would be no class either day the following week
• This is also the day that we signed up for conference times, so if you weren't there, I hope you were able to meet with the teacher
• Note that the conference agenda included the following
• Discussing our prospectuses
• Receiving our research papers
• Meeting in the Sweet Shop
• We then talked about the final project, beginning with our choice of media (suggestions being the ever-popular quilt, Prezzis, videos, pictures, text, etc.  Anything but a PowerPoint, really)

• The media we choose should convey an argument about a community, and is partially about their representation
• Care should be given to select an appropriate and ideal target audience.  Things to focus on are:
• Who are they? 
• What medias appeal to them?
• What do they already know?  
• Why should they care? 
• Ethos, pathos, logos
• Also consider your purpose in selecting everything.  
• We then wrote our prospectuses.  If you weren't there you would have of course needed to prepare one for the Sweet Shop meeting.  The key variables you needed to set for it: 
• Community
• Argument
• Audience
• Media

Welp, that's all.  I wish I'd been able to post this earlier to help those who were absent, and apologize for that.  I hope everyone has a fantastic summer!  It's been one heck of a semester, no?  Hopefully we'll see some of each other again after break.  :)
Ciao!