Portfolio Rubric

	Excellent	On Track	Emerging	Off Track
Reached a well-articulated clarity for yourself about the course content
Evidence of development throughout the course
Meaningfully apply the content of this course to areas outside WEPO—academic and nonacademic
Challenged the course material, reaching your own conclusions
Variety and breadth to the sample of documents in your portfolio
Make connections between work done in and outside of class
Make connections across and between terms we’ve worked with all semester

*Reflection will receive its own letter grade that will be averaged with this portfolio grade to yield your final grade for this assignment

Remediation Keywords

Copyright

Fair use

Ethics

Medium

Rhetorical situation

Remediation

Public domain

Content

Technology

Design

Remediation Rubric

As someone kindly reminded me, I forgot to create a rubric with you all. Here is the rubric I tend to use. Please feel free to make suggestions that I will consider; otherwise, this is what I will use to assess your projects. Short and simple. To get help with your memo look on the assignment prompt where there is a list of exactly what you need to include in your memo.

	Excellent	On Track	Emerging	Off Track
The Functionality of the Remediation: it offers something new that readers can’t get from the original
Understanding of your Medium and Engagement with its Affordances: You understand the conventions of your medium and you use both them and the strengths that come with your medium
Understanding your Audience
Effectiveness of the Genre and Medium
Process Memo is a full 3-4 SINGLE-spaced pages and addresses all the components listed in the assignment prompt

Girl Talk's New Album

Here is a link for Girl Talk's new album online for free. It's an official link and he is putting out the album free of charge himself so it wouldn't be illegal downloading. Shawn is passing on the link to anyone interested: http://illegal-art.net/allday/

An Artist Similar to GirlTalk

     Similar to GirlTalk, Team Teamwork is an artist who remixes (mostly rap) music with music from popular video games (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, 007: Goldeneye, Street Fighter, Mega Man etc.) Much like GirlTalk, Team Teamwork winds up in a lot of legal trouble, but continues to put out quality pieces. Team Teamwork has released four albums, most of which have quite clever names, and all of which can be downloaded (in the same payment fashion as Radiohead's album mentioned in the documentary in class) at his website (http://teamteamwork.muxtape.com).

WARNING: Explicit lyrics [drug references, coarse word choice]

Ocarina of Rhyme: Clipse - Virginia (Lost Woods)

Ocarina of Rhyme: Dr. Dre + Snoop Dogg - Still D.R.E. (Getting Treasure)

RiP: A Remix Manifesto

What do you think about Brett Gaylor's manifesto? Do you agree or disagree? In what ways does it connect to your daily life? In ways does it affect how you view your courses and your EWM major? How do you view the future of remix and remediation?

Remediation/Remix: Slap Chop Rap

Slap Chop Rap (By DJ Steve Porter):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWRyj5cHIQA

Slap Chop commercial (long version):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUbWjIKxrrs

The video used footage from the movie Breakin' and was eventually aired on tv without that footage as an actual commercial, as per a deal with Vince Offer and Steve Porter. They replaced that footage with a girl dancing and someone in a bunny costume.

Remediation and You

How does remediation connect to your personal life? Have you ever conducted a remediation without knowing it? How so? When? What was your purpose and your process?

Remediation

Explore how one or more of the keywords--immediacy, transparency, hypermediacy, remediation, repurposing, refashioning--manifests itself in a specific digital space (think Facebook, blogs, Twitter, etc.)

Check out this video from Shawn

Digital Media Rubric

- Clarity and persuasiveness of argument

- Argument takes a clear stance on the issue of technology in the classroom

- Development of argument and use of supporting material

- Establishment of ethos: quality and credibility of scholarly sources

- Appropriateness of the genre (especially in terms of your audience)

- Design

- Appropriate/effective for audience

- All required elements are completed

- Rhetorical analysis of project in memo

- MLA/Works Cited

Theory of Composition: Part Three

Revisit and revise your theories of composition to include technology and the role you feel it should (or should not) play in the classroom.

Magazine --> Tablet

My web design teacher shared this with us a few weeks ago and it reminded me of this class. It's interesting how they are almost attempting to create a new medium, remediated from a magazine. They are aware of the affordances of a tablet as they transition from print to digital.

Role of Technology and its Consequences

Think of a time when you noticed a divide engendered via technology and the consequences it created.

Keywords for Print Media

Aesthetics
Design
Canons of Rhetoric
Rhetorical Triangle
Closure
Purpose
Genre
Rhetorical Situation (audience, exigence, constraints,discourse)
Visuals (icons & symbols)
Conventions

Theory of Composing: Part 2

Think back to the theories of composing you have been constructing; what role, if any, did design/visual rhetoric play? Has your theory of composing changed--in what ways yes, in what ways no? Do you see visual rhetoric/visual composition in your daily lives, and if so, in what ways?

Print Media Project Rubric

	Excellent	On Track	Emergent	Off Track
Come to a definition of your own that includes the scholars who have influenced you (comprehensible)
Complexity of term discussion
Consideration of audience
Understands and meets the expectations of the assignment
Appropriateness of the genre
Design (Overall effort)
Effectiveness of the composition
Critical analysis of composition and audience in process memo
MLA/Mechanics