Wednesday, November 29 – “The Garden of Forking Paths”

1.  Attendance and Collect Papers

2.  Questions from Monday’s discussion  (online discussion forum)

3.  Chris’s presentation

4.  “The Garden of Forking Paths” as hypertext   

5.  “Borges and I”

6.  Hypertext and Literature

7.  Krista’s Presentation

8.  Extra Credit Assignments

9.  Web Assignments

10.  For Next Time: our final day of class discussion

Think about our four final poems; what they have to say about endings and beginnings

Extra Credit Opportunities!

For those of you who have missed some classes or some online responses, these extra-credit opportunities are a good way to make up those lost points.  Each extra-credit assignment counts for one on-line response; if you have completed all of the assigned responses, then the extra-credit will offer a little “boost” to your attendance and participation grade, especially if it falls on the border between two grades.  Post each extra-credit assignment to the online forum under the thread “Extra Credit” assignments.

All extra credit is due by midnight Wednesday, December 6.

1.  Read and respond to “A Manifesto for the Humanities in a Technological Age”
By Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg

http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i23/23b00701.htm
(password protected; must be accessed on-campus or using proxy server)

2.  Facade.  Read “Atlantic Monthly” article, download and play Facade, and post your response to the article and the experience of playing the game.

Poetry and Structure II — Wednesday, November 15

1.  Attendance and Announcements

2.  George Herbert

3.  Marissa’s Presentation

4.  Poetry

• “A Poppy”
• “Strings”

5.  For Next Time:

• Paper II
• Final Projects

Poetry and Structure – Monday, November 13

1.  Attendance and Announcements:

Santa Barbara March for Peace and Diversity
MARK YOUR CALENDARS: Web Design Workshops: next Tuesday, the week after Thanksgiving

2.  Paradise Lost
-enjambment
-simile (Miltonic simile)
-internal rhyme
-alliteration
-caesura

3.  Peter’s Presentation 

4.  “Kubla Khan”

5.  Remediation: pop-up books, the eidophusikon (4:40)

6.  For Next Time: Poetry and Structure II: physical components of poetry 

Santa Barbara Marches for Peace

Monday, November 6

1.  Attendance and Announcements:

• Facade
• Election Day!
• Reading for next Monday

2.  Close Reading Exercise

3.  Krista

4.  Class Discussion

5.  For Next Time: “Sex, Secrecy, and Self-Alienation”

6.  Return Papers

Wednesday, November 1

1.  Attendance and Announcements

2.  Mid-quarter Evaluations

3.  Robot Stories: small discussion groups

4.  Delilah’s Presentation

5.  Group Discussion

6.  For Next Time: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Cyberinfrastructure: Tuesday, November 7, 11.30 am

This looks like an interesting discussion that touches on many of the issues we have been considering in our class.  Anyone who attends and writes a response to the workshop will receive extra-credit (and be intellectually enriched as well!).

WORKSHOP: Cyberinfrastructure: Tools and Resources for the Humanities,
Arts & Social Sciences
Carol Hobson (UCDARnet)
Tuesday, November 7 / 11:30 AM -1:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020

This workshop, led by Carol Hobson of UCDARnet, is designed to introduce humanists, artists and social scientists to common and emergent cyberinfrastructure tools and resources. Hobson will provide information about the 2006 Summer Institute, ‘Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences’. This conference served as an introduction to Cyberinfrastructure, Cyberservices, High-Performance Computing & Storage, Networks & Digitally Enabled Sensors, Grid Computing, Portals & Gateways, Knowledge & Semantic System, Large Scale Data & Databases, Visualization, and Virtual Research Environments in the UC system.

Carol Hobson manages the University of California Digital Arts Research Network (DARnet), a multi-campus research program involving eight UC campuses. She has also served as administrative director for the Center for Research in Computing & the Arts, an Organized Research Unit of the University of California San Diego, and as New Media Arts Manager for the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technologies.

Sponsored by the IHC, Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media, Center for Information, Technology and Society (CITS), English Department, Film and Media Studies Department, and the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts.