Due: Monday 2\/13<\/h2>\n

As you read Jenkins and Creeber for class on Tuesday, I want you to take some sort of visual notes representing their definitions of new media. You can make your visual notes however you like — the only requirements are\u00a0that you try your best to summarize and represent the arguments from \u201cTheorizing New Media\u201d and\u201c\u2018Worship at the Altar of Convergence\u2019: A New Paradigm for Understanding Media Change\u201d and that you somehow you get your representation into a post on your site.<\/p>\n

You can draw notes by hand on paper and then scan or take a photo and post them. (I prefer that you scan them — there are scanners around campus, including in the library, but if you take a picture please make some effort to take a good quality picture that we can actually make out.) You can also create your visual representation\u00a0digitally to begin with in a bunch of different ways.<\/p>\n

Some suggestions include:<\/p>\n

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• Mind mapping or concept mapping software like bubbl.us<\/a>\u00a0or this concept map maker<\/a>.<\/li>\n
• Flowchart\/concept mapping software like LucidChart<\/a>.<\/li>\n
• Check out Derek Bruff’s page on Visual Thinking<\/a> techniques and see if you get other ideas from him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  The goal with this assignment is just to get you to play around with visualization techniques instead of relying solely on text to convey information. We’ll spend some time looking at the visualizations as we discuss the chapters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

  Remember that this is just a sketch assignment — you don’t need to produce beautiful designs and you should not spend tons of time on this. Read the articles carefully and then spend a little bit of time sketching out your visuals, then post them. This is not polished, major assignment work but a sketch.<\/p>\n

  Tag your posts with however many tags seem appropriate, so long as one of them is “sketch4<\/a>”<\/p>\n

  Visual Notes<\/h2>\n

  I\u2019m a big fan of the work of Giulia Forsyth<\/a>. She works in a teaching and learning center, where she helps professors and instructors be more innovative in their teaching practices, and she also works as a visual note-taker and facilitator, which means that she is sometimes employed to go to presentations and meetings and to doodle notes for the meeting.<\/p>\n

  Check out this four minute video where she gives a quick summary of how she began to take her doodling seriously and where it has led her:<\/p>\n