postcard:
http://hereisnewyork.org/gallery/thumb.asp?categoryID=34#

covers:
Newsweek 12/31:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/september11/collection/supporting.asp?ID=5...

Newsweek '9:03':
http://americanhistory.si.edu/september11/collection/supporting.asp?ID=5...

Everyone,

If you have time before class tomorrow, please read through this short editorial by Thomas Friedman. I would like to discuss it briefly during my presentation tomorrow.

Thanks.

John

The link is broken on the schedule, but below should work.
http://www.digitalle

Even after reading George's article--and participating in our classroom discussions--I still privelege the written, and the skills involved in producing the written, over the visual. I don't mind the idea of teaching multiliteracies, but I still think that my primary job is to help students produce a well-WRITTEN arguments. Furthermore, though I think that the kinds of projects that George's students produce are interesting and probably quite sophisticated, but I simply don't have time for them in 309K, a SWC course during which students must write at least sixteen pages of text.

I want to talk specifically about the article I emailed on Thursday, but I have a more pressing issue at the moment. I posted this entry about my class on Thursday to Blogging Pedagogy, and have received some excellent responses, but I was hoping that people might want to engage in further discussion of it during part of class today? This is also related to my final project, since what I plan to do is to start writing an article/paper on the teaching of visual rhetoric, which will begin with my reflections from my current class. (We've done A LOT of visual rhetoric). Here is my rather pressing post:

Here is the reading that I'd like to do next week:

George, Diana. "From Analysis to Design: Visual Communication in the Teaching of Writing."CCC. 54:1 (Sep. 2002). 11-39.

I can try to find everyone's email and send it as a PDF, but it is also available on JSTOR.

I’ll like to talk about global branding and global fashion. I think is incredible fascinating to see how aspiring middle class girls from china, or other third world country, dreams about having the It bag. How that wish develops into an obsession, and why we let it happen.

I’ll like to talk about global branding and global fashion. I think is incredible fascinating to see how aspiring middle class girls from china, or other third world country, dreams about having the It bag. How that wish develops into an obsession, and why we let it happen.

http://www.magnumphotos.com/c/htm/FramerT_MAG.aspx?Stat=Portfolio_DocThu...

Photography, claims Susan Sontag, developed in tandem with one of the most basic characteristics of modern activities: tourism. It feels unnatural to travel without an evidence. Martin Parr in his “small world” documents this universal phenomenon and its close ties to photography. His humoristic gaze exposes the similar characteristics of the different touristy attractions. As people travel to remote places to encounter different experiences, Parr exposes the degree to which they have all become the same. They all offer the same amalgam of people from around the world, the same vendors, images and jewelries. A religious Muslim man is selling Christmas souvenirs in Bet-Lechem, and local Indians dressed in a full attire, western tourists in their bathing suits and a local cow – all meet under Goa’s beautiful sky.

Rereading the Fahnestock excerpts last night, I began to panic that they might not be of general interest. However: I’d already made copies, and, given my uneasy relationship w/ the copier in the graduate lounge, that settled the matter.