Saturday, February 28, 2009

Blog sweet blog.

Hi all!

Welcome to your blog for MCM0260: Cinematic Coding and Narrativity. Here's how it works. (I've cribbed the following from the Thursday section's excellent first post):

GROUP POSTS
During the week your group is assigned to post to the blog, you will post a group entry by Sunday midnight. Your group must also post an identical entry to http://cinematiccodingandnarrativity.blogspot.com (the blog for the Thursday section).

INDIVIDUAL RESPONSES
Every week, after the post has gone up, each of you (not just the group in charge for the week) will respond to the post, with comments, thoughts, further questions etc. Use the "comment" function. Your responses need to go up by the Wednesday night. Respond on this blog only. The Thursday section members will have their own discussion on their blog. You are recommended to follow their blog but not required to.
See the calendar of deadlines below for post and response due dates.

The syllabus and our section agendas suggest one way of organizing the course. Your blog posts can suggest another. In other words, your blog posts can serve as a forum to raise questions that span various weeks of the syllabus, pose unusual connections, test hypotheses, get to the stuff we didn't have time for in section. Be creative, be informal! Post even when you don't absolutely have to! Don't think of the blog as a chore--if I were you I'd think of it like Facebook. Something to check and update whenever you need a distraction.

CALENDAR
GROUP 1 —POST DUE SUNDAY MARCH 1 Midnight
Alex Ashe
Zachary Bornstein
Ashley Adams
responses due Wednesday March 4 midnight

GROUP 2 —POST DUE SUNDAY MARCH 8 Midnight
Stassia Chyzhykova
Bladi Duran
Sean Feiner
responses due Wednesday March 11 midnight

GROUP 3 —POST DUE SUNDAY MARCH 15 Midnight
Stephen Doucet
Will Epstein
Adam Fern
responses due Wednesday March 18 midnight

GROUP 4 —POST DUE SUNDAY MARCH 29 Midnight
Michela Fitten
Nikolas Gonzalez
Sam Helman
responses due Wednesday April 1 midnight

GROUP 5 —POST DUE SUNDAY APRIL 5 Midnight
Alex Hare
Coral Murakami-Fester
Daniela Lopez-Goichochea
responses due Wednesday April 8 midnight

GROUP 6 —POST DUE SUNDAY APRIL 12 Midnight
Adam Pliskin
Matthew Modica
Rafik Salama
responses due Wednesday April 15 midnight

GROUP 7 —POST DUE SUNDAY APRIL 19 Midnight
Leslie Primack
Michael Shuster
Bryan Smith
responses due Wednesday April 22 midnight

GROUP 8 —POST DUE SUNDAY APRIL 26 Midnight
Tracey Szatan
Lee Stevens
responses due Wednesday April 29 midnight.