Logs

Monday, February 22, 2010

Today we began talking about our Multimodal Project. Mr. McArdle began giving us examples of things that we could use to make our websites more effective like adding pictures, videos, and a number of other elements. Mr. McArdle then turned the class's attention to two different multimodal projects that would also help us become more familiar with our current task at hand. The first video that we saw was an “I Believe” video called “I believe...in Gay Right!” The video very effective and seemed to have a profound affect on the class. Mr. McArdle then turned it over to the class and we talked about how the video utilized pictures and music to grab its audience’s attention. McArdle also pointed out how the author of the video took responsibility for her argument by putting herself in the video itself. Personally I loved how she used satire in her video to really stick it to those who are against gay marriage. Touché! Mr. McArdle also showed us a video that he himself made on Facebook called “25CRM.” It got a lot of snickers and giggles from the class (probably because of one particular photo that McArdle referred to later as the “This is the photo that shows how much I hated taking pictures). He went on to explain to the class how one can utilize images as part of our argument. He also showed us a site that he made back when he was in college. McArdle then let us loose and we began to construct and play with our websites on weebly.com. This project looks like it’s going to be a long and complicated one.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

So today Mr. McArdle started off the class by stating that our multimodal projects were due today at 5:00 on the button. The only two words that were flashing in my head in giant red letters were “Oh [insert curse word]!” He then asked us to make a good argument as to why he should bump the due date back to Friday. Everybody seemed to have an argument as to why it should be due Friday instead of Wednesday. Then Mr. McArdle got an evil grin on his face and said, “That’s exactly what I want you guys to do when you’re making your arguments.” What a cheap but yet clever way to get your point across to your class. So I am dubbing this day “The Day McArdle was Awesome ” day. Celebrate as necessary boys and girls. We then talked more about our multimodal projects and for the people who were having problems coming up with a topic he suggested talk radio or examples like Muncie’s crappy roads. We also talked about how arguments are better if they are not subjective. McArdle then showed us how to use the Windows Movie Maker and showed us his soon to be awarding winning creation “Global Warming” due sometime in summer 2011 I think. He also showed us how to embed videos on our site and create links. End of “The Day McArdle was Awesome.”

Friday, February 26, 2011

Well today was “Due Day” and I still had barely gotten anything together for my project. Mr. McArdle started off the day with a short video called “The Third and the Seventh.” It was a very interesting video with a ton of visual spectacle added into it. Who knew that a multimodal project could be so artistic. Mr. McArdle then gave us the rest of the class to work on our projects and ask him questions. Being so lost at this point I took full advantage of this time in class.