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  1. Feb 2021
    1. 2021 Assignments

      I like mgilbert's suggestion for assignment percentages, but I also wouldn't mind them all being 10% each.

    2. Colorizing Old Photographs

      I found an interesting website that generates a colorized photograph of any of the ones you provide a link for or upload yourself.

      https://demos.algorithmia.com/colorize-photos

  2. Jan 2021
    1. Weekly posts & comments are a minimum expectation of the class.

      Could we assign a set day to this? I would forget about it otherwise. If I know I had to to it by a certain day I would be sure to prepare posts in advance.

    2. GIFS Memes

      GIFs and memes are two things that can go hand-in-hand. Internet culture has turned them into an artform, and I think they would be a great addition to add some humor to an assignment of some kind.

    3. Oral History

      I would be interested in talking to everyone else about this. I'm not entirely sure how we would turn it into an assignment, but it sounds like fun to create or recreate an oral history of some kind.

    4. Tweets

      I read that a previous class did live tweeting of events. That sounds exciting to me!

    5. What virtual group class projects would you like to try?

      I had a teacher in high school who would make us do "mind maps" that were a combination of pretty much everything we covered in a unit. We were supposed to try and create a theme of some kind and incorporate pictures and colors. I still have copies of my mind maps, so I can share them if anyone is interested in doing something similar.

      An example would be that I made a "newspaper" on Modern Africa. It wasn't like a real newspaper, but was certainly meant to resemble one. We could probably do something like the Live Tweeting of events but in newspaper format.

    6. What in the classroom paired projects would you like to try?

      Small group analysis projects, such as the photograph analysis from one of the previous classes, and mini research topics sound good to me. I used to do this in high school a lot.

    7. What percentage of course grade should those assignments be valued at?

      I'd prefer to know the range of assignments before going forward here.

    8. nce we are back in the classroom, what projects relevant to our subject could we create

      I have never gotten to use the resources at the HCC, so I would love to know more about what they offer and what could be created.

    9. What alternative ways might we use to construct/present what we’ve learned in and out of the class about the history of information?

      We could use a variety of digital means to present things we've learned. I know there are ways to create short animated videos, though I've never made one myself. Prezi is also an interesting platform to present things, because it "travels" between your points. We could also do a "View It Yourself" kind of thing, i.e. making projects that others can look at on their own while someone verbally explains the basics of it. We had to do something similar to this in Digital Studies last semester when Zoom wouldn't let everyone share their screens. It was interesting to find alternative ways to present in the heat of the moment.

    10. Are there potential topics that aren’t listed at all that you think should be part of the history of the Information Age?

      I'd love to hear others throw out ideas on what to cover. I cannot think of much that we didn't discuss last class or isn't on the syllabus.

    11. Which topics are you particularly interested in studying this semester?

      I'm really interested in studying photography, early radio, and film. I also would love to cover video games, because that is a hobby of mine.

    12. photography

      Photography is a very interesting medium. The first camera was a camera obscura, which pretty much anyone can make. War photography also made a huge impact on a global scale before televised coverage was broadcast worldwide.