Draft Workshop: Feeder 3.2 Audio

Date: 4/12/12
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The final two questions have been left blank in order for the author to ask specific questions about the concerns s/he is dealing with in the current draft.

1. The assignment states that the focus of your VoiceThread “should be the formal qualities of the work you are attempting to explain.” Has the author adequately retained this focus? Is there significant formal analysis of the artwork in question, or does the author focus too heavily on social, political, or cultural concerns? How might the author use formal analysis of the artwork to deepen his or her argument?

2. The assignment also asks you to contextualize the artwork “within a specific historical, artistic, or cultural context.” What is the context the author has chosen? Is the connection between the artwork’s formal qualities and this context made clear in the author’s thesis statement? What about within the body of the podcast? Suggest ways in which either of these aspects of the draft might be improved.

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Feeder 3.1 Workshop

Date: 4/10/12

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1. The assignment calls for you to explore the context of the article’s thesis statement, identifying the controversy into which the author is entering. Has the draft adequately fulfilled this requirement? Does the author give an indication of why the article is important to art historians? Could the author add any information to make this context richer?

2. The assignment also asks you to evaluate the author’s evidence. Does the draft adequately explain how the article’s author has supported his or her thesis statement? Do you feel as though you can adequately evaluate the article’s evidence with the information provided in your draft? Explain your answer.

3. Art history provides a perfect example to bring in images and other multimedia content to help aid the reader. Has the author taken advantage of this ability? Explain how the author might use additional images or multimedia content in order to make his or her argument clearer or more meaningful.

Add two of your own questions to this workshop that focus on issues on which you desire feedback. Feel free to copy and paste questions from previous draft workshops or compose your own.

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Intro to VoiceThread

http://unc.voicethread.com/?#q.b1546827.i8160362

Feeder 3.1 Pre-Writing

Find an article that fulfills the requirements for your Feeder 3.1 assignment. Once you have found an article, identify at least three claims that the author makes about a particular work of art and identify at least one reason that the author cites in support of that claim.

Francis Bacon: "Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion," 1944

Posting Your Podcast to Your Blog

Exporting Your Podcast as an mp3


Mac: GarageBand

At the top of your screen, click “Share” and then “Export song to disk.”

Make sure the box next to “Compress” is checked, and change “AAC Encoder” to “mp3 Encoder.”

Change “High Quality” to “Good Quality.” Click Export and choose a location for your file.


Windows: Audacity

Click this link for an explanation of how to install the MP3 codec:

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Lame_Installation#Windows_Instructions

If the link to lame_enc.dll is not working you can download it here.

Once you have the codec installed, open your podcast in Audacity and go to File > Export. Choose a location and a name for your file, then where it says “Format” choose “MP3 files” and click Save. The first time you export an mp3 you may need to locate the mp3 codec you installed above.

This is a little more complicated! But if you run into problems you can rely on me and your group members.


Posting Your Podcast to the blog

Now you should have an mp3 file of your podcast somewhere on your computer. From here, follow the instructions in this screencast to post your podcast to your blog:

Unit 2 Project Podcast Workshop

4/2/12

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1. As you listen to your partner's podcast for the first time, compose a DETAILED retrospective outline of the draft. Your outline should be about half a page long.

2. How easy was it for you to compose the outline? Were the transition moments clearly signaled to the listener? How were the signaled? Were there any transitional moments that need additional clarification? In general, does the podcast feel organized? Explain your answer.

3. How has the author handled the results section? Does it feel like a barrage of numbers, or is the information easy to digest? Do you have a sense of which bits of information are the most important and which are less important? How might the author highlight the most pertinent info in the results section more clearly?

4. Does the author adequately address the strengths and weaknesses of his or her study? Does the author reformulate the hypothesis or propose how the experiment might be conducted differently next time? Do you have a sense of what the author learned from the study and why that information is valuable to the listener?

5. Last week we talked about how the Discussion section of a research report should gradually "zoom out" from the narrow conclusions drawn from the study itself. Summarize briefly how the author accomplishes this task of "zooming out." Is it clear what the reader should take away from the study and the report? How might the author highlight this information more clearly in order to leave the reader feeling more satisfied?