came my way

When I teach, I jump from YouTube to Delicious to Google docs on the classroom screen. I allow—even encourage—my students to use laptops in class, and I don’t worry if they’ve got Facebook in one tab while the day’s assigned reading is in another. They’re the ones getting graded, so I let them own the direction and degree of their attention along with the consequences. I let them work the way I work, or find their own way of working, without pretending these tools don’t exist. So it isn’t their use of Facebook that concerns me as much who they’re using it with, and I don’t mean the predators and creeps and assorted bogeyfolk 20/20 warns us about every sweeps week. To the contrary, I worry the web might be keeping them safe but stunted, because it’s so easy to continue the relationships and conversations they had in high school and carry along to college an entrenched identity built when they were younger. As I told my student, what concerns me about her peers and herself being online is the loss of isolation, of separation, of the ability for 18 year olds to live in their heads for a while. Or at least to own their own minds.

Steve Himmer, "The importance of unwritten postcards," posted at The Millions, 17 May 2011
via The Chocolate Chip Waffle

Alexa's Statement Update

I am still exploring the topic of shipwrecks. I have started pulling from sea shanties, Moby Dick, and Hans Blumenberg’s Shipwreck With Spectator for typographic elements. I am using the world map as a base to build off of.

Thesis Statement 12.10.12

I am focusing on memories, how they are recorded, how they are stored, and how they are recalled/remembered. I am using a collection of entries from my old online diary (Xanga) from 2007-2009, and my research on memory throughout the Fall 2012 semester. I am taking these resources out of context, stitching them together to make one, made up fantasy memory. Through research I have come to understand and believe that one never remember things as they happen, you glorify and substitute bits and pieces to get the memory you desire it to be…

p.s.

panel reviews Monday evening, schedule in previous post.

the semester's work concludes with a process book that documents how the work has evolved, and your thoughts about same.
 

memoria

Memory is a poet, not an historian.
Marie Howe

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Video!

The video is done! I'm very happy with how it came out, it's exactly how I pictured it. I posted it on my tumblr from vimeo, but the quality was lost upon upload. So, it's best to view it from the raw file which I will show in class on Monday.

nicolelariviere.tumblr

Also, I really need the 6pm slot for reviews on the 10th if thats okay with everyone?

panel reviews, Monday 10 December

We'll start at 6:00pm, in 30-minute sessions:
6:00 Nicole
6:30 Tim
7:00 Lauren
7:30 Alexa

reviewers are John Colan, Mary Bucci McCoy, Justin Gagne, Jesse Kahn, Sarah Smith (and for at least one session, Brian Savignano)