Additionally:

• Set Up a Twitter Account
• Register for the Class Wiki
• Send me an email (from your preferred email account) containing your name, your Twitter name, and whatever name you used for the Class Wiki.
• If you are in Group A you need to compile notes from the reading by noon on September 6th. (It is probably easier to do this as you go rather than all at once at 10:00am on Tuesday.)

If you need some help with the Wiki see below.

• Go to the main Wiki page.
• Click the link in the upper right to Create an Account
• If you pick a user name other than your name make sure you email me so you can get credit for your work.
• Once you have registered. Click on the link on the Main Page that says “Where We Stand”
• Once you are on the “Where We Stand” click on the link that says “Edit.”
• You are now on the edit page. If you aren’t comfortable editing wiki code click the link for “Rich Text Editor.”
• Write.
• Hit save.
• (Email me with any problems.) ?

Note: At this point I think I have emailed everyone feedback about his or her paper. If you have not received feedback yet let me know and I will resend the email. Most of you had topics that were too broad and I indicated as much on the feedback. In several cases you will need to resubmit a more detailed proposal.

Update: You should have received an email from me indicating your group, and containing the email addresses of the others in your group. Coordinate setting up a website between now and next class. No need to post. The idea is just to get the site up.

Second email me by Friday at noon the following:

• Have the subject line be EMAC 6361.
• Your preferred email address. This will be the one I share with others in your group.
• Your Twitter ID. If you don’t have a Twitter account set one up. The hashtag for this class is #emac6361.
• Once you have joined Twitter follow, @therefore, @academicdave, @emacutd, @emacadvise.
• Your top three choices (in order of preference) for your group project. (See the list below.)
• Your skill set (i.e. video, animation, 3D modeling, 2D drawing, project management, writing, web design, etc.).
• Anything else I might need to know for placing you in a group.

Don’t email me this info though if you are planning on dropping the class. Joining a group commits you to the rest of the semester. Serious, your classmates count on you, and joining a group just to drop it in a few weeks is a serious a__hole move, that and if you join a group and drop leaving your classmates hanging I’ll take away your birthday (I know people).

Choose from three of the following. Note if you pick one of the topics that has a subcategory, in parenthesis, specify which subcategory, or just indicate that you would be interested in any subcateogy.

• Libraries
• Museums
• Government (Advocacy Groups, Political Groups, Government Services, Representative Democracy)
• Journalism
• Art/Enterntaiment (Film, Fine Art, Art Museums/Galleries, or something else?)
• Universities/Higher Education
• K-12 Education
• If you think of something else email me and I’ll add it to the list, but do it fast so others will join you.

Once you have done this I will create groups, and email you all notifying you of your group, from there you can get working. By the end of the weekend though you should set up your group’s URL, and post it to the comment section of this blog. No need to develop the site fully just the URL will do for now.

Also take a look at the Class Project Guidelines as it will give you a sense of the direction of the course.

Class starts Wednesday. Currently it is scheduled for the Mac Lab, but this will probably change, so stay tuned.

• The Nature of the Book Adrain Johns
• The Future of the Book Geoffrey Nunberg
• Remediation Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin
• Wealth of Networks Yochai Benkler (You can download this book for free.)
• Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages Alex Wright
• Everything is Miscellaneous David Weinberger
• Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in a Hybrid Economy by Lawrence Lessig
• Paper Machine by Jacques Derrida (We will only be reading two articles from this book, so you will be able to get it off eReserve. But regardless it is a good book and if you have a chance pick up a copy.)
• Also we will be talking about Rip: A Remix Manifesto so if you want a movie to watch over break you might just watch this. It is entertaining, informative, and you get to pick how much you want to pay for it.

(This isn’t 100% final, more like 95.2%.)

All grades have been submitted and if you would like your paper back just email me and I can arrange a way to get it to you.

See you around ATEC next semester.

Update: To avoid any confusion this is the book you should have for two weeks from now. The title is The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe ISBN 978-0-521-60774-2. (384 pages.)