Hello all,

It was great to see so many of you for pizza at Pegasus last night.  We enjoyed our time with you finding out about other interests in your lives, what types of flavors you like on your pizzas, where you are from and where you hope to go. It was nice to see many of you connecting in new ways with one another. It wasn’t quite like this, but you get the idea:

Here is some feedback from yesterday’s midterm presentations that we think apply to everyone’s project at this time.   Though each project is at a different stage, these areas of improvement and refinement are important to each one. Consider where your project is and how you can apply these categories to your work at this point in time.

*Return to and apply the FutureLab chart re: scientific, artistic, and social activity.  How does mapping this help establish the central core of your project? How does it help you define what science you are exploring, the art you are exploring, and the social application of the project?  This can be tough to define but is important to the work you are developing.

*Define what you want to learn through this project, whatever approach you take.  How can you share this learning goal in a clearly defined purpose statement?

*Make a firm decision about what you are doing with this project and run with it. While running, have fun! And don’t be afraid to get muddy in the process.

* Make a timeline/schedule for yourself between now and the final presentations during week 10. Use a backwards design style by looking at where you need to be and defining the steps along the way that you need to get there.

*How do you state the core idea/story of your project in a single sentence? A title for the project?

*How will your project inspire/attract others to participate with the project and/or to make a difference in the world?

* How are you transferring your project to the blogosphere to share the work with a larger public and for a longer length of time?

*Consider mapping out where your ideas started and how they have progressed as a way to help refine and define your project more specifically and accurately.

Remember the following for Tuesday, February 9:

Journal 11: This journal entry is your response to what you learned about your project following the presentation during class on Thursday.  What did you learn about your project through the peer responses you received? What are your project’s strengths? What are its weaknesses?  What are opportunities you can build upon? What may be threatening to or risking the best outcomes for the project at this time?

Journal 12: Reading Response to the chapter we are reading on Scientific Looking from the chapter in Sturken & Cartwright’s book, Practices of Looking. What are key points of the article?  What is confusing you or what do you want to know more about or discuss with others? What questions does this chapter raise for you?

And then, this coming Thursday, February 11, Report 3 is due. This is the annotated bibliography assigned.  See the Report 3 outline on the blog site for further details.