Hi, okay so we have been fairly flexible so far with directing you in your projects.  But now is the time to really push yourselves on your project sites! We are down to the deadline. Next Tuesday = Your next presentation of your Creative Display (at least 3/4 complete). Then, the Thursday of week 10, we’ll have faculty, staff, and students from across campus joining us.  You will want to be ready with a professional presentation for this public audience.

We have noticed a good amount of the project sites continue to be at the default title and tagline level.   So for your assigned goals for this week (as in have this done by the end of the day Friday, February 26th):

1.  If you have not done so, make sure your site title reflects your Final Project research and/or Creative Display title.   Your site title should NOT be “Art Meets Science”  or “AAD 199” by the end of the week.

2. Get rid of the Tagline “Just another University of Oregon Sites site”!  Your site is not just another site.  It is unique and awesome!   So think about an unique and awesome Tagline.

To complete #1 and #2 above you need to go to your Dashboard and Settings and General, change the Title and Tagline here and Save.

3.  Start making your project site Pages.  What do we mean by this? By the end of the week, there should not be any “Sample” pages on your site. You should have fully actualized Pages in which you are adding your research and Creative Display information.   How to do this?  See Jacob’s and Cortelle’s beginning work on this: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/jarmasaad199/ and https://blogs.uoregon.edu/cortelleaad199/

Robert sent an email out with the subject line “AAD 199: Setting up Pages and Menus on your sites” for instructions about setting up your Pages and Menu.

BONUS Goal:  After you set up your content Pages, begin add your content: research writing, Creative Display descriptions, overall project narrative (you have your introduction paragraph done from last week’s work session), images, videos, etc.

If it it helpful, plan out a timeline/schedule of completion for yourself.

Questions?

Let us know!

Best,

Robert and Julie

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Data Visualization, Infographics, and other Cool Visual resources:

• Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait (2006 – Current) – Running the Numbers II: Portraits of global mass culture (2009 – Current)

I did not specifically address the design and creation of infographics, but check out these resources for helping you think about creating dynamic visualizations to go along with your presentation of your research.

• The 11 Best Infographics of 2015: http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/best-infographics-2015
  
• Feast Your Eyes On The Most Beautiful Data Visualizations Of 2015: http://www.fastcocreate.com/3054064/feast-your-eyes-on-the-most-beautiful-data-visualizations-of-2015

• 5 Great Online Tools for Creating Infographics: http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/2014/10/10/5-great-online-tools-for-creating-infographics.html

• 10 free tools for creating infographics: http://www.creativebloq.com/infographic/tools-2131971

• Edward Tufte: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/ (where I got the visualization of Napoleon’s 1812 invasion of, and retreat from Russian)

All,

Hi, for Thursday our guest speaker, Dr. Julie Haack has requested everyone do a little prep work.  Below is her request, it is not a ton of work, but do think about showing off your research skills we have been working on this term.

We will go over this a bit Tuesday, but never too soon to start learning about these important topics!  And the expectation coming into Thursday’s session will be that everyone has a basic knowledge of the topics as applied to Dr. Haack’s challenge.

-Robert

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One of the greatest challenges in driving sustainability is inspiring individuals to select consumer products that do the least amount of harm to human health and the environment.

Making the “best” selection is often a complex and context specific process.

Our challenge for Thursday is to create data driven imagery that effectively empowers people to select consumer products that are consistent with a sustainable future.

In preparation for Thursday’s class, please use the Internet to explore the following topics and consider how each piece of information helps to form the foundation for our challenge.

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Green Chemistry
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Life Cycle Analysis
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The Nike Making App

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Remember to refer to the email we sent about getting your tickets for the Silent Sky performance at the Oregon Contemporary Theatre.

Here are some resources for more about the performance:

• Performance page: http://www.octheatre.org/page_293/silent-sky

• Henrietta Swan Leavitt Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Swan_Leavitt

• 1912: Henrietta Leavitt Discovers the Distance Key

• theWoman Astronomer!: http://www.womanastronomer.com/
  • http://www.womanastronomer.com/women_astronomers.htm