Hello, everyone,

Fun class session today as the workshop with Kris Kirkeby brought together the arts and sciences again through hands-on practice in this creative way.

A few reminders about upcoming course scheduling:

Journal 18:
If you haven’t done it already, make certain to complete Journal 18 overviewing what you learned about your project through Tuesday’s review and self-assessment. What are your project’s strengths? Weaknesses? What are opportunities you can build on? What may be threatening to or risking the best outcomes for the project?

Kris Kirkeby:
From today’s class, you can learn more about Kris Krikeby, Scientific Illustrator, by following the guest presenter’s resource page on our main blog course site. (This will be available soon.)

You can begin an introduction to John Cody, the “Audobon of Moths”, at The Great Plains Nature Center site, http://www.gpnc.org/johncody.htm

For next Tuesday:

 

Please bring your initial course survey outlining your goals for the term, questions about the final project, and thoughts about the course.

We will also discuss the best time for the most class members to be able to enjoy some time at Yogurt Extreme to celebrate your hard work and our time together this term.  This event will happen sometime next Thursday.
Journal 19:
Please make certain to complete Journal 19 regarding how you may apply aspects of ideas and experiences from our guest today to your final professional project.   Due Tuesday.

By Next Thursday:
And, of course, please finalize all aspects of term project (online creative display, final paper, etc.).  Details of your creative display should be finished and fully coalesced and professionalized by Thursday, March 10, 10a.m. as we expect our guests for the show case to arrive by 10:15 that morning.

Please invite friends, colleagues, and relatives to our final showcase highlighting your work during the term.

Any outstanding journal entries, assignments, and achievements not yet completed need to be finalized by Friday of Week 10, March 11, 5p.m.

By Finals Week:
Robert and I have determined that it may be helpful to you to to have a few days extension to fully meet the requirements for Report 5.  To that end, we are extending the deadline for submission of the paper to Monday, March 14, 5p.m.  This should be submitted in person to one of our offices or via email.

During Finals Week:
During our scheduled final exam time, we will have a chance to socialize, play with our puppy, and  enjoy some donuts or other treats.  Details TBD.

As always, please let us know if you have questions with which we can assist.
Julie

All,

Hi, we wanted to make sure the Journal entry for the production and your “Theatrical Science” Achievement made sense overall.

Due by this Tuesday (March 1st) 10:00am is your Journal #17, which according to the Course Schedule listing is just to address the following:

Journal Entry: How are you thinking like an artist (actor, designer, director) in new ways after seeing Silent Sky and talking with the producers? In what ways does this production assist your thinking about your own project? In what ways does this performance change your views about scientific discovery? (Journal #17). Post by 10a.m., Tuesday, March 1st.

For the Theatrical Science Achievement you just need to address this: “Did you attend the theatre production and document in detail your experience in your Journal?”

We will give you credit for the Theatrical Science Achievement by reviewing your Journal #17.

If you were not at the Saturday show with us, please include in your Journal #17 a photograph or scan of your ticket or playbill (or selfie at the theatre space from your attendance at the production if you have that!).

Best,

Robert and Julie

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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Hello, everyone,

A few reminders:

Please get your tickets to see Silent Sky at Oregon Contemporary Theatre as soon as possible.  We don’t want them to be sold out and you miss the opportunity of attending with others in the class.  The majority of us will attend Saturday, March 27.  There are a few planning to get tickets for Thursday, March 25.  Again, with either date, it is important to reserve now.  Remember to see the emails sent out for details about how to get your discounted tickets.

Also, remember that one of your achievements in the class is to complete a response to your experience of the play. This should be fairly simple to achieve for each of you. Look at the separate “event achievement” outline to get a sense for how to meet this goal.
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For those of you generally interested or working on the event achievement, there is a fun talk tomorrow on Buzz Saw Sharks – Catching the Biggest Fish in the Permian Sea

Friday, February 19 at 5:30pm at the Law Center, Room 175
Details: https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/sharks_past_present_and_future?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=University+of+Oregon

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Next week:
Tuesday — open work session.  Robert and I will be available during our usual class time to meet with you individually or in small groups to discuss your projects, your standing in the class, ways in which you might take your academic path, etc.

Thursday — we will be meeting with design staff from Oregon Contemporary Theatre during our class session. We need to be at the theatre building NO LATER THAN 10:30 that morning. Their address is 174 W Broadway. You need to get down there by that time on your own or meet Julie at the Dad’s Gate EmX bus stop. The EmX leaves at 10:04.

As always, let us know if you have questions.
Julie