The room is 306 Leatherman. Make sure you have the right room number
down. The time is 11:45 to 1:45. Make sure you have your presentation
in a downloadable format for presenting on the PC computer.
Make
sure you write me your letter (as per the instructions) and make sure
you have your paper ready to be turned in at the beginning of class.
I will see you there!
- Gary Ancheta
gary.ancheta.enc(at)gmail.com
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Monday, October 22, 2012
Questions to Consider for your Hoax
What is the overall impression?
- Summary?
What is the intended meaning?
- How did the creator pull this off?
- What media did they use?
- What did they want to get from you?
- What did they want you to get out of it?
- How did he get across particular feelings of fear? anxiety? hope? love?
What is the cultural or ideological meaning behind this?
- Why did the hoax work at this particular time?
- What group is for/against this?
- Why did the hoax ultimately fail?
- What does this say about people?
- Summary?
What is the intended meaning?
- How did the creator pull this off?
- What media did they use?
- What did they want to get from you?
- What did they want you to get out of it?
- How did he get across particular feelings of fear? anxiety? hope? love?
What is the cultural or ideological meaning behind this?
- Why did the hoax work at this particular time?
- What group is for/against this?
- Why did the hoax ultimately fail?
- What does this say about people?
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Our Poll is Up!
You only have a short window to do this, so make sure you vote in our poll to our right. We'll take a look at the results during class on Monday and determine our Hoax. You can only vote once, so make sure your vote counts.
- Gary Ancheta
- Gary Ancheta
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Paper 2 Due Today! October 17, 2012
Hello Everyone,
Paper 2 is due today. I will be taking a 10 point deduction each day your paper is late. Make sure you your envelope the following information:
1) The Final Draft of your Paper
2) The Rough Draft of your
3) Our Quizzes (you should have 4 quizzes)
4) Any additional drafts or homework.
Make sure you have this ready for today. I will be collecting it within the first 10 minutes of class.
- Gary Ancheta
Paper 2 is due today. I will be taking a 10 point deduction each day your paper is late. Make sure you your envelope the following information:
1) The Final Draft of your Paper
2) The Rough Draft of your
3) Our Quizzes (you should have 4 quizzes)
4) Any additional drafts or homework.
Make sure you have this ready for today. I will be collecting it within the first 10 minutes of class.
- Gary Ancheta
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
The Ghost of Francis Marion...
The Hoaxes Day 3:
THE FOUNTAIN
- You take a penny from the teacher and you put it in the fountain
= Get change from teacher
- You will pass the class
= Personal Tweets
= take something from the professor (actually do it)
HAUNTING
- Haunted by cell phone shots (photoshop creepy stuff in the
background
= Start posting it on twitter and facebook
= e-mail it to people on your class
= instagram
SUPERSTITION
= a pregnant tree
= Twitter Page =Ghosts of Francis Marion
CHAIN LETTER
= Perpetuated Through twitter or something
= Have to get something at this time and it is replaced
= Find/found objects
I will post, on Friday, more definite descriptions for our hoax. I will also give you the voting option for which hoax would be the best one to do for this assignment.
For Monday's Class:
WATCH: Old Negro Space Program
READ:
- BOILERPLATE: History of the Mechanical Marvel
- Blair Witch Project
THE FOUNTAIN
- You take a penny from the teacher and you put it in the fountain
= Get change from teacher
- You will pass the class
= Personal Tweets
= take something from the professor (actually do it)
HAUNTING
- Haunted by cell phone shots (photoshop creepy stuff in the
background
= Start posting it on twitter and facebook
= e-mail it to people on your class
SUPERSTITION
= a pregnant tree
= Twitter Page =Ghosts of Francis Marion
CHAIN LETTER
= Perpetuated Through twitter or something
= Have to get something at this time and it is replaced
= Find/found objects
I will post, on Friday, more definite descriptions for our hoax. I will also give you the voting option for which hoax would be the best one to do for this assignment.
For Monday's Class:
WATCH: Old Negro Space Program
READ:
- BOILERPLATE: History of the Mechanical Marvel
- Blair Witch Project
Monday, October 8, 2012
Hoax Ideas Day 2
Hoax Ideas:
- 10 year time capsule with pictures and letters that, if you found it, would end up dead.
- A family of mixed racial descent is burned alive
- A woman looks for her children in the swamp with a lantern
- The statue of Frances Marion weeps after a full moon
- a wealthy black man and a white female teacher look for eachother on campus
Hoax Ideas Today:
- Library built over slave burial ground
- Prominant man, against his will, drowns his mixed racial daughter in a well near the Nursing building and she comes by interacial couples looking for her parents
- The grave markers are false and the real graves are elsewhere
- Hydrogen Bomb testing was meant to wipe out the area, but it didn't
- The loveletters are photocopied and sent around campus. If you receive it, you must make photocopies and send it out within 48 hours. If you don't do it, bad things will happen to you.
For next Class...
1) Research your hoax. What makes a good Hoax? What are some of the pitfalls that prevent a hoax from really being memorable?
2) Come up with an idea for your group. What does your group do for the hoax? What do you stage? Website? Twitter Account? Fake historical documents? Fake sightings? Fake camera phone pictures? How do we Blair Witch this sucker? Here are some ideas from a variety of different sources:
- 10 year time capsule with pictures and letters that, if you found it, would end up dead.
- A family of mixed racial descent is burned alive
- A woman looks for her children in the swamp with a lantern
- The statue of Frances Marion weeps after a full moon
- a wealthy black man and a white female teacher look for eachother on campus
Hoax Ideas Today:
- Library built over slave burial ground
- Prominant man, against his will, drowns his mixed racial daughter in a well near the Nursing building and she comes by interacial couples looking for her parents
- The grave markers are false and the real graves are elsewhere
- Hydrogen Bomb testing was meant to wipe out the area, but it didn't
- The loveletters are photocopied and sent around campus. If you receive it, you must make photocopies and send it out within 48 hours. If you don't do it, bad things will happen to you.
For next Class...
1) Research your hoax. What makes a good Hoax? What are some of the pitfalls that prevent a hoax from really being memorable?
2) Come up with an idea for your group. What does your group do for the hoax? What do you stage? Website? Twitter Account? Fake historical documents? Fake sightings? Fake camera phone pictures? How do we Blair Witch this sucker? Here are some ideas from a variety of different sources:
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Hoax Ideas
Our Hoax Ideas:
- 100 year time capsule with pictures and letters that, if you found it, would end up dead.
- A family of mixed racial descent is burned alive
- A woman looks for her children in the swamp with a lantern
- The statue of Frances Marion weeps after a full moon
- a wealthy black man and a white female teacher look for eachother on campus
These are some of the core ideas for our hoax. We will change it as time goes on. We will spend Monday on more hoax ideas, so make sure you read up on the hoaxes from the Museum of Hoaxes.
For Monday's Class:
- Hoax Proposal: I want a paragraph about the hoax you want to do for your analysis paper. Make sure you put an e-mail address as to where I can find information about this hoax. Look over the syllabus for this paper for more information.
- Look over the History of FMU: http://www.fmarion.edu/about/history
- Look over the History of Florence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence,_South_Carolina#History
- Look over the History of Frances Marion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Marion#Legends_and_modern_opinions_about_Marion
....For ideas...
- 100 year time capsule with pictures and letters that, if you found it, would end up dead.
- A family of mixed racial descent is burned alive
- A woman looks for her children in the swamp with a lantern
- The statue of Frances Marion weeps after a full moon
- a wealthy black man and a white female teacher look for eachother on campus
These are some of the core ideas for our hoax. We will change it as time goes on. We will spend Monday on more hoax ideas, so make sure you read up on the hoaxes from the Museum of Hoaxes.
For Monday's Class:
- Hoax Proposal: I want a paragraph about the hoax you want to do for your analysis paper. Make sure you put an e-mail address as to where I can find information about this hoax. Look over the syllabus for this paper for more information.
- Look over the History of FMU: http://www.fmarion.edu/about/history
- Look over the History of Florence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence,_South_Carolina#History
- Look over the History of Frances Marion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Marion#Legends_and_modern_opinions_about_Marion
....For ideas...
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