Your challenge is to complete the following tasks.
Everyone will produce the following:

1. Pictorial essay – non-text based visual communication. Locate, record, & articulate – from basic to sophisticated levels of communication, then create a response that outlines the advantages and disadvantages of this approach.

2. Audio essay - non-verbal audio communication. Locate, record, & articulate – from basic to sophisticated levels of communication, then create a response that outlines the advantages and disadvantages of this approach.

3. Write a poem - Using nothing more than the word “me” as many as 25 times, create a poem. Then explain how you have used form to create content.

4. Bias article – Choose an image or event and write about it from two distinct perspectives. Do not change the “facts” of the report, just the perspective.

5. Develop a podcast. Create an original audio or video podcast. Make sure the end product is coherent, articulate, and relevant. Maximum length 5 minutes. Confirm all content with me before going to production. Make sure you have scripts and storyboards in place before we talk. You can work in pairs if you wish, but the workload must justify a two-person production.

6. Research and report on the Luddites. About 500 words should be enough to outline the phenomenon. Make sure you offer your opinion on their philosophies and practises. Pay particular attention to the group known as Neo-Luddites.

7. Expose a manipulated message. Look carefully at a packaged message and explain the overt and covert ways in which the message gets across. A popular approach to this challenge is to look at ad campaigns and expose various tactics that coerce its audience.

8. manipulate a message. After exposing the manipulation message makers use, it’s time to do some manipulating of your own. Take an established message and manipulate the message to something different than the original.

9. “Retrieve” something. Many things that were once a relevant human artifact get retrieved in unsuspecting ways. Your task is to pick some obsolesced medium and find some way to retrieve it. (HINT: Many obsolesced items come back in the form of art or a craft.) Seek approval before beginning with this challenge.

10. Original work. You choose the topic and form of presentation. You must clear this with me before you start. A project proposal sheet would be a good way to seek approval

***Submit completed challenges for approval. Assignments can be passed in as they are completed. Once they are marked and deemed acceptable, they will be placed in your folder in order to keep a good working record of your accomplishments. You will keep a status sheet, to indicate your progress.
You may complete assignments in any order you wish.
ALL ASSIGNMENTS MUST CONTAIN AN ORIGINAL COMPONENT.
MARKING:

This project is basically marked on a contract grading system.

All assignments are marked out of 3 points:
1/3 - You passed it in, but it needs significant adjustments.
2/3 - You've made some very good points, but a couple of minor adjustments could make this great.
3/3 - You have successfully met the challenge set forth by the task.

If you wish to try to improve your mark, you may re-submit your assignment as many times as you wish. Therefore, I strongly encourage students to submit efforts well before the due date so I can evaluate and return them. Once the deadline passes, however, there is no further opportunity to re-submit.

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