I basically just copied and pasted the e-mail request for my project...look for it on a hall near you!
Hi, Sal--
Below, please find a request from JP Sloop for permission to use a small portion of the bulletin board on each floor of the Hall of Languages for the duration of the semester as communication point for a documentary project.
Using Found Magazine (www.foundmagazine.com) and the National Conversation on Writing (www.ncow.org) as inspiration, JP would like to set up a “found” space for found writing to be displayed/shared in the Hall of Languages. A writing assignment will emerge from this, as well as a video project documenting the experiment and the resulting artifacts/conversations. The video will be shared with the National Conversation on Writing, to be found in the NCoW archives and, we hope, featured in future NCoW campaigns.
Here’s JP’s request. Thanks, Sal!
---Shannon
Drs. Attardo and Carter,
I recently watched a video interview from the National Conversation on Writing (NCOW) website, in which the author made the claim that we are all writers. I agree, and from this premise I would like to suggest the following project. I think one of the inhibitors for people seeing themselves as writers is the lack of a space to present their writing. For my project, I would like to use a portion of the bulletin boards on each floor in the Hall of Languages, providing a space for writers to display their work. I will be keeping a type of video journal of the progress of the bulletin boards. I hope to turn the footage into a short video looking at who and what is being written about when a space is provided.
Yours,
JP Sloop
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Hey JP
ReplyDeleteI saw some people posted on the lobby bulletin board today. It got me thinking though. This one story took five or six notecards. Does this mean that when we are asking for there story by providing them with a simple notecard we are restricting them still? (Just wondering, I know it is just simply a matter of space and what works. But I find it oddly funny that even though we think one card containing a story, people/students have no qualms with taking more than expected and thereby giving more, in this case.) Why I wrote all that in parenthesis, I have no idea. =) Great Idea and job JP!
SUCH an interesting project, JP. Don't forget to outline the final project for us ala the guide provided in MC (page 34). And your responses to Griffin, Selfe, and Cooper (ala the Week 8 Agenda outlined in the course blog).
ReplyDelete