One Good Thing About You Guys

Hey, I am pretty sure all of you can give better speeches than these government guys.

Congratulations!

Your Midterm Speeches

Here are the speeches (and Q&As that followed each) for your midterm exam speeches:

DAY CLASS:

Remember, you are responsible to give some feedback, and a challenge, to each of the classmates on the same MP3 track that your speech is on. Also (and I forgot to mention this in class!) please submit to me a grade you think is appropriate considering my feedback and your feelings about your performance. Both the feedback and the grade are due on Friday, May 4th.

Group 1: Ran, Jae Ho, Yu Mi, Su Jin, Ok Yeon — MP3 file
Group 2: Dong Hoon, Shin Hwan, Seung Yun, Yae Hyun, So Hee — MP3 file

NIGHT CLASS:

Remember, you are responsible to give some feedback, and a challenge, to each of your classmates. Also (and I forgot to mention this in class!) please submit to me a grade you think is appropriate considering my feedback and your feelings about your performance. Both the feedback and the grade are due on Friday, May 4th.

BOTH CLASSES:

Remember that, in addition to your feedback speeches, you are also expected to think of a controversial topic for your next speech, and to begin preparations for making a speech from a position opposite your own position on that topic. We’ll discuss this more next week, and those students who volunteered to give speeches next Friday should definitely get some planning done before that date.

Midterms!

Hi there! Next week, we will have midterm examinations in my office, N223, on Tuesday and Thursday morning. Below, you can see the list of topics for the exam, along with the exam schedule. Please remember to come 5-10 minutes early. Apologies if I spell your name in English slightly differently than you spell it. I’ll try check back later today to make any necessary corrections.
Tuesday, 23 April, 2007

9:00 am

9:40 am

10:20 am

11:00 am

Thursday, 25 April, 2007

9:00 am

9:40 am

10:20 am

11:00 am

The topics you (mostly) chose for the exam:

  1. Ghosts
  2. Celebrities
  3. Cell phones
  4. Terrorism
  5. Personal Priorities
  6. Stress
  7. Plastic Surgery
  8. First Love
  9. Sex Education
  10. Common problems for you as students, and possible solutions
  11. Family

You will discuss two topics, randomly selected from the list, by rolling dice. One topic will be for you and your partner to discuss for ten minutes, and the other will be for your partner and you to discuss with me for five minutes.

Your Speeches

Here are your speeches about Childhood Memories, folks! I had to amplify the tracks, so I used the same amplification for all students. (So some people are still louder and some are softer.) For the day class, I used 15.0 decibels of amplification, and for the night class, because I was farther away, I used 20 decibels.

By the way, I used the free audio editing software Audacity to do this. It’s perfect for this kind of thing, and it’s worth checking out because I’m planning to give you a little assignment using it.

Now, go check out those speeches!
DAY STUDENTS

NIGHT STUDENTS

Open Workshop Files

Hi there! We’re having an Open Workshop on Thursday, so you should please download these files and read through them a couple of times. You’ll be giving the marked-up copies to the people who wrote the things, so please do write feedback and comments, mark it up, and most important, be prepared to talk about the writing here during class on Thursday.

If you’re still reading the stuff when class starts, or during class, your participation grade will reflect the fact you’re doing homework during class. In other words, it’s bad for you if you’re not prepared for class.

Here are the samples:

Copyright, Remix, Piracy, and Mashups

Hi there. I promised some materials for you to explore the idea of remixes and mashups, as well as links about copyright.

The best book I’ve seen on the subject of copyright and culture is Dr. Lawrence Lessig’s book Free Culture. It’s available FREE online here, as a PDF, as well as in audiobook format — also free, and legal — at the Internet Archive.

The lecture on which it’s based, and which we looked at (or will look at), is available here. Feel free to listen to the presentation more than once to review and deepen your understanding!

REMINDER: Listen to THIS LECTURE before our next class!

Here are some examples of remixes or “mashups”:

Open Workshop #1

For this first open workshop, we will look at something I have written. All students are expected to print a copy and bring it to class on Thursday, and to prepare some comments for the play. Think about spelling/grammar/vocabulary problems, suggestions for improvement, ideas about making the play more interesting, and so on.

Please be kind, it’s my first try at writing something this long in Korean.

For Thursday, April 5th! (Thursday, Week 5)

Hi everyone. Here’s the document I mentioned. Please download and print it. It’s a PDF, if you can’t install it you need Adobe Acrobat Reader or Foxit Reader. (If you’re using a Mac or Linux, email me and I’ll help you.)

Weeks 3 and 4 (and 5)

I’m catching up again.

So, in week 3 and 4, we did the following things:

In week 5, we’re going to discuss remixing, adaptation, and copyright, and look at your own “remixes” of Superman.

Day:

On Tuesday, a group of students will present on “remixing” and “copyright” on Tuesday afternoon. We’ll discuss the presentation, I’ll show you a few interesting clips, and give you some questions to think about. (As well as some reading/listening to do.)

On Thursday, you’ll present your adapted Superman characters, and then we’ll return to the discussion of copyright, remixing, and adaptation.

Night:

On Wednesday, we’ll meet at my office and talk about copyright and remixing. Since our group is so small, everyone is expected to have done a little reading and research on the subject. I’ll show you some interesting clips, we’ll talk about the history of copyright, and I’ll give you some reading/listening homework to do.

On Friday, we’ll meet at my office and you’ll each present the Superman that you’ve adapted to Korean history. Each student will have a maximum of ten minutes to tell us about this new version of Superman.

Week 4, part 2

This is just an update for the end of week 4:

  1. I have received your pamphlets. They’re generally excellent. My girlfriend saw them and she thought they were real pamphlets until she read one and saw my picture in it.
  2. You have a new homework assignment: you are to write a short (roughly 2 pages, more or less) description of something abstract (for example, a feeling like hunger or love or fear) using similes (”The moon was like a blade in the sky”) and metaphors (”The moon was a blade in the sky”). You will complete this with a partner and submit it to me on April 10th at the beginning of class.
  3. Next week we’ll be starting the new section of our class, on Purpose (and Process).
  4. Keep blogging! The blog is looking great! And I’ll be changing the picture at the top of it, soon!

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