Thursday, April 27, 2017

Thursday 27 April: spill: Chen

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SIGN UP FOR WMST UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH DAY TODAY! 

Women's Studies/LGBT Studies Undergraduate Research Day
We Invite You to Present Your Work!

WMST/LGBT Undergraduate Research Day - May 3

Deadline to Sign Up to Present - April 27

The Department of Women's Studies invites undergraduate students-individually, as a group, or as a class-to join us on Wednesday, May 3, and tell us about your work.  Posters, Oral Presentations, Films, Art Projects, Displays, and Performances of undergraduate student scholarly work are all welcome.  Presentations on internships and study abroad experiences are also welcome.

Students should submit:
  • A title for your project/presentation
  • A short (2-3 sentence) statement about your project
  • The format in which you will present
  • Any equipment needs
  • All the times you can be available on Wednesday, December 3 
Also, please indicate:
  • The class for which you completed the work (if it is a class project)
  • Name of your instructor
  • Name(s) of presenters
  • Email address(es) of presenters
  • Telephone number

Submit to: Professor Elsa Barkley Brown - barkleyb@umd.edu - by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 27.  If you have any questions, please contact Professor Barkley Brown.


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  • Just sent out on Email to all: 


Hello folks! bring your kits to class today! We are going to spend the first part of class doing a paper prototype in poster format of the influences Mel Chen's book Animacies had on you and others during the course.

Think arts and crafts and drawing and collage and making!! Katie

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READINGS FOR EXPERIENCE SET 4: finish up all 3 books left 
• Svedmark. 2016. Becoming Together and Apart. Linköping.
• Chen. 2012. Animacies. Duke.
• Marcus. 2015. Self Care for Activists. Mocana.

TODAY>>>Thursday 27 April: spill: Chen
Thursday 4 May: activisms: Marcus <KK out of town>
Thursday 11 May: <LAST DAY!> DUE LEARNING ANALYSIS & PROGRESS REVIEW

>>BEFORE BREAK:

1) Attendance Portraits. Will be returned to you ....

2) PROTOTYPE -- Animacies influences on your over time of course; poster style collage and mixed media

>>AFTER BREAK:

3) Share & discussion

4) revisit: diegetic prototyping

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Thursday, April 20, 2017

Thursday 20 April: apart: Svedmark

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WHERE ARE WE IN THE COURSE RIGHT NOW? 
THE FIRST OF FOUR SECTIONS IN EXPERIENCE SET 4!  >>>REFLECTION MAKES IT ALL STICK



NOTICE THAT EXPERIENCE SET 4 CULMINATES IN THE FINAL CLASS SHARING OF LEARNING ANALYSES AND PROCESS REVIEWS, 11 MAY. 

READINGS FOR EXPERIENCE SET 4: finish up all 3 books left 
• Svedmark. 2016. Becoming Together and Apart. Linköping.
• Chen. 2012. Animacies. Duke.
• Marcus. 2015. Self Care for Activists. Mocana.

>>TODAY: Thursday 20 April: apart: Svedmark
Thursday 27 April: spill: Chen
Thursday 4 May: activisms: Marcus <KK out of town>
Thursday 11 May: <LAST DAY!> DUE LEARNING ANALYSIS & PROGRESS REVIEW

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TODAY'S CLASS:
Thursday 20 April: apart: Svedmark

>>BEFORE BREAK:

1) Attendance Portraits. These will be returned to you soon....

2) Your learning analysis and process review 

  • read each section of description out loud
  • 2 min freewrite on each as we read them together 

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3) critical alternatives, Svedmark, pp. 185-192:

the boundary objects of: 

=reconfiguring the future
=ethics
=power
=politics
=hope

"Things can always be different." 







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>>AFTER BREAK:

4) read epilogue to yourself, treating yourself and others tenderly: pp. 193-4.

5) DISCUSSION & TAB: diegetic prototyping 

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Thursday, April 13, 2017

TODAY'S CLASS: • Project, poster, pics & LB3: 1/4 grade >> 13 April

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ALWAYS ARRIVE EARLY FOR CLASS ON LOGBOOK DAYS! 15 or 20 mins early please!

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Timeline for today's events in
Workshop 2: • Making and Non-Human Emergences

COLLABORATE WITH EMERGENT PROCESSES! FLASH YOUR ACTIONS!

5pm-5:20pm: Set up stations
5:20pm-5:25pm: Overview of events, answer any questions
5:25pm-5:45pm: Quiet whole-group observations
5:45pm-6:10pm: Group 1 spotlight
6:10pm-6:35pm: Group A spotlight
6:35pm-6:45pm: Break
6:45pm-7:30pm: Debrief/Feedback

Group 1 would be odds and Group A would be evens. This allows 20 minutes for silent walking around, and 25 minutes for each half of the class to talk to their peers in depth.



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As soon as you arrive:

• 5 pm - 5:20 => 20 mins :: SET UP
=pick up Attendance card and pens (we will fill out at the end of the break)
=get your Workshop LABEL and fill it out
=find a good spot around the table and create a little project station
=station should have set out: Label, Project, Poster

EVERYTHING MUST BE SET UP BY 5:20 OR WE BEGIN WITHOUT YOU!




• 5:20 - 5:45 => 20 mins :: SILENT WALK AROUND
=walk around the stations SILENTLY and take notes on each project materials.
=note people's names, project titles, poster process visuals
=what are your reactions, interests, thoughts, ideas, questions? note them for later.

• 5:45 - 6:10 => 25 MINS :: TWEET TOGETHER 1: HALF OFFER, HALF QUESTION
=in brief, twitter-length interactions (no monologues) half the class asks those at their stations about how things are going, what the project is about now, and what sort of feedback folks want. Keep statements short, be open and kindly, consider how you can help! take notes too!
=USE ALL THE TIME! RETURN TO PROJECTS IF THERE IS TIME!




• 6:10 - 6:35 => 25 MINS :: TWEET TOGETHER 2: HALF OFFER, HALF QUESTION
DO IT ALL AGAIN, SWITCHING WHO DOES WHAT:
=in brief, twitter-length interactions (no monologues) half the class asks those at their stations about how things are going, what the project is about now, and what sort of feedback folks want. Keep statements short, be open and kindly, consider how you can help! take notes too!
=USE ALL THE TIME! RETURN TO PROJECTS IF THERE IS TIME!

• 6:35 - 6:45 => 10 MINS :: BREAK
• 6:45 - 6:50 => ATTENDANCE PORTRAITS



6:50 - 7:30 => 40 MINS :: DEBRIEF & FEEDBACK
WITH ATTENTION TO YOUR NOTES OFFER COMMENTS ON:
=what you really appreciated as patterns among the group as a whole
=what you really appreciated in individual projects
=what you really appreciated in ways posters visualized process
=what you and others shared as helpful observations already
=what on consideration you now can offer as additional helpful comments.
=what you found useful for yourself, your work and projects in this process.

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NEXT WEEK WE BEGIN THE END WITH EXPERIENCE SET 4!!

READINGS FOR EXPERIENCE SET 4: finish up all 3 books left 
• Svedmark. 2016. Becoming Together and Apart. Linköping.
• Chen. 2012. Animacies. Duke.
• Marcus. 2015. Self Care for Activists. Mocana.



Thursday 20 April: apart: Svedmark
Thursday 27 April: spill: Chen
Thursday 4 May: activisms: Marcus
Thursday 11 May: <LAST DAY!> DUE LEARNING ANALYSIS & PROGRESS REVIEW


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Thursday, April 6, 2017

Thursday 6 April: self-care: Marcus

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WHERE ARE WE IN THE COURSE RIGHT NOW? 
STILL IN EXPERIENCE SET 3!  >>>MAKING AND NON HUMAN EMERGENCES 

NOTICE THAT NEXT WEEK 13 APRIL IS ANOTHER WORKSHOP, LIKE THE ONE WE DID LAST TIME! your project will be due as well as a poster describing the process.

READINGS FOR EXPERIENCE SET 3: 2/3 of each book, chaps in any order you like
• Svedmark. 2016. Becoming Together and Apart. Linköping.
• Chen. 2012. Animacies. Duke.
• Marcus. 2015. Self Care for Activists. Mocana.

Thursday 6 April: self-care: Marcus
Thursday 13 April <WORKSHOP 2> NON-HUMAN: DUE PROJECT & POSTER

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TODAY'S CLASS:
Thursday 6 April: self-care: Marcus

>>BEFORE BREAK:

1) Attendance Portraits: Eva will take charge of these now.

2) Self-care and its boundary object affects

Filing out form first self, then partners, section by section, shared with class.

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>>AFTER BREAK:

Boundary objects, con't with handouts.

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NEXT WEEK:
NOTICE THAT 13 APRIL IS ANOTHER WORKSHOP, LIKE THE ONE WE DID LAST TIME! your project will be due as well as a poster describing the process.

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