Class Project Goal:  Create an Online Digital Design Guide for each of the three sections of class research: Design for Bodies (Physical/Mental Health of Individuals) Design for Culture (Family, Community, Social Health) Design for Earth (Economy, Ecology, Resilience, Regeneration) Each section should focus on gathering More

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Task 6: Unplug for Fall Break! Leave your tech behind (or just bring a phone or camera), and enjoy some time with friends, time outdoors, time having fun. Take a well deserved break. For this week, post to the appropriate Slack channel a photo or More

Web Project: Design for Culture As tech designers, we want to be sure what we build actually creates the kinds of cultures that support our values and out happiness.  Doing this requires not just technical skills but also conceptual skills, and critical thinking skills, as More

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Person Paper below from Hofstader, Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern, quoted by https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html (ie  Univ Virginia course on Programming Languages) Copy all the text in this post to your own post, then follow the instructions below. 1-Use strikethrough for every More

Depression/Social Media Infographic You should work in teams of 2 or 3 people. The data–research, quotes, sources, images, stats, insights, lists etc–that you gather will also be used in your follow up assignment next week, so be very rich and robust for your info. It’s More

Create a web portal about happiness and social media

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Consider some digital tech harm, explain it, then try a conceptual redesign with a visual.

PC design log and explanation

15 Common Logical Fallacies   1) The Straw Man Fallacy This fallacy occurs when your opponent over-simplifies or misrepresents your argument (i.e., setting up a “straw man”) to make it easier to attack or refute. Instead of fully addressing your actual argument, speakers relying on More

Journal 9: revise Project 3 assignment if needed.

Quiz 7 a: Design for Earth Quiz 7 b: Story of Stuff Quiz 7 c : History of World in 7 Cheap Things (graded as Journal 7, individual post)

The Empire Is Not Done with Julian Assange As is clear from the memoir of one of his attorneys, Michael Ratner, the ends have always justified the means for those demanding his global persecution. Chris Hedges  Common Dreams URL Shortly after WikiLeaks released the Iraq More

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…I realized that phones were basically cloud storage for happiness….

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Using your Journal 8 assignment (and any revisions–Journal 9), post documentation of your final project. Be sure to open your post by answer the following questions about your project: PROJECT: What will you be designing/redesigning? TOOLS: Which Tools did you use & why? VALUES: What More

Create a post for the class website that points to your own wordpress.com site. Use a featured image, and an image link to your portfolio URL . The image can be a screenshot of your portfolio, or a section of it.  Then click on the More

All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the message. Any understanding of social and cultural change is More

Explore how technology can either augment or amutate the human body and its capabilities.

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Below you will find the rubric I use to help you strengthen your internet writing.  This should help you craft good work for your portfolio.  Do not underestimate writing skills in landing a good job.  So use this time to practice ways to empower your More

2018’s Most Surprising WordPress Statistics by Brenda Barron Last updated: October 29, 2019 Disclosure: Your support helps keep the site running! We earn a referral fee for some of the services we recommend on this page. Learn more WordPress is a global phenomenon that has More

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The new tool should be cheaper than the one it replaces. It should be at least as small in scale as the one it replaces. It should do work that is clearly and demonstrably better than the one it replaces. It should use less energy More

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As your syllabus describes, WordPress skills are part of class work and are evaluated as follows: 25% WordPress Writing/Portfolio Portfolio (design 10%) WordPress Writing Journal (content and improvement in writing 15%, or 5% for each Project) While you post all assignments on the class website, More

Wired Magazine reports on Amazon Climate Strike. Tech employees takes sides with youth demanding better future.

Option 1: Duplicate the image you are using, save the original if you need it and “optimize” the copy. Rename the copy to a suitable name(no spaces or Caps), then open it in  Preview on mac (or similar software on PC). Select Adjust Size from More

DIY Biohacking Ellen Jorgensen from Brooklyn based Genspace.   Stray DNA Heather Dewey-Hagborg collects stray DNA and re-imagines the owners via their DNA profile.     eXistenZ Sci-fi thriller about gen tech future accessed via wetware game:  you log-in via spinal cord. Artists Critical Art More

Panarchy – Paul B Hartzog Complexity + Networks + Connectivity => Panarchy “What makes political systems cross over the threshold into parameter transformations? Some breakpoints occur when a technological development enables individuals to engage in previously unimagined activities and collectivities to pursue previously inconceivable policy More

It’s hard for me to remember a time when the internet didn’t affect my life. One change or influence could be my patience. I feel like I have a shorter patience now… I am also used to constantly being entertained, so when I am not, More