Photo manipulation

For the exercise this week, you might want to try these tools:

• The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), a free, open-source graphics program
• Text-Image.com, a free online text to image converter
  

Know Your Rights exercise

http://mason.gmu.edu/~dtaciuch/2009/spring09/344/kyr.html

Make sure you bring a thumb drive or some other removeable media to save your work onto tonight.

Update: A new CC-licensed sketch site, with animations: Sketchory

Other Digital Texts

Deena Larsen: Firefly

Stuart Moulthrop: Hejirascope

Critique 1

For the critique, choose one of the works from the Electronic Literature Collection and write a 3-4 paragraph critique, published on your blog. What did you like/dislike about the piece? How does it differ from print literature?

An important issue to consider: How to critique this kind of work? What are the rules? That is, what makes a "good" work of electronic literature? Without some kind of guidance, it becomes completely subjective.

Wed editing software

To upload your files, you'll need a Secure FTP(sFTP)/SSH client. For Windows PCs, ou can download Secure Shell from the ITU downloads page. For Mac, you can use Fugu (or CyberDuck if you want something more full-featured).

To edit your web pages, ITU offers the free (but no longer updated) NVu. You can also try KompoZer (an updated version of the NVu project).

Be sure to bring a thumb drive or other removable storage to class on Monday.