fdm 20c introduction to digital media

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welcome fdm 20c introduction to digital
media
warren sack / film digital media department /
university of california, santa cruz
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goals for today

• to see if everyone enrolled in the course is here
• to create a waiting list for those not yet
  enrolled
• to explain the principles used to order the
  waiting list
• to confirm enrollment in the sections
• to provide details about where to find the texts
  and syllabus
• to provide everyone with the first reading
  assignment

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please fill out a 3 x 5 index card

• name
• yes or no have you already enrolled in the
  course?
• major or prospective major
• year
• are you a transfer student?
• email address
• answer this question in 2 or 3 sentences
• what does digital media mean to you?
• are you an artist? yes or no
• when finished, bring your card to the front

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waiting list

• principles of ordering
• transfers have preference over non-transfers
• majors have preference over non-majors
• juniors have preference over sophomores
• sophomores have preference over frosh
• frosh have preference over seniors
• those who came the first day of class have
  preference over those who did not
• within categories, people have been randomly
  assigned a position

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sections

• sections are mandatory
• all sections meet downstairs, in the
  communications building / room 11
• times
• wednesdays 900am - 1000am
• wednesdays 1015am - 1115am
• thursdays 400pm - 500pm
• thursdays 515pm - 615pm
• fridays 930am - 1030am
• fridays 1045am - 1145am

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have a section, but want to change?

• please fill out a second 3 x 5 index card
• name
• current section assignment
• rank ordering of desired section assignments
• list of sections you cannot meet with
• email address
• note the risk of changing section assignments
  you will be put on a waiting list to be assigned
  to another section, but you will be giving up
  your guaranteed section assignment.

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section re-assignments permission codes

• on monday we have a ranked waiting list for those
  of you not yet enrolled, but hoping to attend
  those at the top of the waiting list will be
  email a section assignment
• section (re)assignments will be sent to you via
  email from one the t.a.s (alana perlin or abram
  stern)
• sections will meet starting next week
• if you have been assigned a section, permission
  codes will be handed out at the section meeting

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course texts

• Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort (editors)
  The New Media Reader (MIT Press, 2003)
• Rachel Greene, Internet Art (Thames and Hudson,
  2004)
• The required texts can be purchased at
• The Literary Guillotine bookstore at 204 Locust
  Street, Santa Cruz.
• They are also on reserve at McHenry Library.

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reading assignment for next time

• required
• The entire text of the book Internet Art by
  Rachel Greene. There will be a short, easy,
  open-book quiz on Tuesday covering the
  organization and contents of the book. Bring
  your copy to class on Tuesday.

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syllabus

• you can find the syllabus here
  http//dmedia.ucsc.edu/FDM20c/Winter2006/