BCUSP 110 C - Digital Thinking
Animation, Video Games, and the Social Web
Instructor : Kelvin Sung
http://depts.washington.edu/bcusp110/2012.Fall/InterestingApplets/index.html
Please click on the link above to see some of the games programmed by 1st quarter freshmen students who (mostly) had zero programming background before they come to our campus. These are one weekend assignments.
You have to click on each picture to run the corresponding applet, please allow your browser to run the applet, and when in doubt, click inside the image for something to happen, or try type on your keyboard (e.g., “ “ (space bar), or “a”, “b”, “c”, “d” … , or “w”, “s”, “a”, “d”).
- Kelvin Sung
Chinese 101 : Chinese Speech Contest
Instructor: Weizhi Gao
November 14, 2012
On a short notice, nine students from Chinese 101 and one from a former class stepped onto the stage with courage to recite poems, sing songs, and reflect on Chinese history and, for some, on their newfound cultural heritage. From start to finish, they took less than two weeks to prepare for this nerve-wrecking performance. Since not everybody was on the same page, the contest was divided into two panels: non-heritage learners and heritage/advanced learners to be fair with all the contestants.
Contestants from left to right: Kyle Mery, Estevao or Steven Silveira, Tyrille Viriyincy, Emma Clithero-Michaels, Jadi Lu, Carter Lim, Ellen Ta, Soracha Bunjirdpitapon, Helena Widjaja, Nicole Gonzalez
This event was part of the International Education (IE) Week Celebration co-sponsored by Global Initiative & International Student Service. Most instrumental were Nancy Will (Undergraduate Learning/Office of Academic Affairs) and Zhuxiao Deng (Chinese Student Association).
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B CUSP 120 A : DCIII Autobiography: Media Storytelling
Instructor: Robin Oppenheimer
This course explores the cultural and technological issues, ideas, and creative practices around diverse media forms of autobiography found in experimental film, video art, documentary, and, more recently, social media platforms such as YouTube and Facebook. Works by media artists are viewed and analyzed to reveal a wide range of styles and approaches to telling a person’s life story through digital images, sounds, and texts. Students will also read literary and media autobiography theorists as they learn to create written and/or short media forms for their portfolios based on a personal journal. They will integrate their CUSP writings and autobiographical creations into a final class presentation and their DCIII e-portfolio.
Luke Wang : Moving from China to UW Bothell to pursue his dream of becoming a computer scientist
Josh Brunner : Transformation from being bullied to being tech expert, “How Technology Changed Me”
Chris Hart Hansen : Coming to Seattle from Denmark, “Take the Risk”
Kenneth Do : Overcoming a traumatic childhood to become a UW Bothell student
Congrats to CUSP Students: Aja Utsugi, and Logan Compau for having their work chosen to be included into Clamor!
Each year the Clamor Editorial Board selects submissions from across creative disciplines, including works in literary, visual, and media format. This year, Aja Utsugi’s piece of the Gaswork Arches and Logan Compau’s pieces: Authors, Another Adventure, and A Night with Andrea Gibson were chosen and published in Clamor.
Gaswork Arches by Aja Utsugi
"I'm a photographer, purely as
a hobby but I enjoy it quite a lot."
Another Adventure by Logan Compau
"I'm no poet, but I do enjoy creating new
ways to say things I care about..."
You can also view Aja and Logan's entries on the 2012 Clamor including:
- Gaswork Arches by Aja Utsugi (p.11)
- Authors by Logan Compau (p. 12)
- Another Adventure by Logan Compau (p. 14)
- A Night with Andrea Gibson by Logan Compau (p. 96)
Instructor:
Chris Gildow
The class's project is to research in the library and choose two patterns or decorations - each from a different culture. Then students create a drawing combining the two patterns into one unified composition.
Celina Gutierrez: NW coast native american with Australian aboriginal
Tiffany Li : Australian aboriginal circle patterns with heart shaped line patterns from the Southern Song Dynasty, China.
Ross: Waves are Roman mosaic patterns with Greek geometric hook patterns
Instructor:
Carolyn J. Bodle
This class introduces students to the role of art in public space. Each week students will be reading, viewing, and discussing public art projects. Throughout the quarter, they will visit three public art sites. Students will be challenged to frame responses to current discourse in public art and to examine the intersections and contradictions on the role of the artist and public perception.
Students use IPEDS on the North Creek Trail and visit the Blue Trees project nearby UW Bothell on the Burke Gilman trail.
B CUSP 110 C: DC1 Digital Thinking: Animation, Video Games,
and the Social Web
Instructor:
Kelvin Sung, Ph.D
Students make a video-story telling for their final project. These videos hightlight their school activities from the beginning of the quarter to the end. Students started off without experience, then built up with basic animation exercises, and became more advanced with digital art and gaming.
BCUSP 104 / 107 C : DC1 American Idol(s): How Stories Shape Culture and Identity
Instructor:
Amoshaun Toft and
Kari Lerum
The course focuses on the study and analysis of personal storytelling in popular culture. During the course, students become the producer of their own stories. Students demonstrate a personal story incorporating with visuals and sounds as they write, record, edit and export their project. The final project is a showcase of the digital storytelling skills students have learned in the form of a 3-5 minute video. To see other stories,
visit the Films section of the class website.