School of Art Digital Literacy/Semester 1 Weeks 7-12

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The following list provides the content for Semester 1: Weeks 7 - 12 of Digital Literacy as taught by the Electronic Arts section in the School of Art, Otago Polytechnic

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Semester 1: Weeks 7 - 12
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Week Seven - Can I do that? Copyright Issues and Ethics

Your Lecturers for week 7 will be Pam McKinlay and Su Ballard.

Copyright Issues and Ethics | Week seven will look at some of the issues complicating digital image distribution and resources available on the internet. Practical sessions will include looking at social networking sites such as wikipedia, Flickr and youtube. By the end of this week, students will have:

  • an understanding of the terms Copyright and Creative Commons
  • made a decision on the appropriate cc licence for your own blog, and added it to your blog.
  • a knowledge of when files can be downloaded, stored and saved
  • researched some of the creative ways artists have engaged copyright technologies and processes.


Assignment

7. ASSIGNMENT FOR THIS WEEK

all assignments for this week need to be recorded in your BLOG under the heading COPYRIGHT

  • work through the bibliography below and follow the worksheet to develop your own view on copyright
  • visit the creative commons New Zealand site and follow the flow chart to determine the appropriate licence for your blog.
  • attach this licence to your own blog.
  • watch Keir Smith's video 'Oh, So criminal' again!!.



RESOURCES | These resources will provide you with some starting points to complete this week's worksheet:
YouTube fair use score card
Keir Smith Oh, so criminal
Transcript of A&M case against Napster
creative commons New Zealand
how to add cc licences and maintain your blog

A COPYRIGHT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Richard Niven, Solicitor and Copyright Manager, gives a quick wrap of copyright law http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/twu/twu-20080223-1350-Copyright-048.mp3

OTAGO POLYTECHNIC STUDENTS CLL brochure “Copyright the Law and You”. You've got it. It was a hand out. See also http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/billrobertson/copyright.htm

COPYRIGHT NZ LEGISLATION Literary style = legaleese. The entire riveting 1994 Copyright Act. Wallpaper your bedroom with it and memorise permitted uses sections. http://gpacts.knowledge-basket.co.nz/gpacts/public/text/1994/an/143.html

What’s happening in limbo land? The proposed amendments to the 1994 Copyright Act http://www.med.govt.nz/templates/ContentTopicSummary____1103.aspx

See also the Copyright Council of NZ

COPYRIGHT/INTELLECUTAL PROPERTY/MAORI IP An enlightened recap of the cornerstones of European-style copyright law and a compelling look at the future of tikanga as a way of addressing spiritual, intellectual and material concerns regarding traditional knowledges in Aotearoa. Mana Tuturu: Maori Treasures & Intellectual Property Rights by Barry Barclay Auckland University Press, 2005.

LICENSING/COLLECTING AGENCIES/CLL Providing a comprehensive introduction to the Copyright Act. Has a useful FAQs section and includes a summary PowerPoint presentation. Click click. http://www.copyright.co.nz/

COPYRIGHT AND CREATING Introduction to ‘real world’ digital issues. Includes case studies of high profile multimedia infringements (wav files available). http://benedict.com/

MACHINIMA - Excellent keynote address by Fred von Lohmann from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and another that may interest from Dan Hunter (on innovation, property and virtual worlds) from the recent symposium run by Games and the Law research group. http://testpattern.blip.tv/file/672264/

Illegal art or illegal imagination, an exhibition which explored the legalities of “illegal” creating and the corporate world. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7030

For the reasons why YOU should become a copyright activist. How big money is eroding fair use for the public good by proprietary practices and penalising measures. Vaidhyanathan, Siva, Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity, New York University Press, 2003. May also be searchable on Google books.

FAIR USE http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/index.html

CREATIVE COMMONS LICENCES When looking at using CC make sure you know exactly what you want your licence to do (or not to do). http://creativecommons.org/. Use the local version CC NZ as this has been tailored to our particular jurisdiction http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/

For a summary on pros and cons of CC licensing issue in education, see the google.doc hyperlink at http://trustdr.ulster.ac.uk/outputs.php

UK Artists – study to approaches to copyright and creative commons http://www.openbusiness.cc/2006/11/28/release-of-report-on-%E2%80%98uk-artists-copyright-and-creative-commons/

COPYRIGHT GENERAL Easy to navigate, small partially chewed portions. Crash course in copyright (note US system) http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/Intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm#top

Information Outlook magazine summary of “info rights”. Covers common everyday digital uses including scanning, web site content, e-mail, linking, listservs, browsing and caching, pulled together by Lesley Harris. http://www.sla.org/io/2007/05/40.cfm

Good straightforward articles on specific areas of interest eg. Fair Use http://library.creativecow.net/

A copyright 'calculator'. Clear and concise. May need to navigate to fuller descriptions for clarification of terms and interpretations. http://www.vraweb.org/resources/ipr/dirc/index.html

Very broad, website delivering the UK position on copyright. http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/managing/copyright_faq.html

OTHER DIGITAL LITERACIES Otago University has put together self-directed modules on digital literacy. Very simple, easy to navigate and covers the basic information and some how to’s for various media tools. It also covers copyright essentials. http://oil.otago.ac.nz/oil/module9.html

Week Eight - time for a keynote: Presentation Tools

Your Lecturer for week 8 will beSu Ballard.

Presentation Project | Week eight sees the class begin to focus on the second assignment due for the digital literacy component of the Core Studies Paper, which is to collect some of your previous assignments/blog posts into a presentation. (See Assignment Section Above). Students will look at software suitable for developing such a presentation and will develop their individual ideas for presenting their work.



Assignment

8. THIS WEEK'S ASSIGNMENT

By the end of this week students will:

  • have an understanding of using Microsoft's Powerpoint for presentations
  • explored and analyzed some of the do's and don'ts of powerpoint
  • researched some of the creative uses artists have made of powerpoint technologies. 



if you get stuck work through session 2 - 6 of this tutorial
Microsoft's instructions on how to make your powerpoints look like you work for them
slide share and an example of a very slick powerpoint

Week Nine - Time-based!

Your Lecturer for weeks 9-12 will be David Green.

Time-based! | Week nine will look at time-based arts, leitmotif and the fourth dimension. viewing La Jetée ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Jet%C3%A9e ) Practical sessions will involve conceiving and pre-visualising connectivities between still images linked by spoken word, delivered over time.



Assignment

9. THIS WEEK'S ASSIGNMENT
La Jette

By the end of this week, students will be able to:

  • hunt down conceptually linked still images.
  • download and organise a cache of appropriated image files to their personal drive from a variety of sources.
  • design a paper-based time map that contextually links those images through form, duration, transitional relationship and spoken word.
  • attach the scanned time-map sketch to your blog.



The following image research and usage guidance has been provided by Pam McKinlay:

Most of you are using del.icio.us so if you type in a search for copyright free images you should get pages and pages of links. A Google search will bring up some of the same plus some smaller sites. There are oodles if you look (and read before you use).

Students will still need to READ the TERMS OF USE for each site (to understand what they can DO with an image - some allow use but no derivs.) and attribute source, some sites like you to log-in note where you are requested to post a message of your use and note if under CC licence if you are free to remix/adapt and to re-licence. (As per CC-NZ site in lab.)

The sites below seem pretty user-friendly :

http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/ http://people.uwec.edu/koroghcm/public_domain.htm http://www.morguefile.com/archive/ http://photoeverywhere.co.uk/ http://www.everystockphoto.com/ http://www.freeimages.co.uk/ http://www.pics4learning.com/ http://www.pdphoto.org/ http://worldimages.sjsu.edu/

For art works see wikimedia commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images (still need to check the copyright statement at the bottom of the image, to make sure it is out of Copryight) and the web museum http://virgo.bibl.u-szeged.hu/wm/paint/auth/

Week Ten - Montage...

Montage | Week ten will follow on from week nine. Students will view a re-mix of "The Wizard of Oz" that focuses on the use of leitmotif as key structural element in time-based media. This edit highlights concepts of "similarity and repetition" including "parallelism" as well as "difference and variation" (Bordwell and Thompson). Labs will extend practice back onto the computer where students will edit a time-based sequence using the net-sourced still images time-mapped in week nine, dynamically linked with captured audio consisting of spoken text.



Assignment

10. THIS WEEK'S ASSIGNMENT

By the end of this week, students will have:

  • used Windows Move Maker as a non-linear time-based editor.
  • created their own time-based artwork (10 - 20 seconds in length) using a set of still images.
  • captured a spoken word audio track via computer using Microsoft Movie Maker and an auxilliary microphone (available during lab times).
  • created and archived a compressed version of their finished time-based piece to post online.


Accessing Windows Movie Maker


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Step 1. Select "Start" button. Select "Programs" button. Select "Windows Movie Maker" from the programs list.


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Step 2. Select "Import Pictures" from the "Capture Video" list. Browse for your cached images in your H Drive and import them.

Step 3. Follow the numbered instructions until you have completed the time-based edit of your still frames.


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Step 4. When you are ready to add spoken text: Ask facilitator for a microphone. Select "Tools" from the top pulldown menu list. Select "Narrate Timeline" and then follow the instructions.

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Step 5. When you are finished select "Save Movie File" from the main menu or return to the numbered instruction and select "Save to my computer". Follow instructions selecting "Other settings", and then " video for broadband 150Kbps".
Step 6. Save the file.
Step 7. Place on your blog site posted with appropriate copyright information.
Note. Those who have WordPress blogs will need to upload to YouTube first (create an account if you don't have one) and embed the URL from YouTube on your blog. Those using Blogger can upload the video file directly (as long as it has the .wmv file extension"



Week Eleven - Wrap it Up!

Wrap it Up! | Week eleven use the lab times to allow student to finalise moving image works, and finish off work for their project assignments and consolidate some of the information they have learned in earlier sessions.


Assignment

11. THIS WEEK'S ASSIGNMENT
  • export finished projects to CD



Week Twelve - So Long...'til next time!

So long...'til next time! ;-) | ALL students will present their finished presentations to their respective groups during this class and hand in their finished work at the end of this class...

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