Inspiring labs generate student interest, like this one here...

Found Magazine's "Find of the Day" for August 10, 2007

Mary Ingram, from Moore, Oklahoma writes, "This was an interesting piece of paper someone in my math class found lying on the floor in the hallway. I kind of see his point. What IS it about paper, anyway?"

HIPSTER BINGO CELL PHONE SCAVENGER HUNT!!!

Can we somehow transform this hilarious game into a cell phone scavenger hunt?

What are we going to call this site?

Here's a little commercial I put together. I think a title like the realist is good. But, what should it be? What should it's mission or manifesto be?

Cell Phone Scavenger Hunt

Here's some inspiration for cell phone scavenger hunts and mobile games:

ispott
http://www.ispott.com/AboutUs.asp

Daily Trojan (apparently there was a scavenger hunt at USC)
http://media.www.dailytrojan.com/media/storage/paper679/news/2006/08/22/News/Cell-Phone.Scavenger.Hunt.Spans.Campus-2237015.shtml

Pixie Hunt (microsoft)
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/06/pixie-hunt-cameraphone-scavenger-hunt-the-next-geocaching/
http://blogs.msdn.com/pix/archive/2006/05/24/Pixie_Hunt.aspx
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/05/where_20_pixie_hunt.html

Urban Dare
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2007/05/gadgetrace
http://www.urbandare.com/

The Go Game
http://www.thegogame.com/brownie/game/description/intro.asp

Catepillar Mobile
http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2005/02/caterpillar_mob.html

Causes and Groups at USC

This is a group interested in changing copyright laws to allow for an easier flow of information and collaboration.

	freecultureusc@gmail.com
	http://usc.freeculture.org

http://usc.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2208699109&pwstdfy=2842300dff0b57ad796972a1c18b76aa



USC SCALE Student Coalition Against Labor Exploitation
meets on WEDNESDAYS, 6 PM IN VKC 155

http://www.uscwatch.org
http://uscscale.blogspot.com

http://usasnet.org (United Students Against Sweatshops)
http://usc.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2201063448&pwstdfy=37c7a5c52199ab0f0f1f818f5972884e

	unicef@usc.edu
	http://www-scf.usc.edu/~unicef

USC Unicef has many different comittees and projects going at a given time. It seems to be well organized and it has official recognition.

http://usc.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200823222&pwstdfy=a9bfa1d34db00d977458f181905cf85f


California Student Public Interest Research Group, CALPIRG

uscpirg@gmail.com
	http://usccalpirg.blogspot.com/

Here's a blurb from their facebook page:

In just the past year we've worked to clean up the state's most polluted rivers, lakes, and beaches. We've also worked to clean up the state's dirtiest power plants, educated the community about genetically engineered foods, exposed consumer rip-offs, won more financial aid money to make college affordable, and raised thousands of dollars for the hungry and homeless.

http://usc.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2201118976

These would all be good places to look for contributors to this project. More later...

http://www.visualresistance.org

This is a group of activists and artists based in Brooklyn that use images as the primary means to communicate their message. They also have grassroots events, workshops, protests and collaborations. I think having events might be good ways to get people involved in this project, too. Anyway, they're worth a look for inspiration.

12 step plan (well I can only think of 10 for now)...

to mobilize an on-line periodical.

1. Think of a title for the periodical. It should reflect that it's student-run, it is current, critical, and filled with submissions based in multimedia (text, sound, image, moving image, interactivity, or any combinations of them).

2. Create a stronger concept of its platform: Submission policy, web-site layout (is it just a blog? or can there be a more appropriate format), definition of critical, how many posts (daily? weekly? monthly?)

3. Should the work only be created by students or can it be something found?

4. Should faculty/staff be encouraged to post? Outside USC? Residencies? Submissions by well-known people?

5. Finding submissions...through classes like the ones mentioned below, clubs, honors programs, greek, promoting the site with posters, flyers, e-mails, where else?

6. Create a production space where students can develop and produce their ideas. Taper seems ideal for location...but it doesn't have the resources to support ideas.

7. Develop workshops for learning software and ways to use multimedia tools to critically examine ideas in class, current events, or random issues.

8. Get support from student workers who can assist with software during production time.

9. Getting an audience...get the site shown on monitors in school buildings like Annenberg, Lucas, Zemekis, dining halls (other buildings with monitors????),
linking the site to USC websites.

10. Creating a student core group who will take managerial and editorial leadership.

Surfing USC

Where can we find interested students who have a voice and interest in expressing it through multimedia projects?

Thematic Option, contact: Richard Edinger. Perhaps he knows of students in the program or professors who'd be interested in incorporating such work in their course. Or go to the actual professors of the courses.
CORE 101: Professor D. Eggenschwiler, Department of English; Professor E. McCann, School of Philosophy; T. McPherson, Critical Studies, School of Cinema-Television.
CORE 102: Professor C. Dewald, Department of Classics; Professor T. Habinek, Department of Classics; Professor H. James, Department of English
CORE 103: Professor D. Bottjer, Department of Earth Sciences; Professor R. Deonier, Department of Biological Sciences; Professor W. Däppen, Department of Physics and Astronomy; Professor C. Sammis, Department of Earth Sciences
CORE 104: Professor E. Accampo, Department of History; Professor M. Kann, Department of Political Science; Professor S. Ross, Department of History

Renaissance Scholars, contact: Office of Undergraduate Programs at (213) 740-1741 (probably not the best resource, but hey)

Undergraduate Symposium, contact: Office of Undergraduate Programs at (213) 740-1741

Learning Communities: A series of classes for Freshman, each offering its own unique introduction to USC. These courses are...

HIST 200: The American Experience (Terry Seip, Carole Shammas)
LAW 200: Law & Society (Charles Whitebread)
PHIL 141: The Professions and the Public Interests in American Life (Dallas Willard)
REL 140: Religion and Ethical Issues (Alvin Rudisill)
COMM 203 : Introduction to Mass Communication Theory & Research (Stacy Smith)
CLAS 151: Civilization of Rome (Thomas Habinek)
ANTH 263: Exploring Culture Through Film (Gary Seaman, Andrei Simic, Christopher Boehm, Lanita Jacobs-Huey)
AMST 200: Introduction to American Studies & Ethnicity (Roberto Lint Sagarena)
SOCI 142: Diversity & Racial Conflict (Amon Emeka, Ed Ransford)
REL 121: Religions of the New Testament (Ron Hock)
SOCI 200m: Introduction to Sociology (Mazen Hashem)
BISC 120: General Biology (Regina Wetzer, Suzanne Edmands, Eric Webb)
CHEM 105A: General Chemistry (Jessica Parr, Robert Bau)
IR 210: International Relations: Introductory Analysis (Steven Lamy)
COLT 250: Cultures of Latin America (Gabriel Giorgi)
GEOL 240: Earthquakes (James Dolan)
PHIL 262: Mind & Self Modern Conceptions (Jacob Ross)
PSYC 100: Introduction to Psychology (Stephen Madigan, Ann Renken)
GEOL 108: Crisis of a Planet (James Anderson)
AMST 301: American the Frontier and the New West (Thomas Gustafson)
CTCS 190: Introduction to Cinema (Drew Caspar)
ASTR 100: The Universe (Nicholas Warner)
CLAS 280: Classical Mythology (Daniel Richter)
EXSC 205: The Science of Human Performance (Bob Girandola)
SOCI 360: Social Inequality: Class, Status and Power (Mazen Hashem)
SOCI 350: Deviant Behavior (Karen Sternheimer)
ANTH 200: The Origins of Humanity (Nayuta Yamashita)
IR 310: Peace & Conflict Studies (Douglas Becker)
POSC 366: Terrorism & Genocide (Richard Dekmejian)

We can contact the professors of these courses and offer them workshops for students to do basic multimedia projects that incorporate ideas discussed in the class. The projects could be a critical reading of a current event (or historical) through the lens of the discipline. These projects can be created with any of the applications, and students can sign up for workshops if they need help. Student workers can help with ideas in the 5 literacies to help students make thoughtful work. Or, how about approaching Learning Communities with the idea of having an activity be hosted by IML.

Freshman Seminars
The Freshman Seminar Program was created to ensure that incoming freshmen would have opportunities to work closely with distinguished faculty members, who might inspire them to more ambitious conceptions of their college careers. Students learn the excitement of intellectual inquiry by participating once a week for ten or eleven weeks in a two-hour seminar on a topic of personal interest both to the seminar leader who has chosen to offer the topic and to the students who have elected to enroll. Each seminar is limited to eighteen freshmen, who earn two units of elective credit on a CREDIT / NO CREDIT basis. While the workload is less than a regular four-unit course, journals, papers, group projects, or individual presentations are often required in addition to the reading and participation in seminar discussions.

Courses Offered:
American Government and the Political Cartoon (Terry Seip)
Architecture of Los Angeles (James Steele)
The Art of the Comic Book: Graphic Narratives from Maus to Sin City (Bill Feuer)
Beer and Belly Rings: Facts and Fictions About Today's Youth (Karen Sternheimer)
Bioterrorism and Emerging Diseases: Their Impact on Society (John Beierle)
Body Size and Shape: Fitness and Nutrition (Bob Girandola)
Cultural Diversity in Islam (Ayse Rorlich)
Food and Culture (Thomas Gustafson)
He Said, She Said, They Said: Making Sense of Opinion Makers and Making Up Your Own Mind (Anthony Anderson)
Law, Life and Morality (Justice Richard M. Mosk)
Legal Reasoning and Communication (James Brecher)
Lend Me Your Ears: The Power of Speechmaking and the Art of Speechwriting (Holly Bridges)
Medical Controversies and the Law (Fred G. Weissman)
Mind and Body Fitness (Margo Apostolos)
Musical Subcultures of the Sixties (William Biersach)
A Narrative Approach to Medical Ethics (Michael Blackie)
The Psychology of Music (Brian Harlan)
Puzzles, Patterns, Games and Illusions (Solomon Golomb)
Self Expression and the Arts (Eric Trules)
Technology and the Environment (Najmedin Meshkati)
Truth or Dare: Writing and Telling Your Own Story (Stacie Chaiken)
What Are Earthquakes All About? (Henry Koffman)
Writing to be Read (Richard Fliegel)
You Can't Go Home Again: Now What? (Eileen Kohan)

MORE INFO:
inds@usc.edu
3454 Trousdale Parkway, Room 200
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0153
(213) 740-2961

OTHER publications during the 20th Century

The Realist

(from Wikipedia) The Realist, edited and published by Paul Krassner [who is featured in this week's LA WEEKLY], was a pioneering magazine in the American countercultural press of the mid-20th century. Although The Realist is often regarded as a major milestone in the underground press, it was a nationally-distributed newsstand publication as early as 1959. The Realist was the first satirical magazine to publish conspiracy theories.

First published in the spring of 1958 in New York City in the offices of Mad Magazine,[1] The Realist appeared on a fairly regular schedule during the 1960s and then on an irregular schedule after the early 1970s. It was revived as a much smaller newsletter during the mid-1980s when material from the magazine was collected in The Best of the Realist: The 60's Most Outrageously Irreverent Magazine (Running Press, 1985). The final issue of The Realist was #146 (Spring 2001).

The Realist provided a format for extreme satire in its articles, cartoons, and Krassner's editorials, but it also carried more serious material in articles and interviews. Krassner leaned towards hoaxes, such as his "The Parts Left Out of the Kennedy Book", an outrageous parody of William Manchester's The Death of a President. Krassner's article confused some readers who accepted it as legitimate. The magazine was the first to provide a forum for conspiracy researcher Mae Brussell and also published political commentary from Norman Mailer, Ken Kesey, and Joseph Heller.

Corporate States of America

the adbusters' flag

Workshops in...

Photoshop
Audition
After Effects
Flash
Premiere
PowerPoint
Dreamweaver
Blogger/Live Journal
Publishing on YouTube, iTunes, other media aggregators

Peter gave out a survey for students to check off which applications they were interested in learning. There should be a project demo for all of them, so that students know the possibilities.

Should these workshops be limited to MDA 140?

American Beauty in 5 Seconds

An excellent example in editing!

Inspiration...

Detournment

Detournment basically means 'turning' something around for the purpose of satire. This process can be taught to students while teaching them how to work with text, image, sound, motion image, or even interactivity. Here are some basic examples of image manipulation found on the web.