I like mgilbert's suggestion for assignment percentages, but I also wouldn't mind them all being 10% each.

I found an interesting website that generates a colorized photograph of any of the ones you provide a link for or upload yourself.

https://demos.algorithmia.com/colorize-photos

Could we assign a set day to this? I would forget about it otherwise. If I know I had to to it by a certain day I would be sure to prepare posts in advance.

GIFs and memes are two things that can go hand-in-hand. Internet culture has turned them into an artform, and I think they would be a great addition to add some humor to an assignment of some kind.

I would be interested in talking to everyone else about this. I'm not entirely sure how we would turn it into an assignment, but it sounds like fun to create or recreate an oral history of some kind.

I read that a previous class did live tweeting of events. That sounds exciting to me!

I had a teacher in high school who would make us do "mind maps" that were a combination of pretty much everything we covered in a unit. We were supposed to try and create a theme of some kind and incorporate pictures and colors. I still have copies of my mind maps, so I can share them if anyone is interested in doing something similar.

An example would be that I made a "newspaper" on Modern Africa. It wasn't like a real newspaper, but was certainly meant to resemble one. We could probably do something like the Live Tweeting of events but in newspaper format.

Small group analysis projects, such as the photograph analysis from one of the previous classes, and mini research topics sound good to me. I used to do this in high school a lot.

I'd prefer to know the range of assignments before going forward here.

I have never gotten to use the resources at the HCC, so I would love to know more about what they offer and what could be created.

We could use a variety of digital means to present things we've learned. I know there are ways to create short animated videos, though I've never made one myself. Prezi is also an interesting platform to present things, because it "travels" between your points. We could also do a "View It Yourself" kind of thing, i.e. making projects that others can look at on their own while someone verbally explains the basics of it. We had to do something similar to this in Digital Studies last semester when Zoom wouldn't let everyone share their screens. It was interesting to find alternative ways to present in the heat of the moment.

I'd love to hear others throw out ideas on what to cover. I cannot think of much that we didn't discuss last class or isn't on the syllabus.

I'm really interested in studying photography, early radio, and film. I also would love to cover video games, because that is a hobby of mine.

Photography is a very interesting medium. The first camera was a camera obscura, which pretty much anyone can make. War photography also made a huge impact on a global scale before televised coverage was broadcast worldwide.