6. TODAY
1. Icebreaker: introducing
ourselves.
2. Visual Rhetoric: what’s up
with that?
3. So what are we going to
be doing?
4. Did someone say Tumblr?
5. Activities, activities, activi
ties

7. Icebreaker
To start today, I want you to complete
what is likely to be a familiar sort of
icebreaker activity. You will pair up
with someone you don’t already
know, and over the course of a few
minutes you will interview that
person.
The info you need to get is on the next
slide.

8. Find out…
1) The person’s name (obviously)
2) What he/she goes by (if it’s
different)
3) His/her major and progress in the
program.
4) Why he/she decided to take Visual
Rhetoric
5) His/her favorite logo
6) One piece of information that will
help all of us to remember
him/her.

9. Now, then…
…let’s talk more specifically about
what we will be doing as a class.
At this point, please either focus on
the screen or open the website at
http://www.phillalexander.com/vis
That course website, btw, will serve as
our activity hub and your syllabus.
Let’s talk about class.

10. And now, Tumblr
I will show you how to start a
Tumblr, so follow along if you’re not
familiar with the site.
Please go to http://www.tumblr.com
Once you create your site, please
email the URL to me at
alexanp3@miamioh.edu

11. Your First Tumblr
For your first Tumblr post, I want
you to give me a skills overview.
On the next slide you will find a
series of questions. Please
answer them as completely and
accurately as you can.

12. Skills Overview
How much experience
do you have with:
1) Adobe InDesign? Adobe
Photoshop? Dreamweaver?
2) Desktop publishing?
3) Document design– working on a
magazine, newspaper, website, or
designing any sort of paperwork?
4) Creating art? If so, what kind?
5) Taking photographs?
6) Any visual rhetoric-ish skills you
want me to know you have?

13. For Next Time
For Thursday:
1) Start the InDesign tutorials described on
the syllabus. You have time to complete
these, but the sooner, the better.
2) read: Williams non-designers design
book Chapters 1,2 & 3
3) Begin work on your first reading
response and first design activity

14. And now…
… let’s finish by talking about
community partners and what our
major projects for the semester will
look like.
And, of course, answer questions.