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1) Using Google Images∞, One Word Movie∞, and Gimp∞, choose an icon for yourself

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1) Using Google Images∞ and/or Gimp∞, choose an icon for yourself

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Here, "icon"∞ describes "any image used to represent a person, place, thing or idea," and although McCloud focuses mostly on comics, he also notices that writers regularly produce new symbols and iconography to achieve their rhetorical purposes. What icons do you encounter during your day, and what effect do you think they have on you? What effect did their designers intend?

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IcecreamMan writes in his first wiki post that "My full name is Steven Garrett [Crowley], but people just call me Captain. I like pie. I’m a feisty fireball of interesting comments. I like to have a good time and I like to move-it move-it." Now I am going to images.google.com.....selecting...pasting:
Think of my friend and student Steve.

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Here, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon∞ "icon"] describes "any image used to represent a person, place, thing or idea," and although McCloud focuses mostly on comics, he also notices that writers regularly produce new symbols and iconography to achieve their rhetorical purposes. What icons do you encounter during your day, and what effect do you think they have on you? What effect did their designers intend?

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IcecreamMan writes in his first wiki post that "My full name is Steven Garrett [Crowley], but people just call me Captain. I like pie. I’m a feisty fireball of interesting comments. I like to have a good time and I like to move-it move-it." Now I am going to images.google.com.....selecting...pasting:
Think of my friend and student Steve. (Steve is one of the all time greatest bloggers on this wiki. I shall begin a WikiHallofFame soon. Do you have what it takes?)

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Second Graded Assignment Due: remixed best definitional argument.
Fit and finish: CropandBurn to FormPDFs.
Cut and paste the text off the wiki into your word processor. Save, and turn it into a lovely printed document. If you know how, turn it into a pdf document for better fit and finish. If you don't know how, learn how, or get someone else to post a how-to here.

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Oldest known version of this page was edited on 2005-09-23 00:00:36 by EschaTon []
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/h/c/hcc114/guitar.gif∞ Read McCloud Chapter 2 pages 24-59, "The Vocabulary of Comics."
Here, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon∞ "icon"] describes "any image used to represent a person, place, thing or idea," and although McCloud focuses mostly on comics, he also notices that writers regularly produce new symbols and iconography to achieve their rhetorical purposes. What icons do you encounter during your day, and what effect do you think they have on you? What effect did their designers intend?

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On page 49, McCloud suggests that we can make icons ourselves by making pictures more like words and words more like pictures. This is a good way to work on developing a topic into an argument. For your next blog, find an image and make it into an icon by using it to respond to a classmates blog. For example:

IcecreamMan writes in his first wiki post that "My full name is Steven Garrett [Crowley], but people just call me Captain. I like pie. I’m a feisty fireball of interesting comments. I like to have a good time and I like to move-it move-it." Now I am going to images.google.com.....selecting...pasting:


http://www.mctague.org/carl/fun/pie/pie-face-2.jpg∞

Here I have decided that what essentially defines Steve is ironically not ice cream, but his tremendous love of pie. So I find an image that reminds us how important it is to give Steve a pie once in awhile. That image is now an icon of Steve, or at least I am trying to make it into one. So from now on, when you see

http://www.mctague.org/carl/fun/pie/pie-face-2.jpg∞

Think of my friend and student Steve. (Steve is one of the all time greatest bloggers on this wiki. I shall begin a WikiHallofFame soon. Do you have what it takes?)

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Second Graded Assignment Due: remixed best definitional argument.

Fit and finish: CropandBurn to FormPDFs.

Cut and paste the text off the wiki into your word processor. Save, and turn it into a lovely printed document. If you know how, turn it into a pdf document for better fit and finish. If you don't know how, learn how, or get someone else to post a how-to here.

Assignments

1. Using Google Images∞ and/or Gimp∞, choose an icon for yourself
2. Post your icon to your blog (see FormattingRules for how to post images). If you need space to host your image, try http://imageshack.us∞
3. Write a paragraph explaining the reasons you picked this image as your icon (including why you chose that image (beyond "I thought it was good (or pretty, or whatever)"), and what trait of yourself that image represents)
4. Have all of this done by 11 AM on Monday

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