This discussion spans 4 days and is due before midnight on Thursday of week 5.

Learning outcomes

Students will be able to 1) discuss feminist theory, women's choices, race and cultural issues, and barriers related to gender and technology, 2) research current trends of women and technology of different cultures/countries, 3) analyze relationships among science, technology, and society using critical perspectives or examples from historical, political, or economic disciplines, 4) analyze the role of science and technology in shaping diverse fields of study over time, 5) articulate in writing a critical perspective on issues involving science, technology, and society using evidence as support.

Introduction

Art has typically been the "the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power." (Google 2016)

Most artists will tell you it is the experience of making art that is the most valuable aspect of all things art. Since scientists were able to capture images with a lens, the in-pouring of technology into art-making, the notion of beauty has changed. Beauty is the process as much as it is the final outcome. Beauty is no longer confined to a rectangle canvas or sculpture we can see with our eyes or feel with our hands.

New techniques for making art include the digital realm where viewers can manipulate variables to experience their own creation within the creation. New art includes sound and movement and other spectra of light. It may also be older materials repurposed to enthrall audiences. It can be shared and experienced not just on a wall or floor, but with smart electronic devices around the globe simultaneously. Art's new global presence allows everyone to be an art maker thereby satisfying their own needs to express emotion.

1. On Monday, start viewing, reading, and creating.

View the videos, try Google's Made it with Code site, and read/view at least three other art- and technology-related articles/media.

Google's Made with Code site lets you experiment with shape, size, sound, movement, and color using simple computer programming techniques (making CODE!). Spend just 10 minutes making something beautiful.

Then search for and listen to/read a few popular or other scholarly articles, podcasts, and videos. In a new tab, add various search phrases to a Google, Bing, or Yahoo search bar to locate articles. Switch to the Scholar, News, Videos, and Images channels to see different results.

women artists exploring technology

technology artists women

art and technology

contemporary artists using technology

coding for art

women visualizing data

high-tech art movement

this is colossal

National Museum of Women in the Arts

and your own search phrases

2. By Wednesday, start discussing the readings. (4 points)

In the Canvas forum for week 5:

1. Make a new thread titled with a question from the weeks' readings that you found most intriguing.
2. In 400 words or more, recap your use of Make it with Code as well as the scholarly and popular articles you read.
   1. Write in a text editor like Word or Google Docs.
   2. Cite sources using embedded hyperlinks in the Titles of Articles you mention so that readers can quickly open them in a new browser tab.
   3. Mention support for your ideas, provide solutions, and note personal experiences.
      • I want to hear what you learned, not necessarily what you already know.

3. By midnight on Thursday, reply to three others' threads. (4 points)

1. Glance through all the responses.
2. Respond to at least three others' threads (but not more than 5).
   • Challenge the opinions of others but back them up with research.
     • Research means you searched for and found other articles that support your ideas.
     • Writing means you wrote in your own words. Do not paste in large passages of others' writings.
   • Note which sources you found that support or contradict the ideas presented.
   • Cite sources using embedded hyperlinks in the Titles of Articles.

This section of the Cultural Research project spans 7 days and is due before midnight on Sunday of week 5.

Introduction

As noted in Chapter 3's introduction of the Cultural Research project, your goals are to write at least 2000 words about the required topics (which are the Subheadlines I had you add to your blog's Pages (Chapter 2)). This word count does not include the bibliography, timelines, list of quotes, list of awards, or repetitious fluff.

In previous weeks, your weekly project work was scored via a blog Post. However, the writing for this project in the Pages earns 40 points (versus a blog Post, which is earns 5 points). The writing for the project will be scored at the end of Chapter 6/Week 6. Start writing now so that you can participate in the Chapter 6 Peer Review and complete the final draft at the end of Week 6.

Instructions

5.1 Review writing requirements and support options

Most of the text of your project must be written in your own words. All information must be cited using the (author year) inline format at the end of sentences/paragraphs. You may use a few select direct quotations (exact words written by another person) and they must be surrounded to double quotation marks and/or surrounded by block-quotes. Do not copy text from other web sites without quoting, block-quoting, citing, and editing appropriately.

• Cite a minimum of 7 scholarly sources.
• Do NOT cite Wikipedia. Read Ten Reasons....
• Do NOT cite About.com.

Synthesis Writing

Sandra Jamieson of Drew University clarifies for you the three key features of Synthesis Writing (1999):

1. It accurately reports information from the sources using different phrases and sentences
2. It is organized in such a way that readers can immediately see where the information from the sources overlap.
3. It makes sense of the sources and helps the reader understand them in greater depth.

And Ed Boyden, award-winning MIT brain researcher reminds us to:

”Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you’re reading what you conceive to be introductory stuff. That way, you will always aim towards understanding things at a resolution fine enough for you to be creative.”

Ed Boyden, How To Think, According To This Winner Of The Brain Prize, 2016

Writing Support

Ugh! Instructor's Top 12

1. A “site” is a location or place (even a web site). “Sight” refers to vision. “Cite” refers to the source.
2. To “excel” means to do well whereas “Excel” is the proper name of a computer application.
3. “Police officer” is gender neutral whereas “Policeman” is not.
4. “Chair of the Board” rather than “Chairman of the Board”
5. “Writers should sharpen their eyes” rather than “a writer should sharpen her eyes”
6. “To boldly go where we have never gone before” instead of “to boldly go where no man has gone before”
7. “Your” is possessive of “you” and “you're” is a contraction for “you are."
8. “There” is a place. “They're” is a contraction for “they are.” “Their” is possessive for “they.”
9. “Who” and “whom” refer to people. “Which” refers to animals or things. “That” can refer to either persons or things.
10. “Too” means “also”. “Two” is a number. “To” references a direction, affect, or relationship.
11. “Its” is the possessive form of “it.” “It's” is the contraction of “it is.”
12. “Then” shows sequence. “Than” compares nouns.

Avoid Writing Problems

Compare TurnItIn's Originality report with synthesis writing.

Embed Journal URLs properly

5.2 Remember the required areas of writing.

The Pages added to your Wordpress site in chapter 2 will be used to write in. You'll write between the subheadlines to help ensure you do not write about 'whatever'. The project objectives and the scoring criteria are driving the kinds of research you did last week and writing you do this week. It is not open-ended.

5.3 Add writing to the site's existing Pages.

To save time, I want you to write directly in your website's Pages. Wordpress saves revisions in case something goes wrong. But if you are nervous about writing directly in the website, make a PDF file at the end of your writing session.

1. Login to your Wordpress site and click the My Site button to get to the Dashboard.
2. Click on the Pages button.
3. Click on the Cultural Research page link to edit it.
   • Change the title to the name of your topic person.
   • Remove the 'Introducing the topic of my project.' sentence.
   • In your own words, in a single paragraph which summarizes the person's culture of origin and their contribution to technology.
   • Embed links to inline citations so that the author's last name is hyperlinked, like this: (Smith 2016).
   • Click the Update button.
   • Click the green View button to see the page in a new tab. Check for grammar and spelling errors.
   • Ctrl-P (Win) or ⌘-P (Mac) to print the page as a .PDF file. Close this viewing tab.
   • Click the ← Back button from the Editing tab.
4. Click on the — 1. Culture page link to edit it.

   Under the 'Culture of origin...' subheadline:

   type your original writing about a general description of the topic person's culture in her era (norms related to terrain, gender, religion, arts, food, etc.).

   Under the 'Tools...' subheadlinee:

   type your original writing about the tools, devices, appliances, and machines commonly used by women in that culture and era.

   • Embed links to inline citations so that the author's last name is hyperlinked:
     like this: (Smith 2016).
   • Click the Update button.
   • Click the green View button to see the page in a new tab. Check for grammar and spelling errors.
   • Ctrl-P (Win) or ⌘-P (Mac) to print the page as a .PDF file. Close this viewing tab.
   • Click the ← Back button from the Editing tab.
5. Click on the — 2. Trends page link to edit it.

   Under the 'Statistics related to...' subheadlinee:

   type your original writing about statistics related to gender and Education and Business/industry in the culture and era.

   Under the 'How have the statistics changed...' subheadlinee:

   type your original writing about how the statistics of women in education and business changed over time...from the past to now.

   Under the 'How did education and business influence... subheadlinee:

   type your original writing about the aspects of business and education that influenced your topic's technology development.

   • Embed links to inline citations so that the author's last name is hyperlinked, like this: (Smith 2016).
   • Click the Update button.
   • Click the green View button to see the page in a new tab. Check for grammar and spelling errors.
   • Ctrl-P (Win) or ⌘-P (Mac) to print the page as a .PDF file. Close this viewing tab.
   • Click the ← Back button from the Editing tab.
6. Click on the — 3. Biography page link to edit it.

   Under the 'Childhood influences and education' subheadlinee:

   type your original writing about her family and access to education.

   Under the 'Work experience' subheadlinee:

   type your original writing about the companies she worked for and types of work she did.

   • Embed links to inline citations so that the author's last name is hyperlinked, like this: (Smith 2016).
   • Click the Update button.
   • Click the green View button to see the page in a new tab. Check for grammar and spelling errors.
   • Ctrl-P (Win) or ⌘-P (Mac) to print the page as a .PDF file. Close this viewing tab.
   • Click the ← Back button from the Editing tab.
7. Click on the — 4. Technology page link to edit it.

   Under the 'Inventions' subheadlinee:

   type your original writing of details and define terms to help a lay audience understand the complexities of her technology.

   Under the 'Tools and Methods' subheadlinee:

   type your original writing about the tools and methods she employed in her research and inventions.

   • Embed links to inline citations so that the author's last name is hyperlinked, like this: (Smith 2016).
   • Click the Update button.
   • Click the green View button to see the page in a new tab. Check for grammar and spelling errors.
   • Ctrl-P (Win) or ⌘-P (Mac) to print the page as a .PDF file. Close this viewing tab.
   • Click the ← Back button from the Editing tab.
8. Click on the — 5. Bibliography page link to edit it.
   • For each source used in the project, list the author, title, publisher, date, and URL.
   • Either embed the URL of the source in the Title, OR paste it after the date. If it isn't hyperlinked, then add the hyperlink. If the source is a book then you can leave off a URL.
   • Click the Update button.
   • Click the green View button to see the page in a new tab. Check for grammar and spelling errors.
   • Ctrl-P (Win) or ⌘-P (Mac) to print the page as a .PDF file. Close this viewing tab.
   • Click the ← Back button from the Editing tab.

5.4 Get the writing reviewed.

If English is not your native language, or you have problems writing in complete sentences, I highly recommend you add Grammarly extension to the Chrome browser so that you can quickly edit as you write.

Consult one or more of these resource for a review of the structure of your writing. Provide the tutor with a link to the instructions as well as your project online.

• NetTutor's Paper Center
• OSU Online Writing Lab
• OSU on campus Writing Center

5.5 Blog challenges and progress in a new Post. (5 points)

1. Login to your Wordpress site and click the My Site button to get to the Dashboard.
2. Click on the Blog Posts Add button.
   • Title the Post so it relates to your writing in the Pages experience.
   • Write a paragraph about the successes and challenges of writing in the Pages. Add notes about making paragraphs, adding lists, and adding hyperlinks to inline citations.
   • Check spelling and grammar.
   • Click the Category button and choose the Gender & Technology.
   • Click the Publish button.

5.6 Submit the URL to your new post.

1. View your site live (not from the Dashboard).
2. Select the URL for your home page or your new Post.
3. Paste the URL into the Canvas assignment link for Chapter 5.