viz.

Since fall of '06 I have been giving a PowerPoint visual rhetoric presentation in UT's RHE 306 and RHE 309K classes. The presentations have been pretty successful and seem well received by students and instructors alike. I have had some requests to distribute the presentation but have been holding off for a couple of reasons: 1) the presentation is composed almost entirely of coprighted material and unlimited distribution would almost certainly violate the fair use terms under which I am currently using the materials; 2) the images I included are often controversial, for a variety of reasons, and I am hesitant to distribute the presentation to instructors without backgrounds in visual rhetoric or who might not be attuned to some of the delicate classroom issues some of the images present.

But fear not. I have plans to finish, in the near future, a similar presentation composed entirely of public domain images that are also of a less controversial nature. Additionally, I will be leading a workshop for instructors on the UT campus sometime soon (date, time and location TBA) that will give me a chance to address some of the project's liabilities face-to-face with instructors.

And, as many people know, the presentation features the now infamous Facebook Ambush, of which there is a great discussion on our pedagogy blog at: http://pedagogy.dwrl.utexas.edu/?q=node/162