MEDIA!

If you have MEDIA so far that gives us a "tease" of your project--photos, for instance, of people baking cupcakes or huddled together over a design for generosity cards--send it to me! profpoole at gmail dot com! I know most of us aren't going for pre-launch buzz, but I want to tease the new readers of awesomephilosophy.com a little bit.

Wednesday is launch day!

WEDNESDAY IS LAUNCH DAY. We'll initiate the Awesome Philosophy projects AT BHCC, on campus, on Wednesday. Distribute your cupcakes, do your weird reality stunts, begin to get the ball rolling on putting out your viral generosity cards.

Email me by the end of Saturday, tomorrow, to let me know your proposed launch action!

On Wednesday: we'll convene at 2:30 in our usual classroom, then launch our stuff around D-building and perhaps elsewhere around the college, then reconvene and reflect no later than 3:30.

Oh, by the way: the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Len Mhlaba, my boss, is visiting us on Wednesday. This is both because he's curious about what we're doing and because he's doing a performance evaluation of whether I'm doing my job well. So...you know, keep that in mind. :)

The schedule (in the near future)

Going forward, here's our plan for the near future:

by Saturday: one person from each group must email me with your progress on your project, your plans for the weekend, and the current state of your plans for Wednesday.

Monday, 10/24: NO PRESENTATIONS. THE SCHEDULE ON THE SYLLABUS IS NO LONGER VALID. Continue to work in and outside of class on your "project launch" on Wednesday. Consider creating "buzz" among your friends about what you're going to do. Keep it a little mysterious!

Wednesday, 10/26: Class today is devoted to launching your projects AT BHCC! Cupcakes, generosity cards, reality experiments, etc. We'll gather at the usual classroom at 2:30, leave to launch the projects by 2:45, and reconvene no later than 3:30 to report on what we learned.

Create "buzz" after the fact on social media--conversations and Facebook status updates alike.

Send me an email (one PER PERSON, not one per group) reflecting on your project's launch no later than Friday, 10/28. What was it like--describe it in detail, since I won't be able to see every moment of everyone's launch! What did you learn? What will you do differently next time?

Bring your projects to the larger world. Cupcakes, coasters, generosity cards (and map), subway reality experiments, etc.

Monday, 10/31: Class today is devoted to continuing work on your projects.

(And, you know, come in costume? Maybe?)

Wednesday, 11/2: Class today is devoted to learning about making awesome presentations of your projects in advance of...

Monday, 11/7: PRESENTATION DAY. Each group gets 10 minutes to show a MULTIMEDIA presentation of what they did. There should be: talking and photos or video for EVERY SINGLE GROUP. Watch TED talks (no, not the movement one AGAIN!) for inspiration--this is the style of the talk you'll be giving. Invite your friends and family.

Wednesday, 11/9: Debriefs with me! Submit your peer grading sheets today!

Monday, 11/14: We begin political philosophy--the second project! And now that you have STUFF for it, we learn about the portfolio! Whew!

Generosity and mapping working post

If you're working on the generosity and map projects--making helping strangers go viral and experimenting with the relationship between physical space and big ideas like spirituality and honesty--you can comment on this post to organize, if you like! Comment about things you need, comment about who is in the group, comment about what your plans are for this weekend!

Reality working post

If you're working on the "reality" project--coining a nonsense word, doing an imaginary tug of war--you can comment on this post to organize, if you like! Comment about things you need, comment about who is in the group, comment about what your plans are for this weekend!

Cupcakes and Coasters working post

If you're working on the "cupcakes and coasters" project--philosophical questions in everyday places--you can comment on this post to organize, if you like! Comment about things you need, comment about who is in the group, comment about what your plans are for this weekend!

Updates after 10/12!

People.

Good work.

Awesome work, even.

As you work on your projects this weekend, don't forget to document them in progress! Take pictures, video, audio, write things down, Tweet and Facebook them, etc. But especially, take pictures! Take pictures of you working together, take pictures of the notes you're taking, take pictures of going to buy a jump rope (or whatever).

Coaster/toothpick people: I already need stuff from you! I need at least one good closeup of a coaster, and one good closeup of a fortune-cookie thingie.

Everyone, send the pictures to me--profpoole at gmail dot com.

I've made you a website on which we're going to display our collective, edited, stuff as a class. This is NOT the new "course website" for us to communicate with each other; this is for us to show our progress to the world.

It's awesomephilosophy.com

Put that URL on your coasters, toothpicks, generosity cards, handouts at your tugs of war, etc. We can make philosophizing become viral.