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Kris !

Hey!!

I just want to let you know I appreciate you :]
You and Jeff were amazing Bridge Instructors.
I am looking forward to Columbia College Chicago!!!!!!!
I am also looking forward to the email about my writing patterns.
You helped me perfect my em dash usage & that is AWESOMEE!

HOPE ALL WENT WELL WITH YOUR SURGERY :]

-Sierra

Hey Kris!!

First of all I want to say thank you for your time and I appreciate your help. I know you were getting tired of telling me to stop moving so quickly through my essays but finally I did it lol. I think I did my best on my final paper and I would like to know your thoughts on it as soon as you finish reading it. Although I didn't want to participate in the Bridge Program, I am glad I did because it was very helpful for me and my writing. You and Jeff are awesome teachers and my classmates were cool too. This was a great opportunity for me to make friends and break out of my shyness before officially starting school. I can't wait for your class to start in a couple weeks; I'm honestly very excited and anxious and I promise I will be the best student/writer I can be. I hope everything went well with your surgery and you are doing fine. See you soon.

*Jaymee*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v-5SaFTm2bcac&feature=player_embedded#!

Kristen Orser!

Hey Kris,

I think I can speak for everyone and tell you that we all missed you today and hope the best for you. Hope you are feeling well. I want to thank you for all of the help, insight, advice, and fun you brought to the class. I am very thankful that you were my teacher and hope to stay in touch. It has been such a short time, but I have learned so much about writing, my peers, and myself. Thanks again Kris for everything, I am kinda gone miss our discussions and workshops. Hope to see you on campus! Enjoy whatever time you have off and feel betttttterrrrrrrr (:
-Abby

Kristen Orser

Hey Kris i just wanted to say bye and it was nice meeting you. you were a really great teacher and really funny too. i know i didnt say much in class, but these last four weeks been really fun with you.i just want to thank you for helping me become a better writer. i hope you like my final paper; hopefully you will pass me :), but if you dont it ok, your still awesome in my book. Also, i hope your surgery went ok.

Kris Orser

Hope that everything went well with you today. Sorry you couldn't be there for the final class. The presentations were fantastic. Thank you for taking time with me and showing me how to grow as a writer.

Critique of presentations

The presentations today were very informative. It gave me insight into my classmates that I wasn't aware of. I like the way the project were demonstrated, especially Abby's. She openned up to the class in a way that made her vunerable, but it gave me a better understanding of her personality. I think they all were able to share things with us that they wouldn't have normally and it was interesting.

Clarence

Hey does everyone feel like we got pretty close as alcass? I feel like i am definately closer to my english class than i am to my math class.

take our quiz folks

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/bridge2010survey

FINAL PROJECT NOTES

Your visual or instantiation of the essay is due at the time of your presentation. I suggest practicing a speech where you emphasize HOW this is IN DIALOGUE with your essay (is it contradicting? taking the essay somewhere new? addressing a topic the essay failed to or struggled to address? is it showing us a new way of looking at your topic?). Please discuss how the content is being attended to by the medium (painting, sculpture, audio, video, etc.) and how the content helped you develop the shape and structure of the piece.

You are discussing form (medium, materials, and shape) to see how it is an extension of content.

Discuss, also, your process of making. How did one perception lead to another perception? How did you shape your energies, passions, and ideas?

Once you've established an understanding of the finished product (by discussing form and process), use your piece to BEGIN A CONVERSATION with your peers. Considering asking your peers questions or making the piece interactive in some way.

Have fun with this presentation and try to aim towards (including Q&A) about a 10 minute presentation. That's a lot of time, but your work should generate a conversation, critique, and exciting points. Some of you may want handouts or material that keep the conversation going.

YOUR FINAL ESSAYS ARE ALL DUE 8/26. Because I am missing class that day, email me your essays as an attachment by 12 pm that day. No exceptions regarding the time. If you have your essay earlier, awesome! Hand it in to me.

PRESENTATION DATES:

8/25: Abby, Jaymee, Kyrin, JayVon, Adilla, Tequira.
8/26: Brittany, Clarence and Sierra, Domenic, Christian, Charlie, and Mike.

Please feel free to ask questions and workshop like crazy today.

Best,
Kris

Rehabilitation - Aug 19, 2010

Do you think that prisons are designed to rehabilitate (make them better citizens ) inmates?

How do you Feel?

How does everyone feel about the kids from true notebooks being incarecerated. Do you believe that they were just simply a product of their environment or is it totally their fault that they are locked up?

Mike's Question 8/17

I've been thinking and thinking but I'm still stuck on what to write this paper on. What are some ideas that you have about what to write the paper on?

make sense?

if two negatives make a positive why cant two wrongs make a right?

reading images, making bridges

"We are surrounded by worn-out images, and we deserve new ones." - Werner Herzog

"Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long." - Walker Evans


Talk to me about the differences between these two images. Deconstruct the images so that you analyze the importance of the context, the differences, and the values associated with these images. This is good practice for finding points of juxtaposition for your final.

watch!

This video really demonstrates "playing with language" in a way that associates "like" idea. See how the language and the words move the images into the images into the images?

This is akin to what we'd like to see as the visual instantiation of your final essay. This "works with" the ideas of language we are seeking.

Talk to me about this video. What do you like? How is this "like" an essay? Can we call this a visual essay? Does this help any of you approach some concrete paper subject?


This is another AWESOME video for a larger project. See how the author takes the "symbol" of a tumbleweed and applies it in a new way? This is what we are looking for--something that is textual and visual, something that opens up a new space for thinking, something that sustains an idea into all of the things it can connect with and to. (click on the image to watch the video and learn about the project)

GROUND ZERO

Ground zero is technically defines as the space of land bvetween the streets Liberty, Church, West, and Barclay. Making the mosque technically ON ground zero.

So it isn't down the block. It is definatwely ON it.

Mosque Planned Near Ground Zero

O8|16|2O1O :)

- bloq question:

Thinking about all you have expierenced thus far in the Bridge Program - what have you learned? What are your thoughts about how you are doing? are you excited to successfully pass? if so - why are you so excited? Just marinate on your thoughts about Bridge and express yourself...