What?

During your Attentive Repetition practice you go outside, tune into your sensory apparatus, move (or not) at a pedestrian speed, have your attention solicited, and record the encounters you experience. All of this you do without the incorporation of words. Now, you will render those encounters, adding words, and post them in your “Log.” The steps you will take when posting to your Log are as follows.

For each record of an encounter you choose to post:

1. Upload a record of an encounter. Each record can be submitted as a photo, video clip, audio clip, or drawing you made.
2. Title/caption the recording. When a media item is uploaded CLAS will provide two boxes, one for a title and another for a description (see below). In the title box write words that come easily to mind when you revisit the recording. These titles should not describe the media, they should represent a personal connection for you to the encounter and/or its recording.
3. Enhance the uploaded medial by writing a description of the recording. Write rich descriptive text for each recorded encounter in the box provided in CLAS when the media item is uploaded. This descriptive text is often referred to as alternative text or alt-text.

After you have finished posting your recorded encounters:

4. Write a self-assessment statement for the week’s Attentive Repetition assignment, answering the following questions:
   • How did my Attentive Repetition walks go this week?
   • Was I tuned into my sensory apparatus?
   • Did I feel present for the practice?
   • Did I notice anything I had not notice before?
5. Assign yourself a grade from 0 to 3 in accordance with the rubric provided.

Why?

Writing captions and descriptive text at the end of the week does three thing: 1) brings you back into conversation with a recording after some time having lapsed, 2) explicitly calls on language to participate in the processes of storying and corrugation, and 3) makes the Log more accessible to a wider array of people.

Together these things, the record, title/caption, and description become a rendering of the encounter you experienced on your walk. They represent the encounter itself, a momentary meeting, what it is that you connect to the encounter, and the salient aspects that for you stand out as important to describe in the recording.

How and where?

Using UBC’s CLAS, each participant’s Log will serve as a repository for your rendered encounters. Each Log will be a detailed archive of participants’ journey in this course. Individual’s Logs will be available and accessible to other participants in the class to browse, learn with, and respond to (see Peer Responses for details); this collection of Logs we will call the “logosphere.” Each week you will post between 5 and 10 recorded encounters to your Log. These recorded encounters, as discussed in Attentive Repetition and Unit 2 (Days 4 to 7), can be photographs, audio clips, video clips, or drawings. The posts you make in your Log will be used as ingredients in your final (Mulit)media Essay.

Media guidelines

Photos

• Take photos of whatever solicits your attention. Avoid photographing humans who will be identifiable in the photo.

• Avoid using zoom on your phone or cameras.
• Please do not add filters on your photos.

Video

• Video clips are to follow the same guidelines as photos.
• Clips are to be no more than 20 seconds long. This will help the other class participants engage with your logs.

Audio

• Audio clips are to be no more than 20 seconds long. This will help the other class participants engage with your logs.
• No words spoken by humans are to be recorded.

Drawings

• No not include words in your drawings.
• Drawings done on paper, photographed/scaned, and uploaded to CLAS are fine, as are digital drawings done on a tablet or other drawing tech.

When?

Due: weekly from day 2 to day 23

Log entries are to be made once each week, beginning on Day 2 and continuing to Day 23. You may find it helpful to fix a time in your weekly schedule for this. By the end of the semester you are expected to have logged at least 10 times and have rendered between 50 and 100 encounters in the CLAS logosphere.

Evaluation

Your Log is graded on a completion basis separate from your Attentive Repetition self-assessment. Log entries are to be made once each week during the semester. Posting each week will mean you posted 11 times by Day 24. You default mark for this assignment will be 5/5%. If less than 10 post have been made your grade will be reduced by 1% per missing post.