For beginning students, mapping out areas for them to discover requires me to have a solid understanding, based on past experience with other beginning students, what is reasonable to achieve (in terms of technical skills and in theoretical grasp) in a given period of study and also how to best integrate this new student with ongoing project development.

When judging each other's rough draft and "final" works, I have been asking students to turn to Manovich's text, The Language of New Media, for guidance and for a number of rubrics that can then be applied directly to their projects. Much like the advice that Sorapure provides in her Kairos article, "Five Principles of New Media: Or, Playing Lev Manovich."

     
  Image of Charlie Chaplin just from legs down, projected on side of CompuObscura building model. Taken by Cal Poly Architecture class students using class-created model and slide projector, Spring 2004.  
     
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