Week+4+-+Jan.+31

10:00 - 10:10 - Introduction - Attendance Today’s Class overview
 * Evolution of Information Design Wk #4 - January 31, 2011 - J208 **

10:00-10:30 - __Communication Lecture:Modern Hieroglyphs, Towards a Universal Language__

10:30 -11:00 - __Information Design Artifacts Show + Share__, Connect Artifacts to Timeline Identify the artifact, make a connection to it's historical precursor, or it's contemporary equivalent as the case may be.

11:00 -11:15 - __Course Notebook Assignment Review:__ Handout Additional Research Resource: Readings Loaded Throughout the Week 11:15 - 11:30 - Break

11:30 - 11:45 __Mind Mapping Exercise Major Paper Proposal__ - Overview of Exercise: PPT (Mind Mapping) - Hand out 5 C’s of Information Illustration:Use this to aid in researching and identifying a thesis topic + methodological approach, comparison/correlation etc, as well as the type of info-graphic you may incorporate into your essay to illuminate your document. - Define two artifacts/ideas/people a question etc and mind map them to explore possible ideas and linkages that can inform your essay. - What is research question(s) underlies your inquiry. - What are some resources you can look to, to underpin your inquiry? 11:45 - 12:45 __Mind Mapping Exercise__, individual discussions with Instructor

12:45-1:00 - __Reading #4__