Makes Tagged "meme"

There are times when you might need to take part of one image and layer in another image. For the #rangerme meme project in the CLMOOC, we had a template where participants needed to layer in their own image to create themselves as honorary park rangers. Photoshop users can do this easily but many of us are not photoshopping experts. Another easier way to do this task is to use PicMonkey, a free online photo editing site. By uploading a template, and then using the erase/layer tool, you can easily place a second image on top of the first. PicMonkey… Read more »

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Many young writers have trouble crystallizing their character’s main desire, secret, fear, or conflict, and how that connects to their play or story at large. This activity uses the structure of memes to help writers begin to hone in on that concept though the use of “meme sticky notes” or “meme portraits.” Version #1 – For Groups To do this activity with a group… 1. Select a meme with a formula that beneficial for exploring character. For example, the Morpheus meme, “What if I told you…” is a great meme to use if you’d like participants to explore character through… Read more »

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My attempt at launching a meme where participants can identify ways that we all overlook our own consumption of popular culture while making claims that we are immune to its influence.

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For Make Cycle #2 of CLMOOC 2014, we are exploring memes. So what’s a meme? Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, who coined the term, defined a meme as a bit of culture that gets propagated. It’s basically culture’s version of what genes are to biology. Conceptually, then, anything that spreads and evolves widely in a culture is a meme; in the 60s, the peace sign was a meme; fashion trends are memes; popular quotes from movies are memes. When most people think of memes, a specific kind of captioned image, like the well-known LOLcats and their canine counterparts, the Fail Dog,… Read more »

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