Week 1, Monday, June 30-Saturday July 5:
Monday June 30: Today's goal is for you to get oriented with the website and introduce yourselves to each other and your professor. Complete the following tasks:
Wednesday, July 2:
Friday, July 4: Introduce Interview Project Today
Saturday, July 5
- Read through the Course Policies and watch video
- The next step is to head over to the forum and follow the instructions under “Day One Mixer.”
- Take Student Technology Survey
- Reading on Opinions (under READINGS tab to the left--the password is in the email you received).
- First, you should all have an email from me about your website username and password. Watch this tutorial (from a different class--don't follow the specific instructions) on how to set up your website. Your website must have a blog page and a place where you discuss yourself a little (we’ll get into this next week). Otherwise, you are welcome and encouraged to make changes to your website throughout the short quarter.
- Please re-familiarize yourself the Evaluation Criteria and the Participation Rubric. If you have questions about what these rubrics are for, you should revisit the course policies document.
- Complete quiz on Opinions reading
- Blog Assignment One: After reviewing the reading on opinions and taking the quiz, write an engaging blog about on your personal blog that explains and supports an opinion you have about something important to you. Some ideas: money, health, education, the environment, technology, progress. Please stay away from subjects you think might be go-to subjects for an English 101 class as these do not often inspire interesting conversations. These include but are not limited to: the death penalty, abortion, global warming, gun control, animal cruelty, euthanasia. You will have a choice to use this topic in upcoming projects, so choose something you are truly interested in (I’ve had better projects by students who are passionate about skateboarding than I have by students who are kinda, sorta interested in fracking.
Wednesday, July 2:
- Respond to at least five of your peers blogs. Revisit Participation Rubric before you do so (make sure your responses go beyond "I agree," "This is interesting." When a person responds to your blog, you should address any questions they have--the goal is to start some conversation here and challenge your ideas.
- Bonus participation opportunity: post a blog about whatever you want! Share something funny, write a response to something that irritates you, share some summer plans--whatever! Have fun with it.
- Read Chapters 1 & 2 Writer/Designer
- Complete Review on Chapters 1 & 2
- Blog Assignment Two: Find an article on your topic and read it. Respond to your article, incorporating one quote from the article.
- Get started on Friday’s work if you’d like
- Read Chapter Three in Writer/Designer
Friday, July 4: Introduce Interview Project Today
- Watch video introducing interview prompt and read this response to an email in the forum (scroll down to the end)
- Blog Assignment Three: Find a video (TEDtalks are great!) on your topic. Respond to your article, incorporating one quote from the video.
- Blog Assignment Four: Find three peers’ blogs whose topics seem in some way related to yours. Write a blog post explaining how your topics are related. Discuss how you all might help each other explore your topics more critically. Then respond to those three peers posts and invite them to come read your post.
Saturday, July 5
- Other than getting started on the interview project, no homework in honor of the holiday. Enjoy! And tune in on Sunday evening for the details on the upcoming week.