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Note: This is updated weekly, typically on Mondays for the following week.

 

November 26, 2007
  • Presentations of Group Projects

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December 3, 2007

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September 10, 2007

 

    1.   Please complete the following survey: http://CTLSilhouette.wsu.edu/surveys/ZS68003 

 

September 17, 2007

  1. Business
    1. Sign Ups for Moxley visits
    2. Blogs
    3. Discussion Forum--Observations
  2. Discuss Sample Annotated Bibliography/Grade
  3. Taylor & Joe: Discuss Sample 1101 Project 1/Grade
  4. Taylor & Joe: Discuss Sample 1102 Project 1/Grade
  5. Discuss Readings:

Advice for New Faculty Members

By: Bob Boice

Section I

Moderate Work at Teaching

Rationale for a Nihil Nimus (Moderate)

Approach to Teaching

 

Rhetoric and Ideology in the Writing Class

By: James Berlin

College English, Volume 50, Number 5, September 1988

 

September 24, 2007

 

  1. Sign up for a time to meet w/ me to show me your comments on student papers. I would prefer to meet w/ you after you have marked up the essays so I can sort through them and randomnly select a few to look at. If that won't work, I can look at a couple that you picked out. My goal here is to look them over quickly and read your endnote. I hope to help you grade them...
  2. Sign up for a time for me to visit your course
  3. Design Flashlight Survey. Pls share results w/ me
  4. Before next week look over 1101 Ideas and 1102 Ideas
  5. Pls print 2 of your best blogs...
  6. Work with Taylor Mitchell on CLAQWA for second scoring.
  7. Discuss Readings
    1. Bizzell, Patricia. "'Contact Zones' and English Studies"
    2. Rhetoric and Ideology in the Writing Class
  8. Next week, pls bring your detailed lesson plan for Project #2

 

October 1, 2007

 

Announcements

  1. Please stop by to see me this week to show me your comments on student papers. I'm in the office most days by 10.
  2. Sign up for a time for me to visit your course
  3. Share your Flashlight Survey results w/ me
  4. Share some printouts of favorite blogs
  5. Don't forget to upload your teaching observations to the Discussion Forum

In Class Activities

  1. Visit by Kim, Questions, etc.
  2. Share/Discuss Sample Lesson Plans
  3. Discuss Wikis, Experiment w/ our wikis--especially the new wiki at eportfolio, and discuss 1101 Ideas and 1102 Ideas
  4. Discuss Reading, Fulkerson, Richard. “Composition at the Turn of the 21st Century”
  5. Discuss/Grade Sample Papers using http://collegewriting.us/Shared%20Documents/EssayRubric07.doc

Homework

Go ahead and skip your blog this week. Instead, please contribute to one of the following collaborative essays; be sure to add your name to the contributors once you've added your two cents

October 8, 2007

 

 Announcements

  1. Please stop by to see me this week to show me your comments on student papers. I'm in the office most days by 10.
  2. Sign up for a time for me to visit your course
  3. Share your Flashlight Survey results w/ me
  4. Share some printouts of favorite blogs
  5. Don't forget to upload your teaching observations to the Discussion Forum                          
  1.  Note Responding to Student Writing
  2. Discuss two sample student papers and practice making comments.
  3. Inclass sharing of wiki work. Here I ask that you call up on your screen something you did on the wiki. Then we can move from computer to computer to demonstrate that usage.
  4. Discuss Reading
  5. Homework
    1. View Taylor's movie Take 20 and then respond at http://bedfordstmartins.com/talk20
    2. Read Stiff's "Students Responses..." and Gee's "The Effect Upon..." essays on responding to writing.

 

October 15, 2007

  1.  2nd Visit by Drew, Blackboard trainer, re e-grades, 3:30-4:00
  2. Additional Practice making endnotes w/ 2 student papers
    1. Read Perfect Harmony and provide comments here GroupOne, GroupTwo, Group Three, GroupFour
    2. Read "They're All Negative?" and provide comments here GroupOne, GroupTwo, Group Three, GroupFourDiscuss Reading & Taylor's movie
    1. Discuss Taylor's movie Take 20 and B's http://bedfordstmartins.com/talk20
    2. Read Stiff's "Students Responses..." and Gee's "The Effect Upon..."
    3. Watch Blackboard Grades Homework.
    1. Please complete the following survey at http://CTLSilhouette.wsu.edu/surveys/ZS69604
    2. Continue updates to Discussion Forum regarding classroom observations
    3. Using Writing Blogs
    4. Add your two cents to the wiki space to decide on a group topic.

October 22, 2007              

  1. Group Exercise
    1. Working in groups, please answer the following questions on a wiki page: 

      ·     Develop written guidelines that describe how teachers should respond to student work

      • Develop a rubric that would account for your goals of effective teachers response
      • Speculate about how can we redesign our classes (or writing program) to better facilitate feedback of student work?
      • Outline the design of a research study to determine the effectiveness of teacher feedback

      GroupOne, GroupTwo, Group Three, GroupFour, GroupFive
  2. Discuss Reading
    1. Connors, Robert J. and Andrea A. Lunsford. "Teachers' Rhetorical Comments on Students Papers"?
    2. Knoblauch, C.H. and Lil Brannon . "Teacher Commentary on Student Writing"  
    3. Howard, Rebecca Moore. "Collaborative Pedagogy"
  3. Using Writing Blogs
  4. Working with your SharePoint HomePage
    1. Adding RSS fields to public/private pages
    2. Review if desired: Changing Permissions for greater access

 

October 29, 2007

We will not meet in class. Instead, I ask that you work on completing course projects, especially the group project that involves developing a new writing project or adding in some meaningful way to the http://collegewriting or http://usf.eportfolio.usf.edu sites. 

Homework

  1. Before 10/29, please describe your efforts to "wiki" at Discussion Forum
  2. Before 10/29, please also complete your teaching observations and note them in the Discussion Forum.
  3. Before 10/29, please add your two cents to

November 5, 2007

    1. 10 Minutes: Visit: Akemi Gianfilippo on Inventing Arguments
    2. 20 Minutes: Visit of Neil Gomes to discuss Safe Assignment. While Neil reviews Safe Assignment, those who do not have questions on its use can work independently.
    3. 1 hour: Class time on Group Projects. Each group should create a workspace in the class wiki.
    4. Peer Group Work. Break into groups and report on what is working especially well. Reports from groups. During this time I hope to meet individually with you on questions you have on using SharePoint or writing blojs
    5.  Discussion of reading can take place in discussion forum or blogs
      1. George, Ann. "Critical Pedagogy: Dreaming of Democracy"
      2. George and Trimbur. "Cultural Studies and Composition."
      3. Neil Gomes on Safe Assignment

November 12, 2007

  1. Class is Cancelled for VETERANS DAY
  2. Be sure you have contributed to Responding to Writing and reflected on this collaborative experience at the Discussion Forum.
  3. Contribute to this discussion: here
  4. Please upload your detailed teaching schedules into your shared folders.
  5. Please have a draft of your proposed group project posted on your wiki site
    6. by November 15 so that I may respond before class on the 19th

November 19, 2007

  1. 10 Minutes: Visit: Class Visit: John Lowe
  2. 20 Minutes: Neil Gomes, on Safe Assignment
  3. Please contact qvieregge@gmail.com if you are willing to do a podcast. It should only take 10-15 minutes of your time. Thank you! You may do it over anything you feel passionate about.
  4. How to customize SharePoint
    1. How to add your blogs to your homepage (reminder)
    2. How to add rss feeds (reminder)
    3. How to edit your details/contact page (reminder)
    4. How to create subsites and make them public (reminder)
  5. How to use WritingBlogs, especially the "pages" feature.
  6. Examples of Wikis
  7. Sharing of detailed schedules for 1101 and 1102
  8. In-class work on Group Projects.

Last modified at 11/20/2007 7:01 AM  by Moxley, Joseph