Today’s plan:
- Review criteria
- Williams on Characters
- Homework
Review Criteria: Final Job Report
We are nearing the completion of the project two, the Personal Learning Project. I’d like you to compose a brief report that contains the following sections:
- Summary: (800 characters)
- Gantt Chart Review: include the gantt chart and 800 characters on how it went. Give me a self-evaluation–how did the time management go? Were you able to stay on schedule?
- Deliverables: 1000 characters, Provide some description, what went right and what you’d change/do next. Tell me about the work–what should I see? What might I not see?
- Tutorial Evaluation (800 characters): Was the tutorial useful? Too easy? Too hard? Would you recommend using it again? That is one or two concrete ideas/skills you’ll always remember?
I’ve included character counts because the goal for this assignment is concision. You have to make the prose very tight without making it feel stilted. This is harder than it sounds.
This will be a hypertext document. Include links to tutorials, social media accounts, or wordpress sites as required. Insert screenshots of deliverables as needed.
This project is due Monday, March 4th. I am concerned as to the low amount of job memos I have received. Many of you are not failing to keep up with the reading assignments. This course is designed as more of a workshop: if you simply turn in all the projects on time, then you are really likely to get an A. Last semester 10 out of 13 students got an A. This semester, only 9 out of 20 students are on that pace. Get those memo updates to me. And, for the love of pizza, turn in the fracking PLP report on time.
Homework
Three things:
- Finish the report
- For next Wednesday, March 6th, read Kramer and Bernhardt (1996) “Teaching Text Design.” There will be a quick reading quiz on Wednesday, and then we will use the principles in the article to redesign a print document
- On Monday I’m going to have groups map out what work needs to be done for The Arc. I’ve asked you to read one document in your group’s current corpus. Do that. I’ll ask you what you’ve read and what trajectories/possibilities it opens.
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