Today’s Plan:
- Syllabus Review
- Project One Viewing
- Homework
Syllabus Review
A bit of housekeeping. We won’t have time in class today to discuss the Kalman–that will have to wait until Friday’s class. On Friday, we will develop our second project, using both the Kalman and the Adventures in Juntland blog post on “Affect” as our guides. As you read the latter, try to get a sense of how theorists use affect, and what distinguishes it from emotion. Please print out and annotate a copy–it is a dense reading. Again, we will talk about affect and Kalman’s My Favorite Things Friday. On Wednesday we will go through a few chapters of the Adobe book–many of them are more about learning terminology and location of tools than nuts and bolts editing. Please have your book and your disc.
If we have time on Wednesday, I might ask you a question or two about the first 50 pages of the Kalman.
Project One Viewing
Today we will be watching your projects. I sincerely look forward to this.
But we won’t just be watching. Recently, I’ve been invested in research that demonstrates that students better develop their own composing skills when they assess their peers’ work. So I’ve created a quick form to help you do that. I’ll ask that you score the work, and provide some quick feedback. We’ll take a bout 3-4 minutes after each video to jot things down and then have a brief discussion. I will make sure we stay on time so that we can watch every video in class today.
Homework
Obviously, you need to read the Kalman and the affect post by Friday. By Wednesday, I would like you to complete the postmortem quiz in Canvas. This should take around 30-45 minutes. Here are the questions:
- What did you choose to remediate and why?
- In three paragraphs, tell me about three specific choices you made. (Why/Are) you happy with them?
- How did things go technologically speaking? Did you encounter specific issues? What did you wish you knew at the beginning of the project that you know now?
- If you were to redo the project, what might you do differently next time?
- If we were to redo the question, what might you have me do differently?
