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9 Sept

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DUE FRIDAY NIGHT, MIDNIGHT EST:

 

1. develop your WTE drafts to at least 3,000 words. We talked about ways to get there: interviews, repurposing feedback and dialogue, writing about connections that you see across our explorations (cf. Andrea's excellent post, which also serves as valuable feedback as per assignment #3), chunking and writing in the gaps (transitions), initalizing new sections with analogies and cause/effect claims and other rhetorical devices, introducing counterargument and multiple perspectives, repurposing/citing mixmaster blogs, blogging in freedom--these are some of the ways you can establish a writing rhythm that will render a readable and engaging WTE piece.

 

2. Portfolio dry run #1: create a new page for your WTE Portfolio and link it to your wiki hub. This is where you will compile a graphic image of your writing process, your responses to a set of "cover sheet" questions that will help me evaluate your efforts, links to your draft pages, your compiled feedback (VIP), your final draft, and a brief reflection of the WTE experience.

Portfolio Checklist

 

DUE MONDAY NIGHT, MIDNIGHT, EST:

 

3. 3X feedback. Please continue to work from the grid we established on 7 September so that we can make sure that EVERY draft gets attention. Obviously, if a draft has three "live" links, that draft is getting enough attention--move on to another draft. If it is weak, all the better for you, you will have plenty to write.

4. if you haven't already, read "What is Service Learning?" (just chapter 1) and contribute to, revise, rearrange the mixmaster blogs (Lead, Learn, Serve and Journey/Success). Put your input both on your blog and in the emerging collective mixmaster blogs. Watch in astonishment as a coherent exploration, free for the sampling and remixing, emerges.

 

THE FRIDAY DEADLINE IS DESIGNED TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE GETS FEEDBACK. OBVIOUSLY YOU WILL NEED TO TAKE STOCK OF YOUR PEER DRAFTS BETWEEN SATURDAY AND TUESDAY.

IN CLASS,

Image: wikignome, sampled from Wikipedia.

Typically, WikiGnomes work behind the scenes of a wiki, tying up little loose ends and making things run more smoothly, and are typically concerned with grammar and functionality. But in our context, wiki-generosity can and should be extended to the rhetorical register, where providing feedback about the ideas and the craft of the argument at hand becomes a gift that keeps on giving...and giving back to the one who provides the feedback.

 

Today, we examined two kinds of writing: WTE and WTE feedback.

 

We looked at a pages created by Caleb and Andrea and talked about how to cluster our feedback, so that each of us can leverage our collective wisdom into our own individual  writing processes.

 

we talked about taking responsibility for our own learning and writing

 

we amplified the importance of breaking our flow into discrete chunks, and focusing on writing transitions.

 

we talked about our medium of writing in terms of multimedia composition: using video, sound, images, and LINKS for

 

a) invention

 

b) creating appeals (specifically, pathos), altering the state of consciousness our reader brings to our topic of exploration

 

c) for developing arguments by "outside testimony" (citing sources) and compressing information (which video, images, and sound do so well) for further elaboration in prose.

 

d) VIP in multimedia composition: "setting the envelope." Just like citing any source: set it up, and then provide your own "reading" of the multimedia element you have embedded/linked/shared.

 

e) multimedia composition is multimodal (engages the affective realm through visuals and sound), and multi-person.

 

Edit these reflections and/or post your comments/reflections/notes here!

 

Jasmyne's WikiBlog - class notes, a declaration of freedom via blogging.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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