Thursday, December 10, 2009

Activities for r 12/10

Remember: Everything is due by midnight, Dec 15

The SEI/class evaluation form is open until December 12. We are Subject: ENGL Course Number: 303 Section: 001 CRN: 84703 Instructor: Baldwin, Charles.

Presentations > Students will take turns coming to the front of the class for a five minute presentation on your creative gallery. Provide a tour of the project: explain what it is about and how it relates to the topics of the course. Show us some of the project.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Activities for T 12/8

Remember: Everything is due by midnight, Dec 15

The SEI/class evaluation form is open until December 12. We are Subject: ENGL Course Number: 303 Section: 001 CRN: 84703 Instructor: Baldwin, Charles.

Collaborative document >
  • Who is working on it today? Alonso, Balnionis, Berardi, Caughie, Center, Graff, Lewis, Simmons, Yoder, Zarkades. The other half of the class will work on it on Thursday.
  • As you edit, expand where you see fit. Work on smoothing and regularizing the document. Look for places to get it into the same voice, the same tone. Take it out of the first person. Remove colors, inserted comments, etc. Correct format.

If you are not on the list above, work on your creative gallery. Starting at about 250pm, students will take turns coming to the front of the class for a five minute presentation on your creative gallery. Provide a tour of the project: explain what it is about and how it relates to the topics of the course. Show us some of the project.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Activities for R 12/3

Tuesday and Thursday > Present Creative Gallery! Plus arrive at conclusions on collaborative document.

Today, first write a blog post >
What is the status of your creative gallery? Note: think expansively. If you created a video, think about creating another. Or a Google Map story or .... Think of a gallery as including several items. But, on the other hand, if you're working hard at creating an interesting video, take your time on it, don't rush! Note: after completing your post, you'll be asked to comment on two other posts.

Second, collaborative document >
  1. Same as Tuesday, with two groups.
  2. Expand on a point.
  3. Re-arrange as you see fit, trying to find the logical order of points.
  4. Pay attention to transitions. How does the end of the paragraph/point take an idea and bring it to the next paragraph/point?

Third, work on creative gallery when you're not working on the collaborative document.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Activities for T 12/1

Work on collaborative document >
  1. Continue to re-arrange, seeking the best logical order for the point.
  2. Choose one point and expand it to at least a paragraph.
Group 1: Alexander, Balnionis, Bergamo, Caughie, Ehrlich, Graff, Miller, Simmons, Spencer, Yoder
Group 2: Alonso, Berardi, Castillo, Center, Garland, Lewis, Reedy, Skomorucha, Suder, Zarkades

Work on creative gallery.

Activities for T 12/1

Work on collaborative document >
  1. Continue to re-arrange, seeking the best logical order for the point.
  2. Choose one point and expand it to at least a paragraph.
Work on creative gallery.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Activities for R 11/19

Continue to play with video.

Blog about creative galleries. Where are you at? What problems are you facing?

Work on collaborative document
> Choose one point and expand it to at least a paragraph.




A scary night in Pittsburgh.


Penguins on YouTube


Multiple YouTube Examples. These are done quickly - they are just the same video copied over and over. Why not use different videos and sequence them to tell a story?



Monday, November 16, 2009

Activities for T 11/17

The Big Word Project
Subservient Chicken

Create a movie > Windows Moviemaker. (Moviemaker is free but limited. It can only work with files that Windows Media Player works with, i.e. .wmv. and .mpg.)

Where to get movies?
Save the movie as .wmv or .avi. Upload it to your blog and YouTube.