Week 3: Sept. 8-14
Week 3: Sept. 8-14, Writing & Technology
Before Class
Read:
BR2 (Team B), NL2 (Team A)
Haas, Chapters 1 & 2 of Writing Technology: Studies on the Materiality of Literacy (shared Google Drive)
800: Scholarship Reconsidered, Chapters 4-7
During Class
Warm Up Survey: What funky writing tools were you able to bring to class?
Warm Up Activity: Digital Literacy Narrative, Finding a Story--It is especially easy to just fall back on what seems a simple story like “I remember my first favorite book” or “I remember writing in elementary school.” Instead, try to reflect on more unique experiences (pick one, if you have time write on two):
Write: In the past 2-3 years, when have you read something that made you go out and do something afterword? How and why was reading that text so powerful and motivating?
Write: In the past 2-3 years, when have you written something that made your audience go do something afterword? How and why was producing that text so important to you? What do you think motivated your reader/s?
Write: When was a time that the environment or process of you reading and/or writing “stood out” so that you became aware of your process? How and why was it a different moment from other reading and/or writing processes?
Share: Share what was powerful/motivating/different (don’t share the story). These need to be quick!
Last Week’s Ticket Out
Liked/Excited: the various technologies, readings, and upcoming activities (yeah, you like how the course is designed!)
Confused: terminology & Scalar
Know More: upcoming technologies, using these technologies in other classes (cost, pedagogy, tech support), implementing position statements, various other theories & theorists.
Writing Technologies Activity
Write: With your “assigned” writing technology, tell a story of something that happened to you in the past week.
Share: Post a copy of your product and share it with the class via a URL. (Google Form/Results Spreadsheet)
Discuss: Share how your writing technology impacted your process and your product.
Con’t Digital Literacy Activity
Connect to Theory/Scholarship: Pick one of your story ideas that you think aligns with one of the elements, examples, concepts, terms discussed in one of the many literacy position statements we read/skimmed.
Share in Class: Share the story idea you connected to a position statement.
After Class: Talk to friends and family members about times where you were reading and/or writing as you grew up. Instead of remembering your own, have folks tell you what they remember.
Discuss: Upcoming… (grading too!)
800s@6:30: Scholarship Reconsidered is almost 25 years old. Has the academy changed? How does this make you feel about being/working in the academy? How does this change your professional goals?
After Class
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