Class
Blogger (50 points)
Requirements
·
Use of multimedia (links, photos,
images, video, etc.)
·
300+ words for entry
·
300+ words for reflection
Dates
Goals
·
Experiment
composing in multimedia, including, but not limited to, audio, visual, text,
and hypertext.
·
Reflect
on writing and its processes in order to cultivate an effective personal
writing style and process.
Purpose
This
assignment will help familiarize you with the multimedia options available to
you in a blogging platform. It will also help you reflect on your ow n learning style and note taking habits. We’ll use class
blogger entries as a way to catalog our progress in the course as well as a way
to touch base for students who may have missed class. We’ll review class
blogger accounts at the beginning of ever class to keep our progress and
discussions fresh in our minds.
Getting Started
Each
student will sign up to be the “class blogger” for a particular day. The
purpose of the classroom blogger is to record notes, summarize conversations,
and narrate classroom action as best you can. You are invited to take pictures
and video footage and use links or other multimedia in your blog entry. In
essence, the class blogger is a reporter documenting classroom events and your
entry should use multimedia elements.
Be
creative and have fun with this assignment. While it’s important to capture the
information we’ve discussed in class, you can do so in a variety of ways. You
might decide to write as if you are captain of a pirate ship and log the
activities that way, using pirate language and images. You could write as if
you’re a sports broadcaster. The options are limitless. Use this as a space to
experiment with media, writing styles, tones, and whatever else your heart
desires.
Reflection
After
your experience as class blogger, you will write a short reflection blog entry
about your experience that answers the following questions: what aspects of the
class did you focus on and why? If you chose to use other media, what did you
use and why? How did occupying the role of class blogger change your
perspective of the classroom?
Submission
Copy
and paste a link to your class blogger account in with your reflection. You’ll
turn this in on Blackboard in the Assignments section.
