Friday, February 6, 2009
Envision: for Feb 10
Ok... so i am the first to blog this week. Again. . . . It's nine-thirty at night on Friday-date night-for all you youngsters. Here i am on the computer. I just want you to know that I too, Miss 42, also had a date. The perfectionist in me, my biggest attribute and downfall, won't let me sleep until I've finished my stupid blogging, (no offense Heather or Merilynne.) So... I made a couple of comments and I"ll post a joke so we all don't get too serious and think we are smarter than we are. And i will say this about our reading assignment for the week: If you can actually read it (small print)-save it! It encompasses the deifinitions of every kind of assigment you may give a student or have to do yourself. It is dry. It is boring. But, it is valuable. Start with your 'decorum' ; how fancy do you need to be? And understand the types of conventions used for each type of decorum. ETC ETC. This article gives you a flowchart of designing every assigment with aspects to please the most formal works (right down to adding page numbers and names where and when) to photo essays, web designs and multimedia composites. Here are my questions and my answers. Is this helpful? (You'd have to be an idiot to say no. So don't.) Can you apply this to your everyday life? (I have a 30 page research paper due for Hist 300 and I learned how to incorperate photographs effectively. If it doesn't apply to you maybe you are in grade school or a football player-just kidding football players!) And finally, could you really make a flow chart outlining the different assignments (cause, really, I'd like to have one!)
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I am sorry, I posted my questions under a new headline.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how committed we have to be to "decorum" and the academic writing norms. How willing are you to push the boundaries of decorum, and how willing are you to encouraging or supporting students who want to expand what's "appropriate"?
ReplyDeleteAs for using some of the Envision ideas in everyday life--I've found that even if I can't incorporate images into a paper--specifically thinking about my thesis, the process of considering what images I would include is super helpful. I have a collage of images posted near my computer because it gives me some direct visual "aha!" that keeps me on task. It was a good early-to-mid step in my process because the visuality of it bypasses my wordy judgments about what I'm up to with it. Perhaps you could think about incorporating visual elements into prewriting options for you and your students.