Workspace

9/1/16

Write a letter of introduction to me. Aim for a healthy paragraph or so in response to each of the following questions:

Introduce yourself: What’s your name? Where are you from? What are some of your interests—academic or otherwise? As your instructor, what should I know about you?
Describe why you want to take Multimodal Writing in Public Spheres and what you want to get out of it. I know many/most of you are taking it to fulfill a requirement; that’s fine, you don’t need to make up a reason for taking the class. Even so, what do you want to get out of it?
What do you expect to happen in this class? What do you want to happen in this class? What do you not want to happen in this class?

Email your letter to me (copy and paste into the body of the email) at dreynolds@rwu.edu. Your email subject line must be: WTNG321Intro2:00 or WTNG321Intro3:30, according to your class section.

9/8/16

Create a page on your website called "Workspace"
Add a title called "9/8/16"
Write a healthy paragraph or so summarizing (in your own words) Fraser's key arguments about politics, culture, and the public sphere.

9/12/16

Add a section on your Workspace titled "9/12/16." Without referencing the book, list (in complete sentences) four things that you learned about the writing process--from invention to editing--a radio story/podcast.

9/15/16

Add a section on your Workspace titled "9/15/16." Write a healthy paragraph in response to the following:

What challenges did you face in trying to tell a story about yourself via this poem? How did it make you reflect on your experiences, histories, identities? How did you decide what you were comfortable sharing, and which details about yourself would be most revealing in telling a story of “you”?

9/19/16

Add a section on your Workspace page titled "9/19/1." Write the equivalent of a healthy paragraph in response to the following:

Develop a list of questions you might want to ask Sana and Chanda in class on Thursday about what it's like to share one's story with others, about the kinds of questions one might want to ask--or not ask, and about what kinds of cultural sensitivities might be important in doing this kind of work.

9/26/16

Add a section on your Workspace page titled "9/26/16." Write a healthy paragraph or so detailing what you most want to remember--to take away--from our conversation with Chanda and Sana.

10/13/16

Add a section on your Workspace page titled "10/13/16."

Part 1: Summarize Chapter 4, Keep or Kill: Story Structure, from Out on the Wire (1 paragraph).
Part 2: If you have already recorded your interview, reflect on what this chapter might mean for your work creating the final text. Be specific in discussing the interview. If you have not yet recorded your interview, reflect on what this chapter might mean for how you conduct the interview and the kinds of questions you ask. Be specific in discussing how you might reframe the questions you’ve developed, and/or how you might structure the interview (1 paragraph)

10/24/16

Add a section on your Workspace page titled “10/24/16.”

Write a healthy paragraph in response to the following: Why is sound metaphorized as the “Deep Sea” in Chapter 4 of Out on the Wire? What is the metaphor meant to convey about how sound operates in a radio story? How might we think about this in terms of our video stories?

11/3/16

Create a section on your Workspace page titled “11/3/16.” Without referring to your book, respond to the following questions (aim for a healthy paragraph for each question):

What is the primary purpose of the edit and what does the process involve (be specific)?
The chapter details two important concepts in storytelling: framing and signposting. Explain both concepts and how they function to make the story more compelling.

11/10/16

Create a new section on your Workspace page titled “11/10/16.” Write a healthy paragraph or so in response to EACH question:

1. Summarize the primary feedback you received from your colleagues (How did they understand the purpose? What did they say about pacing? What were their primary suggestions for revision?). How do you think your group can address this feedback in your revisions?

2. Summarize the feedback you received from your outside viewer (What did they understand about its purpose? What were their take-aways? Where were they confused?). How do you think you and your group can address this feedback in your revisions?

11/14/16

Create a new section on your Workspace page titled '11/14/16."

Part I: Write a healthy paragraph or so in response to the background reading. Consider questions such as:

What is oral history?
What does it mean to think of oral history as “a co-constructed process of narrative composition?”
What does it mean to attempt to “map coherence” onto the “disorder of lived experience?”
What are the implications of these questions/conundrums for our work with the Quest for Refuge project?

Part II: Write another couple of healthy paragraphs taking up the following questions:

How does this project help you think about multimodal composition?
How does this project help you think about writing for public audiences?
How does this project help you think about what it means to represent someone’s life?
How does this project help you think about how to communicate authorial meaning/purpose while communicating the subject’s purpose/life with integrity, in their authentic voice?

11/17/16

Create a new section on your Workspace page titled "11/17/16."

Write a healthy paragraph or so in response to both of the following questions:

1). What is the purpose of this article? How—or does—its form help communicate its purpose?

2). What 2-3 concepts, ideas, or comments from the 2nd half of “What’s in a Name?” did you find most interesting or thought provoking or compelling. Why? In other words, what did you hear in the audio clips (discussing the audience oriented, contextual, historically situated, limited, multiple, precise and relative nature of the terms multimodal, multimedia, new media, etc.) that you found interesting?

11/21/16

Create a new section on your Workspace page titled "11/21/16." Write a healthy paragraph or so in response to each of the following:

1). Describe—in some detail—your contributions to the video project. What, specifically, did you do to contribute to the work of making this video. How do you feel about your contributions?

2). What about the video most pleases and displeases you?

3) Given what you now know, if you had the opportunity to do this project again, what would you do differently?

12/6/16

Part A: Review reflection and write a 1-paragraph (minimum) response to each of the following questions. Be specific in your responses. Post your responses on the Bridges forum.

What do you notice about how the writer explicitly argues that she has met the learning outcomes for the class? What might the writer do to more effectively communicate this argument?
What do you notice about how the writer supports her argument that she has meet the learning outcomes for the class? Is she grounding her discussion in the concepts and theories we have studied this semester? Is she using the language of the course? Is she quoting from (and/or paraphrasing) our course readings?
What do you notice about the multimodal aspects of the reflection? Do they contribute to the meaning of the text? How? What might the writer do to more effectively integrate and/or produce the multimodal components?
What do you notice about the coherency of the text. Do the parts/pieces fit together in a meaningful way? Does the text guide you in the reading experience? Should it?

Part B: Create a new section on your Workspace page titled “12/5/16.” Write a healthy paragraph or so in response to each of the following questions:

What did you see in the final reflections you reviewed today that you admire and want to emulate? How can you draw on those examples in your revisions to your Final Reflection?
What is your plan for moving forward with your final reflection? What do you still need to accomplish and how will you go about it?