Monthly Archives: April 2014

Project 4 Presentations, Day One

Today, we will have presentations from these folks: 3:35: Jay L 3:45: Matt M 3:55: Sara R 4:05: Taylor T 4:15: Catie C (Link to the Project) 4:25: Sara T 4:35: Nenna O Homework If you are presenting on Thursday,…

Finalizing All The Things!

Today is the last in-class work session for the Remix a Story project. Oral presentations start on Tuesday, April 29. Since this is our last work session, I want to take time to talk about preparing for your oral presentation,…

Presentation Sign-Up Day

Presentation Sign-Up Tuesday, 4/22 (Earth Day), I will open the Sign-up Tool in Scholar, where you can sign-up for a presentation time slot. In an attempt to give everyone a fair shot, the slots will all open at 3:35 PM.…

Documenting & Presenting Your Remix

During today’s session, you will have most of the class time to work on implementing your revision plan. I will come around and check on your progress as well. Before we get to that part, however, I want to spend…

Final Exam Logistics

The final exam for this course will work as extra credit. I'll share more details on how it will count during the last week of class. For now, you need to know the following details: The exam is an optional,…

Project 3 Peer Feedback

Today is peer feedback day. The goal is to provide constructive feedback that will help one another develop the projects further. We will follow this plan for the feedback: We will rearrange in the classroom so at least one person…

Project 3 Progress Reports

Today, you should be very close to having a complete rough draft. As writers who spend lots of time writing papers in the linguistic mode, you understand rough drafts as things that are very close to finished. For this multimodal…

Working on Rough Drafts

This week, you should be working on a rough version of your project, using the information in Chapter 7 of Writer/Designer to help guide your work. Where You Should Be By this point, your project should be beyond ideas in…

Rough Cuts and Rough Drafts

Today’s reading is about “Drafting and Revising Your Project”—and in particular rough cuts and rough drafts. By next week, you should be working on a rough version of your project (if you are not already there). Chapter 7 of Writer/Designer…