Hi Class--Hope your online classroom teaching and your online tutoring/consulting are going OK.

You did such a good job choosing and explaining your articles and responding to one another last week.  Let's try it again.  Those of you haven't expressed a preference, let me know by email if you want to Zoom-meet on April 14 for 45 minutes vs. only continuing with the blog. Meanwhile, let's everyone post and respond to three of your colleagues about creative non-fiction case studies and academic case studies and their advantages and disadvantages.

I wanted you to read Brian Goedde's non-fiction case study from Writing on the Edge (on ICON) because it's the kind of engaging writing that many of you study and do.  And Writing on the Edge, creative writing about teaching writing, is a very cool journal you might like to publish a version of your case study in. You could peruse copies of it online through the the Main Library.

Here's your assignment due next Tuesday, April 7 by class time.

Please post your response to the syllabus question about the advantages and disadvantages of the non-fiction case study (i.e. the one of Lorraine and Brian) vs. the more academic case studies (the ones of Fei and Lin you read earlier--the Fei article is on the ICON site). 

Again, each one of you, including me, will also respond to three of the main postings or responses to them.

Tell us how is your videoconferencing WC online going.  What problems have you had once you've connected with your students?  I think once students get the hang of their online classes and once those classes assign papers, we'll have fewer cancellations and no shows.   

And please don't forget to respond to a draft in Asynchronous Online Tutoring--perfect for those no-show times.

 Here are the directions again for Asynchronous: To access the system, click on the Online Feedback button of the WC website, and fill out your profile, and let us know you've done so, so we can "promote" you from student to tutor.  Then you'll have access to the queue of drafts; claim one, save it to your desk top to work on it (a commenting letter on higher order concerns and the student's concerns, plus marginal feedback, no track changes), and send it back to the student with a note in the system's text box, e.g. Dear ____, Thanks for submitting to online tutoring. Please find your draft with my feedback in the linked file.

Take care and be safe!

Carol


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  1. Mark RheaumeApril 7, 2020 at 11:45 AM

    I'd love to see everyone's faces and hear your voices for next week. It might save my poor fingers a bit of typing, too!

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