Class Assignments Thursday 16 August 2007

Our class today is a working workshop in parts, parts which we will visit recursively.

Part One: Organizing
Please gather all the information you’ve received over the past three days and organize it to your advantage—I’ve got a hole-punch available.
Please gather your email for notes I sent yesterday and this morning.
Place the following documents prominently:
Wini Wood’s Welcome and directions (hand out on your desk and in your email)
Donna Reiss’ Student Directions (WAC Online FP)
Roadmap to a Good Write-to-Learn Assignment
Tips for Working with Technology
Write-to-Learn v. Writing-in-the-Disciplines

Part Two: Student Directions
Craft your own student directions for your assignment keeping in mind a particular student audience in a particular class in which you hope to use your assignment.

Please post on our BLOG

Part Three: Crafting the Writing-to-Learn Rationale
Reflect on the assignment you hope to showcase for us tomorrow and describe for yourself and one other workshop member, how this assignment exemplifies WTL principles—peer tinker.

Please post your final peer-tinkered WTL rationale on our BLOG

Part Four: Crafting the Online Rationale
Reflect on the assignment you how to showcase for us tomorrow and describe for yourself and one other workshop member, how this assignment is a good fit for the particular online platform you have chosen—peer tinker.

Please post your final peer-tinkered online rationale on our BLOG

Part Five: Peer Test/Review the Student Directions etc.
Rope in one or two colleagues to act as your student and test what you have so far.

Tomorrow: The Really Big Show
Plan to use five minutes to showcase your assignment for us and perhaps a few visitors.

Post on our BLOG

Post comments peer reviewing each assignment posted discussing how the assignment exemplifies or doesn’t best practices in WTL online theory and do make suggestions!