Reading Assignments for Tuesday

Sorry to be posting this so late--the day was long and the evening got away from me (I got carried away with adding links to our blog site).

Just to reiterate: the reading assignments for Tuesday are portions of two articles, both in your binder.

1) My "Double Desire" (just the section that deals directly with online writing, entitled "Wide Angle View: The Class," pp. 282-290). With this article, concentrate on the transcripts of student discussion and think about what strategies we can use to improve student online discussion.

2) "Writing to Learn Quantitative Analysis: Doing Numbers with Words Works!" by Sharon Hamilton and Robert H. Orr. This article provides good examples of how to think about (and enact) a cogent set of small assignments in a math class, and models ways to integrate peer review into an exercise. (I like the article b/c it is written in epistolary form, via an exchange of emails!)

If you feel like more reading before class on Tuesday, you could click on the link to the left under "Fun Sites for Assignments" and read Facebook, MySpace, and SES.

We won't talk about either article extensively, so if you are unable to read them by Tuesday, that's OK.

On the agenda for tomorrow: managing group discussions, and creating small assignments with online components. We'll keep using this blog to share information, even though we'll turn our attention to other forms of online assignments.