Summer 2003: Week 7

Week 7:   Mission

We shift this week into the third unit of the course:  Processing Information.  Here's where we really begin to pull it all together.  Our mission this week is to continue to draft work for our MRP, peer review the third and fourth genres from last week, continue revising any of the genres, and continue our research. 

Remember we're on the downhill slide to fall now :) 

Class Meeting:  July 22, 2003

There will be NO class meeting at the MOO this week.  Instead, use this time to get your homework done or go to a lab and work with Powerpoint if you need to.

Assignment 3.1.1:  Library Searching
Ongoing (as needed for your project)

Continue to search for resources, if necessary, to help make your project richer and thoroughly developed.  Note that I'm not asking you to mail any more resources in for assignments but just suggesting that the library work is often ongoing. 

Assignment 3.1.2:   Mailing Lists
Due:  July 27, 2003 

You've been subbed to a mailing list (or two!) for a few weeks now.  Let's find out about some of these lists you've been part of.  Send an email to the class list, using the format shown below:

List Name:

Subscription Address/Instructions:  How does one get subscribed to your list?

List Address:  Where do you send messages to the list for posting?

Discussion:  In this section, describe for the rest of the class the nature of the discussion community you've been following.  There are a number of issues you might address.  The following questions will help to get your "thinking" started, but should in no way be interpreted as an exhaustive list of items to discuss...feel free to add any observations/thoughts/evaluations that you think are pertinent.  What doy ou feel is the purpose of ths list?  Do you think that the list serves that purpose for list subscribers or not?  How did you arrive at a conclusion for the previous question (what evidence do you have to support your answers)?  Who do you think is the intended audience for the postings on your list?  How did you arrive at that conclusion?  How would you describe the socialization among list members?  In what ways does your list seem to be a community (or not a community)?  What strategies do list members employ to develop a sense of community?  What behaviors have you seen that work against the development of a communal atmosphere? 

Send to:  cd315-list@marshall.edu
Subject:  A3.1.2:  Email Community

 Assignment 3.1.3:  MRP:  Draft Genres (two)
Due:  July 27, 2003 (midnight)

This week you must have the drafts posted to your nicenet class and to your webpage of two more genres for your MRP.  I've made available some assistance in developing your genres.  Please visit the following:

• Genres
• Poetry Forms
• Acrostic Samples

If, in your searching, you locate web sites that might be helpful to others in developing certain genres, please send them to the class list and I'll be happy to include them in the documents above.   

Assignment 3.1.4:  Peer Response Groups
Due:  July 27, 2003 (midnight)

Last week each of you developed two more genres as part of your MRP.  This week, let's do peer response groups on those.  We'll be working in the groups we've used on the MOO.  Each of you must provide a peer response on both genres to each person in your group. 

Remember that you will be providing your peer responses in each other's nicenet classes. 

Below is a suggested format for the information I want you to include in your peer review/response.  Remember that this an assignment for each of you so I expect that you will be discerning and critical (not just affirmative) in reviewing each other's work.  Your responses need to be specific and useful to the author while providing them with direction about where and how their work is strong and where and how it isn't.

Format:

• Voice:  Whose voice is this piece in?
• Audience:  Who is this piece written for?
• Say Back:  What do you think the author is saying with this piece?  (not what do you think they mean to say, but what are they actually saying)
• Bless:  Find something specific in each piece that you can "bless."  You might like the originality of an idea, a particular word used, whatever.
• Address:  Find something specific in each piece that the author should "address."  Make this something that will actually improve the quality of the piece...your group mates are counting on you to help them make their work stronger (just like you are counting on them).

Sometime between Friday (July 25) and Sunday (July 27) at midnight, post your weekly online journal.  You will be posting your online journal entries (as well as some other items) to your online journal in nicenet.  Please note that this assignment, unlike most of the others, does NOT enjoy the two week completion time.  In other words, your online journal postings must be made each week (between Friday and Sunday midnight as explained in the instructions) in order to receive credit for them.  Please review the Instructions for Online Journals to ensure acceptable completion  of this assignment.

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