Update, things coming together
Written on March 17, 2008 by Devon Adams
Ok so it’s spring break. I promised my grant supervisor that I would get a ton done these two weeks, and I am sure she’ll want to meet with me next week (we meet montly and haven’t in March). So what did we do? Well, Shelley and I met last week, and then I took everything with me in the car to LA over the weekend. I think I needed to visualize each module separately, and in Google Docs (where I’m building this course) there’s not a page break command for me to have separators, so I’ve resorted to large font between each section. I am also using highlighting for different things (e.g., orange for questions I have about the curriculum development).
Anyway I wanted to learn the book. It’s called Remix and it’s by Catherine G. Lattrell out of Penn State Altoona (a branch campus of my alma mater!), and our initial reaction was that this is a reader. Shelley promised it was much more, and I totally see the advantages, but I also see a ton of readings. I even asked Shelley today how we teach the theory behind composition, rather than just throwing them at the students and saying GO! (For example, unless you’re taught, who the hell knows what an Expository Composition is? Yes, not even me. We’re reviewing some information for this situation now, and I also just found a cool online book called Coming of Age: An introduction to the NEW world wide web and wonder if anything can come of that. We didn’t want to require chapters from a different book because of the time frame and the price, but this book may have something. We’ll see.
So by the end of my spring break adventures I had reviewed the entire text book (not the online book), and I took four pages of notes, which are totally jumbled. I want to transcribe them, edit them, organize them, and prepare for my Wednesday morning meeting regarding this course.
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