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Each week, I will ask you to do four things:
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1/ Post an entry in your Learning Journal. Entries in your Learning Journal (LJ) will most often be focused on Free Writing or Structured Free Writing, which is Free Writing in response to a specific topic, prompt, or question. I will give you a weekly LJ assignment. Please post entries in your LJ HERE. This is a private journal that only you and your instructor can access.
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2/ Complete one or more Group Assignments (GA), which will require that you contribute either a BLOG POST and/or to our course Discussion Board. These posts and discussions will be read by our entire class.
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3/ Complete one to two Reading and Writing Assignments (RWA), which, DEPENDING ON THE ASSIGNMENT, you will submit in one of three ways:Â a/ as a NEW ENTRY in your Learning Journal, b/ by posting a file to your personal electronic portfolio on OpenLab, or c/ via Google Docs (if you don’t have a Google Docs account, I will give you instructions next week on how to set one up; you will then be able to share documents with me and your classmates)
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4/ Check in at least THREE separate times a week and respond at least ONCE to contributions by other student blog posts on the Home page of our course Web site AND to forums on the course Discussion Board
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- WEEK 1 ASSIGNMENTS:Â DUE DATE:Â TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 at 5PM.
- This first week is all about getting oriented to this course and to the OpenLab. It is also about getting to know each other. For questions about the OpenLab, you can always e-mail OpenLab help. You can also post your questions about the OpenLab and about our course on our Discussion Board. Please feel free to post and respond to any and all questions that you have.
- LEARNING JOURNAL 1
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Please spend 5 to 7 minutes free writing about Your Relationship to Writing. With free writing, the only rule is that you are NOT ALLOWED TO STOP WRITING. This means that if you do not have something to say/write, you just write, “I have nothing to say at the moment,” or “My mind is blank,” etc. Please time yourself for this free writing assignment. If you know where to start, just go ahead and start. If you don’t know where to start, consider using one of these prompts:”When I think about writing…””When I think of myself as a writer…”
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GROUP ASSIGNMENTS
GA1:Â Please introduce yourself by responding to the following questions on our course DISCUSSION BOARD:Â
What is your name?
Which neighborhood/area do you live in?
What is your major?
What year are you at City Tech?
What have you been reading over the winter break?
If you would like to include any additional information about yourself, for instance, where you work, who you live with, what you do in your spare time, etc., we are always interested in knowing more about you!
Group Assignment 2: Post Three Questions on our Course Discussion Board to help us get to know each other
- Please post three questions to our course discussion board and reply to the questions of at least TWO of your classmates.
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Group Assignment 3: Three Questions About Our Syllabus
Please read over the course syllabus and IN A NEW BLOG POST list three SPECIFIC questions that you have about it. For instance, âWhy are we reading x instead of y?â; âWhat does the term ârhetoricâ mean?â; etc. ALSO: Please reply to at least one personâs BLOG post, either by answering his/her question, or by expanding one of his/her questions.
READING AND WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
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Reading and Writing Assignment 1: What Is This Class About?
What is this Class About? (Submit as a .doc file to the FILES section of our Course Profile using the following nomenclature to name the file: LASTNAME.RWA#.doc. For example, if Professor Rodgers were submitting this assignment, her file would be named RODGERS.RWA1.doc.
Professor Rodgers
Using a separate sheet, or sheets of paper, please respond to the following questions. This is informal writing, meaning the form and voice in which you reply is quite open ended. Please use MLA formatting guidelines for this assignment and make sure to read over your responses at least once before handing in the assignment.
1. When you saw the title of this course, what did you expect it would be about? What did you expect we would do in the course?
2. What would you like this course to be about? What writing issues would you like to work on in the course? What would you like to have accomplished by the end of the course?
3. Please look over the text books that we will be using for this class. What do you think of them? Are there any that you are particularly interested in? Which? Why?
