Author: Sarah Schmerler (Page 1 of 7)
Hi Class. Updates: This is finals week. And we are not having official Zoom classes at 9:00AM. That said, I am available to you for questions, answers, and any concerns on Monday and Tuesday, May 18 and 19. If you write to me between 9:00AM and 2:00PM I will endeavor to get back to you quickly. We can set up individual or small group Zoom meetings to help you.
The last day that I can accept your Final Portfolios is Wed, May 20th. That would have been our last day in this final exam week that we would have met.
Hi Class. I am enjoying reading your UNIT III work and am striving to give you feedback as fast as I can. The days online are long, and I still haven’t left my desk since this morning (it’s 10:00PM now), and I am nowhere near done. You can still get on with planning your Final Portfolio, cleaning up your past work, adding and pruning our Giant Diary, and planning some kind of attempt at a digital project.
Now, I want to take a moment to talk about that digital project — otherwise known as UNIT IV. I’ve decided: it’s optional. You don’t have to do it. Now, please read on.
Our semester is nearly done. We don’t have time to put in a lot of effort into anything. Anything. So, let me re-frame this for you. As I see it now, UNIT IV is the cherry on the cake. It’s a last, final extension of the work you did in UNIT III. Only, it’s where you take your investigation a smidge…further. And, it’s fine with me if it goes outside of the box of you and your partner.
For example: What might my personal UNIT IV look like? (And I assure you, I am not digitally fluent.) So far I have two ideas. One idea is that I go on Zoom and try to teach a colleague of mine (an art professor I know) what I have learned from Brianna (my personal UNIT III partner) about the video game “Splatoon” — in a way that that an art professor will be totally understand, because I put it in her “art world” language. Maybe Brianna will join me. Maybe Brianna will by my expert and will teach my colleague, too. I’m still figuring it out, but either way, the recording will be a digital document of our exercise, and I will have taught somebody something new.
My other idea is that I bake the chocolate-chip banana bread that Antonio gave as a recipe in his assignment — live — with someone else on Zoom or on Facebook, commenting on baking as an art of patience and tradition…well, I haven’t worked that one all out yet, either. But I will decide by Friday.
I am just trying to give you ideas.
Yes, you can do without UNIT IV, if you are overwhelmed. But this final portfolio is worth 50% of your grade, and some extra credit wouldn’t hurt. So, if you do it, put a link to it in your Final Portfolio, and a short explanation so I know what I am looking at.
Okay, I will get back to grading. I will give you the link to our Zoom Q+A meeting on Friday, below, and I look forward to speaking with you.
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Sarah Schmerler is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Q+A and Help with Professor S.
Time: May 15, 2020 03:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Here is your sample ENG 1121 FORMAT FOR FINAL PORTFOLIO SUBMISSION.
AGENDA:
Greeting. Quick attendance.
Looking ahead to the Final Portfolio: Format for Submission
Q+A == queries on UNIT III?
Break out into partner discussion in Chat
Unit IV — goals and next steps
Goodbyes
Join Zoom Meeting 9:00AM, 13TH MAY 2020
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Hi Class. When you have completed your UNIT III work in your word document tomorrow (May 12), please title your document: LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_UNIT III and upload it in a post to OpenLab with that same title in the post.
(You can make your post “private” by checking he “Visibility” box in the upper right of the dashboard screen, if you prefer. My comments back to you will be private, regardless of the status of your post.)
Good luck!
Questions? Help?:
I will be on Zoom at 11:30AM today, May 11, and at 3:30PM on Tuesday May 12 if you want to talk to me, and you can also write to me here or via email.
The Zoom link and password will be the same:
S Schmerler is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: S Schmerler’s Zoom Open Q+A
Time: May 11, 2020 11:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/9424075048?pwd=SDVwVDAzelhQOWVkQU5Ic3ZVNUVVQT09
Meeting ID: 942 407 5048
Password: cherish
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S Schmerler is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: S Schmerler’s Zoom Meeting
Time: May 12, 2020 03:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/9424075048?pwd=SDVwVDAzelhQOWVkQU5Ic3ZVNUVVQT09
Meeting ID: 942 407 5048
Password: cherish
Join Zoom Meeting 9:00AM, 11TH MAY 2020
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvduChqjsiE9Cr4hgn4Kqj_VbqDkCiG6_T
Meeting ID: 822-1994-0894
Password: cherish
Agenda:
Attendance
Discuss our PAIRS documents and answer any questions about the final format for submitting them on Mar 12.**
Work in real time on our PAIRS and Skills documents.
Plans.
Goodbyes.
**Before the meeting, please look at Brianna and my shared PAIR document. We decided to partner as a pair while waiting for her partner. The document is a work in progress, but you might see how our convo is going so far. We worked on it really hard and for quite a while!)
Before this happened, I edited Raghda, and we both worked so hard on it…we celebrated.
I switch up my PAIR partner and we discuss our plans to work.
Hope this helps you see what working together is like.
