Prepare to excerpt your best work and submit it in your Final Portfolio. Here is your sample document for submission format: ENG 1121 FORMAT FOR FINAL PORTFOLIO SUBMISSION. The last day to hand in your Final Portfolio is May 20th.
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Due May 12: There are two more steps to completing UNIT III
- Instead of waiting for you to find your own affinities, I have assigned you into pairs. There is now a sub-folder called PAIRS. You can look there and see who your new assigned partner is. There also is a sample document in this new folder. Please look at it.
Once you have had fruitful discussion, and have populated your PAIR document, you are well on your way to completing UNIT III.
The final format document for submitting your work in UNIT III is below. You will upload your work to OpenLab with the post heading LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_UNIT 3:
SAMPLE-DOCUMENT-FORMAT-UNIT-III –affinity and inquiry
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April 29-May 1: Populate your own SKILL document with information. COMMENT on at least three different people’s documents. When you do, ASK them a good question. Get them thinking or get yourself involved. Take the discussion to another level. I will be looking to see COMMENTS and conversations forming, and I will create an Affinity document so that we can keep track and see if any new Constellations/circles of interest form. Two people cook? Four people like make-up…?
Let’s get this all done by Friday, May 1. We can have a short Zoom GoogleDoc party and work on some together, discuss…
I also want to see some additions to our large Diary Document by May 1. Don’t worry about cleanliness. Get in there! We will have a GoogleDocs Party on Zoom on May 1 at 3:30PM
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April 27-29: Overview: Your diary entries let us learn about your life; however, what is research, at essence? Sharing something you do know, and looking deeper for something you don’t know. Please don’t overthink about what I “want.” Write in the GoogleDrive documents. Share your knowledge, and teach us something new.
We all need to get our minds opened right now. And we need to help each other do that
WHAT should you do before Wednesday, Apr 29?:
You: READ other people’s “skill/interest” documents and comment on them. You WRITE (I’ve read the ones that were posted on time) your skill document if you have not, already. If you have started you document, you add to it or augment it. You CONTINUE to write daily diary entries as per usual.
I am looking for: ENGAGEMENT and class PARTICIPATION in these assignments.
We meet on Wednesday Apr 29 at 9:00 AM on Zoom and take roll.
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WEEK of Apr 20-25: UNIT III: Skills Research — a work in progress. Look in the MENU above for this site and you will see a new listing there called GOOGLE DRIVE LINK. In the shared yellow SKILL folder you will find one document created for each one of you to work in. I also created a Sample Document to give you some outline of format. To summarize: our next step will be to share some skill/interest/pursuit that we have had during our confinement — something that gives us joy or makes us feel interested in life and in bettering ourselves. We also discussed that part of this next step will be to do some research and learn more about this skill/interest.
At preset there is no length limit or minimum on this assignment. It is a work in progress. It is, however, required as part of your UNIT III grade. Due date: I expect EVERYONE to do this work-in-progress by Saturday of this week (April 25) so that I have time to review what you wrote before Monday morning.
So: start filling in your own document, AND, peek around and look at somebody else’s document by Monday Morning. Type any questions or issues or anything here under COMMENTS and I will attempt to answer you. : )
We will discuss our work on Monday. Check back for a Zoom meeting link. Our next meeting will be April 27 at 9:00AM.
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WEEK of Apr 3-Apr 8: We are back. If you have been keeping up with your Diary work, and have attended your Zoom meeting, then our next step should not be difficult. Mid-Semester Submission of UNIT II Due Date: April 8. Your assignments are now taking concrete form (uploaded as a document) and will be submitted to me for a mid-semester grade. Watch my short video discussing this. The document formatting how to do this is here. SAMPLE DOCUMENT FORMAT — UNIT II MID SEMESTER
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WEEK of March 30-Apr 2: Re-calibration Period. No New Assignments. Keep writing daily in your Diaries and post COMMENTS to other’s entries. (As you know, Your Diary Reflection/Summary is still due Mar 30.) Though there is no new assignment, Zoom “Planet” Meetings are scheduled this week, for which you sign up in small groups.
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WEEK of March 23-29: These assignments are required of each student. Your work is time and date stamped by OpenLab.
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR THIS WEEK: Become familiar with our new MEMBER ROLL. Scroll down the right-hand side of our site. There you will see the name of everyone in the class who has posted (including yourself). You can easily search for a post this way, as well as keep track of your own work.
These Circle Time assignments were also posted to our front page: CIRCLE TIME Activity 1: Agree, in writing, in a comment to the Professor’s post, with the words “I, [YOUR NAME HERE] agree to abide by the rules of Circle Time.”
CIRCLE TIME Activity 2: Write 3 Comments. You will notice that I (the Professor) have endeavored to comment once on each person’s “Diary 2” Entry. Now, it is your turn. Write a comment on someone’s post — preferably someone who has not gotten many comments yet. Also, write a comment on anyone’s post you wish. Write more than one to one person, if you wish. Post a minimum of 3 comments before Thursday, March 26. (As Admin of the site, I see all comments in the dashboard.)
WRITING ASSIGNMENT 1 — DAILY DIARY: Write a daily Diary. Make it a WORD document. I will put a sample format here: ENG 1121 and 1101 DIARY FORMAT DOCUMENT .
ELECTRONIC Format: This journal is going to be a WORD document that you edit and cut and paste. It goes from oldest date to most recent date. In this WORD document you will want to follow grammar and punctuation rules, and clean up your text in general. I love your more informal blog posts — we don’t edit those. Now, I am also looking for greater polish and clarity for a diary that you will hand in to me for a grade. You can start out messy — but you will be revising. Understood? You may use any word-processing program you need to for now. I will ask you to publish excerpts from your diary to our website from time to time.
What do you write about?: Lots of things, anything, as long as you include the date and time and location. You can talk about what room in your house you are in. You can keep track of what you did, or how you are feeling in the morning, or at night, after the events of your day are done. May I give you a word of advice for a daily writing assignment?: Consistency helps. You need to write a minimum of 1,000 words every week. You write an entry every single day. If one day is very short and one day is very long, that’s okay. Consistency. You will begin posting installments/excerpts of it to the class this Thursday, Mar 26.
Still wondering what to write?: Are you getting fatter? Thinner? More fit? Less? Are you practicing something — an instrument, a sport? Are you going crazier by the minute or more depressed by the day?
Be real.
Try to inspire yourself. You don’t have to try to inspire the rest of us. Just you.
READING AND REFLECTING ASSIGNMENT Week 1, Due Mar 30: Familiarize yourself with some kind of diary — read parts of it. Maybe it is Diary of a Wimpy Kid? Maybe it is Anne Frank’s diary? I will include pdf links to both of those below, but there are other diaries out there you can read. You must write a 300-word reflection on what diary you have read, and say why you liked it. Describe the format/design of the diary you chose and say whether you liked it or not; say how it may or may not inspire your diary.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, link.
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl, link.
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WEEK of March 19-20: This assignment is required of each student. If you have not yet posted to our site, I can’t add you to the new Members Links I have created on the site, and it will be much harder for me to track your work and give you credit.
Assignment for Week of March 19-20, Due Mar 23: Write a post to this site. Title it Diary Entry 2 and put your FIRST NAME in the title. For example: Diary Entry 2_Sarah. Write about how you are doing now; how you have been doing up to now; add details, names, places — don’t just speak in generalities. Say what you’ve been up to, and/or what those close to you have been up to.
I am not grading you on perfect grammar here, but you should be as clear and error free as possible, and use language in an honest, direct, and understandable way. Keep the reader’s experience in mind, even if that reader is only you. Write like you care and you mean it. There is no length requirement, per se. Write what you wish.
Note 1: Please note that I changed the Privacy settings so that only those registered to our course can see the posts. However, if you still feel that you would like to have only me (the Professor) read your post, please adjust the “Visibility” setting on the upper right of your screen from “Public” to “Private.”
Note 2: During the last two classes before Recess, we all discussed how to post to OpenLab. Most of you complied with my first request to post, and I’ve already recorded your entries. Great! If you are still having trouble, see the OpenLab Help pages link.
Note 3: I strongly suggest you start doing your Online work on a device larger than a phone — at least at first — as the mobile interface is harder to navigate.
