blog evaluation - help?
We're at the end of the semester with no more blog assignments pretty much. When we get back from Thanksgiving break, I want to give an evaluation sheet on blogs to everyone. I'm working on an academic paper that looks at how the use of blogs in the classroom helps student writing/thinking, but I'm also focusing on how blogging has affected my own teaching and writing. I'm constructing the evaluation now, and I'd love some help. I want the evaluation to be narrative...so I'm looking to solicit some writing from each of you about your experience with blogs this semester. Are there any questions you think I should ask? Any information I should try to get? Any ideas at all?
Your insights and creative thinking would be hugely appreciated.
203 magnetic poetry
I have no idea what this means (maybe a little) and I'm a little bit embarassed to put it up -- don't know why. But here goes (I used the Artist kit):
every hard green scream
balances each free passion
rhythm & imagination
electric metaphor
one write
a shard
a symbol
our picture
wild raw sometimes mean
experiment with harmony
feel how we paint music
a little masterpiece
common and alive
whazup?
ok, i haven't blogged for a bit. ok, last update says 9 nov. -- that's a week ago. i have nothing to blog about. do i? i like writing without capital letters. i wonder why? i wonder why it looks fine on a blog but not in my journal? hmmm. now i'm just blathering to blather. is blather really a verb? noun? i'll have to check the dictionary. how's the blogging going, y'all?
203-Everyman
We're finishing up
Everyman and trying to figure out how to transpose this play written around 1475 into 2004 and A&M University. Someone in the 10 o'clock class suggested that
The Summoning of Everyman could be translated into
Bring Yo' Ass EveryA&Mstudent!, which I think catches the meaning pretty well. Someone else suggested that the event that wakes up Everystudent is to be expelled. I asked folks to identify the problem for the A&M revision (in
Everyman the problem is that God is upset with humans because they've forgotten the spiritual and focus on worldly goods) -- so what's the problem for Everystudent? forgotten they're here for learning not grades? forgotten they're here for grades not partying? The solution in
Everyman is that God sends Death to Everyman, who is informed he has to die pretty soon, but he does get to take a quick pilgrimage first. If the solution for Everystudent is to get expelled but to go on a pilgrimage first, what does the pilgrimage look like? I'll be interested to see what folks come up with on Wednesday.
204-Achebe
We started one of my favorite books today -- Chinua Achebe's
Things Fall Apart. We did the freewrite I usually do to start off our discussion: "When I think of Africa, I think of...." There were about thirty-three of us in the room and only one person had been to Africa -- one student went with her chorus for three weeks to Accra, Ghana. She said it was nothing like she expected, and she admitted that she expected the stereotypes that mainstream U.S. TV has miseducated us to believe.
