Introduction. We will explore using Moodle; discuss online resources, the syllabus, and course policies; read the course and project descriptions; and begin our discussion of the rhetoric of fear.
Is audience all that important?
APA/MLA comparison exercise. Complete this exercise (with your peer) in Moodle.
Our differences and the differences they make.
Getting Started with Online Research
First Online Class in Moodle
Moodle work includes a discussion of early movie trailers. You can view the movie trailers here or in Moodle, but you will need to go to the Moodle Forum to post your discussion of these trailers.
Homework: For our next "real" class session (on Thursday January 17th), read the following links:
Research Game. Research Guide. Determine Group Topic and begin research on group project. Write Group Project Proposal in Moodle & each of you should respond to one other group's proposal.
Discuss responses to Moodle work.
Moodle work for Week 3 includes a discussion of early "educational" films. You can view those films here or in Moodle, but you will post your analysis of these films in the Moodle Forum.
Strangers, Drugs, and Bombs. Continue Group Project
Homework: Read the first two paragraphs of this Wikipedia entry on plagiarsim. Then skip down to the subheading "Academia" just under the main subheading "Sanctions."
Read this list of types of plagiarism from turnitin.com (note that this source has a vested interest in exploding our definitions of plagiarism...it's their bread and butter)
Now go here for help. Note that in addition to defining plagiarism and providing some useful examples of it, this site also has a wealth of resources to help you avoid plagiarizing sources.
Your Moodle discussion for Week 4 will be based on the Introduction and first chapter of The Culture of Fear. For this discussion you will begin to locate sources and use them to develop an argument about a current (or somewhat current) fear gripping America.
In Week 4 we begin working with our textbook & learn about how to insert credible sources into our texts.
Introduction to digital stories and movies using MovieMaker
Sign up for Group Conferences
Homework: Continue working on Group Projects over the weekend. Have something to show me and talk about during our group conference next Tuesday or Thursday.
Begin working on your Paper Assignment Analysis (your analysis of a paper assignment from another class which accounts for 10% of your grade in this class).
No class: conferences about your group projects today.
Peer review of drafts of your group projects. Discuss individual analysis that will accompany these. A short Audacity Tutorial.
Group Project Presentations. Group projects & individual analyses of these projects are due today.
No Class, Winter Break
No Class, Winter Break
Brainstorming ideas for individual research analyses and collages; review paper assignment analysis; watch Bowling for Columbine (note, we will start this movie in class & then you will watch the rest of it in youtube & analyze the movie for your Moodle work in two weeks).
Homework: read about your individual researched analysis and collage here, complete the library Moodle session, come up with a topic to research for your individual project, and meet us in the library (room 225A) on Thursday.
Finish watching Bowling for Columbine (online) and read chapter 5 in Glassner's book. These assignments will be the key to completing your Moodle work on March 18th.
Online Class This Online Class will be in the Library Moodle. You must complete all of this work before noon on Wednesday
Library Instruction Day! We will meet in room 225A in the library for an introduction to the resources you'll be using for your last projects & for the rest of your college careers (at least!). This would be a very bad class to miss.
Reminder: for your Moodle work on Tuesday, you will need to finish watching Bowling for Columbine on your own and read Glassner's 5th chapter.
Why is Research Vital to the University?, Making a Quote Sandwich, Treasure Hunt for Citing Sources, A Good Link to Explain In-text Citations
Homework: Using the knowledge you gained in the library tutorials, construct an annotated bibliography of 5 sources you plan to use in your individual researched analysis. You will use either APA or MLA style to cite your library sources & your keen summary and analysis skills to write the annotations for those library sources. Your annotated bibliography is due at the beginning of class next Thursday.
I will collect your Annotated Bibliographies for your individual researched analysis at the beginning of class. Have a draft of your individual researched analysis ready for a peer review in class & to hand in to me for my review. I will respond to these over the next week with some constructive feedback on what you can do to improve your analysis.
In-class work day for the individual researched analyses. I will do mini-conferences with everyone during class to discuss my comments on your paper drafts.
Online Class will include copyediting your individual researched analysis.
Open lab hours noon-2:00
Homework: revise your paper assignment analysis and prepare your collage for presentation in class next Tuesday
Last Online Class!
Open lab hours from 2-4:00
