Month: September 2012
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Romans / Britons Collaborative Narrative Project
Concept: A group of historians, archeologists, and associated researches collaborate to produce a evolving multimodal research-based historical biography. Narrative: use the characters Suetonius Paulinus, Boudica, and several others to develop the complex interlocking narratives of the clash between the invading Romans and the defending Celts in England and Wales during the first century BCE. Medium: online integrated…
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Report from the Grading Trenches, Dispatch Two
As you’ll know if you’ve read the last few posts that my ambitious course plans for the semester have prompted me to think more carefully not only about the feedback I give, but how I give that feedback and how fine-grained I can make that feedback without driving myself to distraction. Here at the Writing…
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Report from the Grading Trenches: Dispatch One
I spent a lot of time this summer thinking about how to streamline my grading process. I spoke with colleagues, read many Profhacker articles (just search Profhacker by “assessment” and you’ll get 101 hits), and looked at my past approaches to embracing a syllabus that expects students to experiment with multimodal forms of composition without…