MbShea@PWP@English@UMCP

Good morning: this is our class journal space.  Here are the lessons/links that we will discuss on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday sessions. Later today, I will post our first Friday Wrap up (me talking over slides so you know what we did this week.). Today we peek here into these links. 

• Learning a bit of writing composition pedagogy helpers 
  • Cognitive wedge (one-page Google doc) praxis (TBD Monday and all week)
  • Stasis theory overview (2 Google slides)
  • Follow-up on audience analysis slides, two of which were discussed in WEEK 1 below.
• Checking out these resources here on Squarespace: set of language helper links, to see the range of digital sources on language choices

Looking ahead?  Wednesday after labor day we will prep for the invention phase of memo 1: understanding what rain gardens are and preparing to define and describe.  If you want, read ahead for ten minutes a day or so. You can look at the Wikipedia entries or do a google search (think critically about what you find).  

 TL:DNR? Try this:

• squarespace for weekly, MWF guidance and links to learning content (WEEK with updates)
• Night before tasks are due in Eli review in (SAMPLE OHitS/AMA docs) 
• ELMS calendar to be linked to specific tasks later this week
• ELI Review (will will register for this in Week 2).

What we do in these spacess:

• Squarespace, where I present short, targeted lessons on writing with links short materials
• OHitS/AMA Google Docs, where you interact with me, together, before assignments are due
• Eli Review, where you interact with each other to write, review, revise --> toward excellent writing (and learning) for three major assignments:  Memo 1, Memo 2, Article Review.

Promise to you:  I will work hard to curate links to what you need for the day, the week, and the month.

Recall the labor grading approach:  I will grade you on three papers, each accompanied by four labor grades for your reading, drafting, commenting, revising, and generally being part of our learning community.

Arrive alive, together.

Care to peek into how I think about teaching?  Skim Jess Stommel's 37-slide presentation on designing classes for care and community