Week two: this is our text/primary reading space in 9, 10, 11 science writing spring 2021
Google Meet link for M, W, F. Recall that this link is good all semester.
Good morning: this is our class journal space. Here are the lessons/links that we will discuss on Monday, February 7, and work with on Wednesday and Friday. Do not forget our ongoing exploration of practical guidance on our COVID response choices:
Workspaces on Corsi-Rosenthal boxes, masks, and testing- Jamboard (Links to an external site.) for brainstorming in class +
- Google doc on CR box instructions (Links to an external site.)
- Google doc on mask definition/selection (Links to an external site.)
- Google doc on testing selection+next steps (Links to an external site.)
Today, Monday, we will peek into these links. Generally, I ask that look at links with me in class and then follow up to skim or re-inforce the key writing concept presented. Recall that you are not being tested on this material. Rather, you are learning to think and writing for specific:
- Audience/Contexts/Purposes aka the ACP triangle; and
- Logos/Pathos/Ethos elements (often combined) that you see in the ACP triangle; these types of qualities were identified as Aristotle's three modes of persuasion, aka the LPE triangle.
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)
Looking ahead? On Friday, 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 (Monday WEEKLY with W,F updates)
- Night before tasks are due in Eli Review in (SAMPLE OHitS/AMA doc, bonus is that rain garden content)
- ELMS calendar to be linked to specific tasks later this week
- ELI Review (we will register for this in after Week 2).
What we do in these spaces:
- 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 (in best health possible), together! Today's In the Bubble podcast, with Bob Wachter, MD and epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina is really good. Information is part of our toolkit.
Care to peek into how I think about teaching? Skim Jess Stommel's 37-slide presentation on designing classes for care and community
Demonstrating the follow-up post, nested underneath the weekly post. Here is a wonderful Twitter thread about OUR C-R box work, which begins January 27. Note: you can see Twitter threads from referral links without having a Twitter account. (let's chat curation of links for a moment).
Knitting up from earlier discussions of the overlay quality of pathos (feeling intensity) and ethos (group trust, credibility, and even ethical frames), here are two brief examples we will chat about briefly:
- Pathos and ethos of lost opportunity
- Len Bias, Northwestern Wildcat and UMCP Terp
- Eva Cassidy, local musician
- Robert MacArthur, ecologist and designer with E.O. Wilson of island biogeography theory
Definitions of note (chaining back to stasis theory to consider that stasis definitional frames are not simply word definitions. We go beyond the dictionary approach.
- basketball number 34 and number 30 (See Len Bias story)
- island biogeography theory (definitional work from step 2 of stasis theory) AND experimental confirmation by Daniel Simberlost and E.O. Wilson
- Two new ones: stacked immunity and mixed immunity
Video definitions!
If you would like to prep for the memo content, read about rain gardens and bioretention. What is this environmental intervention? Does it work? How old is this technology? And, guess what: Prince George's County and the University of Maryland play key roles in invention of rain gardens and in testing for efficacy.
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