MbShea@PWP@English@UMCP

HEY:  I confused people.  Here is a link to a google doc you can use between 9 and 11 for Office Hours in the Sky/AMA

Memo we are starting: Here is a first-draft structure for your memo, by paragraph job

Define rain garden briefly, focusing on form and function: (definition paragraph); No citation necessary, as this is common knowledge)

Categorize rain gardens as a kind of low impact development (categorizing paragraph); Citation useful here, use EPA or the Bioretention Manual)

Illustrating paragraph describes the form and function

Document the effectiveness of rain gardens (logos-proof paragraph with ethos of citation authority); Citation essential here, based on Allen Davis' work)

SOURCES that will work for you are these:

Low Impact Development Center (founded by inventor of rain gardens, Larry Coffman);browse website, ten minutes or so.

UMD Cooperative Extention brochure, 52 pg. PDF

Skim this local news piece (2010) on managing run-off in Hyattsvlle. Skim this local news piece, too, from 2014.

On Monday, we will look at two additional sources, including work by Alan Davis, PhD, in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering on campus.

IF YOU WANT and only if you are likely to not resist the urge to search more:

Skim the Wikipedia entries for rain gardens and bioretention (technical term for this environmental developmet approach).

A Gathering of Rain Gardens here.

or the special language of critical thinking and writing.  Here is a link to a Google folder of short slides we will use.  Please look at four slides sets before Wednesday 9/9 (Monday is Labor Day: rest up!).  You will recognize logos, pathos, ethos terms but we will focus more deeply into classical and modern rhetoric for critical thinking/writing.  I am giving you access to the entire folder so you can read ahead if you like.

READINGS: Sets 1-4.  This are your assigned slides for skimming.  Have a sense of this vocabulary used to improve writing understanding of the rhetorical situation of Audience, Context, Purpose.

OPTIONAL Reading: Skim this Owl Purdue web exhbit plus slides on rhetorical situations.  You can see that the words used vary but the ideas are the same.

UPDATED MONDAY: Mp3 sound summary of week one.  (I had trouble making GarageBand to convert to MP3 files, the form most easily used across a number of platforms.)

Google Meet link (same all semester)

Good morning.  This Class Journal place is the primary way to keep track of how this class works.  This portion of my teaching website is a blog scroll, meaning that each new entry appears higher in the feed than those previously.

Tasks for Wednesday and Friday of WEEK 1: 

• Look at this set of language helper links, to see the range of digital sources on language choices
• Read the syllabus and syllabus rationale so you are aware of my teaching strategies
• Add a slide to this introduction set, so I we can "visualize" each other
• Visit Eli Review and spend ten minutes on the site. Note: you are not logging in yet.  Just scoping out.
• Look at this padlet on diversity and inclusion/peer editing/classroom climate.  We will look at these links on Friday during our Google Meet (9AM, 10AM) so have this interactive resource in a browser tab when we meet.

Quick tech test for Monday in GoogleMeet (complete by Wednesday AM so we can look at this Google Jamboard together.  This jamboard has three pages.  You only need to do one of the three prompts.  Try to help each other fill up the three pages.

Links to save:  

For now, this Google Meet link will be used repeatedly for our class meetings.  Here is our GroupMe also. These links are also in the Welcome to Class announcement in ELMS.  Here is a template for a notes capture sheet.  I want two people in each MWF meeting to work with these and post to the GroupMe.

Hello! Here are links to google docs where you can help me plan for next year, with the class to be digital only, as that is likely what will happen on campus for the vast majority of undergraduate classes.

Overall Reflection Task Folder contains thes files

• REFLECTION Task instructions plus template START HERE
• ANONYMOUS Document for critique in privacy, on documenr
• Folder for reflection piece to be uploaded

Audio file! Includes goodbye and ideas on recommendatons in your future. Getting some bike time in of course,  You too?

via GIPHY

I will post a link in Eli Review this morning, where you can submit this final project.  How about this idea?  If I find something REALLY SHOCKINGLY WRONG/BAD/SILLY/WORTHLESS I will email you and you resubmit.  Does that help?

Here is link to Monday's document for AMA+OHitS. During this session (9-1), I will also be in a department Zoom, er Doom meeting.  If I hear anything useful for all y'all about next year, I will post in that document.

I will post an audio on Wednesday or Friday about my impressions about the one-article review submissions.  

As ever, I hope you are well enough.  This is charming and hypnotic, in a good way (43 seconds). Vimeo is a good place to explore art videos. Enjoy.

Music Box from subBlue on Vimeo.

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Student just recommended this one as also charming and relaxing.  3 1/2 minues of repeat.

Ma'agalim - Jane Bordeaux from Uri Lotan on Vimeo.