MbShea@PWP@English@UMCP

FOR MARCH 30-APRIL 3

Greetings, dear science writing students.  This post tells you want to do for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. My goals are the following for us as a class:

• Learn to Write to a prompt in ELI Review and Review -- in groups I select -- each other's writing.
• Prepare to develop a Revision plan in ELI Review, based on the feedback you receive.
• Focus on a set of short slide presentations about audience analysis as a life-long skill for thinking about writing for the many occasions of life that require such responses.  Spend about a half hour looking at these:
  • Set 1: Audience/Context/Purpose (Aristotle's Rhetorical Triangle)
  • Set 2: Audience Analysis and Relationships
  • Set 3: Booth's Two Triangles of Audience Analysis
• Touch base a bit about how the class is being revised and talk about fewer assignments, a final project, and grades.  We will do this by some Google Docs that I host. I will be in these documents between 9-12 on Monday and UPDATED Wednesday (to be linked later).  You can ask questions beforehand or during the time I will be there or read the documents later.  In this way, the process is like the Office-Hours-in-the-Sky approach we use. But, I am calling these documents Monday ASK ME ANYTHING and Wednesday ASK ME ANYTHING.  I think we have lots of questions about how this semester will resume and continue, as well as end.

Technology and platforms

• We continue with this class journal and I suggest that you start here each day and week to be clear about what we are doing.  I will try to link here to the two other platforms, namely, Google Docs/Slides that you are already familiar with and the new platform:  ELI Review.

Time and place

• I am moving to asynchronous vs. synchronous.  Here are my reasons: we are all under wildly new circumstances regarding family, living conditions, work responsibilities, and our other courses. Moving to a largely asynchronous setting is more fitting for this occasion that we find ourselves in.  I am sad to not be together with you all (9Am, 10AM, 11AM crews). Yet, as I revise the course into what is do-able, realistic, just, kind, fair, and appropriate, this is the way forward that I choose.
• ELI Review, where we will conduct our writing, reviewing, and revising together makes this possible.  

For Monday:  Please access ELI Review by a code.  The code should be circulating on groupMe.  Ask for this code from your colleagues.  Email if you still need the code, at either address.  The code allows you access to ELI Review.  Once you are in ELI Review, I suggest you poke around and learn how the site works. 

As of 6:07 today, 27 people are listed on the roster.  I need to see all of you on the roster no later than 8AM on Monday March 30.  There, you need to complete the assignment that is named "SOFT OPENING for WEEKEND: MEDIA Curation of two slide sets." This link will take you to ELI REVIEW, IF YOU ARE ON THE ROSTER AND LOGGED IN.  Read the directions and complete the short assignment by 1PM on Monday (please ignore the due date on that task for now).  Once you complete the short assignments, I will see that you have completed the task.  Then, I will assign a review task for you and your classmates based on that short assignment.  That review task will be due on -->

Wednesday, by 1PM.  UPDATED: Thursday, 2020-04-02 11:45 pm. Then, we will have some experience using ELI REVIEW.

Friday: I will host a session on Friday, in a Google Doc UPDATED!.  This will take the form of Office Hours in the Sky, with me being there between 9-1.  I WILL CHECK THE DOCUMENT again by 5PM.  Here, I am supporting you as we did earlier in the semester: Helping you before you turn in a major assignment.  You are familiar with how that sessions works.  The topic will be about your article review assignment underway before campus closure/spring break.  For Friday, by midnight, you will need to post that document into an ELI Review Writing Task prompt that I will release on Friday morning.   UPDATE:  I posted on Tuesday AM, so you can have more time to think about this, ask me questions, and prepare your document for Friday,

Process comment: This week, we practice ELI Review, prepare to share our article review documents in ELI, and generally get back into the swing of things.

What we are NOT DOING: We are not using ELMS, nor ZOOM, now.  

Advice:  Take a deep breathe.  Join ELI Review.  I will have more to say how we proceed after this week.  And, I want to hear from you.  I have some ideas about how to learn together, but we are a writing community. Let's spend the week together and see what we develop together.

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TASKS for the week:

1. Join ELI Review and spend fifteen minutes learning basics.
2. Complete the ELI Writing Task linked above by Monday at noon.
3. Look at the audience analysis slides linked above.
4. Complete the ELI Review Task, where you comment to a colleague on their slide.
5. Prepare to post your article review to ELI by Friday at midnight.
6. AND: Rest, eat good food, spend time outside in spring sun, exercise, be connected to people you love.

the website this weekend. Here is what you do.  I will have a code to ELIReview sent to the groupME.  If you are not in the groupME, email me on either account and I will send the code.

Once in ELIREVIEW, I want you to look around at the student guidance.  You will see text on html pages and some short videos. You choose your pathway through the guidance. 

AFTER you have acquainted yourself with how the platform works, then, go to the activity posted called "SOFT OPENING.."  DO THIS ACTIVITY!  Thank you.  Will could toward your EXTRA CREDIT "points" bank.

On Sunday, I wll describe the next tasks and how we will gather this first week.  On groupMe, some of those who pretested with me will likely help you. Ask them. And, thank them.

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FYI

I am busy with something really good, just now.  Here is a picture:

Designing and making medical grade masks for local hospital, ICU use.  Look for the good, dear students. About 17 people up/down Route 1, doing this work by hospital request.  

Designing, sewing, putting in UV light, packing in units of ten. Delivering.

Stay safe. WASH YOUR HANDS.  

with me, today and Saturday.  EMAIL ME.  I will send you a code to access and some directions.  I want to test a few items with you.

More generally, on Sunday, I will post directions for everyone about Monday and Wednesday.  I want to have some synchronous time, as we start out. BUT we can more to more asynchronous activty as ELI allows this.

Your time is valuable and complicated now.  I want to design for that and give you flexibility.

I will ask someone to share this on the groupMe too, about a soft opening invitation to test. 

Mb

Hello J and S and A.  Thank you for testing with me, today. NEW! Hello AW, a new tester. Start here:

First, please go to ELI and log in, with the code I emailed you.

Then, try to click into these brief ELI tutorials, from this squarespace page.  If you can access these links -- all of them -- then email to say either:

Student Introduction to Eli Review

Welcome! Eli Review encourages you to develop new routines for giving and using feedback and how to use the feedback you get to revise more effectively.This overview explains the work you’ll do in Eli Review. You can read the whole thing, or jump to a  section:

1. First Steps: sign up, learn the layout , and join a course
2. Writing tasks: turn in a draft for feedback
3. Review tasks: all about feedback
   • Give feedback to your peers
   • Make sense of feedback you received
   • Learn to be more helpful from feedback on your feedback
4. Revision tasks: where you actually improve as a writer
   • Plan your revision
   • Revise and resubmit
5. Going deeper: getting better at feedback and revision

• task ONE of ELI access and hot links to ELI via squarespace WORKS  OR DOES NOT WORK. Hello, AW, where you stop. GO to ELI student view, as I said in email, and find your custom ANGELA TASK. Do that.  THANK YOU.

Task TWO, if you have access. Then, try this brief writing task, called TEST WRITING TASK.  You will each write a short paragraph.  Complete on ELI.  I will see your response there.

Task THREE:  Review each other's paragraph in the TEST REVIEW TASK, after I put you in a review pair group. Complete on ELI. I will see your response there.

Task FOUR: TBD

You are wonderful.  THANK YOU.  Have a cookie in a perfectly disposable coffee cup.

has information within a six-point format, in eight-minute YouTube video.  He has a medical channel and both brilliant and funny,