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2/20: Revisit Your Plan
Get into Your Groups Revisit your group’s task schedule and straw document today. You have all class period to make progress on your Collaborative Learning History Project that is due on Tuesday, 2/27 as a new page to your blog. I’ll show you how to create that page today. I will also introduce Nowacek’s and Cooper’s texts that you will read for homework. Homework COMPLETE the Collaborative Learning History Project due on Tuesday 2/27. READ Nowacek & Cooper excerpts (Bb). THURS 2/22 IS A MONDAY SCHEDULE. Our class does not meet, but go to your Monday classes on Th 2/22.
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2/15: Project Planning
Get into Your Groups You have three action items for today’s class: HOMEWORK Complete BP2, “Our Collaborative Writing Plan,” and post to your blog. This post should include your project manager’s name, a link to your task schedule, and a link to your straw document. Indicate where you feel confident with your group’s plan and what concerns you have that you want to address next class.
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2/13: Zoom Class
Access Our Class We will meet via Zoom for class from 9:15-10:30a. As always, attendance is required, as we will be doing collaborative work towards our Collaborative Learning History Project. Zoom invitation is below. Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86228187205?pwd=Mk1vMFRxdGg2clJNMzJSb1l1ckxLUT09 Meeting ID: 862 2818 7205Passcode: 612885 Group Work Based on our work last week, I’ve placed you into the following groups: If you are not in a group yet, I’ll meet with you during class to make a plan. In your groups, look more closely at the following collaboratively authored texts: Efthymiou & Zea’s “Doing More with Barely Enough,” McNamee & Miley’s “Writing Center as Homeplace,” and Lunsford & Ede’s “Writing Togther” (available…
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2/8: Moving toward the Collaborative Learning History Assignment
Working as a Large Group Today we will take time to understand our first major assignment of the semester: the Collaborative Learning History Project. Look more closely and McNamee & Miley’s “Writing Center as Homeplace” for how they articulate their common goal in their collaboratively written piece. Consider how their different narratives sit next to each other throughout their article. Working in Small Groups Together, you will begin to answer these questions for your group: What do our different experiences say about collaborative learning? What might our common goal or purpose be? Take time to work in group to compare your individual narratives to each other. You may identify important…
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2/6: Refining One Voice to Engage with Other Voices
WordPress Work Your blog post about your collaboration within a community is due today. I want you to start strong on your WordPress blogs because you will be composing there often. We’ll take a good part of this class period to ensure that everyone knows how to title their site and post blogs, looking at some of our peers’ work as models. I encourage you all to check out Fatima’s, Jaqy’s, Katherine’s, Mitchie’s, Peter’s, and Simran’s sites linked in the Blog Roll on the right. As we look at a few of our peers’ examples together, keep Bruffee’s article “Collaboration and the ‘Conversation of Mankind'” in mind. For Bruffee (1984),…
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2/1: Kenneth Bruffee Introduces Collaborative Learning to College English Teachers
RHETORICAL SITUATION We’ll begin by orienting ourselves to Bruffee’s “Collaborative Learning and the ‘Conversation of Mankind'” by understanding the rhetorical situation of this piece. In other words, we will chart what we know about the author, audience, and text to take stock of the information we have going into this reading. Group Work In your groups, (quickly) answer the following questions. You should use textual evidence from Bruffee’s article, and I welcome you to use any relevant personal evidence, as well: After we share as a large group, we’ll look together at p. 642, where Bruffee describes what I’ll call a discourse community: “A community of knowledgeable peers is a…
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1/30: The History of Collaboration
In-class Writing Prompt How do you write? How have you written over the course of your life? Describe your writing experiences in school. Describe your writing experiences outside of school. When have you written alone? When have you written with others. After sharing our writing as a group, we’ll look together at Fitzgerald and Ianetta’s excerpt from The Oxford Guide for Writing Tutors that focuses on authorship studies (you can find this piece in Blackboard). This excerpt gives a brief history of how authorship has been understood over time, how the early history of authorship, beginning with the classical period, understood writing as divinely inspired. Through the Renaissance and Romantic…
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1/25: Welcome to ENGL 201W
This course introduces you to collaborative learning practices in higher education and academic publishing. You will reflect on your own learning and literacy histories to understand how your past experiences shape your current writing practices. In addition to reading examples of collaborative authorship, we will practice collaborative authorship in our classroom community. You should expect to write individually and in groups on multiple platforms using a range of tools (pen, paper, word-processing platforms, websites, AI, etc.). Icebreaker We’ll start the day with a collaborative icebreaker, The Marshmallow Challenge! In the spirit of collaboration, this icebreaker asks you to work together toward a common task, one that may be somewhat disorienting.…
