We will not have a face to face class next week (2/16) . All work will be conducted online. We will meet again face to face on 2/23.
See me if your They Say/I Say Presentation is due in the next two weeks and you need help identifying the correct tool to use. Make sure your presentation is posted on your CI Keys site (embedded in a page).
In Class Today:
- CI Keys Fix: Modify settings for discussion to expedite commenting on peer’s blogs.
- Personal Inquiry VoiceThread Progress Report: Go to CI Learn to access the VoiceThread and edit it to add your own slide. Follow these instructions (also found in the VoiceThread):
- Create a slide for your progress report. You will create the side in PowerPoint, Google Slides, or Keynote and save or print as a PDF. You will then upload the slide to our VoiceThread. Make sure your slide includes your name, your topic, bullet points of your main ideas, and a relevant image that is properly cited.
- The slide and your comments should cover what you have learned so far in your research, challenges you are facing or anticipate, and the research question you will try to answer in your essay. You should also include one question that you would to receive feedback on from your peers. This can be any aspect of your project that would like some help puzzling through.
- Once your slide is uploaded, you will record a Voice comment in which you share your progress with the class. Comments should be no longer than 3 minutes. It is a good idea to jot notes to keep your comment concise, focused, and engaging for your classmates. Your progress report should be posted by Monday 2/15.
- You will then comment on one another’s slides by Wednesday 2/19 (also using the Voice feature – not Video). You will comment on 4 slides. Comments should be 1-2 minutes in length and address what you took away from the presenter’s update as well as an answer to the question the presenter posed.
- Once comments are posted, you will have until Friday 2/19 to listen to all comments and share your response to your peer’s feedback (again using Voice, not Video). This final comment should be no more than 2 minutes in length and reflect on what your peer comments revealed to you about your own project.
- Personal Inquiry Annotated Bibliography: We will have a session with a real life librarian this time and check on the status of your entries so for. Your five entries that were due this week should be published on a page on your CI Keys site.
- Access this review sheet and then make a copy so that another student may review your draft.
- Each of your nine entries in the annotated bibliography should follow the format that is exemplified in this sample. Organize your entries by discipline (labeling each section — Economics, Sociology, etc.). In each of these three sections, entries should be in alphabetical order.
- A complete entry will include the citation for the source, formatted according to MLA Guidelines, and an annotation of three paragraphs. The first paragraph will summarize the source. The second paragraph will assess or evaluate the source. And the third will reflect on how the source might fit into your Personal Inquiry Project.
- Please include a brief abstract of the problem/issue you are exploring and the three disciplinary lenses through which you will be investigating your topic. Successful annotated bibliographies will be thoughtful and thorough (containing all the required elements) and submitted by the due date.
- Remember that your bibliography should include nine entries that each contain the following:
- Citation (properly formatted in MLA Style)
- Annotation (three paragraphs total)
- Summary paragraph
- Assessment/evaluation paragraph
- Reflection paragraph
Upcoming Work:
- Post Integrative Blog Peer Comments #1 by tomorrow (2/10) (extended deadline due to settings mishap).You can access all class blogs on this page.
- Post Reflective Vlog Peer Comments #1 by Tuesday 2/16. Click here to access our Vlog on VoiceThread. Comments should be no longer than one minute in length and make reference to all previous comments.
- Post Integrative Blog Update #2 by Tuesday 2/16. For this and subsequent posts, you draw connections among the various academic and professional pursuits in which you are engaged, developing insights and perspectives that would not be available from a single field or disciplinary point of view. Your posts should include specific details, examples, and illustrations that convey how you are yoking together multiple disciplines/perspectives and what is revealed to you in that process. Each post should be about 500 words in length, include a creative title that captures the overall theme/dominant impression of that particular post, and integrate (and properly cite) a relevant image. You are writing to your classmates, so strive for readable, absorbing, and thought-proving prose and effective integration of your relevant image.
- Compose all nine complete entries for your Annotated Bibliography for your Personal Inquiry Project by Tuesday 2/16. Revise the page on your CI Keys Site.
- Read They Say/I Say Ch. 4-5 by Tuesday of next week.
- Watch They Say / I Say Presentations #1 and #2.
- Complete this form after viewing each presentation.
- They Say/I Say Presentation #1: From Intro: What is academic writing? What does it mean to enter the conversation? (Alex Martinez)
- They Say /I Say Presentation #2: From Ch. 1: Strategies for introductions (Maddie Lanois).
- Complete this form after viewing each presentation.
- Complete work for your Personal Inquiry VoiceThread Progress Report by each assigned due date (see above).
- Stay tuned next week for information on beginning your Personal Inquiry Essay (Working Draft Due before class on 2/23) and other work that will be due in Week 5.
