I liked this week's assignment. I realize that it wasn't super involved, but it gave me a way to work through the assigned readings by forcing myself to work on something less specifically related to the reading at the same time. So while I was working through Kittler, I was working through how I saw the future of the "new media" wiki page. It's not unrelated, but it isn't focused just on this reading, either. It seemed to help me make some of the connections between readings I would normally have made, had this semester not been so crazy.
I think I need to keep making strides towards academic recovery at a steady pace.
Also, please think ahead two weeks, to when your first drafts of your seminar papers are due, for workshopping. What suggestions do you have for strategies we can use for workshopping these papers online?
I find actual face to face conversations much better for workshopping. We tried a few different ideas for online collaboration and peer review in the writing center I worked at, and while they were somewhat effective, I didn't particularly like them. One idea might be to post our essays on the wiki and have others give us comments or add questions in different fonts or something.
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Thanks for letting me know that working on the wiki provided a good counterbalance to the reading, Anna. That sort of feedback helps me think about how I can keep an online class from becoming just "read and respond and read and respond."
I am trying to figure out how to set up possibilities of f2f workshopping as well as online ones. The idea of the wiki is a good one.
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