Sometimes, I get stuck on something, read a prompt, and
realize that I haven’t thought about that thing in a week. This is one of those
times. As I’m always sort of thinking about the project, I have yet to make a
decision between the two I proposed earlier.
Both of them hold these exciting opportunities, and I can’t
decide if they can fit together somehow. It feels like I’d be abandoning an
idea before I really gave it an honest try, which doesn’t feel great.
I don’t know how I’d be able to build a self-learning
utilityspacething in the next two months, so that feels more like a long-term
thing. But if I don’t start working on it sometime, it won’t get done.
On the other hand, I would really like to develop a certain
sort of class that focused on publishing constantly. This is making me think
about what I want to write for the next blog post, so I’m going to go do that
now. I'll be back.
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Ok, back, and also mentally drained. But I'm going to keep trying. I guess I might be looking for advice on how best to approach this? Would all of you be willing to volunteer your skills and thoughts as instructors to help me build this resource? I'll bring baked goods.
And maybe the other class-design can fit into my 701 project that I'm still not positive about. And then maybe they'll fold together eventually.
I will do anything for baked goods. Or that bread you made. (#carbs)
ReplyDeleteWhat about thinking about the design of it, like Kristin is doing with her redesign of D2L? And have you thought of all of the modes you want to include?
But I like your publishing class idea too. You'd just have to figure out a way for students to have an actual audience so the stakes are higher for their writing. Do you think students would be "performing" in their writing? (Can you perform in writing?) Just a thought.
HA! To publish a comment, it makes you "prove that you're not a robot." You know, I'm not so sure that I can do that.
ReplyDeleteHappy Halloween!
The publishing thing is interesting because I think it gets at the Academic Writing definition/questions we constantly talk about. It's also related to what Anne brings up all the time about trying to break the mold of academic writing and yet we can't.
ReplyDeleteAsh's questions are solid. I would also add that I wonder if a "reverse" protocol concept would help you? Galloway discusses the layers that make protocol work for the net, but is it possible that there's an inverse way that would work for us and performance identity? What kinds of layers do we have that would help individual writers communicate and make connections with one another? (If this dips into Keegan's project I apologize, but it seems like Galloway or Brooke may fit?)
Matt, I think you might need to work through more what "publishing constantly" means. Publishing how and publishing to whom?
ReplyDeleteI had to click "publish" to comment on this post. Does that constitute the publishing you had in mind or not?
ReplyDeleteI'd like to know more about what type of publishing you are talking about...print, digital print, ebook, interactive digital print, webpage, etc. I suppose you could try them all in one semester and build your class around each different medium.
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