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6374 Participation Assignment Sheet

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EMAC 6374: Digital Textuality

Spring 2013

 

Participation Requirements

 

Purpose:

  • To involve students in active processes of learning.

 

Overview:

Forget the model of education you see in the movies where a brilliant professor lectures from a podium and students scribble away furiously in their notebooks. Research evidence overwhelmingly suggests that students learn better and retain more information when they are actively involved in the process of learning.

 

My classroom philosophy is that I am a coach, there to guide you through these active processes. I very seldom lecture and most of our class meetings will involve whole class discussion. And this will lead to some of the most valuable take-away from this course, in class and online. However, this means that your participation is necessary for our success. It is important that you participate in every class meeting and that you share resources between classes.

 

Your participation grade includes in-class discussion, sharing resources via twitter and the wiki, reading response tweets, attendance, tool reviews, and office hours visits.

 

 

The Requirements:

  • Do the reading. Take notes. Tweet responses and questions throughout the reading assignment. Come to class prepared to discuss key ideas, vocabulary, questions, disagreements, examples, etc.

  • Be in class. More than one absence will affect your grade, and in most cases, four or more absences will result in a failing grade.

  • Arrive on time and stay for the duration of the class session. If you arrive more than 30 minutes late, you will be marked as absent. Leaving more than 30 minutes early also counts as an absence.

  • Pay attention. Silence cell phones. Don’t send or receive texts or emails. Stay off of Facebook unless it is part of an in-class activity. Use workshop time to test new tools. Excessive distraction may be counted as an absence.

  • Share information. If you see articles or tweets relevant to the class, tweet them with the hashtag. Add new tools to the resource index pages.

  • You can use Twitter for in-class participation but try not to over-rely on it.

 

Technical Specifications

  • You will need a public Twitter account so that all of your peers can see your tweets and your tweets are included in searches for the class hashtag. You do not have to use your real name in your Twitter account, but you do need to give me your Twitter handle.

  • Make sure that you are signed in to your pbworks account when making changes from shared computers.

     

 

Grading

Participation is worth 50% of your final grade.

 

The criteria for grading your work are:

 

 

 

Excellent

Good

Satisfactory

Needs Improvement

Failing

In-class discussion

The student always contributes meaningful comments and ideas to class discussion*. The student may additionally contribute to the in-class Tweet stream.

The student consistently contributes comments and ideas to class discussion. Class discussion may be supplemented with in-class Twitter participation.

The student often contributes comments and ideas to class discussion or supplements with in-class Twitter participation.

The student rarely contributes comments and ideas to class discussion and may over-rely on Twitter in class.

The student never contributes to class discussion or in-class Twitter.

Sharing resources

(twitter and the wiki)

The student tweets five or more times a week outside of class with information and ideas marked with the class hashtag. The student consistently adds new tools to the resource index pages.

In addition to the reading response tweets, the student tweets a few times a week outside of class with information and ideas marked with the class hashtag. The student frequently adds new tools to the resource index pages.

In addition to the reading response tweets, the student tweets three times a week outside of class with information and ideas marked with the class hashtag. The student occasionally adds new tools to the resource index pages.

The student tweets less frequently than three per week outside of class with information and ideas marked with the class hashtag (not including the reading response assignment). The student rarely adds new tools to the resource index pages.

The student never tweets information and ideas with the class hashtag (not including the reading response assignment). The student never adds new tools to the resource index pages.

Tool Reviews

(see Tool Review Instructions)

The student's reviews indicate extensive familiarity with the tools and the writeups are insightful introductions, including relevant media. The pages are well-formatted and placed in the correct folders, and links are included on the index and student's pages. The presentation of both tools is a useful introduction.  The student's reviews indicate familiarity with the tools and the writeups are clear and helpful, including relevant media. The pages are well-formatted and placed in the correct folder and links are included on the index and student's pages. The presentation of both tools is clear and engaging.
The student has clearly used the new tools and the written pages are clear and thorough. The pages use the template and are placed in the correct folder and links are included on the index and student's pages. The presentation of both tools is clear. The student does not complete all necessary reviews or the reviews may be unclear or lack sufficient detail. The tool review pages may not use the template, may be incorrectly placed, or the student may not have added the required links. The presentation may be unclear or superficial. The student may fail to complete the new tool review or to select a previously-reviewed tool. The written or presented work may be so clear as to be unintelligible.

Reading Responses

(See Reading Response Instructions)

Five or more tweets per week that reference the assigned texts and consistently add something. They are intelligible, include the class hashtag, and may ask questions, make statements, or reply to classmates. The student does not over-rely on replying to others and includes any necessary trigger warnings for content.. Four or more tweets per week that reference the assigned texts and generally add something. They are intelligible, include the class hashtag, and may ask questions, make statements, or reply to classmates. The student does not over-rely on replying to others and includes any necessary trigger warnings for content.. Three tweets per week that reference the assigned texts, are intelligible, include the class hashtag, and ask questions, make statements, or reply to classmates. The student does not over-rely on replying to others and includes any necessary trigger warnings for content.
Fewer than three tweets per week or tweets may quote without context, ask vague questions, engage in unconstructive criticism, or simplistic agreement or disagreement. Student may fail to include trigger warnings for content when necessary.
Tweets are off-topic, engage in trolling, or do not contain the class hashtag.

 

*Note: you do not always have to fully grasp the material to make meaningful comments. You may ask questions and make a good effort to understand.

 

Your Participation grade will be negatively impacted if:

  • You have more than one absence. 
  • You are consistently late or leave early.
  • You are excessively distracted by other websites, your phone, etc. 
  • You do not use workshop time effectively. 

 

Late Work: Work associated with participation may not be completed late.

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