Reading Response Instructions
EMAC 4325: Spring 2013
Purpose:
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To help students identify their questions and areas of interest in a text prior to class discussion.
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To give students practice in communicating complex ideas succinctly.
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To help students enter into the larger community of emerging media scholars.
Background:
Class discussions are more satisfying when everyone has actively engaged with the text and when they bring their ideas and questions to the class meeting. To that end, students will post discussion questions and/or responses to one another to Twitter in advance of our meetings.
The Specs:
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Post 3 or more reading-related tweets each week.
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Tag each tweet with the class tag: #digitaltext
Technical Support:
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Twitter help: http://support.twitter.com
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Kim's profile: https://twitter.com/purplekimchi
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Twitter hashtag archive: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aq5NIkyRAkFIdDJSSWlqaDlBVlZZeTVZVGxVc3g5ekE#gid=36
Grading:
Reading responses are part of your participation grade.
As a class we decided upon criteria for satisfactory completion of reading responses (see the images of class brainstorming below). Based on that brainstorming section, the following grading criteria were developed (see the Participation assignment sheet for more information)
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Reading Responses (see 4325 participation assignment for more info) |
At least 3 original tweets per week, plus replies, totaling 9 per week. These tweets use page/paragraph/section numbers to identify passages, are consistently insightful, and ask interesting questions. They may also provide examples of concepts from reading (news stories, texts, platforms, etc.) All tweets are marked with the class hashtag, | At least 3 original tweets per week, plus replies, totaling 6 per week. These tweets use page/paragraph/section numbers to identify passages and are generally insightful. They may also provide examples of concepts from reading (news stories, texts, platforms, etc.) All tweets are marked with the class hashtag. | At least 3 original tweets per week that engage with the texts we are reading. These tweets use page/paragraph/section numbers to identify passages and do more than simplistically agree or disagree. All tweets are marked with the class hashtag. |
Either fewer than 3 original tweets per week or tweets may be quotes without context, unproductive praise, unproductive criticism, missing the class hashtag, or cluttered with meaningless hashtags. | Tweets are late, off-topic, unintelligible, abuse hashtags, violate online etiquette, or engage in spam. Tweets may not have the class hashtag. |
Timeline and Due Dates:
Discussion questions are due by 11:59 pm on Tuesday evenings.
