EMAC 6374 Reading Response Instructions
Spring 2015
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 on Twitter in advance of our meetings.
The Specs:
- During the first class meeting, the group decided on the number of tweets for each section of the rubric. The class additionally brainstormed the criteria for what is considered a good tweet and a poor tweet. Pictured below is a photo taken by one of your peers on that brainstorming exercise.
- Use the hashtag #digitaltext
Technical Support:
Grading:
Reading responses are part of your participation grade.
As a class we brainstormed criteria for satisfactory completion of this assignment (see the images below). Based on this brainstorm, Kim developed the grading rubric, copied below from the participation assignment sheet.
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Reading Responses
(See 6374 Participation Assignment Sheet )
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In addition to sharing resources, the student tweets at least four times per week in response to the assigned readings, using the course hashtag. Tweets are consistently of excellent quality. Excellent reading tweets ask critical questions or share insight that expand understanding of the text. Excellent tweets give concrete examples and when necessary, reference page or paragraph numbers. Excellent tweets may be in response to classmates but move beyond simple agreement or disagreement and encourage discussion. Excellent tweets utilize the advantages of the platform including concise ideas and when necessary, use links, images, or video.
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In addition to sharing resources, the student tweets at least three times per week in response to the assigned readings, using the course hashtag. The quality of the tweets are generally excellent though they may occasionally waiver in quality.
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In addition to sharing resources, the student tweets at least two times per week in response to the assigned readings, using the course hashtag. The quality of the tweets are excellent more often than not.
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In addition to sharing resources, the student tweets at least once per week in response to the assigned readings, using the course hashtag. Tweets are generally of poor quality. They may be overly simplistic or overly vague. They may be composed in such a way that shuts down conversation. They may engage in criticism without qualification.
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In addition to sharing resources, the student tweets less than once per week in response to the assigned readings, using the course hashtag. The quality of the tweets are consistently poor or they may be off topic, or engage in behavior that is unprofessional or harmful to other students or the Twitter community.
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Timeline and Due Dates:
Reading Responses are due by 11:59 pm on Tuesday evenings.
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