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Course meets M, W 4:30-5:45pm MCHS 3234 || media type="custom" key="6796617" ||

=**Course Meetings**=

08/30 | 09/01 | 09/06 | 09/08 | 09/13 | 09/15 | 09/20 | 09/22 | 09/27 | 09/29 | 10/04 | 10/06 | 10/11 | 10/13 | 10/18 | 10/20 | 10/25 | 10/27 | 11/01 | 11/03 | 11/08 | 11/10 | 11/15 | 11/17 | 11/22 | 11/29 | 12/01 | 12/06 | 12/08 | Finals week |

Intros/Syllabus/Assignment || None ||
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 * 08/30 || //Setting Expectations//

Culture/Discourse/College Life Wiki how-to Video how-to Viddler how-to || Finish wiki personal page ||
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 * 09/01 || //Course tools/Intro to CLUE Assignment//

Take 3 photos of dorm room decorations (e.g., doors, spaces) (Note: use your cell phone; alternatively, drawings or notes are fine) Take 5 time diaries: ask students what they did (and how much time they spent on each activity) over the last 24 hours. (Note: you can use your cellphone for this, too, by texting the question to friends who are college students; or you can ask hall/house mates) What does the data you collect suggest to you about college life? Post your data and your answer to this question to your personal page. ||
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 * 09/06 || //No Class// || First step of CLUE assignment:

A closer look Groupwork || //My Freshman Year// 1-40 //Coming of Age// 1-34 Post reading response (what's this?) to your personal page ||
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 * 09/08 || //Dorm life//

Discussion Writing/Editing practice: Storyboarding || Step 2 of CLUE assignment: Spend at least half an hour in a public space on campus (like a dining hall, cafe, or common room): map the space, and note what people do in different parts of it for how long. What does the data you collect suggest to you about college life? Post your data and your answer to this question to your personal page. ||
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 * 09/13 || Arranging evidence

Groupwork Develop questions for interviews (see next lesson) || //My Freshman Year// 41-66 //Coming of Age// 53-56 Post reading response to your personal page ||
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 * 09/15 || //Community//

Writing/Editing practice: The 3 INs || Step 3 of CLUE assignment: Interview 2 people "unlike you" using questions we developed. What does the data you collect suggest to you about college life? Post your data and your answer to this question to your personal page. ||
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 * 09/20 || Discussion

"Community/ies" at Bloomsburg Groupwork || //My Freshman Year// 67-89 //Coming of Age// 141-168 Post reading response to your personal page ||
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 * 09/22 || //How Others See Us//

Revisit Assignment, rubric Video model: [|Getting a CLUE about Peer Review] || CLUE assignment draft due 9/29; bring 3 copies to class ||
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 * 09/27 || //Intro to Peer Review//


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 * 09/29 || //Peer Review// || CLUE due 10/4 ||

Purpose Audience Genre || Step 1 of the EAR assignment: Transform the results of your CLUE assignment into a different genre, or type of communication, for an incoming BU student; post draft to your personal page. ||
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 * 10/04 || //Transition/Intro to EAR assignment//

Group || Group 1 - On "Cultural Literacy" http://ww.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v1n4/homepage.html http://educationnext.org/e-d-hirsch-and-civic-education/
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 * 10/06 || //What Every College Student Needs to Know//

Group 2 - On "Social Processes"

Group 3 - On "Ways of Thinking" http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/welleducated.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxLCtADvCik&feature=related ||

Transform the results of your CLUE assignment into a different genre, or type of communication, for a family or faculty member; post draft to your personal page. ||
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 * 10/11 || Group presentations || Step 2 of the EAR assignment:

Debate: New General Education Plan || "Claiming an Education" Adrienne Rich ||
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 * 10/13 || Three purposes of education Jigsaw

Genre conventions Technique:CRAP Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity || Step 3 of the EAR assignment: Transform the results of your CLUE assignment into a different genre, or type of communication, for a potential employer; post draft to your personal page. ||
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 * 10/18 || Writing/Editing practice:

Group: What it means to claim an education using genre other than slideshow/poster, and using CRAP principles || What a college degree means to employers ||
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 * 10/20 || Discussion: Claiming an Education

Discussion Writing/Editing practice: Remix --[|Wordle] example --[|Picnik] example --[|Jaycut] example --[|Myna] [|example] --[|Comeeko] -- [] and [] || Transform one of your genres for the EAR assignment into a satire/remix; post to personal page ||
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 * 10/25 || Gallery walk

Group || Education Satires ||
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 * 10/27 || //Changing Genre//

Writing/Editing practice: Satire/Remix || EAR assignment draft due 11/3; bring 3 copies to class ||
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 * 11/01 || Discussion


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 * 11/03 || //Peer review// || EAR assignment due 11/8 ||

What do you believe is the purpose of a college education? What does it mean to be educated? What experiences have you had with education that led you to this belief? Post your response to your personal page ||
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 * 11/08 || //What College/Education Means to Me// || Step 1 of the TELL assignment:

Group || "This I Believe" podcasts/essays
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 * 11/10 || //Education: This I Believe....//
 * http://thisibelieve.org/essay/18333/
 * http://thisibelieve.org/essay/12782/
 * http://thisibelieve.org/essay/37061/ ||

Writing/Editing practice: Telling detail || Step 2 of the TELL assignment: Choose 3 artifacts/moments that represent your past (before college), your present (at college), and your (imagined) future (after college): Tell the story of these three moments in specific scenes with telling details. Post draft to personal page. ||
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 * 11/15 || Discussion

Group || [|//A Hope in the Unseen (read only chapter 1)//] //[|Hunger of Memory (read only chapter 1)]// ||
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 * 11/17 || //Artifacts of Education//

Writing/Editing practice: Multiple Intelligences-->Reading Responses || TELL assignment draft due 12/1 ||
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 * 11/22 || Discussion

Writing/Editing practice: Character/Point of view || TELL assignment draft due 12/1 ||
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 * 11/29 || Discussion


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 * 12/01 || //Peer review// || TELL assignment due 12/6 ||

Revisit initial images of higher education || TBA ||
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 * 12/06 || //Reflection//


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 * 12/08 || //Final Exam prep// || TBA ||

Have a great spring! Keep in touch! ||
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 * Finals week || Finals week || TBA