Module 5: Twitter Fiction

Module 5 Twitter Fiction

Activities/Assignments ●      Add a comment to Module 5’s blog post in which you respond to Carla Raguseo’s statement: “Twitter fiction can provide learners with a rich language experience in easily digestible fragments. It challenges them both as readers and as writers to attempt and explore multiple meanings and to develop academic skills such as synthesizing and paraphrasing while fostering structural and semantic awareness in playful experimentation.” ●      Live tweet @JessL THREE initial reactions and responses as you make your way through ONE of the three Twitterature readings

Module 4: Writing for Social Media (Marketing)

Module 4 Writing for Social Media (Marketing)

Activities/Assignments ●      Add a comment to Module 4’s blog post with your reaction to infographics. Are you a staunch supporter of their engaging presentation of information or do you abhor their excessive inclusion of unnecessary design elements? ●      Tweet @JessL with two examples of how Twitter can sharpen your writing.

Module 3: Born Digital Fictions

Module 3 Born Digital Fictions

Activities/Assignments ●      Add a comment to Module 3’s blog post with your response to TWO of the digital fictions we read this week   ●      Send a tweet to @JessL with a comment about the Module 3 PowerPoint lecture. What did you learn about transliteracy and from reading born digital fictions like Inanimate Alice? Will you read more born digital fictions?

Module 2: Hypertext

Module 2 Hypertext

Activities/Assignments ●      Assignment B – Storify Assignment. Students will begin the assignment in class with the final “copy” due by 11:55 pm June 19th

Assignment B: Storify

Assignment B (15%) - Storify

Due by 11:55 PM on June 19^th, 2014

Choose any one of our Module topics and create a Storify post in which you explore the issue using pieces of information drawn from social media. Make sure you include a variety of different modes (video, audio, images, blog posts, tweets etc). Embed your Storify within your blog post on the class blog. In your blog post be sure to respond to the following questions:

1.     How did you approach finding the different elements that you included in your Storify post? What keywords, hashtags, or other methods did you use to narrow or expand your search?

2.     Why did you decide to include the elements you did? What were the criteria you used in order to decide an element was worth including?

3.     Do you think your post gives a “full picture” of your issue? Why or why not?

4.     Do you think you could use your Storify post as a starting point for writing a longer academic essay? If so, how? If not, why not?

Assignment B Grading Criteria

Students will be assessed based on the following criteria:

●      Demonstrates effective knowledge production skills with a coherent and well-thought through Storify that informs readers about the topic and the range of perspectives on the issue (4 marks)

●      Storify has well-written contextualizing paragraphs (2 marks)

●      Demonstrated writing ability and critical thinking in blog post write-up (6 marks)

●      Demonstrated transliteracy skills to locate and embed multimodal elements in Storify (2 marks)

NOTE: our eclass does not accept links so please paste a link to your assignment blogpost into a word document and upload that to moodle.