Wednesday, May 18, 2011

How so I post a doc to the blog?

Hi Folks!

I enjoyed our first meeting. I'd like to post the Editing Mini-Lesson Assignment and Sample Mini-Lesson. If you have any advice for how to improve this assignment, I'd appreciate it. If you like it and want to use it and/or tweak it for your purposes, please be my guest.

The problem is I don't know how to post it here as an attachment. Please advise.

Oy...am I really ready for this?

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

First thoughts...

I thought we might want to use this space as a place to collect up some links, resources, ideas, questions, etc. so I started with a few categories on the right: books that we could share (I used my initials after title for books I own and linked to amazon page); related blogs; online resources. Once you accept invitation to blog, I'll change your status to administrators so you can add stuff on sidebar as well.

Here are my initial ideas about what it might be possible to do with 101 students in a computer lab:
  • work on invention strategies (mind-mapping software, etc.)
  • incorporation of more multimedia content (podcasts, TED talks, LoC content, etc.)
  • collaborative writing projects (via wiki or, for me this fall, mycomplab)
  • online peer review
  • all sorts of research stuff (finding and evaluating sources, annotating web pages, RefWorks maybe, or some robust source collecting/annotating program)