After class discussion/workshop on Monday, I decided to revise my 101 into a 181. I'll figure out what to do for Spring 2014 later. For now, I made few changes to the readings and started weaving-in the web instruction stuff. I anticipate students' personal websites will solve many logistical problems, and prohibit useless end products.
I had a great meeting with Kate Doubler (and Amy Hildreth Chen) today. Kate was kind enough to display and describe a variety of artist books from the MARLB collection. I had planned on integrating the art book into my semester, but I couldn't figure out quite how till Kate gave me some great suggestions. You can read the sequence if you want, but after some reading and writing-on texts, I'm asking students to "alter" their editions of Walden. The whole "alteration" proces will be documented with photos and reflective narratives displayed in a series of web pages. This is their last major assignment sequence and it culminates in a "instal" show. I'm really excited because the project seems fresh, and a great use of Emory resources. Plus students get to read texts by making new ones, and the project draws together all the skills developed in previous assignment sequences.
Anyway...I have lots more work to do, but I'm happy with my draft. If you want to check out my site click here.
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