MC Activities #2

For the final project, I'll be designing a course I'm teaching in the Spring. I'll be teaching Eng112 online with TCC. I've taught this course before, but with a different campus, so the required books are different. However, I tend to throw the book into my course design as a supplement as opposed to a focus; therefore, I do plan to put in a visual argument (something I'm doing this semester as well). I don't know exactly what I want to change yet because I do want to see how the students do with it this semester (I'm getting them in this week). However, I do see being able to use many of the suggestions made in the MC chapters not only in regard to assignment design, but in issues of access for my online students. They don't all have cameras on their computers, they don't all have microphones on their computer. I'm coming across the issue of: how much can I really require them to have? This semester, I satisfied this issue by allowing students to create a "hard" assignment (posterboard, etc.) then take a photo and attach it-they all seem to have camera phones :)

Reflection on Classmate Responses

Overall, engaging with my classmates helped me to make better connections and forced me to synthesize what I read. Having to respond "with" another chapter made a difference in this I think. I started filling in solutions for problems I found in each chapter. In fact, doing this "group" work did allow each of us to bring something different to the conversation and help each other make the connections as well.

Links to the blogs I responded to:

Amanda's Ch. 2
Theresa's Ch. 3
Sarah's Ch. 4
Dione Ch. 5
Beth's Ch. 7