What a wonderful first week of class! Here is a reminder of what you will want to do and to prepare for Tuesday’s class:
- Please make sure that you practice navigating Canvas to familiarize yourself with how we’re using the Modules, review the Syllabus, see how you can hyperlink from Canvas to the SIB course website, etc.
- Remember to use Chrome as your browser! (b) You need to use a computer (laptop, desktop) or iPad/Tablet to participate in an online course like this one. You will not be able to much of anything on a phone, regardless of how large it is or how newly updated its IOS. If you don’t have access to the right tech, do know that you can “borrow” tech from the Bizzell Library circulation desk for up to 4 hours.
- If you have not registered for the SIB website, please do so! Then you will be able to access course readings in the Unit 1 Text (etc) drop down menus using the password SIB2021. The Resources and They Say, I Say menu drop down menus are not password protected.
- Sign up for Hypothes.is so you can join Spectators 2021 Private Annotation Group. Make sure to install the Hypothes.is Extension for Chrome. Once you have done this, simply clicking on the h. to the right of the browser window will cause the pop-out bar on the right to emerge. We will be using Hypothes.is to annotate all Unit Texts on the course website.
- What should you annotate? You should highlight + annotate privately anything that you would annotate in an actual book/article you’re reading for HW: for this class, important Keyterms, material that seems important to the author’s argument OR to the course/unit theme, material you want us to review in class that you have questions about, favorite passages, etc. Required Annotations: Share 2-3 of your own annotation comments (from different pages) + reply to 2-3 annotations made by peers: this is how we generate conversations in the margins of online texts! This is how Hypothes.is = digital social annotation!
- HW you should try to catch up on by Tuesday:
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- Complete the practice Hypothes.is annotation annotation by creating a Page Note for the first paragraph of Martin Jay’s Downcast Eyes. This is a stand alone paragraph under Unit 1 Texts. You will know you are in the right place because a few other students have already done this assignment.
- Read the “Introduction” and “Chapter 1” RE: ‘writing as conversation’ from Graf & Berkenstein (G&B) They Say, I Say on the SIB course website (not PW and no shared annotations required)
- By Tuesday, have read + annotated Martin Jay’s full “Introduction” + Chapter 1: “The Noblest of the Senses” from Downcast Eyes. Using your annotations (if you’d like) or other notes, generate 1-2 good discussion questions and add them to our SIB Discussion Questions Collaboration in Google Docs: this is how you join Jay’s conversation AND invite us to also join!
- If you have not already done so, complete FW#1 (remember you can continue to work on/expand it until the end of Unit 1). You can likely draw on FW#1 to help you write your Discussion Questions (above).
- If you have not yet done so, start PRELIM 1: Keyterm Catalog by first creating a file or document or place to keep all of the Keyterms you come across from the course and in other interactions you have in the world relating to the course. Be sure to include those Keyterms that your group amassed in Jamboard on Thursday (you have gotten a great head start!) AND any new Keyterms related to Seeing/Vision from Jay’s Introduction and Chapter 1.
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- Review the Syllabus to ensure you understand what is expected of you in the course, as well as how the course has been organized to accommodate and support both you and your writing in numerous ways.
- Try to create the “shell” of your Observation Blog and to have thought about what you are going to write about on your blog this semester: themes, topics, or subjects and what genres of media? (film? popular music? walking around campus? news?). I am here to help, especially with blogs you are creating in WordPress, and can be available for Zoom Office Hours Monday between the hours of 10am to 3:45pm. Email me if you’d like to schedule Office Hours.
- Lastly: when you’re logged on to a VIDC class on Zoom but not actually “there” . . . I can tell. Actually, we all can tell. “Pretending” to “attend” (notice a common root word “tend”) but not actually being in attendance/participating is obvious not only to me, but to everyone else.
Please always feel free to Canvas MSG or email if you have questions! I look forward to SEEING all of you in class on Tuesday!
