The following summarizes activities for the first week of INTE 4340/5340 Learning with Digital Stories (Monday, June 6th through Sunday, June 12th). As noted, some activities and links to resources are intentionally private and are only accessible to course participants via our Canvas LMS.
ASAP:
- Start reading this blog (such as Lisa’s amazing introductory post!)
- Join Twitter
- Join Hypothesis
- Set up a WordPress blog
- Add your info to “Our Info” (accessibly only via Canvas)
- Register your (new) WordPress blog with DS106 via this link (and make sure to affiliate with our course!)
By Thursday 6/9:
- Produce your first DS106 Daily Create
- Tweet your Daily Create to #ds106 and #ILT5340
- Use Hypothesis and add your first Daily Create as a public annotation to this blog page. In other words, annotate this text right here with your creative media! (Also, this may require that you host your created media via Flickr, YouTube, or a similar platform.)
By Friday 6/10:
- Blog about your DS106 Assignment Bank Visual creation
- Follow these DS106 blogging guidelines, and promote your blog publicly via Twitter (#ds106 and #ILT5340)
- Read Lankshear & Knobel (2007) Chapter 1: Sampling “the New” in New Literacies (accessible from our Course Readings)
- Add your Hypothesis web annotations to this week’s course readings (both required and those recommended readings based upon your interest)
- This week we’ll be annotating as one large group using the private “Summer 16 ILT5340” group.
- Your invitation to this private annotation group is linked via Canvas.
- Blog your response to our course readings and your interest-driven scholarship (for grad students only)
- Interest-driven means based upon your personal interest – go find some awesome scholarship to read and write about!
- Follow the reading response blogging criteria posted in Canvas
- Promote your blog publicly via Twitter (#ds106 and #ILT5340)
- Blog your Week 1 story critique
- Follow the critiques of digital stories criteria posted in Canvas
- Promote your blog publicly via Twitter (#ds106 and #ILT5340)
By Sunday 6/12:
- Produce your second DS106 Daily Create
- Tweet your Daily Create to #ds106 and #ILT5340
- Use Hypothesis and add your second Daily Create as a public annotation to this blog page. In other words, annotate this text right here with your creative media!
- Use Hypothesis to annotate 2 of your colleagues’ story critiques (their blog posts)
- This week you can choose any 2 peer blog posts to annotate
- Post your annotations to the private “Summer 16 ILT5340” group
- Use Hypothesis to annotate 2 of your colleagues’ reading responses (their blog posts)
- This week you can choose any 2 peer blog posts to annotate
- Post your annotations to the private “Summer 16 ILT5340” group
- Write your Week 1 reflective summary
- Follow our criteria for weekly reflections posted in Canvas
- You are welcome to either publicly blog this reflective summary or to send it privately to Lisa and Remi via email
- Propose your storytelling focal theme by completing our proposal form (accessible privately via Canvas)
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