Each week, 1-2 people will curate the ideas and writing from our class into a featured blog. We will use these blogs to connect with colleagues outside our course.
My Absolute Objective and Correct Opinion Based on Little Evidence and Biased Analysis By Zeth M. Martinez I was assigned to blog for February 25, 2019, but without collecting more data it has been hard to definitively define “literacy” so as to publish and profit from my findings. An assessment of the date above may …
This week in Literacy Studies: A Multilingual Kaleidoscope. We took a look into the field of Critical Literacy Education as well as a peak into the world of Bi/multi/translingual literacies. (Spoilers ahead) The first of our chapters, “Critical Literacy Education,” provides a meta analysis in order to mark the upward trend in academic articles being …
Who knew that the tradition of the “essay” was such a fiery, polarizing hot topic? As an older, long-time student of writing, and as a person habituated to believe that the role of a student is to receive knowledge, not interact in the process of learning, I had never analyzed the essay as a “thing”–it …
Hello everyone and happy Sunday, As promised in the email from Jan 7, here are some things for us to do this week and things to prep for our first class next Monday (the 28th): This week (hopefully soon or at least before Friday, Jan 25): If you didn’t watch the welcome video or check out the website previously, …
Hello 632 colleagues! And Happy New Year! I created a video welcome with some information about the course and plans (see below). In a nutshell: Here’s our course website (I don’t use BbLearn for anything). I’ll be adding you all as authors to this site soon so we can blog together. If you’re avoiding other …
