tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45597161921961696262024-03-12T21:13:29.707-04:00OU Digital TeachingThoughts about teaching online from an online instructor at the University of Oklahoma. Quick URL: Teaching.LauraGibbs.netLaura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comBlogger573125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559716192196169626.post-45092606078580806432021-11-04T11:21:00.006-04:002021-11-04T11:21:59.194-04:00Power of P/NPReading through the questions/comments from people signing up for the <b><a href="https://ungrading.weebly.com/agenda.html">Ungrading EdCamp</a></b> this week, I wanted to say something about this item in thread about <b>“Everyday advocacy" for ungraders:</b> <b><i>How to challenge the systems that are in place in HE institutions to make the process possible.</i></b><div><br /></div><div>The single best change I think we could make in higher ed institutions is to switch to far wider use of P/NP. We saw a lot of schools adopt temporary P/NP policies in the pandemic, and I have to admit that I was bitterly disappointed to see those P/NP policies rolled back, sometimes after just one semester (that's what happened at my school). Still, the fact that so many schools publicly acknowledge the viability and usefulness of P/NP grading was a real watershed moment, and I tried to document that as it was happening, bookmarking hundreds of school policies as they were posted online. I also did a presentation about pandemic P/NP grading which you can read here, right in that pandemic moment -- April 2020: <b><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x3UWvqrOPefj5Vkt198ljVPr2evSisGozw2Ruv3QvVI/edit#">Ungrading in the Pandemic; Ungrading in the Classroom</a></b>.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6dpMZybXJIg5yrpAgTg66LKqqynERexj9aXAC79v3AU3TVZXmlQBtXo0i9eivh9NbxDvMG6FVu88HyG8fpSqoYUycJPKuaSEcVWA8BaWvqCz5r1-gSbkmWFrJf9dz8soj-WWsH5JLkm_S/s2048/Screen+Shot+2021-11-04+at+11.01.21+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1158" data-original-width="2048" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6dpMZybXJIg5yrpAgTg66LKqqynERexj9aXAC79v3AU3TVZXmlQBtXo0i9eivh9NbxDvMG6FVu88HyG8fpSqoYUycJPKuaSEcVWA8BaWvqCz5r1-gSbkmWFrJf9dz8soj-WWsH5JLkm_S/w400-h226/Screen+Shot+2021-11-04+at+11.01.21+AM.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>At heart, the U.S. university degree system is essentially a P/NP system: students GRADUATE; they get their degree. They don't get an "A-class" degree or a "B-class degree" etc., and their GPA is not printed on the diploma. Although the GPA exerts a horrifying influence on many university procedures and is used by gatekeeping in so many wrong ways, the graduation process is basically a P/NP process, and that's what makes me hopeful that we could ultimately move towards an all-P/NP approach.</div><div><br /></div><div>If there has to be a GPA for gatekeeping purposes, I would advocate for an approach where there are A-B-C letter grades (no pluses, no minuses), and no D, no F. If a student has not passed a course satisfactorily, there is simply no record, NR. I learned about this from <b><a href="https://twitter.com/OnlineCrsLady/status/1445476489818894344">Kristin Wobbe at Twitter</a></b>; it's the system they use at Worcester Polytechnic. You can read more about that here: <b><a href="https://www.wpi.edu/offices/registrar/policies-procedures/grade-system">WPI Grade System</a></b>.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHY-BUrslt0RZENNtqHcKmUPHIKy3knSjsN9OLb6f0RuJAHWKHvTtTncRSyjwZArVglVAjDp2cen6JQpXucYwzGU0O5mT0Dob9owFfCTEu3y83JmbhzqqKrJudQwxT4aXkDbLN9MWziYI2/s1356/Screen+Shot+2021-11-04+at+11.14.03+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="1356" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHY-BUrslt0RZENNtqHcKmUPHIKy3knSjsN9OLb6f0RuJAHWKHvTtTncRSyjwZArVglVAjDp2cen6JQpXucYwzGU0O5mT0Dob9owFfCTEu3y83JmbhzqqKrJudQwxT4aXkDbLN9MWziYI2/w400-h130/Screen+Shot+2021-11-04+at+11.14.03+AM.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>That's basically the approach I used in my classes: very broad swathes of A-B-C (based on the students' own personal "need" for a particular grade), with me working hard to make sure everybody passed. I didn't care about the As, Bs, Cs at all; the students handled that on their own — my goal was just for everybody to pass. I would have preferred just P/NP (like during the pandemic semester of alternate grading), but at least A-B-C was not too horrible; I'm very fortunate that my school did not have pluses and minuses, so all I had to do was carve out the A-B-C territory and let the students set their own goals inside that simple framework.</div><div><br /></div><div>Anyway, the pandemic gave me a kind of hope that I had never had before that we might see real advances in the use of P/NP at the institutional level. Yes, those hopes were dashed as schools quickly rescinded their pandemic policies (even though we are STILL IN A PANDEMIC)... but if it happened once, it can happen again, and P/NP grading is still on my ungrading wishlist.</div><div><br /></div><div>You can see the other items on my ungrading wishlist here: <b><a href="http://Grading.LauraGibbs.net">Grading.LauraGibbs.net</a></b>.</div><div><br /></div><div>What's on your ungrading wishlist? I'm looking forward to learning what is going on in other classrooms and at other schools in the EdCamp this week!</div><div><div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559716192196169626.post-57884194621629014702021-11-03T22:16:00.008-04:002021-11-04T10:58:06.096-04:00Ungrading is FUN-damentalI'll be participating in the <b><a href="https://ungrading.weebly.com/agenda.html">#Ungrading EdCamp starting tomorrow</a></b> (Thursday, Nov. 4), and <b><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x3UWvqrOPefj5Vkt198ljVPr2evSisGozw2Ruv3QvVI/edit#heading=h.t21o18m8by63">David Buck shared a list of the questions and comments</a></b> that people shared via a Google Form he had set up, and I'm going to write up some blog posts responding to ones that I really connected with, like this one:<div></div><blockquote><div><i>I'd like to see more discussion about why #ungrading can be a highly effective way to reduce day-to-day stress for faculty and minimize potential conflicts with students. Most public discourse about ungrading focuses on the benefits to students, which is totally cool of course, but I want more instructors to know WHY ungrading can make their teaching more fun, as well as more effective.</i></div><div></div></blockquote><div>I can really connect here because my primary reason for ungrading was selfish: I was pretty sure that ungrading would have big benefits for my students... but first of all, it was self-preservation. Having to put grades on student writing was literally making me sick. I agonized over every single grade because I honestly had no idea what grade I was supposed to put on a piece of writing! In grad school, I had taught foreign languages (Latin, Greek, Polish), and in those kinds of classes there would be quizzes, tests, and the arbitrary but not-so-agonizing percentages that you could use to assign grades.</div><div><br /></div><div>But grading a piece of writing? How could I put some number or letter on a piece of writing?</div><div><br /></div><div>If I put a B or a C on a piece of writing, the only message a student would take away from that was negative... and if I put an A on something, it was kind of like saying "all done; no more learning on the agenda here."</div><div><br /></div><div>Those would be exactly the WRONG messages that I want to send to students, where I want to <b><i>always build on the positive</i></b> (while grades lower than A are mostly all about the negatives and a deficit approach), and<b><i> always keep things moving forward</i></b>... because as a writer, I know that all kinds of writing can be improved, assuming we have the luxury of time to keep working on it: no matter who the writer, no matter what the writing, there is always more that we can do and learn, A grade or not.</div><div><br /></div><div>So, for my own sanity, I had to stop putting grades on student writing in order to focus on feedback instead. (Before "ungrading" became a thing, I would sometimes call this approach all-feedback-no-grades.) With some help and ideas from students, I came up with a system so that they could determine very easily a final grade for me to submit at the end of the semester... and the students' totally positive response to ungrading over the years made me very happy of course; you can see <b><a href="http://evals.mythfolklore.net">their ungrading comments on end-of-course evaluations here</a></b>.</div><div><br /></div><div>But even if their reaction to ungrading had just been ambivalent instead of enthusiastic, that would have been okay because I started ungrading <b>for me</b><i style="font-weight: bold;">, </i>so that I could actually be a teacher instead of a judge (or, worse, a cop).</div><div><br /></div><div>If you're curious about the details, you can read more here: <b><a href="http://Grading.MythFolklore.net.">Grading.MythFolklore.net.</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div>I'm old enough to have grown up with RIF: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_Is_Fundamental">Reading is Fundamental</a></b>, so I'll adapt that to say Ungrading is FUN-damental. I want to be having fun <b><i>together</i> </b>with the students. Ungrading is what makes that possible.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9zkuIaGyCAVPomoKz0tnM1hENk2H31PUBeIqhHvzPtzX8JCxKbaTQZSDJ5-g1dcLk0SupIG3BUcqFl2cy3Gwa8BKL_-FhEMZRx_t7pqk4typk0DleSkVDaSc684Rb1tT6LqXu_DqlniPe/s923/fundamental.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="923" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9zkuIaGyCAVPomoKz0tnM1hENk2H31PUBeIqhHvzPtzX8JCxKbaTQZSDJ5-g1dcLk0SupIG3BUcqFl2cy3Gwa8BKL_-FhEMZRx_t7pqk4typk0DleSkVDaSc684Rb1tT6LqXu_DqlniPe/w400-h224/fundamental.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">(<b><a href="https://cattime.com/cat-facts/how-to/392-cat-toys">cat toys meme</a></b>)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559716192196169626.post-68413052675739643572021-08-31T11:56:00.005-04:002021-08-31T12:01:30.808-04:00People (Re)Thinking Grading, Assessment, EvaluationIn addition to doomscrolling at Twitter during the pandemic, I also see so many great discussions happening around the #ungrading hashtag, along with discussions about assessment and evaluation. I am really glad that people are thinking about changing their approach to grading can help relieve some of the overwhelming stress that the pandemic brings with it. Rissa Sorensen-Unruh has been wrestling with the literature on assessment and evaluation, and started this <b><a href="https://twitter.com/RissaChem/status/1432700984560693248">thought-provoking Twitter discussion today</a></b>:<div><br /><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxgndfMcvmdE18bAAM6tboSqWP3Gdq_ERcTfVk9DPHXf0OmO90rg0WzVxCykri8UwOAnC_wFR41oqm56XwEbaTC8OAZJyNomZwcBi6VPkvvSNsB9oRWhmoyGFcJUZcHAOQLgKEBEeJFZIg/s1488/Screen+Shot+2021-08-31+at+11.51.42+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="1488" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxgndfMcvmdE18bAAM6tboSqWP3Gdq_ERcTfVk9DPHXf0OmO90rg0WzVxCykri8UwOAnC_wFR41oqm56XwEbaTC8OAZJyNomZwcBi6VPkvvSNsB9oRWhmoyGFcJUZcHAOQLgKEBEeJFZIg/w400-h211/Screen+Shot+2021-08-31+at+11.51.42+AM.png" width="400" /></a></div><blockquote>I’m having a dilemma with words. Assessment & Evaluation are two very distinct concepts in my mind. Assessment is something we do to measure performance or learning. Evaluation is when we look at that assessment & try to hold it against some set of standards.</blockquote><div><br /></div><div>And I had to chime in with FEEDBACK because, honestly, I don't even think in terms of assessment and evaluation, but I think about feedback all the time: what feedback helps, hurts, etc., and also what are the best ways for instructors to provide feedback in the limited time available, how to design courses that make the best use of feedback, how to help students give good feedback to others, and on and on. Some more thoughts about all that here: <b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2019/03/feedback-resources.html">Feedback Resources</a></b>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here's my tweet back to Rissa :-)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSeOWhQKKh-w6eEypELEKYwId7IRE9r7rO1DxvTlrpd_AS-NFmNUkSUxhNWnYc0mQPQ81jqQDjOqsggQVEHTAIRZ2GtUX93K7phiLC70Czq4PesaJ31XXhbhdf1lzFn8EmT5rmv84WkDNZ/s1482/Screen+Shot+2021-08-31+at+11.54.01+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="592" data-original-width="1482" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSeOWhQKKh-w6eEypELEKYwId7IRE9r7rO1DxvTlrpd_AS-NFmNUkSUxhNWnYc0mQPQ81jqQDjOqsggQVEHTAIRZ2GtUX93K7phiLC70Czq4PesaJ31XXhbhdf1lzFn8EmT5rmv84WkDNZ/w400-h160/Screen+Shot+2021-08-31+at+11.54.01+AM.png" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><div></div><blockquote><div>for me, it is all about FEEDBACK.</div><div>assessment CAN include feedback.</div><div>evaluation CAN include feedback.</div><div>but, at least in my experience, neither assessment or evaluation have feedback as their primary focus. they serve bureaucratic needs instead.</div><div>yet feedback IS what learners need...</div></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div></div></div> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559716192196169626.post-65375105248550407362021-08-02T10:58:00.001-04:002021-08-03T14:14:22.408-04:00DPL Keynote by Blair Imani: Some thoughts about linguistic anthropology<div>I am really grateful for Blair Imani's keynote text: <b><i><a href="https://digitalpedagogylab.com/blair-imani-keynote/">The Eurocolonial Constructs of Race and Intelligence</a></i></b>.. it is exactly what I needed to help me process some really disturbing stuff that I encountered yesterday when I was reading some stories by Catawba storytellers, Susan Harris, Margaret Brown, and Margaret Brown's daughter, Sally Gordon, three women who shared their stories with Frank Speck, a linguist who wrote a book of these texts (<b><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030696150&view=2up&seq=7&skin=2021">Catawba Texts</a></b>), that he published in 1934 with Columbia University Press, based on his work over approximately twenty years, on and off, working with these women at the Catawba reservation in Rock Hill, South Carolina.</div><div><br /></div><div>In this book, Speck sits in judgment, really cruel judgment, really harsh judgment over these women, dismissing them as unintelligent (even while relying on them to for the contents of his book), yet at the same time he does not pass any judgment on himself, nor on the white people who brought nothing but ruin to the Catawba people. These women were among the last speakers of the Catawba language, but Speck does not grieve that loss. He even blames it on the deficiencies of the Catawba people themselves. Nothing to do with the European invasion, nothing to do with settler colonialism. It's... fate: </div><div><blockquote>after 1910, by the turn of fate, the language had neared the precipice of oblivion which it has now practically reached.</blockquote></div><div>And who's to blame? Speck blames the Catawba speakers he worked with for their failures as speakers: they were just not intelligent; their "mentality" was deficient. </div><div><blockquote>Mrs. Brown's father was a very old man when he died, as she thought, in about 1845. He bore the marks of smallpox, evidence of his being a victim of the epidemic of 1800. Mrs. Brown through him had her bringing-up under circumstances which should have left her a far deeper memory heritage of native institutions had she been a woman of better mentality.</blockquote></div><div>Later he goes on to say, </div><div><blockquote>Margaret Wiley Brown and her daughter, Sally Brown Gordon, happened to be women of unusually low intelligence. In recording information of this character from native dictation one often finds himself dealing with individuals endowed with qualities really intellectual, so far as unsophisticated groups can nurture such qualities, and still more often with those who are extremely intelligent. But truth compels me to confess that Margaret Brown fell into neither of these categories. ...</blockquote></div><div>Not only does Speck have contempt for the women who were entrusting their stories and traditions to him, he has contempt for the Catawba people in general: </div><div><blockquote>Personally, it is my own feeling that the characters of staccato style and poorly united expression, so apparent in the narratives, are typical of Catawba thought complexes covering a period of at least fifty years.</blockquote></div><div>It is a deficiency in the Catawba people themselves, or so Speck claims: </div><div><blockquote>I reach this conclusion after an examination of the linguistic material recorded by Dr. Gatchet in the 1880s; his major informant was Billy George, then an extremely old man whose memory went back into the early part of the 19th century to a period when the morale of the tribe and presumably the spirit of the language could not have been affected detrimentally by contact with English-speaking Europeans. To the student of Siouan languages there is nothing strange in the lack of clarity, in the ambiguity of reference in direct and indirect discover, in the references to person characterizing its verbal morphology. Yet to me these weaknesses, defects perhaps, are more than usually conspicuous in Catawba.</blockquote></div><div>And if that is not enough, he also has contempt for the young Catawba people, educated in white schools, who have been forcibly assimilated:</div><div><blockquote>In consequence the young, though literate, have lost the charm of personality and even the outlook on the world that marks the mentality of their elders. Unfortunate anomalies! It is, however, no place to carry such comparisons further. There would be no occasion to speak of them were it not for the need of a few comments upon the estimable simple and affectionate elderly persons who unconsciously through ignorance of school teachings have preserved for us the fragments of age-old Catawba nature-reasoning that appear in these pages. The Catawba texts, a last feeble voice from the grave of a defunct native culture of the southeast, are presented with a certain aftersense of satisfaction, not caused by the manner in which they are handled but in having had the opportunity to preserve them for future students of human achievement in its simpler phases.</blockquote></div><div>Rather than valuing the stories and traditions that these women shared with him, he dismisses them as nothing but words he could analyze for linguistic purposes: <blockquote>While the literary merit of the Catawba tales and narratives may indeed be low, the same cannot be said of the historical or philological value of the dictations. No more specimens of Catawba speech may henceforth be hoped for from native sources. The language is gone.</blockquote></div><div>There is a <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Speck">Wikipedia article</a></b> all about Frank Speck, and when you read that account of his very traditional career as an anthropologist and linguist, you might not guess at the contempt he felt for the people whose languages and cultures that made his career possible. Indeed, the Wikipedia article sings Speck's praises: "During an era of extreme social stratification and white elitism, Speck did not hesitate to invite his Native informants to join him in his field research, to offer lectures in his classroom, and to stay in his home."</div><div><br /></div><div>That's what Wikipedia says, but Frank Speck's words speak for him. His contempt for Susan Harris, Margaret Brown, and Sally Gordon comes through loud and clear... but at least those women's words are here on the pages of the book, and we can honor these three women for being tradition-bearers — at least we know their names; although he wrote of them with contempt, Frank Speck did record their names and tell us something about their lives and family history, as opposed to the literally thousands of stories written down by missionaries, colonial civil servants, and academics who did not even record the names of the persons whose words their wrote down.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Catawba Nation is seeking to revitalize their language, and the scientific record that Speck provided is part of that project, and the stories that he recorded for linguistic documentation are there, as stories; despite Speck's contempt for the stories and for the storytellers, we can still see their words as recorded on paper. </div><div><br /></div><div>Back to Blair Imani's keynote; she reminds us that "The breadth of human cognition is vast" and we can get a sense of that vastness from the thousands and thousands of traditional stories told by peoples all over the world. The boundaries of Frank Speck's comprehension, however, were narrow, and that narrow-mindedness permeates his work, making it painful to read. So, I am glad that his book exists, and I am grateful for the stories and traditions passed down by Susan Harris, Margaret Brown, and Sally Gordon, but reading Speck's introduction to the book was really disturbing. Thanks to Blair Imani for helping me to face that and to have this opportunity to confront the context in which these stories were recorded.</div><div><br /></div><div>I'll close this post with a link to the website of the <b><a href="https://www.catawbaindian.net/the-nation/about-the-nation.php">Catawba Nation</a></b>. To learn more, that is the place to go:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC-J-KhVBlhd5ufB4Arz4-3bEZ0zhysw-24Yz5nWboQLRkFwch9cU0MjzZTWnrS5Tzx88KOItdYfBDkuBYagaVHabEdylFLO8BrDx644jilLK3RxTez0UceFEvLVwCGffDug-OymJD1aSf/s1004/Screen+Shot+2021-08-02+at+10.53.10+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="896" data-original-width="1004" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC-J-KhVBlhd5ufB4Arz4-3bEZ0zhysw-24Yz5nWboQLRkFwch9cU0MjzZTWnrS5Tzx88KOItdYfBDkuBYagaVHabEdylFLO8BrDx644jilLK3RxTez0UceFEvLVwCGffDug-OymJD1aSf/w400-h358/Screen+Shot+2021-08-02+at+10.53.10+AM.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><i>We are Proud of our Past</i></div><div><i>The Catawba Indians have lived on their ancestral lands along the banks of the Catawba River dating back at least 6000 years. Before contact with the Europeans it is believed that the Nation inhabited most of the Piedmont area of South Carolina, North Carolina and parts of Virginia. Early colonial estimates of the Catawba population when settlers arrived are between 15,000-25,000.</i></div></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559716192196169626.post-4352771743890907302021-02-28T16:24:00.004-05:002021-02-28T16:24:59.835-05:00Unleashing student voices with open pedagogy <div>So excited to be doing a presentation together with Heather Miceli for the <a href="https://ndus.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2021/01/2021-OER-Conference-Agenda-without-links.pdf">North Dakota University System OER conference</a> on March 2 and March 3 (we're presenting at 11AM Central on March 3; <a href="http://ndus.edu/oer/">details at their website</a>). <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRPV-_Yf00Cp6I_rQ0PzZ47V-_MfzDkDC9PP3fTsZXPdIhltX9wN0a9SU161I-cVxGBXUKHXlcwuDWO/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=5000">Here's the slidedeck</a> (draft at the moment):</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Unleashing student voices with open pedagogy </b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="254" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRPV-_Yf00Cp6I_rQ0PzZ47V-_MfzDkDC9PP3fTsZXPdIhltX9wN0a9SU161I-cVxGBXUKHXlcwuDWO/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=5000" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="400"></iframe></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559716192196169626.post-57625265802580843102021-02-18T17:00:00.009-05:002021-02-18T17:21:32.495-05:00Student Projects for Spring 2021Today was an exciting day: I got to set up the lists of projects for the semester in both classes. In a couple of weeks, there will be LOTS more projects (around 100 total), but I've got 17 for now, and that seemed like enough to get started.<div><br /></div><div>I've got a <b><a href="http://onlinecourselady.pbworks.com/w/page/29572862/mfstorybooks">list for Myth-Folklore</a></b> and a <b><a href="http://onlinecourselady.pbworks.com/w/page/29572887/iestorybooks">list for Indian Epics</a></b>. On those pages you can see the title listing plus a slideshow specific to that class, and here's the combined slideshow for both classes. Most sites are just a homepage right now, but for the rest of the semester, the sites will be growing page by page, story by story!</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="254" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSwK11ZuIZ51HWxQAV5bKkLV5tDumT2MiOJ_Nb_l3KDEfrvSifAnF_cDgS7vm9HQCLv8o9tCpER9lmc/embed?start=true&loop=true&delayms=5000" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="400"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Embed everywhere! </b>I like using the slideshow because I can embed that everywhere: here in this blog post, plus the <b><a href="http://ouclassannouncements.blogspot.com/">sidebar of my class announcements blog</a> </b>(yes, it works even in the tiny sidebar!), and also in <b><a href="https://canvas.ou.edu/courses/189975/pages/projects">Canvas</a></b> (I keep my Canvas courses open, so you can click and go see if you want).</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3ZPm8anWMRsjP5HdTe3rRzJ-EtS0sfwbDMPCUrQml1nqFLJfdqbpT0hrskcFuv93dZ1IAadkdEswtGQ22VZVPKxv1RuEZqPFY90ava3GfgXchyme3Ji57CStvCzU3FsHxEEaI_lK3QOfc/s1606/Screen+Shot+2021-02-18+at+5.07.20+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="746" data-original-width="1606" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3ZPm8anWMRsjP5HdTe3rRzJ-EtS0sfwbDMPCUrQml1nqFLJfdqbpT0hrskcFuv93dZ1IAadkdEswtGQ22VZVPKxv1RuEZqPFY90ava3GfgXchyme3Ji57CStvCzU3FsHxEEaI_lK3QOfc/w400-h186/Screen+Shot+2021-02-18+at+5.07.20+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Update in one place</b>. I just update the slideshow in one place, and the updated version appears everywhere that the slideshow is embedded. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Links!</b> Each slide has a link to the project website, plus a link to the "comment wall" that the student has made at their blog which is where they get feedback on the project. Most of the sites are Google Sites (although there are usually a few Wix, Weebly and Tumblr sites each semester), and the blogs are a mix of Blogger and WordPress. The students choose the platforms they prefer.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Names</b>. Some students are using real names, some use pseudonyms. I use first names only (real and otherwise), sometimes with a last initial if there are students with the same first name. Meanwhile, students can choose to put their full name if they want on their website and/or on their blog. That's up to them!</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Graphics are good</b>. I like doing the slideshow because it includes a graphic that stands out more than just a title in a list. Sometimes students radically change their site design, and I can just swap out the image on the slide when they do that.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Randomizing the slides</b>. I use a randomizer plug-in for Google Slides so that I can go in and quickly re-randomize the slideshow every week or so; that way different projects get the prominence of coming first (which makes a difference later on when there are 90 slides in the deck and it takes seven or eight minutes for the show to run).</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Blast from the past...... </b>Of course, I am also proud of the completed projects from past semesters! You can <b><a href="http://estorybook.blogspot.com/">browse the project archive</a></b>, and here's a randomizer that pops up random past projects. <b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2021/02/student-projects-for-spring-2021.html">Reload</a></b> for more, or click the title link and see what the project is all about. :-)</div><div><br /></div><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"><script type="text/javascript"> var display = " " </script><script src="https://widgets.lauragibbs.net/sb/sb400.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><hr /><br /><br />Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559716192196169626.post-53603033372274276272021-02-08T10:41:00.003-05:002021-02-08T12:11:14.800-05:00Thoughts about Online Teaching in a PandemicOver the weekend I was contacted by two different reporters from our student newspaper, which has been doing a fantastic job with campus reporting throughout the pandemic. Since they conducted the interview via email questions to which I provided written responses, I thought I would paste in my responses here as a kind of blog post. I had a lot to say, way more than they would be able to use for a story I'm sure, but I can go ahead and share what I wrote back to them here. I'll update this post with links to the stories that appear in the paper. These are both important topics, and I'm curious to see what will result! :-)<div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">~ ~ ~</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Taylor Jones, working on student mental health and wellbeing:</b></div><div><br /></div><div><div><i>1. You say a lot of your classes are online and asynchronous? Has this always been the case? When did you move to an online/asynchronous format?</i></div><div><br /></div><div>I started teaching online classes back in 2003 when Dean Bell in the College of Arts and Sciences wanted to help students enroll in Gen. Ed. classes with an online option. The idea was that students who needed Gen. Ed. classes to graduate often could not fit them into their busy schedules, and they were spending an extra semester or even year in school just to get the classes they needed to graduate. But if Gen. Ed. class were online, then they would fit any schedule. Back then, online classes were asynchronous by definition; people were often still just using dial-up modems, and the online experience was focused on text and images, not audio and video. So, that was Dean Bell's administrative goal for online courses: he wanted to help students make progress towards graduation. For me, as a teacher, the goal was different: I wanted to make sure that everybody in class could participate in their own way, in addition to participating at their own time. Unlike a classroom, the online space offered the option for students to read what they wanted to read, write what they wanted to write, and then to connect and share with the other students in the class what they were reading and writing. I've always built my classes around students doing individual reading and writing projects, and then creating websites to share their work with the other students in the class. That's how I taught my classes in 2003, and that's how I teach them now, except that now, of course, there are so many more tools students can use to publish their work online and also more resources online in terms of books and images that they can use in their reading and research.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>2. Do you notice a difference in the work students put in during an online class versus an in person one? If such differences exist, why do you think this is the case?</i></div><div><br /></div><div>Well, you cannot really generalize about online classes since many of OU's online classes are just synchronous video versions of classroom classes. In a sense, Zoom classes ARE "in person" classes, or at least they are trying to be. But in an asynchronous online class, the situation is very different: students are in charge in a way that they are not in charge in the classroom. That's a big responsibility, but in my experience, students are really glad to take on that responsibility, because it also means they have much more freedom than they do in a classroom, the freedom to make their own choices. I build my classes all around choices: students choose what to read, they choose what kind of writing they will do, they choose their semester-long project, etc. I would say that work you choose to do based on your own interests is likely to lead to much deeper learning; that's why I prefer teaching online. This is sometimes called "individualized instruction" or "student-centered instruction." You can try to do individualized student-centered instruction in the classroom, but it's not easy. I switched to teaching online because you can design really different kinds of classes online where there is much more time and space for student participation and interaction. It's totally different from a class with lectures. I don't lecture. For faculty who lecture, a big part of their work is preparing those lectures. But I don't have to spend my time on preparing lectures; instead, I can spend my time on giving feedback to students about their work, and that's how I spend most of my time every week, giving students feedback about their work in the class. The students lead, and I follow, unlike a traditional classroom where the teacher is the leader, and the students follow.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>3. Have you seen a change in attendance/work ethic since the pandemic and switch to online learning?</i></div><div><br /></div><div>I haven't seen any change in my classes simply because my classes are the same as they always were: students have a lot of flexibility to choose when they do the work for class. So for students who are dealing with pandemic complications, maybe having to self-isolate or quarantine, the flexible online course schedule accommodates all that. I've been incredibly impressed in all three of our pandemic semesters at how willing the students are to manage all the chaos in their lives while still doing excellent work for class, working hard on their class projects. Last semester, we even published a book together, which is the first time I've tried an experiment like that, and the students wrote wonderful stories to include in the book; you can see our book here: <b><a href="http://Anthology.LauraGibbs.net">Anthology.LauraGibbs.net</a> </b>— and I hope the students will want to do another book this Spring.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>4. Could you explain a little more about the P/NP policy? What does it mean for teachers and students? Why do you say the university is not going to accept this policy?</i></div><div><br /></div><div>I'm a proponent of a practice called ungrading which has been gathering a lot of momentum lately, in part I think because the pandemic has exposed the unfairness of grading in even more dramatic ways than before. Grading was never fair, but now it is more unfair in more ways than in the past, and teachers in both K-12 and higher ed are increasingly aware of the harm traditional grades are doing to their students. P/NP is a great grading alternative, and one that is very appropriate in the pandemic; there were literally hundreds of schools which implemented P/NP grading in Spring of 2020 as a response to the pandemic. In my own classes, not just in the pandemic, I use a practice which I call "all-feedback-no-grades," and you can read about that here: <b><a href="http://Grading.MythFolklore.net">Grading.MythFolklore.net</a></b> — that's a chapter I wrote for a book that was recently published by West Virginia University Press, Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead), edited by Susan Blum, who has been a leader in the ungrading movement for many years. There are lots of things we can do as teachers to support learning that do not involve grades, and I highly recommend that book as a way for faculty to learn about the many different options we can try as alternatives to traditional grading. As for why the university will not continue the alternative grading options that they allowed in Spring 2020, you'd have to ask the administration. The students clearly supported the continuation of P/NP grading, as they got something like five thousand signatures in support of P/NP grading on a petition that was circulating in the Fall. I personally believe that all Gen. Ed. classes should be graded P/NP instead of with traditional ABCDF grades, especially during the pandemic, but the university's refusal to offer P/NP grading options in the Fall has made me very pessimistic that we will see any real progress at OU institutionally when it comes to grades. Fortunately, though, we have a lot of freedom as instructors to devise less-harmful grading practices in our classrooms, and I would urge anybody who is interested in those options to read Susan Blum's Ungrading book, or to check out the #Ungrading hashtag at Twitter, which is where you can connect with a whole community of people working on alternatives to traditional grading.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>5. Why do you think an P/NP policy should be enacted?</i></div><div><br /></div><div>In terms of a P/NP policy during the pandemic, it's a matter of fairness: ABCDF grades assume a kind of "objectivity" that is the basis for the GPA. If you are going to average up everybody's grades into the GPA, then an A in one semester has to mean the "same" as an A in any other semester, just as an A in one class has to mean the "same" as an A in other classes. Everybody knows this is absurd I think, but we pretend it's true: all As are created equal, all Bs are created equal, etc., so that means we can average them into the GPA. But now here comes the pandemic: these pandemic semesters are simply not the same as other semesters. Classes are not being taught in the same way, students and teachers are not living their same lives. Nothing is the same during the pandemic, and trying to pretend things are the same is actually harmful for everybody involved. I personally think we should use P/NP grading much more widely all the time, not just during the pandemic, but that's a separate issue. Right here and now, during the pandemic, P/NP is exactly the kind of flexible grading alternative that can help to alleviate at least some of the pandemic's impact on education right now.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>6. Are you expecting any arising issues regarding students and mental health this spring semester? What are you plans to help with such future issues?</i></div><div><br /></div><div>I was very disappointed to see that the university considers two random days off as the equivalent of Spring Break this semester. It's a pandemic: we need more of a break, not less, but less is what we have been given. I decided to give my students two break weeks this semester, and thanks to the asynchronous structure of the class, students can use those break weeks at whatever time is most convenient for them. So they can take the break at Week 5 and Week 10 which is how I put it in the syllabus, or they can take the weeks as needed earlier, or they can take them later so that they finish up the class earlier. With an asynchronous online class, students can be in charge of the schedule, designing it to best meet their needs. I'm still doing my regular work during those break weeks, giving students feedback on their projects as usual, so for me it stays the same, but that's fine: I already have a work-from-home routine, I'm not suddenly dealing with childcare responsibilities at home, I've stayed healthy. But not all my students are so fortunate, and not all faculty are so fortunate. I'm glad that the online course design lets me give students a break as needed this semester. Students have been doing an optional anonymous "stress check" in my classes, and every week I see students who are suffering from serious stress. The university has not done a good job of checking in with students, faculty, and staff about the challenges we face; doing a survey is easy, but it's like the administration really don't want to hear from people what's actually going on in our lives. Meanwhile, I know from checking in with my students that there are some people really struggling, and I think it's our job to find ways to help reduce stress when we can. In my opinion, letting students choose P/NP instead of ABCDF letter grades is one of the best ways to do that.</div><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;">~ ~ ~</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Farid Zuchrinata, working on online courses during the pandemic:</b></div><div><br /></div><div><div><i>1. From what you observe teaching online (and perhaps from your fellow instructors who have just started teaching online last semester), what are some of the challenges with online classes?</i></div><div><br /></div><div>I think the biggest problem we face at OU is the reluctance of the administration to let faculty teach fully online, fully asynchronous courses. Instead, OU is encouraging faculty to try to duplicate their classroom approach online by using Zoom and, in some cases, OU is also expecting faculty to be able to manage students online and in the classroom at the same time, with some students there in the classroom and some students attending via Zoom. That is the most difficult possible online scenario to manage, especially for faculty who are doing this for the first time. I would recommend asynchronous online classes instead which are far simpler to manage, and also more accessible and flexible for students. In an asynchronous course, you are not expecting students to attend class at the same time. Instead, you create online spaces filled with online activities, and students complete those activities at the time that is most convenient for them. You can use Canvas as that online space, but there are lots of other online spaces you can use instead: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Docs, Hypothesis, Padlet, and on and on. I personally prefer to use a blog network so that every student has their own blog, and then students interact with each other in their own blog spaces. Most interaction that happens in the online world is asynchronous; that's where you see the most opportunity for interaction. If you have to see lots of student interaction in a class: students interacting with the teacher and with each other, then asynchronous online spaces are much more effective than trying to use Zoom.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>2. From what you observe (and as you hinted on your tweet responses), what is the general opinion from the public and the community about online classes?</i></div><div><br /></div><div>I don't want Zoom to become a synonym for online classes, and unfortunately when people are speaking about problems with online classes right now, I think what they mean are problems with Zoom. Zoom is fine in small doses, but I don't think faculty appreciate just how much Zoom fatigue is involved for students who are taking multiple classes that rely on Zoom, spending many hours in these Zoom classrooms. Psychologists have been documenting "Zoom fatigue" and the many ways in which Zoom is not the same as face-to-face interaction in an actual classroom. My guess is that people unhappy with online courses are really unhappy with the limitations of Zoom. Of course, this is all just a guess on my part; OU has not done a good job of soliciting feedback from students or from faculty about how things are going. When I asked in Spring 2020 if the course evaluations would be revised to solicit specific feedback and suggestions from students about how to do a better job with online courses, I was told that under no circumstances would the course evaluation be changed to include that question. Here we are in our third pandemic semester, and the OU administration is still not gathering any information from OU's students or faculty about the good and the bad of this pandemic online learning effort.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>3. Do you have any advice on how OU students and instructors can learn more effectively from online classes?</i></div><div><br /></div><div>Again, I don't really want to generalize about online classes when there is such a night-and-day difference between Zoom classes and online classes that are not relying on Zoom. But I would say this: students are the ones who are best able to tell us what is working and what is not working. So, students, please help your instructors! Let them know what is working well, and also let them know what is not working well, especially if you have some suggestions about how to make things work better. And faculty, you need to make it easy for students to give you feedback, including anonymous feedback, all semester long, not just at the end of the semester. I set up an anonymous Google Form which I embed in Canvas so that students can give me suggestions like that; I call it the "Suggestion Box" and you can actually see how it works here: <b><a href="http://SuggestionBox.LauraGibbs.net">SuggestionBox.LauraGibbs.net</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><i>4. Lastly, do you have any other opinion or insight about online learning that you think the community needs to consider?</i></div><div><br /></div><div>I've been teaching fully online classes for almost 20 years at OU, and in my opinion, online classes offer a wonderful space where students and teachers can really connect with one another, much more so than in the constrained time/space of a traditional classroom. A good online course can provide a learning experience that is the equal of any classroom-based course, while also being more flexible and accessible. So, I would just like everybody to realize that there are truly wonderful possibilities for teaching and learning online. Unfortunately, OU has discouraged faculty from choosing to teach online even during a pandemic, and when they do allow faculty to teach online, they have promoted the use of Zoom instead of asynchronous online courses. Especially during the pandemic, I think faculty should be free to choose what approach is best for their own classes, including asynchronous online options, and OU should support faculty in that freedom of choice.</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPso8BN1UF6gCJi3f1Ve2x65q8WfkGQoNpniAgdbO7qEuMFrqKAX-a9zAwSZ5xS5EqrWf938aVmWlz8_XgPm6qhX9Yqv37td8xhW9sp_vR0hbJK90r-XJsHjWPE0CMkdCN-M_GpsI5YCMf/s1080/Pink+and+Red+Hearts+Love+Photo+Instagram+Post.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPso8BN1UF6gCJi3f1Ve2x65q8WfkGQoNpniAgdbO7qEuMFrqKAX-a9zAwSZ5xS5EqrWf938aVmWlz8_XgPm6qhX9Yqv37td8xhW9sp_vR0hbJK90r-XJsHjWPE0CMkdCN-M_GpsI5YCMf/w400-h400/Pink+and+Red+Hearts+Love+Photo+Instagram+Post.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I made this graphic at Canva,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">inspired by Clea Mahoney's hashtag:<br /><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23onlineteachinglove&src=typed_query&f=live">#OnlineTeachingLove</a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559716192196169626.post-85543356640643120782021-02-02T19:58:00.012-05:002021-02-02T20:26:15.575-05:00What Students Say... about Grading, Creativity, and FreedomThe most encouraging part of ungrading for me has been the positive response from students. You can read about <b><a href="http://Grading.MythFolklore.net">my ungrading approach</a></b>, and below you can read student remarks about <b><a href="http://anatomy.lauragibbs.net/2016/03/grading-what-students-say.html">grading</a></b>, <b><a href="http://anatomy.lauragibbs.net/2016/12/creativity-what-students-say.html">creativity</a></b>, and <b><a href="http://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/12/freedom-what-students-say.html">freedom</a></b> from ten years' worth of course evaluations. <b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2021/02/what-students-say-about-grading.html">Press reload</a></b> to see another selection at random.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i>about grades:</i></div><div>
<script type="text/javascript"> var display = " " </script><script src="https://widgets.lauragibbs.net/evals/grading.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>about creativity:</i></div><div>
<script type="text/javascript"> var display = " " </script><script src="https://widgets.lauragibbs.net/evals/creativity.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>about freedom:</i></div><div>
<script type="text/javascript"> var display = " " </script><script src="https://widgets.lauragibbs.net/evals/freedom.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div>And here's a word cloud of the responses:</div><div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyc1fiCDLmwDhxlDO7N1es5Xo8R1AE_WZLxpWgtrqh56GeuuAmxPdbXnI07bsTLRxLgUiyDSh5_JZJkWIcYgySeYnRRurZDtFaABmgF8bjNcIy2kNPAW12X3VkRYonn_oSx544zlONiT8H/s1498/Screen+Shot+2021-02-02+at+6.29.41+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="1498" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyc1fiCDLmwDhxlDO7N1es5Xo8R1AE_WZLxpWgtrqh56GeuuAmxPdbXnI07bsTLRxLgUiyDSh5_JZJkWIcYgySeYnRRurZDtFaABmgF8bjNcIy2kNPAW12X3VkRYonn_oSx544zlONiT8H/w400-h221/Screen+Shot+2021-02-02+at+6.29.41+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div>And if you're curious how to make these kinds of randomizers, I wrote some notes out here at a previous post: <a href="http://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-netnarr-story-seed-randomizer.html">Story Seed Randomizer</a>.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559716192196169626.post-10695916096739764742021-01-28T11:58:00.015-05:002021-01-28T18:04:51.760-05:00A #NetNarr Story Seed Randomizer<h4 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://NetNarr.LauraGibbs.net"><b>NetNarr.LauraGibbs.net</b></a></h4><div>Pondering the pandemic/post-pandemic world of education:</div><hr /><br /><i><script type="text/javascript"> var display = " " </script><script src="https://www.lauragibbs.net/storyseed.js" type="text/javascript"></script></i><br /><br /><hr /><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-netnarr-story-seed-randomizer.html">Reload the page</a></b> for another one. Keep on going until you find something that inspires you, either directly or indirectly. Use a prompt, use something like it, or just follow some impulse that comes to mind while you're randomizing: <b><i>all impulses are worth exploring for a microstory</i></b>.</div><div><br /></div><div>For a totally different story prompt approach, see the randomizer below which gives you a 100-word story to <b>expand</b>... every 100-word story is basically asking you to write MORE. The microfiction can be a seed for a bigger story with more dialogue, detail, your own plot twists and turns, etc.</div><div><br /></div><div>Finally, I put a tarot randomizer at the very bottom. Because everything is better with tarot art by Pamela Colman Smith (<a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2019/06/tarot-card-javascript.html"><b>more about that widget</b></a>).</div><div><br /></div><div>Also, I didn't know if you had a story space for sharing already; we can use this padlet if you don't have a sharing space already: <a href="https://padlet.com/laurakgibbs/v9e0v37fb3itm62z"><b>NetNarr Padlet</b></a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>And.... some resource links over at <b><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uX1lc5ABxu8x5ImLzGhwh5HVlFtCprCti3L4HUFpLH4/edit#heading=h.h4b4v034nu4p">Equity Unbound</a></b>. :-)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">~ ~ ~</div><div><br /></div><div>If you're curious how to make a randomizer like this, it's not hard! You just need some webspace to host the script; RotateContent.com will generate the script for you! Lots of details here: <b><a href="http://Domains.LauraGibbs.net">Domains.LauraGibbs.net</a></b>. You might want to make your own randomizer either for writing prompts or some other purpose. I am a fan of random. Once you get the hang of how to use this tool, it just takes a couple of minutes to make a new randomizer.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBZJbEZJ1PIkgj3nAUeCEiJxCkELl9o9rlLm5FLER6unQmeO0m7XFMzVjEMQlkZchsKb54pOpnb64VCgcd_ZV437l8g__OWxMGQYv-z9kTwIvNVtv1xP7Bd0GG8udoczIq8yHO7yo8Vn9t/s1054/Screen+Shot+2021-01-28+at+11.59.39+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="140" data-original-width="1054" height="54" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBZJbEZJ1PIkgj3nAUeCEiJxCkELl9o9rlLm5FLER6unQmeO0m7XFMzVjEMQlkZchsKb54pOpnb64VCgcd_ZV437l8g__OWxMGQYv-z9kTwIvNVtv1xP7Bd0GG8udoczIq8yHO7yo8Vn9t/w400-h54/Screen+Shot+2021-01-28+at+11.59.39+AM.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Here's how I made this script:</div><div><br /></div><div>1. I created a spreadsheet (<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eVemveQ2puX2FYPUjTzP_mmXzkFz8GcqMTRjEWCk3jU/edit?usp=sharing">see it here</a>), and I put the HTML bits in two columns, with the story seed in the middle column.</div><div><br /></div><div>2. I copied the contents of that spreadsheet into a plain-text file that I named storyseed.html (<a href="https://www.lauragibbs.net/storyseed.html">see it here</a>).</div><div><br /></div><div>3. I used <a href="http://rotatecontent.com/create/?step=4"><b>RotateContent.com</b></a> to turn that html file into a javascript (see it here).</div><div><br /></div><div>4. Then I upload that javascript to my webspace:</div><div><a href="https://www.lauragibbs.net/storyseed.js">https://www.lauragibbs.net/storyseed.js</a></div><div><br /></div><div>5. Then I add the script to the blog post using this bit of HTML:</div><div><script type="text/javascript"> var display = " " </script><script type="text/javascript" src="<b>https://www.lauragibbs.net/storyseed.js</b>"></script></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">~ ~ ~</div><div><br /></div>This is a randomizer for all of the Tiny Tales books, so that means it contains one thousand stories now. You can see the widget in action below; <b><a href="http://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-netnarr-story-seed-randomizer.html">reload for a new story</a> </b>at random. You can get the widget code below.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://Nasruddin.LauraGibbs.net"><img src="https://nasruddin.lauragibbs.net/Nasruddin200.jpg" width="80" /></a><a href="https://India.LauraGibbs.net"><img src="https://india.lauragibbs.net/India200.jpg" width="80" /></a><a href="https://Aesop.LauraGibbs.net"><img src="https://aesop.lauragibbs.net/Aesop200.jpg" width="80" /></a><a href="https://Sufis.LauraGibbs.net"><img src="https://sufis.lauragibbs.net/Sufis200.jpg" width="80" /></a><a href="https://Anansi.LauraGibbs.net"><img src="https://anansi.lauragibbs.net/Anansi200.jpg" width="80" /></a></div><hr /><script type="text/javascript"> var display = " " </script><script src="https://100words.lauragibbs.net/widget400.js" type="text/javascript"></script><hr /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Tarot Art for inspiration</i></div><br /><hr /><div align="center"><script src="https://widgets.lauragibbs.net/domains/tarot/tarot300reversed.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><hr />Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559716192196169626.post-53691864914802340542021-01-04T16:24:00.001-05:002021-01-04T16:24:10.639-05:00Laura Ritchie's New Book: Yes I CanI'm so excited to share that Laura Ritchie has a book coming out! It's going to be released at the end of this week, January 10; you can pre-order at Amazon already: <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Yes-Can-Learn-Power-Self-efficacy-ebook/dp/B08Q4KR47L/">Yes I Can: Learn to Use the Power of Self-efficacy</a></b>. Laura shared an advance copy with me because I was such a fan of her earlier book on self-efficacy (I made some <b><a href="https://growthmindsetmemes.blogspot.com/search/label/Collection%3A%20Self-Efficacy">self-efficacy cats</a></b> for that one!). <div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9mXlzMZ0r6aN_tyuIg-_0uRGaYf-dzn26EpP3GsCvnUCvIDwZMKTc-_NZDmZI1Ff1ByhvI2lXbQJMFei7qX_YqmGZLVNRcMZkMrIE7FwWClD9KC23Ho-NHKRGdauM7j48NcXMWWtTZYkH/s500/41bUQKMMURL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9mXlzMZ0r6aN_tyuIg-_0uRGaYf-dzn26EpP3GsCvnUCvIDwZMKTc-_NZDmZI1Ff1ByhvI2lXbQJMFei7qX_YqmGZLVNRcMZkMrIE7FwWClD9KC23Ho-NHKRGdauM7j48NcXMWWtTZYkH/s16000/41bUQKMMURL.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Amazon won't let me post a review yet since the book is still not released, but here is the Amazon review I will be submitting:<div><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><i>Laura Ritchie's latest book, "Yes I Can: Learn to Use the Power of Self-efficacy," could not come at a better time. If you have been struggling in the pandemic to learn new skills or relax with a new hobby, or if you are contemplating something even more extreme such as a change in careers, Laura Ritchie's warm, honest, encouraging voice in these pages can help you take charge of your learning. Her emphasis on deliberation and self-awareness can help you channel the doubts and fears of your inner critic into a new direction: self-efficacy, a belief in yourself and in your capacity to take/make opportunities that will help you to achieve your goals. Learning is not easy or automatic like so many of the conveniences of modern life, but learning is always possible, and this book will help you embrace that sense of possibility, of challenge, of change. Change is inevitable; there is no standing still, and the pandemic has made that fact of life even more clear, sometimes scarily so. But change also creates an open space for learning, and in that open space you can take charge of your own learning. In fact, you have always been in charge of your own learning, despite the best efforts of school to try to convince you otherwise. As Ritchie says, "Only you can judge and decide what your capabilities are." If you are ready to begin to explore your untapped capabilities, this book is a great place to start!</i></div></div></div></blockquote><div><div><br /></div><div>Meanwhile, in the coming days, I'm going to use Laura's book to prompt a series of posts here to get me back in gear for Spring semester. So, I'll be back with more notes about the book here later, but I wanted to share the book information now. (And thanks again to Laura for writing this book and for letting me have a sneak peek!)</div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559716192196169626.post-79958344377511465842020-12-23T15:40:00.002-05:002020-12-23T15:40:54.414-05:00Freedom: What Students SayI didn't write anything at this blog during Fall semester, but I wanted to add a new post now! In the past, I've collected comments from students evaluations <b><a href="http://anatomy.lauragibbs.net/2016/03/grading-what-students-say.html">about grading</a></b> and <b><a href="http://anatomy.lauragibbs.net/2016/12/creativity-what-students-say.html">about creative work</a></b>... and I decided to go back through past course evals collecting all comments related to <b>FREEDOM</b>. You can see the results below! (These comments go back to Fall 2010, which is when my school went digital on course evals.)<div><br /></div><div><div>The numbers refer to these prompts in the evaluation form:</div><div>1. What were the strong points of the course?</div><div>2. What were the weak points of the course?</div><div>3. What should the instructor do to improve their teaching?</div><div>4. What is your overall opinion of this course?</div><div><br /></div><div><div>As you'll see, the students have remarks both about freedom TO (freedom to work at their own pace, to write in their own way, to choose the readings, etc.), and also freedom FROM (stress-free, free course materials, etc.). My recommendation: design for freedom in every way you can; your students will thank you for it.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here are the comments I found searching for free* in the evaluation archive:</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqbDdKJAwe7PuFWLT5jzEftzcl0eEgGyhv_aQWv8V4E26u2T5xJ3N79Q-hVtuqpbgYqzox8CiNYtn544is4dTJU-UrUCCsztfgJr3137jge28rqgxdIha-Z9jtQOAqf7WFu9qo6JhuQW_q/s900/freedomtorite.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="cat holding felt-tip pen. text: Freedom to write." border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqbDdKJAwe7PuFWLT5jzEftzcl0eEgGyhv_aQWv8V4E26u2T5xJ3N79Q-hVtuqpbgYqzox8CiNYtn544is4dTJU-UrUCCsztfgJr3137jge28rqgxdIha-Z9jtQOAqf7WFu9qo6JhuQW_q/w400-h266/freedomtorite.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div>1. I love the freedom and the creativity that was allowed in this course.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. Freedom for independent thinking: We were never put into a pen. I have taken classes (both online and in-person) where the professor would say what information each paragraph should consist of in our writing. By doing this, those classes have always felt like I was supposed to be checking boxes rather than learning. However, Laura has given us the opportunity to be creative in our work.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. I really enjoyed the creative freedom in this class. I was able to write stories that I was interested in and got great feedback from both the teacher and the other students.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. The pace of the course and freedom in writing and the readings</div><div><br /></div><div>1. Freedom to do what I want!</div><div><br /></div><div>1. great, easy class; prof was awesome and encouraged free thinking.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. Loved the format of the course and that she offered free options for the reading material.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. Giving your students (mostly) free reign of the class structure, exploring cultural and mythological backgrounds for inspiration, affable instructor personality, student and instructor feedback on stories</div><div><br /></div><div>1. I really liked how we had so much freedom in this class to write whatever we wanted. I also felt that I became a stronger writer through this class.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. The class really encouraged creativity and gave students the freedom to express themselves through their assignments. </div><div><br /></div><div>1. I loved the variety of reading options that were available. The stories were interesting, and the course work allowed me to freely choose about what I wanted to read or write about. I also love the fact that there were no specific deadlines for work to fit anyone and everyone's schedules. </div><div><br /></div><div>1. Gibbs encouraged critical thinking, free thinking, and writing. Writing about the lessons was a fantastic way to learn!</div><div><br /></div><div>1. huge amount of creative freedom that made the class very fun</div><div><br /></div><div>1. I loved the freedom. I truly felt like my success was facilitated at every turn.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. The self-grading was definitely a nice feature. Also the ability to work at your own pace and the freedom to choose your own readings. This class afforded me freedoms that I was not granted in any other class. I felt like I was being treated like an adult for once. </div><div><br /></div><div>4. It was a lot of work, but it is probably one of the best courses I have taken at OU simply because of the freedom that I was afforded.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. Students had the freedom to work far in advance on their assignments and to turn in extra credit in order to make up for missed assignments.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. The allowing of students to write about what interested them. I appreciated the freedom we were provided in this class.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. The course is online, which offers the instructor freedom to the chance to give interesting and original assignments that coincide perfectly with the material being covered.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. I liked the freedom to work ahead. Access to most of the coursework allows students hold students accountable for their own grade. I enjoyed diversity of the material and the quality of the content.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. Professor Gibbs, the interesting assignments, and the always appreciated feedback on our work all made this class incredibly strong! Additionally, being offered the freedom of taking the course online as well as the freedom to be creative added to the course, and Professor Gibbs was so very organized that it was a very well run class!</div><div><br /></div><div>1. This course is probably the best I have ever taken at OU. Wow! It required a lot of work, effort, and time, but I learned SO MUCH. The subject matter was interesting, and the assignments were worthwhile, but not too difficult, and ensured our understanding of the material. The entire course was so flexible, which was AWESOME! I could work ahead, take a break, or just move at my own pace. I loved the freedom I had, but also the accountability. </div><div><br /></div><div>1. Laura encourages independent thinking and ownership over the work by giving us the freedom to choose topics for our projects and allowing us our own creative liberties. There was structure, but not too much, and she was so personable and helpful via email. </div><div><br /></div><div>1. I was so impressed with everything. I enjoyed this class so much! The course load sometimes felt a little heavy, but there was the freedom to skip things or get ahead if we wanted.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. I liked that we are able to create a schedule for ourselves at the start of the semester to fit around other classes and work. I also liked that we can pick out our own readings and have so much free reign in terms of writing stories.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. The amount of freedom we had! I loved seeing how each and every one of us got to pick topics that we each found interesting. Reading other people's blogs also helped me broaden away from my interests through seeing someone else's passion for that topic. </div><div><br /></div><div>1. personal freedom and creativity allowed.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. I cannot say enough positive things about this course!!! I learned so much about a culture that I am completely unfamiliar with. Dr. Gibbs stimulated my free thinking, writing ability, and enjoyment of learning! I think this course improved my writing ability more than any other and gave me the confidence to write more. </div><div><br /></div><div>1. I loved the creativity that I could use throughout the class. I loved the fact that I was given a lot of free-will to go about and write what I wanted to write.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. I love that this course is self-paced and allows students the freedom to explore topics they are interested in. Laura has done an amazing job of collecting stories and formatting this course in a way that is accessible and fun!</div><div><br /></div><div>1. Completion based grading really helped give freedom for students to try new things in their writing without worrying about how it will effect their grade think the different types of opportunities were helpful and the freedom to choose alternative assignments was nice</div><div><br /></div><div>1. The freedom to complete the course at your own pace.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. The creative freedom</div><div><br /></div><div>1. Fun assignments, minimal costs for materials, lots of freedom and flexibility</div><div><br /></div><div>4. This is the best course I've taken at OU, and I wish I could take it over and over again! Laura was a delight to work with and provided great feedback on our assignments, and she's done a fantastic job of creating an online course free of frustration or tedium.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. She encourages a lot of creative freedom and positive reinforcement to help keep her students on track, interested, but also developing. I loved that I was never worried about making an A or a B because I was more focused on getting my work up to par so that everyone in class was excited to see it! It's a motivation I didn't realize I had until the class was near the end.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. This class allows a lot of creative freedom which I love!</div><div><br /></div><div>1. I enjoyed the freedom to read from other cultures. My story book project was a lot of fun and my favorite part of the course. I enjoyed the blog set up of the assignments, and the extra credit assignments. These provided nice alternative assignments for when I did not want to complete a specific assignment.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. I loved the freedom to choose what we got to read and write! There was a lot of room to grow and explore throughout the course and that was really great.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. I enjoyed having the freedom to work ahead, self-grade and get the course done early, as well as the freedom to choose the readings and the direction of the stories.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. Professor Gibbs provided an optimal learning environment that was stress-free and comfortable. She gave excellent detailed feedback with lots of resources. This course allowed students to work at their own pace. </div><div><br /></div><div>1. Having the option to do what we wanted, when we wanted, how we wanted. I think that she was very encouraging, and that she was very good at nudging us in the right direction. I also think that the free reign on our creativity in the class was very cool. It was a nice break from writing classes that want a regurgitated form of the rhetoric they expect.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. Lots of freedom! I haven't felt so in control while taking a course before.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. I liked that you can work ahead to finish assignments. This gave me more freedom to complete the workload when I had the time.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. Freedom of structure and self-determination, a wide range of reading materials available.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. Freedom to write, not writing for a grade but just to write, so many opportunities for extra credit</div><div><br /></div><div>4. It was very fun and I learned a lot! I really liked that I had the freedom to write just to write rather than for a grade</div><div><br /></div><div>1. Love all of the readings and actually being able to pick which ones I wanted! Really love all of the freedom available from being able to pick a portfolio or a storybook to choosing which readings to focus on.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. Loved the freedom and that it was online</div><div><br /></div><div>1. I loved this course so much! I loved that I was able to pick the readings I wanted to do and didn't have to just read what I was told to read. There was a lot of academic freedom in this course, which I really appreciated.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. Laura is great. She really allows you to think freely and write in creative ways.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. The Internet setup and the ability to freely voice our opinions and not be criticized for our creativity.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. There was a lot of freedom in this course, allowing each student to cater to their own interest.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. The freedom to be creative and put our own perspective into the stories was amazing. I've never taken a class like this before, and I loved every minute of it. The blog format was easy to use and fun to be able to have my own website and documentation of my progress of the course. The extra credit was also pretty fantastic; I loved the grading system.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. Having a weekly schedule made sure I was still active with the class, but it still offered the usual freedom that online classes give. I was able to work ahead if I wanted to, which helped me fit the assignments around my other school work. I also liked that we focused on a wide range of cultures and that many of them were fairly unknown to me.</div><div><br /></div><div>2. I wasn't the biggest fan of the blog posts but we had a lot of freedom to choose what we wanted to write about.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. It provided some freedom to do the assignments at your own pace, as online classes tend to.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. FREEDOM TO WRITE. I thought it was so awesome that we could write about a certain topic however we wanted. I haven't written this much since high school, and I actually enjoyed it.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. I was able to work at my own pace, within a specific time frame; the assignments encouraged creative thinking and helped keep my writing skills sharp</div><div><br /></div><div>1. The freedom we had in the course was great. We were able to work at our own pace and everything was spelled out for us. Nothing was confusing and Laura made it very easy for us to keep up with deadlines.</div><div><br /></div><div>4. I thought this course was awesome because it gave us so much freedom to do the work whenever we wanted to. It was also good because as long as we did the readings and the writings we would get a good grade. This was new for me because usually everything in previous classes was graded hard. This took the pressure off worring about getting an A or B and actually learning the material. </div><div><br /></div><div>1. We got to choose our own topics and gain a personalized understanding of the material. The online format was set up amazingly well and really facilitated the learning experience. I love how writing-oriented this was and how much freedom we had to get the best experience possible out of it. </div><div><br /></div><div>1. I think this might be the first class I have ever taken that I knew absolutely nothing about the subject matter going into the class. Because I never got lost or overwhelmed I was able to stay engaged with the class all the way. 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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559716192196169626.post-13170436501056326792020-08-11T11:32:00.003-04:002021-08-08T11:03:21.227-04:00Summer2020 Blogging Fest<div style="text-align: center;"><i>I retired from teaching after the Spring 2021 semester, but I'm still here, and glad to answer questions about blogging, RSS, etc. I'm at Twitter <b><a href="https://twitter.com/OnlineCrsLady">@OnlineCrsLady</a></b>... and I have a new blog: <b><a href="https://lkgbooks.blogspot.com/">Laura's Bookshelf</a></b>.</i></div><hr />Back in March, I published some notes about blogging in case people were interested in setting up a blog to use in conjunction with all-of-a-sudden teaching online; those notes are here: <b><a href="http://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/03/be-there-with-blogging-guide-for.html">Be There with Blogging</a></b>.<br />
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Now that the impossible semester is over, I will be taking some time to this summer to share some more detailed information about blogging, both as a strategy for fully online courses but also as a strategy for any course, including classroom-based courses. I've taught using student-blog-networks for years, and I can highly recommend it as a way for students to document and share their learning. When students have <i>their own space</i> in which to write and in which to interact with other students, it has a completely different feel to it than an LMS discussion board. In a blog, you can be yourself, creating your online presence week by week, post by post, a personal continuity that just does not happen in a discussion board which belongs to everybody/nobody. When a blog is yours and when you share that blog with others, it's fun and exciting in a way the LMS rarely is (at least in my experience).<br />
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So, to help people explore both blogging and student-blog-networks this summer, I've divided the <b>Summer2020 Blogging Fest</b> into two parts:<br />
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So, <b><i>if you are new to blogging</i></b>, start with Part One to see if you actually like blogging yourself. If you enjoy blogging, then you might be interested in moving on to Part Two, learning how to set up a network so that you and your students can blog together, sharing and also connecting in your individual blog spaces.<br />
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And <b><i>if you are already a blogger</i></b>, you can skip Part One and jump right into Part Two, learning how to connect individual blogs into a blog network using a free tool called Inoreader (no programming required!).<br />
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I have a few more posts to add about logistics of course design and student blogging, but all the technical posts about blogging and blog-networks are done.<br />
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In this part, I will be talking about blogging in general, and the specific how-tos I include will use Google's Blogger by way of example (although you will be able to apply the same techniques and strategies on other blogging platforms).<br />
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<b><a href="http://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/starting-blog-your-first-post.html" target="_blank">1. Starting a Blog: Your First Post</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/online-identity-and-pseudonyms.html" target="_blank">3. Online Identity and Pseudonyms</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/configuring-your-blog-for-comments.html" target="_blank">4. Configuring Your Blog for Comments</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/other-basic-blog-settings.html" target="_blank">5. Other Basic Blog Settings</a></b></div>
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/links-in-posts.html" target="_blank">6. Links in Posts</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/images-in-posts.html" target="_blank">7. Images in Posts</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/embedded-media-youtube-videos-and.html" target="_blank">8. Embedded Media: YouTube Videos and Playlists</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/embedded-media-twitter-npr-soundcloud.html" target="_blank">9. Embedded Media: Twitter, NPR, SoundCloud</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/editing-existing-posts.html" target="_blank">10. Editing Existing Posts</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/blog-labels-and-dates-for-navigation.html" target="_blank">11. Blog Labels and Dates for Navigation</a></b></div>
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<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/blog-sidebars.html">13. Blog Sidebars</a></b></div>
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<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/rss-email-more-sidebar-boxes.html">15. Blog Sidebar: RSS / Email / More</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/html-sidebar-boxes.html">16. Blog Sidebar: HTML Boxes</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/posts-and-pages.html">17. Posts and Pages</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/blog-backupexport.html">18. Blog Backup/Export</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/03/btbguide-embedding-blog-in-canvas-or.html">19. Embedding a Blog in the LMS</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/what-is-rss-and-what-is-inoreader.html" target="_blank">1. What is RSS and what is Inoreader?</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/subscribing-to-rss-with-inoreader.html" target="_blank">2. Subscribing to RSS with Inoreader</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/inoreader-display-options.html" target="_blank">3. Inoreader Display Options</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/more-about-rss-for-blogger-comments-and.html" target="_blank">4. Blogger RSS for Comments and Labels</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/inoreader-folders.html" target="_blank">5. Inoreader Folders</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/inoreader-tags.html" target="_blank">6. Inoreader Tags</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/inoreader-rules.html" target="_blank">7. Inoreader Rules</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/inoreader-export-html-clippings.html" target="_blank">8. Inoreader Export: HTML Clippings (Folders)</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/inoreader-export-html-clippings-tags.html" target="_blank">9. Inoreader Export: HTML Clippings (Tags)</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/summer-2020-blog-fest-okay-ive-reviewed.html" target="_blank">10. Embedding HTML Clippings</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/more-about-export-rss.html" target="_blank">11. More about Export: RSS</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/12-more-about-export-opml.html" target="_blank">12. More about Export: OPML</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/inoreader-bundles.html">13. Inoreader Bundles</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/inoreader-star-for-workflow.html">14. Inoreader Star for Workflow</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/inoreader-search.html">15. Inoreader Search</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/more-about-rss-diigo.html">16. More about RSS: Diigo</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/17-more-rss-news-podcasts-padlet-etc.html">17. More RSS: News, Podcasts, Padlet, etc.</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/07/comments-and-randomizers.html">18. Comments and Randomizers</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/07/building-culture-of-feedback.html">19. Building a Culture of Feedback</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/07/blogs-and-completion-based-grading.html">20. Blogs and Completion-Based Grading</a></b><br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559716192196169626.post-56119455878535477922020-08-05T13:46:00.000-04:002020-08-11T11:40:44.189-04:00Latest Posts via Inoreader<hr />
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These are the latest blog posts! Just click on the title of a post to go to that post in its blog:<br />
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I've been swamped with finishing up the Tiny Tales books... and now here it is, August 1. I started doing some basic prep for school, and planning class announcements is part of that. I want to make sure to save some items from Twitter over the past couple of weeks:<br />
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Lovely one from <a href="https://twitter.com/porliniers/status/1287800845560680448">Liniers</a>:<br />
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Beautiful <a href="https://twitter.com/OnlineCrsLady/status/1288540387091636230">NYTimes</a> piece about birds and people and art: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/arts/design/kerry-james-marshall-audubon.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage">Kerry James Marshall’s Black Birds</a>.<br />
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I'm really enjoying these tweets from <a href="https://twitter.com/Entropologist/status/1276894596849680385">@Entropologist</a>:<br />
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Something pretty from <a href="https://twitter.com/MerriamWebster/status/1288491124303319041">Merriam-Webster</a>: <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/10-flower-names-with-interesting-stories-behind-them/daisy">daisy</a>.<br />
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From <a href="https://twitter.com/DisabilityHistr/status/1222004227989475329">Disability History</a> (thread0:<br />
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A free book from <a href="https://twitter.com/_sen_sharmila/status/1288821060855570437">Harvard</a>: <a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674251687">Racism in America</a><br />
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Reading goals from <a href="https://twitter.com/AbramsChronicle/status/1288852608678076416">Grant Snider</a>:<br />
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From <a href="https://twitter.com/spencerideas/status/1287526882624364544">John Spence</a>r: <a href="http://www.spencerauthor.com/five-ways-teachers-can-limit-fear-of/">Limiting Fear of Creative Failure</a>.<br />
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Something lovely from <a href="https://twitter.com/jackiegerstein/status/1289241911270813696">Mary Oliver</a>:<br />
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Something about <a href="https://twitter.com/CathleenDCahill/status/1288973632929177609">Zitkala-Sa</a>: <a href="https://www.womensvote100.org/the-suff-buffs-blog/2020/7/30/gertrude-simmons-bonnin-zitkala-a-advocate-for-the-indian-vote">Advocate for the "Indian Vote"</a><br />
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What if Seeta wrote the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ramayana?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Ramayana</a> ? An exclusive interview with <a href="https://twitter.com/cdivakaruni?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@cdivakaruni</a> on her bestselling book ! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheForestofEnchantments?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheForestofEnchantments</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JaySiyaRam?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JaySiyaRam</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ayodhya?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Ayodhya</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JaiShriRam?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JaiShriRam</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Feminism?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Feminism</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChitraBanerjeeDivakaruni?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ChitraBanerjeeDivakaruni</a><a href="https://t.co/FP2hE86EmS">https://t.co/FP2hE86EmS</a></div>
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BHAKTI : THE POETRY OF DEVOTION & DELIRIUM.<br />
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Poet and writer, Arundhathi Subramaniam in conversation with Dr. Shelly Bhoil<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TMYSacademy?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TMYSacademy</a><a href="https://t.co/Tn4aKhK6e6">https://t.co/Tn4aKhK6e6</a></div>
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I'v known Nazneen since long. When she invited 2 talk abt my 4th, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SummerHolidays?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SummerHolidays</a> (a <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/comedy?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#comedy</a> on sibling rivalry) under <a href="https://twitter.com/FablesWinged?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FablesWinged</a> - on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CousinsDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CousinsDay</a>, I ws delighted 2 b at her mercy<br />
A conversation on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/books?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#books</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/writing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#writing</a> & more<a href="https://twitter.com/Rupa_Books?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Rupa_Books</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WritingCommnunity?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WritingCommnunity</a> <a href="https://t.co/VsJCa4OrIm">https://t.co/VsJCa4OrIm</a></div>
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<br />Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559716192196169626.post-65452975162177557142020-07-17T23:02:00.000-04:002020-07-17T23:02:01.295-04:00Twitter Highlights: July 17<hr />
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I've been super-busy finishing up the <a href="http://100words.lauragibbs.net/">Tiny Tales books</a> (all three are done!), but I found some things to bookmark from Twitter this week.<br />
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From <a href="https://twitter.com/LaurieScrivener/status/1283760047802253313">Laurie</a> in Bizzell: <a href="http://www.openculture.com/2020/05/500-beautiful-manuscripts-from-the-islamic-world-now-digitized-free-to-download.html">Islamic Manuscripts</a><br />
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Beautiful art from <a href="https://twitter.com/Chemburstudio/status/1282760681352126464">Sanjeev</a>:<br />
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From <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/07/16/891432319/a-new-album-turns-the-sound-of-endangered-birds-into-electronic-music">NPR: Guide to the Birdsong</a><br />
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Thinking about the <a href="https://twitter.com/clairegcoleman/status/1282831672946245633">apocalypse</a>: <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-08/first-nations-australians-survived-an-apocalypse-says-author/9224026">First Nations Australians survived one</a><br />
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Joe Gaines, Choctaw, sang an honor song for all the Native women who led the decades-long fight to changing the name and logo of the Washington NFL team. <a href="https://t.co/Xt2NcGOwux">pic.twitter.com/Xt2NcGOwux</a></div>
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I was searching thru my harddrive for my pictures of archaeology cats and stumbled across my compilation of Ephesus cats in 2015 🥺🙀 thought <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/classicstwitter?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#classicstwitter</a> might enjoy <a href="https://t.co/qvNey6pDyi">pic.twitter.com/qvNey6pDyi</a></div>
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I've been so busy the past few days that I haven't down a Twitter highlights post, but I've been using Twitter here and there and have some good stuff! :-)<br />
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Liniers in <b><a href="https://twitter.com/porliniers/status/1280501845002199042">Spanish</a></b> and <b><a href="https://twitter.com/linierscartoon/status/1280501468030795776">English</a></b>:<br />
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It's ... the bookwheel via <b><a href="https://twitter.com/john_overholt/status/1281959591279042565">Atlas Obscura</a></b>: <b><a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/behold-the-renaissance-bookwheel">16th-Century Engineer’s Book-Reading Machine</a></b><br />
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And Hamilton's writing desk at the <b><a href="https://twitter.com/smithsonian/status/1282436484998586368">Smithsonian</a></b>:<br />
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Gorgeous narasimha via <b><a href="https://twitter.com/writerusha/status/1282131698616958976">Usha</a></b>:<br />
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A gorgeous <b><a href="https://twitter.com/mukhoty/status/1280496412673916929">Krisha</a></b>:<br />
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Interview with <b><a href="https://twitter.com/simranahuja76/status/1280734764014678016">Samhita Arni</a></b>: <b><a href="https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/2020/jul/08/word-power-2166739.html">Word Power</a></b><br />
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Very glad to have made <b><a href="https://twitter.com/KoralDasgupta/status/1282169884718202881">Koral Dasgupta</a></b>'s acquaintance!<br />
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A cool tool via <b><a href="https://twitter.com/CleaMahoney/status/1282070118269366273">Clea</a></b>: <b><a href="https://www.kapwing.com/meme-maker">Kapwing</a></b>.<br />
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Two new ones from <b><a href="https://twitter.com/grantdraws/status/1281591956624343042">Grant Snider</a></b>:<br />
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Fun video from Debbie R-O:<br />
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And here we are: the final post in the series, where I'll say a few words about blogs and completion-based grading. I'm an advocate of ungrading in general (see book chapter here: <a href="http://grading.mythfolklore.net/">Getting Rid of Grades</a>), and I definitely do not want to be in the business of grading students blogs or their blog posts.<br />
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Each assignment in the class has a simple checklist for completion. When a student finishes an assignment, they log on at the LMS and take a true-false quiz for that assignment: they see the checklist again there, answer "true" (which is the "correct" quiz answer), and the points go in the Gradebook automatically. For more details, see this post: <a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/03/canvas-tips-gradebook-declarations.html">Gradebook Declarations</a>.<br />
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Sometimes it's just super-short, like when students leave comments on each other's blogs:<br />
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Now, practically speaking, sometimes students do rush through a Declaration, treating it as a kind of "terms of service" agreement that you click on without reading. When that happens, like if I notice a story post that is way too short or way too long, or perhaps the image isn't working, etc., I just contact the student with a quick email letting them know they need to fix the post. It's not a big deal; I just refer them back to the checklist and ask them to let me know when the assignment is complete. I use tags at Inoreader to keep track of things like that; as I watch the posts go by, I add a tag called "pending" to a post that needs fixing up, and then I remove that tag when the student lets me know it's done.<br />
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I use this approach of Gradebook Declarations for all the work in my classes, putting the students fully in charge of that grading process. Even if that's not an approach you want to take, it can still be useful to think about what kind of blogging assignments lend themselves to this "checklist" style of assessment so that you can let the students take responsibility for that, while you can focus your time and attention on follow-up and feedback rather than record-keeping.<br />
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So......... that is the last of the posts, and I hope this has been useful. For me, all these different pieces: blogging, blog networking, and ungrading all fit together as part of an overall course design approach which is based on mutual trust and also mutual support. I hope you will find some useful ideas here, and I'm glad to brainstorm and talk about blog-based course design anytime!<br />
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I've already dedicated a segment of this blog to feedback posts, so I want to link to that first of all: <b><a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2019/03/feedback-resources.html">Feedback Resources</a></b>.<br />
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What I'm going to do in this post is just link to each of those posts and then add a few comments here specifically about how blogs and blog networks come into play:<br />
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<a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/03/feedback-my-diigo-bookmarks.html">Feedback: My Diigo Bookmarks</a>. I've mentioned before how much I like Diigo, and this "Diigo Library" of bookmarks is something that my students find very useful as they browse and explore class materials. Blogging is great, but when you have a large body of materials that you want students to explore, Diigo can be a really good way to do that. For more about Diigo, see the other posts in this series: <a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/blogs-and-diigo.html">Blogs and Diigo</a> and <a href="https://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2020/05/more-about-rss-diigo.html">RSS: Diigo</a>.</div>
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<a href="http://grading.mythfolklore.net/">Ungrading: All-Feedback-No-Grades</a>. Having a blog network where students document their work provides a solid foundation for ungrading. Students "declare" their work in the Gradebook (more about that in the next post), and each declaration leaves some kind of visible trail in the blogs. So, if students forget to do a declaration (and that does happen), it's not a problem at all; they just send me a note with a link to the post they forgot to declare and I can manually add it to the Gradebook. No fuss, no trouble.</div>
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I've written up all the technical notes about blogging and blog networks, and in these last few posts, I'll share some comments about the logistics of how I run my classes, hoping that these ideas might be useful to others. All classes and contexts are different, though, which means each person has to find their own solutions. I'm glad to help brainstorm anytime about this kind of stuff; you can find me at Twitter: @OnlineCrsLady or send me an email at laurakgibbs@gmail.com.<br />
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<b>Weekly commenting</b>. Students actually have two commenting assignments each week: they comment on the story posts at each other's blogs, and they also use the blog space to leave each other comments about their project websites. The comments on the story posts are short and more social in nature, but the comments on the projects are more detailed since those comments are feedback for students to use as they work on project revisions. Taken together, these two commenting assignments account for one-third of the work that students do in the class each week, so it's definitely an important part of the class (the class is roughly one-third reading, one-third writing, and one-third commenting). Most students are really excited to see each other's work and interact in this way, and some students do additional commenting each week for extra credit (and there are also extra credit reading and extra credit writing assignments; the extra credit is a way for students to tilt the balance of the class in favor of the assignments they find most fun and/or useful). You can see what a typical week looks like here if you are curious: <a href="http://onlinecourselady.pbworks.com/w/page/103903723/week10">Week 10</a>.<br />
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<b>Commenting at blogs</b>. The commenting feature of blogs is their weakest point, and I'll be the first to admit that. At the same time, I've stuck with the standard blog comment space as the student interaction space and that has worked well for me. Here are some advantages of using the blog commenting space for me:<br />
* students keep their focus on the blog network as our "classroom" which in turn motivates them to do a good job with their individual blogs<br />
* students get ideas for their own blogs from visiting the blogs of other students<br />
* students have control over their blog comments: they can delete comments if needed (although spam or other unwelcome problems is not a problem; if it were a recurring problem, I would take a different approach)<br />
* I can keep an eye on the blog commenting overall because there is an RSS stream for comments that I can view in Inoreader<br />
* my students can comment on blogs of students in the other classes I teach (the classes I teach have a lot of overlap, and students are usually very curious to see what's going on in the other class)<br />
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<b>How to support commenting the blog space</b>. There are some things I do to make sure the blog commenting goes well, starting from the very beginning of class:<br />
* I explain to students how to configure the blog commenting options right away when they set up their blogs<br />
* I leave comments on students' blogs during the first week to make sure it's configured properly and also to model good commenting (most of my work in the first week of class is commenting on the new blogs)<br />
* I have a troubleshooting page for the kinds of technical problems people sometimes run into with blog comments (usually browser-related problems)<br />
* I'm a co-student in the class which means I have a blog too, and students are leaving comments on my blog too; I'm sharing that experience with them<br />
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<b>Commenting alternative: LMS</b>. If I did decide to abandon blog comments (for example, if spam or unwelcome comments became a problem), then I would opt for having the commenting in the LMS discussion space, with each student having a discussion board space of their own that I could link to. The drawback here is that this solution would not work for students commenting on students in other classes. For other people, that might not be a problem at all, but for me that would be a huge drawback. Still, it would be do-able, and I consider the LMS to be my emergency alternative which I can put into play if needed. There are other possibilities too, like a dedicated Padlet for each student or a dedicated GoogleDoc or GoogleSlides. So, I do ponder these alternatives as "just in case" options, but my current system is working good enough (and I am definitely an advocate of good-enough... the rhetoric of "excellence" really leaves me cold; I'm very glad for good-enough solutions!).<br />
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<b>Randomized commenting</b>. The way I spread comments out through the whole class is by using a randomizer each week to assign students to comment on one another. The power of random means that, over time, the commenting gets distributed throughout the whole class (it's another good-enough type of solution; not perfect, but definitely good enough).<br />
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There are lots of different ways you can create a randomizer. Spreadsheets, for example, are a great way to randomize: just put the student names in one column, and put the blog links in another column, and then randomize one column (plus jiggle any individual item if a student gets randomly assigned to their own blog).<br />
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As you can see there in the screenshot, I ask the students to comment on each other's story posts and also the Introduction post at the blog so that they are getting to know each other over the course of the semester (and if they've already commented on the Introduction post at that person's blog, I ask them to pick some other blog post to comment on; each blog always has lots of posts, and it's fun to just choose any post of interest to comment on).</div>
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For more about randomizers (I LOVE RANDOMIZERS), here are notes to a conference presentation I made: <b><a href="http://domains.lauragibbs.net/">Domains.LauraGibbs.net</a></b>. I am proud to say that the tool I use to create these javascript randomizers, <b><a href="http://rotatecontent.com/">RotateContent.com</a></b>, was built by a student of mine many years ago, and the tool is still going strong all these years later.<br />
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I'm trying to spend less time at Twitter; the administrative goings-on at my school are just infuriating, and I don't want to spend all of July being angry. But there are some nice things from the class Twitter.<br />
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More goodness from <b><a href="https://twitter.com/NatlParkService/status/1278097352381861894">National Park Service</a></b>: I need all the social distancing humor for the Fall files!</div>
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Resources from <b><a href="https://twitter.com/Poynter/status/1278713038007394310">Poynter</a></b>: free classes in July; I'll keep an eye out for more free stuff coming up in Fall.</div>
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Cool idea from <b><a href="https://twitter.com/ericcurts/status/1278497618503643137">Eric Curts</a></b>: <b><a href="https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2016/03/google-slides-storybooks.html">Google Slides for Student Created Storybooks</a></b></div>
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Feedback dice from <b><a href="https://twitter.com/tomgauld/status/1279702810062454785">Tom Gauld</a></b>: ha!<br />
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This NPR item could be nice for StoryLab and/or for the bio-writing: <b><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-arent-who-we-think-we-are/id1112190608?i=1000481700864">We Aren't Who We Think We Are</a></b><br />
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Cool item via <b><a href="https://twitter.com/JenLucPiquant/status/1280307886728474625">Jennifer Ouellette</a></b>: <b><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2248126-mysterious-stone-age-flint-artefacts-may-be-crude-sculptures-of-humans/">Mysterious Stone Age flint artefacts</a></b><br />
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Maria Popova on <b><a href="https://twitter.com/brainpicker/status/1280344123359232000">Rackham's Brothers Grimm</a></b>: <b><a href="https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/02/29/arthur-rackham-brothers-grimm/">Rare and Revolutionary 1917 Illustrations</a></b><br />
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Puns at <b><a href="https://www.dalailamainnerworld.com/">TikTok</a></b>: <b><a href="https://beyondwordplay.com/the-dontleaveme-challenge-when-wordplay-becomes-worldplay-2bb797eed2b3">When Wordplay Becomes Worldplay</a></b><br />
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Something coming from the <b><a href="https://twitter.com/mindandlife/status/1279045165349568513">Dalai Lama</a></b>: <b><a href="https://www.dalailamainnerworld.com/">Inner World</a></b><br />
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Important piece on <b><a href="https://twitter.com/Medium/status/1280290712458854404">digital blackface</a></b>: <b><a href="https://onezero.medium.com/stop-sending-reaction-gifs-of-black-people-if-youre-not-black-b1b200244924">Reaction GIFs</a></b><br />
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And a video on Miniature Books!<br />
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It's <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MiniatureMonday?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MiniatureMonday</a>, the perfect day for a new episode of Bite Sized Book History all about miniature books! 😍 This is my favorite video I've made yet, and I hope you enjoy it too!✨ <a href="https://t.co/C7mgYIEh0H">https://t.co/C7mgYIEh0H</a></div>
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Today’s <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoogleDoodle?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GoogleDoodle</a> celebrates Tanabata (七夕), an annual Japanese tradition that commemorates the fabled reunion of two celestial lovers kept apart by the vast expanse of the Milky Way 🌌🇯🇵<br />
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I took a few days off here, partly the holiday weekend, but partly also a growing alarm about just what is going to be happening in Fall semester. Something about July and realizing that Fall semester starts next month... Anyway, I'm collecting stuff, but also really concerned about just what the semester is going to be like.<br />
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For the <b><a href="https://twitter.com/Dr_DoNoHarm/status/1278527009551941634">covid files</a></b>:<br />
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About <b><a href="https://twitter.com/GuardianBooks/status/1278648381129146370">Natalie Diaz</a></b>: <b><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/02/natalie-diaz-postcolonial-love-poem-shortlisted-forward-prize-collection-interview?CMP=twt_books_b-gdnbooks">important and dangerous time for language</a></b><br />
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And another podcast with <b><a href="https://twitter.com/BlkLibraryGirl/status/1278825099093856256">Honoree</a></b>: <b><a href="https://newbooksnetwork.com/honoree-fanonne-jeffers-the-age-of-phillis-wesleyan-up-2020/">The Age of Phillis</a></b><br />
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Today we started the <b><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/ungradingslowchat/calendar">July Twitter Slow Chat for Ungrading</a></b>; it was so much fun to see people joining in!<br />
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A beautiful Nandi via <b><a href="https://twitter.com/GauPrem/status/988434188805160960">Chitra D</a></b>.<br />
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Via <b><a href="https://twitter.com/DalrympleWill/status/1278003998558208000">William Dalrymple</a></b>: <b><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jun/27/galleries-and-museums-uneasy-about-using-term-old-masters">We should question it</a></b><br />
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Also via <b><a href="https://twitter.com/DalrympleWill/status/1278004803713609730">William Dalrymple</a></b>: <b><a href="https://www.wallacecollection.org/forgotten-masters-indian-painting-east-india-company/forgotten-masters-online-tour/">Indian Painting</a></b><br />
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And from <b><a href="https://twitter.com/nilanjanaroy/status/1275320434775515136">Neil Gaiman</a></b>: <b><a href="https://nilanjanaroy.com/2020/06/23/neil-gaiman-on-kindness/">On Kindness</a></b>.<br />
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Today was exciting! I got my print book set-up all done for the <b><a href="http://nasruddin.lauragibbs.net/">Nasruddin book</a></b>: whoo-hoo!<br />
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Something to share for <b><a href="https://twitter.com/CNNAfrica/status/1277636306378657792">Nigeria</a></b> unit in class: <b><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/christies-nigeria-artifacts/index.html?utm_source=fbCNNi&utm_campaign=africa&utm_medium=social">Nigeria challenges Christie's over 'looted' treasures</a></b><br />
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This piece on <b><a href="https://twitter.com/WesFlinn/status/1277395619737305088">Lassus Trombone</a></b> and minstrelsy is fantastic: <b><a href="https://thelasttrombone.com/2020/06/28/trombone-players-its-time-to-bury-henry-fillmores-lassus-trombone/">Time to bury Henry Fillmore’s “Lassus Trombone.”</a></b><br />
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From <b><a href="https://twitter.com/SarahEBond/status/1276959089210294272">Sarah Bond</a></b>: <b><a href="https://hyperallergic.com/436182/before-maga-mithras-phrygian-caps-and-the-politics-of-headwear/">Politics of Headwear</a></b><br />
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From <b><a href="https://twitter.com/shadychars/status/1276989921719443456">Shady Characters</a></b>: <b><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0952zlf">Join the Dots</a></b><br />
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From Liniers in <b><a href="https://twitter.com/porliniers/status/1276874333135294465">Spanish</a></b> and in <b><a href="https://twitter.com/linierscartoon/status/1276866255719366656">English</a></b>:<br />
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From <b><a href="https://twitter.com/FolkloreThurs/status/1276933821728985089">Folklore Thursday</a></b>: <b><a href="https://folklorethursday.com/folklife/8966/">Cherokee Storytelling</a></b><br />
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And a video for writing <b><a href="https://twitter.com/Marty_Chan/status/1275453299055968262">creepypasta</a></b>:<br />
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Every Tuesday, I post a new writing prompt for kids. This week, write a creepy story about the scariest place you've ever visited or seen. <br /><br />Here's a tip on how to create the jump scare. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PromptMyStory?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PromptMyStory</a><a href="https://t.co/xczCT1MnDl">https://t.co/xczCT1MnDl</a></div>
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Something nice from Debbie R-O and her crayons!<br />
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Therapeutic evening doodle with a purple <a href="https://twitter.com/Crayola?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Crayola</a>. <a href="https://t.co/HU7rFqcNnL">pic.twitter.com/HU7rFqcNnL</a></div>
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