Hello to my fellow “Formats & Modalities” participants. You’ve made it to Week 2!
ARE YOU BEHIND?
Don’t worry about it. I am too because I was away at a conference. To catch up, spend five minutes browsing the “Affordances & Possibilities” page, fifteen minutes reading/annotating “The Landscape of Emerging Modalities” on our Resources page (skim the first half if you are short on time), and then move on!
ARE YOU RIGHT ON TARGET?
Great! Let’s keep going! Maybe browse through some of your colleagues’ annotations in the article we read last week and reply to some of their thoughts! And jump into the Questions page and see what your colleagues are chatting about; you can ask a new question if you like, or just chime in on a conversation with a reply! Most importantly, this week, try one of the Activities for this module, and remember that you can see others’ workbook efforts at the bottom of our module’s Home Page, which is just a great place to go to kill a half hour in community with good people.
WHAT AM I GONNA DO?
This week, I (Robin) plan to read one or two of the Choice articles from our Resource page. I haven’t read them all before, and there are a few authors listed there that I just love, so I am going to dig into one or two. Hope to see you in the annotations!
This week, if you haven’t heard, the CoLab and Lamson are mourning one of the student workers and IDS majors who spent a lot of time with us. You can see the campaign that Martha started for River, which will now go to their mom to help with funeral expenses: https://gofund.me/70794aec. I’ve been teaching for thirty years, and I have sadly lost a number of students, and it is a special kind of grief. River was a particularly gentle and creative soul, so this hits hard. In the midst of all our talk about tech and technique and teaching, working with you all does continually bring me back to what is at the heart of this whole “enterprise.” And that, I think– at least for me– is care. Thank you for spending your free time in this act of care, for your students and for the university we are hoping to shape.