Two questions:
- What’s the best way for each of you to share leads and resources and offer feedback on your classmates’ projects — and possibly explore cross-overs or collaborations? Would simply posting comments to individuals’ blog posts suffice? Or do we need a private discussion board or a shared Google doc or some other forum for information sharing? (Please don’t suggest tweeting with a UMA hashtag; I’d like to continue avoiding Twitter as long as possible!) If we need a new tool, can you recommend particular platforms (preferably free and user-friendly)?
- How can we best use our “module” weeks in the middle of the semester? We’ve got October 27, November 3, and November 10 to do with as you wish! Of course we’ll spend a good part of each of these classes working with URT itself. But what other kinds of lessons, tutorials, advice, experiences, etc., do you need to help you with your individual and collective projects? Possibilities include student-led mini-lessons pertaining to your individual research interests; general content (media or urban history), methodological or mapping discussions; screenings/soundings of relevant projects; guest presenters or (as long as it’s not too logistically complicated) field trips; group work; etc. Keep in mind that we’re already planning to dedicate Dec. 1 and 8 to in-class group/technical work.
Post your responses to both questions here, please!
4 Comments
1 SteveTaylor wrote:
response to 01.
I would say that for feedback on individual projects, each person ought to post their proposal onto the blog and then we can give suggestions, etc. via the comments.
Last night when everyone presented and then you asked if anyone had any thoughts on peoples’ projects, my problem was that each person’s topic sparked some idea or connection in my mind and I could neither choose one to address nor address all of them at once. So I think that being able to make comments on each person’s post would be ideal.
As for discussing cross-overs/collaborations, I’m less sure about where that should go. You pre-empted me with your zero-tolerance twitter stance, so that’s out. Is there a way to have a post or discussion space on the blog that doesn’t get pushed off the front page like regular blog posts do?
2 shannon wrote:
I was sort of joking about Twitter. If that works best for all of you, I’ll get on board!
3 SteveTaylor wrote:
Is it weird to have all of the people following you on twitter start getting messages about this class though? Is there a way to have a ‘private’ twitter circle or something?
I’ve done a bit of thinking on how something like twitter could be potentially great for continuing discussions out-of-class (or even experimenting with having an in-class discussion only via twitter; I’m going to be teaching a documentary workshop with high school kids later this semester and I want to ask them what they would think of this)
4 hethre wrote:
yea. I like the one stop shopping of the blog post response. Even if we have another special “forum” i would probably just end up writing comments in the person’s blog post…