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Gabe and Eric will be teaching courses that have students from New York and Montreal collaborating on written assignments, via blogging and commenting.
We want to work out an assignment schedule here.
Champlain College (Newsactivism class) and SUNY Brockport (Sociology/ Globalization class)- Winter 2013
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January 15, 2013 - 2:01pm
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Champlain College (Newsactivism class) and SUNY Brockport (Sociology/ Globalization class)- Winter 2013
Hi Eric,
Check out the course outline for my course this semester. The schedule is at the end of the course outline, but here it is cut and pasted:
In class work
Assignment Schedule
Marks
Weeks 1-4
Introduction of program, social networking website, tagging, blogging, 1 posts
Create personal page and make first posting(s) of news story with tags.
18 %
Exploring News Posts/Comment
10% Multiple Perspectives Post
Week 5-7
2 posts per week including a journal article summary each week
Assigned chapter of A Year of Living Generously
Focusing in posts/comment
18%- Narrowing focus posts/comment
Weeks 8-9
Organizational Research
Post summarizing organization/volunteer findings
10%: Completed Research on NGOs
Weeks 10-12
3 posts (including summative assessment outline post)and 3 comments per week
Postings(including summative assessment outline post)
18% posts and comments
Week 13-14
Brief presentations on A Year of Living Generously
Brief presentations on A Year of Living Generously
5% brief presentations
Week 15
Final Essay and summary in post or Multimedia post with volunteer work
Summative assessment
Final comment(s)
20% Summative Assessment
1% Final comment-survey(s)
Here it is
This is a PDF File: test_pdf.pdf
Gabe,
I'm still filling in the details, but my globalization students will be learning about transnational projects (collaborative work across borders) through weekly exercises that they solve through teamwork. There will be seven teams of five students. Each team will choose a topic for the semester to investigate from a list that I can share with you (it is not pasting in neatly here). The topics fall under several broad areas: Human Rights, Environmental Protection, Poverty, Business and Finance, Media and Popular Culture, Health, and Crime. Based on the topic they select, I will then also assign teams a relevant country to think about in more detail.
Each week members if the team will all write a summary of a relevant news article that appeared in the last seven days for their topic, the team will choose their "favorite" and a different student will turn in the final write-up, which they will also post to Newsactivist. We will do this for five weeks and then switch to research article summaries for the next five weeks. each student will blog/be graded on one newsacrticle and one research article.
The final project will be for the students to propose their own transnational project related to the topic and country. Along with making a persuasive case for the project, the proposal will identify the cultural, historical, and power dynamics that they anticipate and how they will deal with them.
It seems to me that my students may overlap with your students in terms of the topics that they are writing about. Perhaps this is the best way to strucure student2student dialogue.
What do you thinnk?
Eric
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Human Rights
Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Women’s Rights
LGBT Rights
Religious Freedom
Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Democratization
Labor Rights
Environmental Protection
Climate Change
Deforestation
Water
Biodiversity/Species Conservation
Air pollution
Toxic chemicals
e-Waste
Poverty
Hunger/Malnutrition
Preventable Diseases/Mortality
Basic Education
Infrastructure
Housing
Microfinance
Health Care
Business and Economic Growth
Joint Ventures
Outsourcing
Manufacturing Regimes
Commodity Chains
International Logistics
Cross-cultural Marketing
International Capital Flows
Intellectual Property Rights
Sovereign Debt
Mass Media & Popular Culture
Exporting television programs
Global film production and distribution
Social media and political organizing
Global pop music
Global sports and fans
Fashion industry
Health
Epidemics and Pandemics
Vaccines
Basic Health Care Systems
Drug Safety Testing
Crime
Human Trafficking
Drug Smuggling
Weapons Dealing
Piracy
Cybercrime
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Hi Eric,
I will also be moving between news articles and then including journal articles later on. I think the way you are going about it is great, where you have students choosing among themselves which is the article they want to submit.
My students will submit posts around the end of February where each states their focus for the rest of the semester. Having feedback on that post would be great, if assigning comments will be possible within your curriculum. I think I could ask my students to respond with comments to your class as soon as week three, which would be assigning a comment mid-February, if you think that would be a good time for your students to receive feedback.
Although making students comment on issues that they are focusing on has its benefits, we could also allow the commenting to be "a la carte" where students could choose to comment on issues and provide context with their background knowledge, or the commenting could be a bit more free.
Let's try to organize the earlier stuff now, as to commenting, but I'm wondering if we might have a student from Canada become a member of the transnational team, or perhaps the students in my class who focus on International work after week four or five, they might be the "recipients" of a proposal from a team of your students.
Best,
Gabe