Hi everyone,

Doug Walls will be speaking in class on 10/27. Please read and watch his Kairos piece and send me questions for Doug.

He has also requested that you watch the following three videos for homework:

Ira Glass video on storytelling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qmtwa1yZRM
A Vision of Students Today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
A (Re)vision of Students Todayhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln6WUy29fAA

Please send me your reading questions for Donnie Sackey via e-mail before class on Tuesday. Remember: I’d like you to focus on the New London Group/Watkins readings and the topic of making scholarly arguments in other media and genres.

For folks absent from class last week, here’s the reading for our Skype Guest Speaker:

http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B7C_9Y5QNqypN2Q0OGM4MmUtMDMwMi00ZTQ1LWIzZDgtOWFkNDMxZDUwNGUy&hl=en

1) What does Watkins define as a text?

2) Discuss how Watkins uses the “L” example to argue for popular identification with other texts.

3) What is he trying to argue when he shows an image of a playground and says “this is not fun”

4) Summarize his argument for understanding the combined use of media.

For homework please answer and e-mail your responses to ridolfo@gmail.com. Please include your last name and course number in the subject line. Read more…