Exploratories

Exploratory Tasks + Critical Blog Posts
At key points throughout the semester, we will undertake short, innovative reading or research tasks (in most cases involving digital tools), usually done collaboratively and accompanied by a critical blog post. Our goal with these assignments will be to build, critique, and explore—in other words, to play. Our goal with the blog posts will be to reflect on that play and how it illumines or complicates or addresses or extends the readings for the previous or coming weeks, taking up key concepts, issues, conflicts, or terms. I will assign exploratory tasks well ahead of when they are due. Generally speaking, critical blog posts are somewhat formal and should be a minimum of 2-3 well developed paragraphs in length (a couple of screens' worth). Be sure to define terms and unpack assumptions for us, using your posts as occasions to teach. Because the blog is somewhat performative, I'll ask you to title your posts creatively (or insightfully). And finally, I will expect you to treat others with respect, regardless of the possible level of disagreement.

Exploratory #1: Constructing a Schema of Kinneavy or Sheridan, et al, on "Kairos"
Exploratory #2: Building a Tool for Process to Cognition
Exploratory #3: Schematizing "Literacy"
Exploratory #4: Building a Tool for Theories of Genre