Exploratories (Collaborative Assignments + Individual Critical Blog Posts)
(15 points each)
Four (4) times over the semester, we will undertake short, innovative reading or research tasks (often 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, complicates, addresses, or extends the readings for the previous or coming weeks, taking up key concepts, issues, conflicts, or terms. 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). On the blog, I expect you to take one another seriously and to treat others with respect, regardless of the possible level of disagreement. And I do hope you won’t shy away from those possible levels of disagreement.
Exploratory 1 - Mapping "Global Rhetorics" - due in class on 1/19/16 (critical blog post due 1/21)
Exploratory 2 - Virtual Reconstructions - due in class on 2/2/16 (critical blog post due on 2/5)
Exploratory 3 - Indigenous Expressions - due in class on 2/23/16 (critical blog post due on 2/26)
Exploratory 4 - Network of Concerns - due in class on 3/29/16 (critical blog post due on 4/1)
