I Google hungout last night with the other folks involved in the collaborative writing project, which we have now officially named All Write. Here are links to a pair of Google docs that students put together in a somewhat similar experiment last spring: Environmental Education: A Vision Statement and Technology and Nature: A Discussion. Take a look at them, see if you can get a sense of how those students used the Google docs to carry on the discussion.
Participants will include a class from SUNY in upstate New York, another first year writing class working on graphic novel memoirs at Agnes Scott, a group of students in Taiwan, a first year writing class at SPSU on digital writing, a graduate class on digital literacies at the U of Pennsylvania, and some others.
- We’ll take our first run at the collaborative writing on Feb 12 or 13. Janine’s students at SUNY-ESF will take the lead for that first document, which will be based around some sort of theme having to do with the food or education. We’ll talk about schedules post-snowpocalypse in class, but I had to reschedule my conference to Feb 13 & 14th, so won’t be in class on the 13th. I think I’ll require that your class time be spent working in the collaborative document that Janine’s students set up.
- Pete’s student will take the point the next week, with a document that takes up some issue of digital identity & social media.
- I’ve signed our class to take the lead on the following week, around Feb 25. You’ll have just finished your Maus projects and I said that we’ll do something on visual design and arguing with images. This kind of topic will lead really nicely into the other projects you’ll be completing this semester.
- On March 17 or 24, Jim Diedrick’s students at Agnes Scott will be the primary facilitators for a doc that revolves around graphic novel memoirs. He’s got some cool ideas about bringing in either Fun Home (which we will have just finished reading by then) or March, Book 1.
The SUNY students are running a photo contest through Twitter and would love it if some or all of you participated.