Well...here we are again. We're already a third of the way through the course. Wow. Even though I have been teaching in a semester system for 10 years now, I am once again shocked that we have reached Session 6 so quickly -- my oh my!
This week's class will confirm for me how solid the "foundation" is for the remainder of the course.
Overall, the students' blog posts are showing clear signs that students are re-envisioning their understandings of writing, writing process, the parallel processes of reading and writing and how the principles of writing process pedagogy have only been enhanced by the advent of the digital age.
At the same time, I think the writing groups and Hicks pairs were well formed and are going to allow the students opportunities for successfully collaboration and co-constructing knowledge together. There is such an interesting selection of topics for their personal genre pieces projects this semester, I will be interested to see which writers take real risks with their work rather than just creating the typical or expected collection of pieces.
This week's class will certainly be a telling sign of how deeply the writers have even explored their topic -- and the major ideas related to the topic. I am confident that the strategy work we will engage in (using the instructional strategies from Kucer and Rhodes as well as some help from Furr) will help them to fully BRAINSTORM their ideas about their topic, the audience(s) and the purpose(s) for writing about this topic.
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