Assignments and work products

Assignments

• 1. What makes for a good conversation? (small groups, then large group)

  2. Write your first story idea with a bottle of ink and a piece of balsa wood.

  3. What makes for a good question or problem (one that you would like to find out more about or possibly answer or solve)?

  4. Find examples of Christian-related language in everyday speech.

  5. Generate themes to explore: intersections could be one, that have relevance to the content in the texts.

  6. Pose different questions to each group -- questions have to be answerable! Like Mike has done with the ARTStem seminar, one group might be asked to talk about why study Liberal Arts, another about why study Media Studies, etc.

  7. Write a thank you note to your favorite teacher

  8. Watch My Dinner with Andre and write a letter to one of the protagonists.

  9. Pick one of the quotes about conversation and write a short 'conversational' response to it (agree, disagree, etc. but put this in the form of a dialog-like response. Imagine someone actually speaking the quote to you, the imagine what your response might be. Write the quote and your response in the form of dialogue (using proper quotation marks and so forth).

  10. Peer instruction: get info from Eric Mazur about how to do this

  11. Why don't we talk about things that matter in school?

  12. Make a picture of education, then write an explanation that explains your picture.

  13. Categorize and contextualize several 'random' groupings of things (arranging Chinese boxes)

  14. Create a Borges-like taxonomy of your art field

  15. Create a three-dimensional model of your taxonomy

  16. Generate points of view or positions on the issue of global warming or "global heating" as James Lovelock puts it. Listen to an interview with Lovelock, the person who came up with the Gaia Hypothesis.

  17. http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=17759 (a Seattle NPR interview with Lovelock).

  18. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9082151 (a Washington NPR audio debate about whether or not global warming is a crisis).

  19. http://www.livescience.com/environment/060713_global_warming.html (a dozen different perspectives on global warming --note that we didn't need to generate these, we just googled it)

  20. Ask students to draft an assignment

  21. Keep a technology-use diary for 24 hours.

  22. Make a TNH style self-portrait.

  23. Make a sculpture of a human figure by carving an eraser

Work Products

A website-worksite for hashing out digital-stories

A digital-story (or two)