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What this means for us!
1) We will do next class, 12 March, what we had planned to do today: two presentations back to back. (Scroll down for previous details.)
2) That means we will meet on 12 March for our entire class time and not break to go to the first talk in the LGBT series. You can still participate in the Friday Colloquium. Not required, optional and wonderful opportunity! There will be a reading for that, not required for attendance but nice anyway. I will post it when I receive it myself. (Check TAB events for details.)
3) For this next class, 12 March, bring in an abstract for the paper you are contemplating producing for our class paper session, and in our discussions following each presentation make a point of connecting with these ideas and possibilities! We will share these with class buddies, and you will meet outside class with a buddy to discuss these at some point before, during, or just after break. THINK COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE! Note the TAB on this for details.
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NOTICE! :) What's coming up! Begin to make plans, play around on the web, figure out where you will be going with all this! Today is the perfect day to spend time with this!
The paper sessions and the website give us a friendly introduction and practice for professional venues, skills, and even contestations today.
For paper sessions: 1) learning to create abstracts and using as basis for scholarly interaction; 2) you will also create a professional bio before the event, such as those you will be asked to provide in various circumstances, sometimes for conference panels or journal contributions; 3) set up for sessions, handouts, in interactive poster-session style: new practices today as conference formats are sites of experimentation.
With website: 1) you will read everyone's papers after the sessions; 2) we will offer "peer-review" to two other classmates, learning how this is done professionally and feeling out how to offer and receive suggestions; 3) a simple website for the class will function as an online academic journal for the papers produced by our class and put up after class peer-review; 4) you will each curate some form of web-based professional presence, and will link that up to your paper on the class journal website.
Here is a nice example from one of Cathy Davidson's courses at Duke. Enjoy it! Ours can be even more simple: http://dukesurprise.com Or this: http://www.hastac.org/collections/field-notes-21st-century-literacies Check TAB assignment fun for links to possible platforms. Learn one skill at a time, be friendly about it all, everyone learns (don't have the most skilled already person do the work for everyone). Pick something to learn and take it easy!
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