Your email should be sent to me at least 30-minutes before your video conference. For this assignment, you’ll send me a brief email that outlines your topic and focus of your Defining America essay. You may find referring to your prewriting helpful when shaping your email. Your email should address the scope (time period or… Read More Writing Activity | Proposal Email
Imagine you’re writing a report for your colleagues that will help them make a decision about moving forward with this project. The primary goal is to provide meaningful feedback that will help your peers improve their projects. The secondary goal is for you to reflect on your own project after examining your peers’. Look at… Read More Curation Project Peer Critique
Our communities are rich with stories and history. For some of us, our family has deep roots in the town. Maybe we built the church or a local road bears our name. For others, we’re new immigrants who have connections through our language and culture. For others, we share a passion for a game, film,… Read More Weekly Curation Nine: Community
For this project, you should create a Listicle about the midwest, Wisconsin, the community, or Stout. If you’re not sure what a listicle is, you may find these examples helpful: Halloween in the Midwest, 12 Things Never to Say to a Yooper, 22 Signs You’re from the Midwest, and 38 Things Only People From Wisconsin… Read More Weekly Curation Eight: Midwest Listicle
For this weekly curation, I would like you to conduct an interview. It can be with literally anybody, your 90-year old grandma, your roommate, your mom, a teacher, a coach, your boyfriend, your six year-old cousin … anybody. For instance, I once interviewed my grandmother about regrets she had in life – it was then… Read More Weekly Curation Seven: Interview
This week we looked at way university history might be covered with multimedia curation. However, the stories of universities are more than their official histories. University life is often sustained through the tales of its students and alumni. For instance, when I went to college someone changed the campus signs from Alma College to “go… Read More Weekly Curation Six: Stout Story
Every family has stories. Some family tales are mundane, like the time my brother and I jumped off the roof of our house in improvised parachutes (true story). Other family stories have serious consequences or connection to our culture, such as my grandmother’s escape from Poland during WWI. For this project, I’d like to you… Read More Weekly Curation Five: Family Time
Check out Stout’s Swanson Library & Learning Center’s tutorials for using their resources. Select two tutorials that seem most interesting to you. Most helpful tutorials may be found on the Digital Primary Sources page. After you’ve watched two videos, put what you learned into action. Take a screen shot of a search you conducted as preliminary research. In 250… Read More Weekly Curation Four: Library Research
This week you should create a small curation piece on your webpage that uses five images to tell a story about something that happened to you, an important event in your community, or something you’ve just made up. For instance, you could use images to describe your first time driving a car, the Clunker on Lake… Read More Weekly Curation Three: Picture This
This week you should create a small curation piece on your webpage that brings together three to five songs that tell a story (about you/your family/a relationship), are organized around a theme, or capture an event. For example, here’s my curated set list of acoustic covers (Links to an external site.). Your project should contain the following:… Read More Weekly Curation Two: Songs of You
