In class activities for Today (Thursday, 4/15)

First, please take the ENC 1102 Survey. This will help the composition department direct our activities for the coming year. Next, I would like some help designing my course for Fall 2010. And I appreciate your feedback and assistance. Because our student evaluations (which you should be taking, by the way) aren't particularly targeted nor helpful in actually designing actual activities, I am asking for specific feedback about the course activities. This should be put into your portfolio and please be honest - I won't see it till I look at your portfolios, and it won't affect your grade in any way - this is strictly for my personal development. Do this on paper, by the way, and just stick it in with your stuff to be bound when you take in your portfolios.

If you want to gripe about the content of the class or me as a teacher, that is ok (I have a pretty thick skin), but not particularly helpful to those who come after you (and besides, there is always ratemyprofessor.com for that). Here are some areas I'm particularly interested in getting feedback on (you don't have to answer all of these - you can pick one that interests you to concentrate on or that you found particularly troublesome):

1. What activities did you get the most benefit from in this course, in terms of improving your writing process? The least? Which core assignment do you think was the most beneficial in helping you learn to research more like a future scholar? The least?

2. Which texts did you find particularly helpful in developing your own topic, or in learning to think about digital literacy? How did the in-class discussions help you understand these texts? Or do I need to do more during the in-class dicussions to help guide you through these texts? If so, what do you think would be helpful? What have you done in other classes that has helped you understand difficult texts, perhaps, that we could incorporate in here?

3. What aspect of my teaching was most helpful or troublesome? Did I give adequate feedback or direction? Was I available to help you outside of class, or did you feel that I was not particularly helpful, for example? Did you feel that when I commented on your papers, you were able to take what I commented on and turn that into a useable direction for your draft?

Thanks for your help, and please remember that the purpose of this exercise is to help the students I'm teaching next semester :). There is no minimum or maximum length for this, and it is not a required assignment.

J Moody