Week One

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First block on June 3:

• Introductions

• Joining our Discord server (contact Pete via email or see announcement in D2L for the link)
  • Activity on #introduction channel
• Course syllabus
  • Schedule
  • Attendance
  • Tools (course blog/Discord)
  • AI policy
  • Syllabus thread in #activities
• Mini lecture: my vision for the course
• Read: “Communication and Collaboration Protocols” (blog post)

During our break:

Watch Video: “Motor Vehicles 3.17.26” committee meeting of the Georgia House of Representatives (beginning at 17 minutes and ending at 33 minutes). Take notes and conduct some initial research. Prepare for explaining the relevance of this meeting to someone else. How would your audience matter?

Second block on June 3:

• Rhetorical theory (audience, digital environments, kairos)
• Professional literacy and imagination: preparing for next week’s interview
• Genre discussion: email and memo
• Platform discussion: collaborative writing (One Drive, Google Drive, Proton)
• Platform discussion: scheduling a video meeting (Teams/Outlook integration)

Preparing for next week:

• Collaborative activity: email (no more than two short paragraphs) attached memo (no more than one page)
  • One team member is responsible for the email, editing, and research;
  • One team member is responsible the drafting the memo;
  • One is team member is the project manager responsible for communication, scheduling, review, and submission.
  • PM creates a team channel and invites the others to it.
  • Schedule at least one 15 min video meeting before Sunday, June 7.
  • Imagine your audience and build the context for it into your approach
  • Email and memo (as an attached PDF) to Pete by Sunday, June 7; be prepared for feedback.
  • PDF of email and memo posted to appropriate thread in the #activity channel by Monday, Tuesday, June 9.
  • I’ve added some stylistic and formatting guidelines for the assignment here.
• Prepare a 200 word reflection on what you learned from this collaborative process (planning, meeting, drafting, editing, design, etc.) for Wednesday, June 10. These will be shared with and organized by the class.
• Research Trello, the project management tool
• Complete the first module of online course Beginning WordPress User (lessons under the heading “Getting started with WordPress”). Do not click the “Take this course” button; simple open each lesson by clicking on its title.
• Arrange to interview a student between Wednesday and Friday of next week; do not choose someone you worked with on your first collaborative team.