While I was reading Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key by Kathleen Yancey, the first sentence of her piece struck a chord inside of me that made me, once again, a believer in academia. In her piece, Kathleen states that "sometimes, you know, you have a moment," and today I most definitely did (297).
As my current scholarship has me researching the use of technology in the classroom and the pedagogy of the instructors as a result of the increased technology being brought and used in the class, I've found myself incorporating digital spaces such as facebook.com and prezi.com into my English 101 pedagogy to see how it plays out firsthand.
One of the requirements for my 101 class is for the students to add the facebook profile that I've designed specifically for the course, and to use the info in the profile to help them stay current with the movements of the course.
It was during the process of adding students to the course facebook profile that I knew I had my moment. One of my students wrote, "a class that uses facebook, the greatest thing ever." I was overjoyed, and really encouraged that the work I am currently doing is being understood the way I envisioned it to be - even if its only one student that picks up on it.
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I'll be curious, as the semester progresses, to hear how facebook works for you. I myself have had some successes and some failures (as, I suppose, most classroom activities tend to go). I'll also be curious to hear how your classroom experience are informed by the readings we do (and/or how you inform the readings w/ your classroom experience). My question for now (food for thought) is: Why did you decide to use Facebook? Would Yancey agree with you? Why or why not?
ReplyDeleteAs I've mentioned to most everyone else (I realize I wasn't clear on this in my assignment) it will be a good practice for everyone to work with the reading a bit more in these posts. That is, any quotes, summaries, or direct references you can make to the reading(s) for the day will help me see how you all are understanding things, and can also help you in the future by serving as a reading journal of sorts (so you can go back and see what you thought of Yancey, for eg)
Thanks!