Well, let’s start with a few examples.

 

 Example 1: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Example 2: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Example 3: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Ok, now that we have some examples, what appears common amongst all three? What “components” are required? What are the announcements doing? How are they doing it? And how do their rhetorical approaches differ?

With the answers to the above questions in mind, let’s group up and begin thinking about Response Paper 2.2, which is slated for two weeks from now in the Allen Auditorium.

In your groups, post a single entry, which should be categorized under “Audio PSAs,” that articulates the following:

• How are you going to record this thing? Who in your group will do the recording?
• What social issue related to your local Boys and Girls Club might you target? Who in your group might research this issue a bit more? (You need evidence, right?)
• Why does your issue warrant more public attention? Why does it matter? Who cares?
• What might be your target audience?
• Imagine how your PSA might be “public.” Where would you play it? When?
• Since your PSA is sound only, how will it engage your target audience? Who in your group might be responsible for the “creative construction” or “sound-scripting” of your PSA?

If you have time remaining, then you might also include some preliminary ideas. What’s your plan? How is this thing going to sound? What’s it going to do? When and how will you compose it?

As you do so, ask me questions!

Let us do this, people!

To prep for your final portfolios, please get into your sequence two groups.Once you have done so, then you will be assigned a portfolio from one of my previous courses to constructively review, grade, and blog. Here are the assignments:

Group 1: Sarah Wang’s 131 Portfolio with a “tags” theme (passcode is “sarah”)

Group 2: Zachary Brown’s 131 Portfolio with a robot theme

Group 3: Gareth Snow’s 131 Portfolio with an “algorithm” and “atlas” theme

Group 4: Jessica Vu’s 131 Portfolio with a “movement” theme

Group 5: Kendell Tylee’s 131 Portfolio with a diversity theme

For this collaborative workshop, each group should work its way through the portfolio, emphasizing the “meta-text” and “meta-arguments” in the portfolio itself (with less emphasis on the attached papers and evidence).

Once you have reviewed the entire portfolio, then you should compose a single blog entry for your entire group (categorized under “e-portfolio”) and that entry should answer the following questions:

(1) How does the portfolio address the course outcomes and emerge from the course? Be specific. Are the outcomes in the students own words? Are they explicitly mentioned? Are they creatively integrated? Are they shown, or are they just told?

(2) What type of evidence does the portfolio provide? To what effects?

(3) What three rhetorical strategies (e.g., how the student says what she says) are most effective or persuasive about the portfolio? Strategies might include theme, writing style, ways of addressing the audience, and site design.

(4) Name three things that could be more effective or more persuasive and explain how they could be revised accordingly.

(5) As a group of 100-level English students, what from this portfolio might you use in the service of your own portfolios? That is, what did you learn about the portfolio process from your example portfolio?

(6) Based upon what you read, what grade would you give this portfolio on the 4.0 scale? (And don’t ask me what grade I gave it. You know that I cannot release student grades.)

Two things to keep in mind: (1) The audience for this entry includes the balance of your 121 classmates, and (2) as you write, you must include at least five transitions from the class website.

Also, please note that the course outcomes may have changed since these portfolios were composed. In fact, they did.

I’ll give you about forty-five minutes to read the portfolios and complete your blog entry. And when you are finished, you’ll report back out to the class.

Let me know what questions you have!