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- posted by Stolley @ 9:43 AM

 
It's What's on My Mind, Anyway
Hey everyone...I'm sure you're all in quite the same position as me now in terms of thinking about final projects. Here's a little overview of what I'm doing: basically, I'm developing my course eBook and Website (and thus the course itself) for ENGL419: Multimedia Writing. As I began the early stages of this process, I did what I suspect many of us as teachers often do when embarking on a new course: I surfed the Web, looking for sample multimedia writing syllabi.
What I realized (and forgive my slowness) was that syllabi and other supporting class materials posted to the Web serve a dual purpose. First and foremost, of course, we are interested in delivering materials, assignments, etc. to our students. Duh. But second, there is at least potentially a shadow audience of instructors out there who are interested in improving or starting their own courses.
It is partyly with this second, shadow audience in mind that I'm beginning my project. Specifically with the Annotated Bibliography assingnment in here, I'm probing materials that would both be of value to students in a multimedia course, AND to other instructors (myself included) who are trying to plan and develop a theoretically and practically sound course in multimedia writing.
As I'm envisioning my course site for 419 (which in my mind must be better and more involved than anything I've ever designed before) I'm planning on including a For Instructors link, which will take instructors (and probably curious students, too) to materials like the annotated bibliography.

So here's my big question I'd love for as many of you to respond to as possible, either on here or via email: If you were planning on teaching a course in multimedia writing OR were looking to add more multimedia components to, say, an introductory composition course, what would you want to know? What kinds of materials would you want access to? How would you want them presented?

Looking forward to hearing from you--and I promise to re-earn my keep on this Blog by posting more frequently than, say, once every two years.

- posted by Stolley @ 10:13 PM