THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Greetings Creative Writing students, one and all!

On this, the day I learned that William Shatner, one of my personal heroes, has been immortalized and enshrined in wax at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum---as Captain Kirk [photo left from http://www.exploreli.com/topics/Hollywood]---need I say more?----I am officially posting to the blogs [because the wiki refuses to hold up its end of the bargain and actually function as a space] my ideas about class requirements. And here they are:

But first, allow me to add this!

I'm thinking that a good way to fulfill our requirements that I, as your teacher, actually make assignments and grade your work might be to do the following:

Genre Selection: Your call, mostly.

Number of written pieces: 1 per week for a weekly "did I create anything?" score

[necessary for edline update purposes]. These pieces will

be posted to the blog or submitted using googledocs to the wiki or just left

on googledocs for that matter.

Formal graded pieces: 1 every 4 weeks for a "big" grade. You select your best piece. Submit it with a "defense for submission"---what makes this your best piece?

Evaluation of Formal piece: Self, Peer, Teacher

Rubrics: To be created collaboratively by all of us in our next discussion post. [If the wiki ever works.]

The Big Thing: Individual Writing Portfolio, the contents and presentation medium of which we will discuss later.

So----tell me what you think. Use this discussion board [but you can't because the wiki remains recalcitrant---just use comments] to input your ideas on requirements, grading, portfolio format.