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All,
Hi, please be sure to think about working on more of your Achievements as we wind down the term. The term is going quickly and there are still opportunities for Achievements, but also the window of opportunity is closing fast.
Here are some that we think could be taken advantage of before the end of the term.
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Failure is an Option: This one is actually easy and VERY important in terms of connecting to your research and Creative Display process.
Post within existing assigned Journal entries about your creative and research process and/or post a new Journal entry specifically addressing an element of “failure” you have dealt with in this seminar. For new postings be sure to identify that the posting is addressing the ‘Failure’ Achievement by addressing the following:
1. What was the “failure”?
2. How will you learn from this failure and build upon it for the next stages of your creative and/or research process in the seminar?
3. Reference the BBC article “Viewpoint: How creativity is helped by failure” and how the writing connects to your specific failure and/or your learning from that failure (article link: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34775411?post_id=10207428879533532_10207428879453530)
4. (If possible answer this, but may not fully apply to the failure you are addressing so #4 is optional) Do you have examples of how this failure has informed experiences you are having outside of the seminar; such as, did what you learn from this failure help you in another class, work, your approach to a project, your mindset about the failure, etc.? Or did you have a “failure” learning experience outside of the seminar that is informing ways in which you are approaching your work in this seminar? (Thank you, Erin Meyer, for this idea!)
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Events Specialist: Still time to attend a couple outside of class events and report on them!
This new achievement is to attend at least 2 outside of class academic events (talks, performances, etc.) and write up a “reflection” reaction posting about your event attendance in your blog Journal. If you choose to write up a Journal entry for this achievement be sure to include “Event Specialist” in the title so we can easily identify it.
Your Journal Postings will need to answer the following questions:
1. What was the talk’s/event’s main focus (what was it about)? What were 3 main takeaways you took away from the talk/event?
2. What did you think about the talk/event? In what ways did it personally interest you? If it did not interest you, what would have made it better (more interesting)?
3. In what ways did the talk/event connect to the seminar’s content (readings, presentations within the seminar’s meeting time, guest speakers, etc.)?
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Resources Librarian: Have you submitted all 3? If you have we still would like more!
Did you provide the instructors with more than three resources to use on the course site (ones the instructors approved)?
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Others? Keep working on the Achievements! Remember you need 5 to bring up your grade one letter grade, and 4 to bring it up by half a letter grade.
Best,
Robert and Julie