11:44:17 From tichure : Hey now. Will start in a few minutes. 11:47:59 From tichure : Well hey there folks, 11:48:18 From tichure : this is English 103. 11:48:52 From tichure : For all intents and purposes, this course is online. Your work is assigned on Canvas 11:49:07 From tichure : that includes both the reading and the written assignments. 11:50:13 From tichure : the chat room’s purpose is not lecture 11:50:43 From tichure : the lectures are part of the assigned reading/listening for each week 11:50:56 From tichure : in this room, we will be discussing your work 11:51:05 From tichure : the chat room is not mandatory 11:51:15 From tichure : you come here when you have questions 11:51:23 From tichure : or when you need to talk to me about your paper 11:51:26 From tichure : or other aspects of the course 11:51:35 From tichure : but mostly about your paper 11:51:53 From tichure : if you’ve done no reading of the material that you were assigned or watching the videos that you were assigned, we will have nothing to talk about 11:52:01 From tichure : this is essentially the nature of the flipped classroom 11:52:29 From tichure : and if we were actually on campus, the class would be run the same way, with you spending your time on your own gathering the material and 11:52:37 From tichure : using class time to work with what you’ve learned 11:53:04 From tichure : to that end, you also need to be reading the archived chats. 11:53:08 From tichure : http://www.englit.org/eiland_shared/chat/list.htm 11:53:37 From tichure : most of them will be previous conversations I’ve had in this chat room with students doing the work you’re doing 11:53:46 From tichure : and some of them will be the previous week’s conversation 11:54:11 From tichure : you are not required to be live in the chat room 11:54:18 From tichure : but you are required to read those archived chats 11:54:33 From tichure : Not only the ones that are there now, but the ones that get added every week or so. 11:55:05 From tichure : any questions so far about what the chat room is going to be 11:55:41 From Bailey : so would you recommend contacting you here first before emailing you? 11:55:57 From tichure : Bailey, not necessarily. 11:56:13 From tichure : We will only meet here on Mondays once a week obviously and there will be a open chat room for all my classes on Wednesday and seven and 9 PM 11:56:24 From tichure : but I don’t want you to wait a week 11:56:26 From tichure : to get an answer 11:56:50 From tichure : frankly, I am more likely to answer my email at 3 o’clock in the morning than I am at noon 11:56:55 From tichure : but I answer my email every day multiple times a day 11:57:03 From tichure : and if you’re stuck on something, I want you to ask me that question so that you can move on 11:57:17 From tichure : when were in the chat room, we will be discussing what you’ve actually done or what you think you’re actually doing 11:57:23 From tichure : and generally when somebody shows up I will ask you 11:57:35 From tichure : what your topic work is for the research paper and what critical perspectives or perspectives that you’re working with 11:57:45 From tichure : and I will ask you if you have any questions, and if you don’t, then I will ask you what you’re writing on your paper 11:58:05 From tichure : which will course clarify for me whether or not you understand how the critical perspectives work, especially for that particular primary source 11:58:14 From tichure : email is like the emergency contact 11:58:23 From tichure : this is sitting down and really workshop in your paper 11:58:26 From Hamid : Hello Prof. Eiland, what is a good time to contact you via email and also, what is the expected response time? 11:58:41 From tichure : within 24 hours Hamid 11:58:49 From Bailey : got it, thank you 11:58:50 From tichure : in fact, if you don’t get an answer from me within 24 hours, I did not get your email 11:58:51 From Hamid : Thank you 11:59:15 From Ethan : So are we only meeting once a week on Mondays at 11:30? Or Wednesday’s as well 11:59:17 From tichure : only once a week on Mondays, Ethan as well as Wednesday between 7 and 9 PM 11:59:34 From tichure : the Monday room is for 103 only 11:59:38 From Ethan : Gotcha, thank you for the clarification :) 11:59:57 From tichure : Wednesday is for all my courses, although 90% of what you are doing in this class is what all of my classes are doing since I teach English literature 12:00:33 From tichure : the difference between this class and a literature course is that you have RESPONSES and the other lit courses do not. They also have an extra presentation that you do not have 12:01:07 From tichure : so if you hear me talk about a PRESENTATION, that does not apply to you 12:01:15 From tichure : which brings me to my next point 12:01:35 From tichure : if you read the syllabus information and you watched the video concerning how this class works, 12:01:46 From Hamid : In the syllabus, you mentioned that we will have a lot of reading in this class. Where can we find most of the reading material? 12:02:00 From tichure : the majority of your grade is based on the production of a single complex research paper built over the semester 12:03:02 From tichure : Hamid, all the reading assignments are on Canvas. Each week you have a series of reading assignments. The rhetoric is usually identified by a specific name, such as a particular criticism (Marxist, biographical, historical) or a specific structure and strategy (paragraphing, outlines) 12:03:21 From tichure : the works themselves, which is the poetry and drama and short stories, are the primary source readings for each week 12:03:29 From tichure : everything is linked directly. 12:03:36 From Hamid : Ok, Thank you 12:03:36 From tichure : And of course the research paper you will be building 12:03:57 From tichure : is based on one of six or seven choices that you have listed in the “begin your research paper” folder 12:04:11 From tichure : in the way that you identify what you’re currently doing some research paper is that you begin doing your annotated works cited 12:04:49 From tichure : in order to establish between the two of us that you have enough secondary source material to write a research paper on the work you’ve chosen, whether it is Shakur or one of the Star Wars movies or it is a more conventional literary work such as Gillman, Poe or Miller 12:05:16 From tichure : every single one of the works that I have listed there are good material for research paper, but you have to prove yourself, and especially to me, that YOU can find material for the particular work. 12:05:26 From tichure : And you have to use valid research resources, as I indicated in the one of the emails I sent you last night 12:05:29 From tichure : college level resources 12:05:40 From tichure : which of course means that you need the virtual library card from citrus College 12:05:56 From tichure : unless you have the 10 grand to pay for Ebscohost yourself 12:06:24 From tichure : you will also be using Gale, ProQuest and other research databases available to the college 12:06:28 From tichure : and YouTube 12:06:41 From tichure : when it comes to interviews with the people who have created the work that you’re analyzing 12:06:52 From tichure : if you have not chosen a topic, we don’t have much to talk 12:06:54 From tichure : about 12:07:06 From tichure : it if you don’t do the reading for each week, we don’t have much to talk about 12:07:17 From tichure : because the purpose of the room, again, is not lecture. It’s a workshop 12:07:29 From tichure : in which you get an opportunity to try out some of the ideas you have for your paper in real time 12:07:39 From tichure : in fact, this is the longest lecture you’re going to get from me 12:08:14 From tichure : because if you think it’s boring for you to listen to me/README yakking, imagine what it’s like for me to listen to me yakking 12:08:17 From nautiiiica17 : When should we have our resources picked out for our research paper? 12:08:58 From tichure : as soon as you decide what you want to do, you’ll begin the annotated works cited nauitica 12:09:09 From tichure : the annotated work cited has a due date 12:09:21 From tichure : so in some ways there is a time in which you have to bite the bullet and have decided on something 12:09:55 From tichure : the reason I have you do the annotated work cited, again, is because I want make sure that you are creating a literary analysis and not a discussion of why a particular song is supervision or why everybody should be Star Wars nerd instead of a trekkie 12:10:13 From tichure : why a song is super bitchin 12:10:16 From tichure : sigh 12:10:20 From tichure : by the way, I use Dragon speak 12:10:24 From tichure : I talk it types 12:10:30 From tichure : but not always exactly what I want to say 12:10:52 From tichure : so is, in one of my blatherings, something doesn’t quite make sense, asked me 12:11:15 From tichure : besides the research paper 12:11:20 From tichure : you will have short works that you’re doing for me 12:11:29 From tichure : These are called RESPONSES. 12:11:40 From tichure : You need to do five by the end of the semester in order to maximize that particular grade. I give you many more than five options during the semester 12:11:54 From tichure : I would suggest strongly that you want to do the RESPONSE for paper one because it is your single opportunity to give me a sample of your research paper before you turn in your research paper 12:12:22 From tichure : you would choose one of the critical perspectives that you are analyzing and actually write that paragraph, put an introduction and conclusion on it, and I would give you feedback which would tell you whether or not you’ve done proper research not only for that particular critical analysis, but also get feedback on your formatting and use of text and your grammar etc. 12:12:51 From tichure : essentially, the responses are your opportunity to get feedback from me on your understanding of the course material in short form 12:13:11 From tichure : where is your research paper is a big-ticket item that you need to have under control because it affects your grade the most 12:13:14 From tichure : so 12:13:16 From tichure : you have an assignment 12:13:21 From tichure : read through the material through week 12:13:27 From tichure : all of it 12:13:30 From tichure : that is on canvas 12:13:36 From tichure : you will see your choices for the research paper 12:13:47 From tichure : you will get some information about what research paper is in a college in this course 12:13:54 From tichure : in a college English course 12:13:57 From Ethan : through week 2? 12:13:57 From tichure : sigh 12:14:14 From tichure : you can read through week two if you like, but you actually must read through week one if you’re going to have a conversation with me on this Wednesday 12:14:39 From tichure : but when we meet next week, I will expect you have likely read through week two and might even have chosen the primary source for your research paper 12:14:44 From tichure : which will be the main topic of conversation 12:14:54 From tichure : because we will discuss what resources you need and where you’re going to find them 12:15:32 From tichure : if you have questions about the critical perspectives themselves that you have gotten information about through the videos and the HTML, we can answer that too 12:15:40 From tichure : clarification between feminist and gender criticism 12:15:52 From tichure : the difference between a Marxist criticism and a biographical criticism 12:16:01 From tichure : some of which will also be addressed in some pretty long emails from me to everyone 12:16:18 From tichure : so make sure that you do not have some kind of filter on your email that blocks emails to more than say 300 people 12:16:37 From tichure : because sometimes I send the message out to everybody in my classes 12:16:44 From tichure : any questions 12:17:13 From Ethan : Are Responses due at any certain times or can we submit them whenever. 12:17:22 From tichure : responses have due dates 12:17:27 From tichure : http://www.englit.org/eiland_shared/chatinst.htm 12:17:34 From Alec (He/Him) : Do we have to read all the poetry for week one or can we just choose one for our first response? 12:17:42 From tichure : and if they don’t, then they are due in the week that they are posted 12:17:49 From Bailey : so under the module: primary sources - poetry 1, from that list we choose the poem we want to break down for the first response/bird folder? 12:17:55 From tichure : you must choose material from the calendar 12:18:04 From tichure : for all of your analyses 12:18:16 From tichure : it will be from the calendar or it will be from the primary source you doing for your research paper 12:18:32 From tichure : I give you new material to play with every week 12:18:58 From tichure : both in terms of primary source material (the stuff you’re analyzing) and the tools you use to analyze them (the critical perspectives) ( 12:19:14 From tichure : so do some reading and do some listening 12:19:19 From tichure : and do some thinking 12:19:23 From tichure : and some choosing 12:19:33 From tichure : and I will see you here either Wednesday between seven and nine 12:19:36 From tichure : http://www.englit.org/eiland_shared/chatinst.htm 12:19:48 From tichure : here is the various bits of information for the chat rooms by the way 12:19:58 From tichure : or next week here at 1130 12:20:09 From tichure : although if you want we could also start at noon 12:20:29 From tichure : any other questions 12:20:58 From Hamid : Thank you Prof. Eiland 12:20:59 From Ethan : None here, thank you professor! 12:21:05 From tichure : in the case, I will you go. You can always hit me up at Englitguy@EarthLink.net 12:21:20 From tichure : have a great day folks 12:21:38 From Xochitl : Thanks Professor! 12:21:39 From tichure : folks after you do some reading, we will have something talk about 12:21:47 From tichure : you’re welcome 12:21:58 From Madison : Thank you professor! 12:22:04 From tichure : take care everybody 12:22:06 From tichure : poof