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[jimbenton]

[panaceatthedisco]

Love how the entirety of the bad batch is just different shades of ADHD and/or autism

[mmtys]

What is graduate writing? Essay

This feels really messy to me yet, but:

Graduate writing is a rhetorical process that synthesizes prior knowledge with new learning, typically in an academic style. This writing has a focus on positioning students as rising researchers who are contributing to their chosen academic field.  

Plan/Thoughts:

WPA Outcomes 

Process 

Critical thinking, reading 

Transfer

M.Ed. vs. M.A. experiences with writing 

Feedback welcomed! I just keep staring at this "definition" like I've never done graduate level writing in my life.

[qhaldem]

Peer Review Module 4

Hi everyone! I think I have a pretty good grasp on the rest of the choice assignments I’m doing, but I’d appreciate some feedback on my plan for the “possibilities of play” blog post. So far, here are my main ideas:

A space becomes playful when you agree to enter the “magic circle” of play and are able to be creative and experimental. Within this playspace, you agree to following the rules and are able to escape the conventions of the real world. As you become fully invested, the flow of play takes over to the point where your playfulness extends upon what is expected. 

I want to use Huizinga’s explanation of the magic circle and Sutton-Smith’s ideas on rhetoric of play as imaginary to then discuss flow and how playfulness cannot be tamed from Gameful World. 

Then, I think I’m going to discuss how we can consider graduate learning as play as we enter this discourse community and fully invest ourselves in it. 

I’m hoping I will be able to fit this within the word count, but I might need to cut some parts out. I’d appreciate some feedback to help refine my ideas here within the context of the “possibilities of play.” Thanks!

@npfannen

[katieec15]

Choice Assignment

For my choice assignment, I am planning on writing the 4 blog posts and then creating a game.

Possibilities for Play

What Play Can Teach Us About Writing

Valuing Games as a Graduate Student

Game Analysis

For my game, I am hoping to create something that deals with rhetorical analysis (since I am an AP Language and Composition teacher). I am thinking of making it a quest game that has students create their own character and then has to take on different quests that deal with different rhetorical challenges. I am still working out the kinks, but I think that this will be super cool in my 2 sections of AP.

[jakericepa]

Peer Review Choice Project

For the choice project, I have decided to do:

Chapter Choice + Student Created Notes A and B

Blog Post - What play can teach us about writing

Blog Post - Game Analysis

Create a Game

In creating a game, I am thinking about doing something that has to do with grammar and syntax. I have in the past taught one grammatical pattern per week (about 5-10 min per day) and kids have really enjoyed it and found it helpful for their writing. In thinking about a game, I don’t want the game objectives to be an external objective. I want the grammar-learning to be the focus of the game. I’m wondering, in everyone’s experience, if I should make this a digital game or “on-paper” game. Additionally, I’m also wondering if anyone has suggestions of what sources I should look at (from class) that you think would give me a better view into making the game.

Thanks!

[skuzz]

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[paleochick]

THIS GIANT OTTER was described by my boss, Dr. Denise Su! #Repost @fossil_librarian ————————- It’s #WorldOtterDay!!! Do you think otters are totes ardorbs?? Well how about a 110lbs (50kg) otter with a crushing bite? In 2017, researchers published on a new giant otter they named “Siamogale melilutra”. The fossils were discovered in late Miocene (~6 mya) lignite beds of Shuitangba, Yunnan Province, China. This wolf-sized otter is larger than all living otters. The heaviest extant otter is the Sea Otter weighing in at 14-45kg. Researchers also compared the bite force of “S. melilutra” to ten other living otter species and found it had crushing teeth and robust jaws that were 6x sturdier than the extant otters. Possibly acquiring these traits to eat the abundance of big clams at this time. 1) cranium - image from Wang, X., Grohé, C., Su, D. F., White, S. C., Ji, X., Kelley, J., ... & Yang, X. (2018). A new otter of giant size, Siamogale melilutra sp. nov.(Lutrinae: Mustelidae: Carnivora), from the latest Miocene Shuitangba site in north-eastern Yunnan, south-western China, and a total-evidence phylogeny of lutrines. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 16(1), 39-65. 2) comparison of crania of Siamogale and Lutra (European Otter) - image from Tseng, Z. J., Su, D. F., Wang, X., White, S. C., & Ji, X. (2017). Feeding capability in the extinct giant Siamogale melilutra and comparative mandibular biomechanics of living Lutrinae. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 15225. ⚒ . . . #otter #giantotter #siamogale #china #yunnanprovince #cenozoic #miocene #biomechanics #paleontology #peerreview #publication #science #research #researchpaper