Still online!

Dear all,

We are still meeting online for tomorrow's class, so even I can enjoy the luxury of working in my own home. Now I know your favorite of having classes online, though working onsite is still considered more effective from the teachers' perspective. I have asked my colleagues, your other professors, and obtained a unified result--they prefer teaching onsite. You may have your preference, but our observation is unfortunately the opposite, XD!

Anyway, let's do what we should do as a professor and students for the last real class. I'll explain what we'll do for the last three classes. 

First, sharing! I'll invite two or three of you to share something worth talking about in the past week: your SDGs presentation contest! Or anything you read or viewed. I feel guilty that I gave very little chance for you to do so during the semester. 

Second, we'll read a (probably longer) essay that demonstrates how to write a college-level paper using the right format. I hope it'll be helpful for your assignments for future classes. We'll read a paper reporting on a female artist, Frida Kahlo, whose legendary and tragic life was fully reflected in her artworks. Even for a paper this long, there are still a thesis statement and an explicit or implicit topic in each paragraph. It may not be perfect, but then you can suggest a way to improve it. Please check Moodle for the material.

Third, we'll go over a small exercise on word logic. "Do we still need to do such entry-level practice?" Believe me, some of you do. You have ideas and creativity, but your story is oftentimes compromised by the unclear use of words. I have uploaded the practice on Moodle last week,

Lastly, I'll walk you through the final Process report after creating your group project. This Process report, different from the weekly progress report, should be done individually. It shall include your weekly report, but it mainly records your personal experience during the project. Then the process report shall be included in your portfolio. Examples will be given tomorrow at the end of the class.

For the last three sessions:

5/11~5/17: work on your storyboard and video. The first version will be due on 5/22, Sunday.

5/18: individual conferencing on your d2e3. Both Cathy and I will be responsible for the essays we read. No real class. You can make the best use of the time getting your storyboard and the first video draft ready for comments given by Cathy and Louis on 5/25.

5/25: Individual group conferencing on your videos with Cathy and Louis. It may be done online, or in the reading lab. Your storyboard with text shall be ready for correction. 

6/1: Final presentation online or onsite, depending on the pandemic situation.