HACU 140: Writing from the Diaspora: Readings in Contemporary Women’s Fiction
Thursday, 29 October 2015

Early Thoughts on Blended Learning (naïveté)

Close Reading

RUBRIC FOR BLENDED LEARNING
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Survey of Technology Tools for Student Engagement (UCONN)

Wordle.net
“Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work”
“Poetry is not a Luxury,” Audre Lorde
“Girl,” Jamaica Kincaid

Nine word cloud generators that are not Wordle

Google Maps
– My post-high school
– from No Telephone to Heaven, Michelle Cliff
– from “The Bridal Seamstress” in The Dew Breaker

Annotation/Mark-Up Tools
– from No Telephone to Heaven – pdf (the paratext)
– from The Dew Breaker – pdf (intertextuality)
– If I Could Write this in Fire – pdf (what is it that you do not know)

Thematic Notes (images)– from The Dew Breaker
“The Book of the Dead”
“The Book of Miracles”

Genealogies – from The Dew Breaker
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Padlet
No Telephone to Heaven

• “No Telephone to Heaven”
• “The Dissolution of Mrs White”
• “White Chocolate”
• “Et in Arcadia Ego”
• “Organ Harvester”
• “Homebound”

Pinterest
Claudia Rankine on NPR
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