![]() Web Registration: If you have a question or concern about registration (Writing course selection, Writing module/program requirements, and related matters), please first read the course descriptions and module/program descriptions (and linked ‘Worksheets’) as applicable. Learn essential lyric writing tools while studying master songwriters and workshopping your own lyrics. This isn’t exactly what you had in mind, I know, but I’ve just come across this (and I’ve had her permission to share it):ġ.Ě song for staring at the blank screenĢ.Ě song for explaining to your lover why you didn’t hear what they just saidģ.Ě song for reading reviewers’ commentsĤ.Ě song for that feeling of being really, really stupidĦ.Ě song to drown out the noises in the hallħ.Ě song to remind yourself to get off twitter nowġ0.Ě song which prompts you to go sit outsideġ1.Ě song to celebrate getting the book proofsġ2.Ě song to remind you why you became a scholarġ3.Ě song that speaks back to administriviaġ4.Ě song for finding a typo in the just published paperġ5.Ě song to mark a co-author’s retirementġ6.Ě song which encourages you to think slowlyġ7.Ě song which thanks your dog for just being thereġ8.Ě song which counts ALL the work you’ve doneġ9.Ě song for making new academic friendsĢ0.3402G - Hitting the Right Notes: Song Lyric Writing Wonder if my students can do something similar? Hmmm go beyond the storytelling and actually clip parts of songs together into story… A story-medley type of thing… The way the Mamma Mia movie did this was awesome. I used to actually take an entire album and make all the songs fit into the storyline. Where people collaboratively tell a story using only lyrics from songs, or song titles. ![]() This is one I have been doing as a kid and would love to try playing in a group. It’s possible also that the spontaneous collaborative poem idea played y/day w/ Jesse Stommel and Sean Michael Morris has something to do with this, indirectly. The idea of playing with poetry and words and making it into a game comes generally from #clmooc & #tvsz where we collaboratively wrote stories and poetry. In pairs or groups they can pick the letter and work together on it. I thought it would be a cool ice breaker to have students describe something or other (the course, the game they’re designing, the university, anything, we can choose as a group) using alliteration. I noticed my last post was full of “c” words, and kept adding more. The only question is: will I let them play with the whole course syllabus or just my module?Īlso: can I make it more of a game, so that the best syllabus design gets to be used as advertising for the course in future? Or that the best suggestions for modifying the syllabus get changed this semester e.g. A chance to experiment with having a voice in their own education A chance to play with new tools maybe later they designĭ. help them think of creative ways to pass on a message, almost like an infomercialĬ. Look closely at the syllabus, useful to later help them think of what an “educational” game would be likeī. ![]() Doing this assignment would be a chance for them to:Ī. My syllabus is always negotiable and I change things according to student needs and all sorts of other contextual factors throughout the semester, but students (usually my students are in-service teachers, but this semester they’re undergrads) never actually go into the google doc and put comments or make edits. I thought it might be cool to have students engage the traditional syllabus and create a multimedia engaging version with their own testimonials added AND to make some changes to the syllabus. ![]() The first game idea is inspired by Michelle Pacansky-Brock’s post on the liquid syllabus (read it, it’s v cool). Last semester (my first time teaching it) I did this by playing games with them, then helping them reflect before they created their own games. I teach the last 1/3 of a module on creativity, and my part involves students creating their own educational games. I got two three cool ideas for games I might use with my students this semester.
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