New Directions in Narrative has been selected for SLAMS – a program where high-scoring students who have done the course before volunteer to mentor present students. Check out the PowerPoint for information.

The trained mentors for New Directions in Narrative are Anagha Saggar and Hsham Aburghit. They will soon visit us in class and tell you how it all works.

Also – week 2 is a great time to go and find the SLAMS room (8.7.153) #freestuff

Hi everyone,

Great meeting you all today, and starting our adventure into New Directions in Narrative!

A reminder of your tasks, to do before next week’s Wednesday session with Kim:

1. Using the resources tab, and your own explorations, start looking at different ‘digital’ narratives, so as to be inspired first by form as you think about the proposal you will develop this semester.
2. Write at least ONE blog post and publish to your individual blogs. As discussed, this might be inspired by the flipped lecture material, today’s tutorial discussions, your initial ideas about your digital narrative, digital narratives you have been exploring – or a combination of the four.
3. Visit the other students’ blogs (links now bookmarked on the left sidebar) and leave at least ONE useful comment.
4. Keep visiting this course blog, where you will soon see the second flipped lecture. You are expected to bring your questions, comments and responses to the material to the discussion next week.

If you weren’t at today’s tutorial, please email me your blog URL. If you don’t have a blog, and don’t know how to set one up, talk to Kim on Wednesday.

See you Week 3!

Cheers,

Stayci (stayci.taylor@rmit.edu.au)

New Directions in Narrative has been selected for SLAMS – a program where high-scoring students who have done the course before volunteer to mentor present students. Check out the PowerPoint for information.

Hi everyone, and welcome to the course!

Tutorials are held on Wednesday mornings from 9:30-11.20 in rooms 13.3.5 and 9.3.11 (we change venues in the half time break).

The lectures are ‘flipped’. This means you will receive the material ahead of time (in our case, it will be posted to this blog) and you come to the class discussion prepared to summarise, interrogate, analyse and comment on the content.

The first tutorial room (13.3.5) will be available from 8.30 on Wednesday mornings (as you will see on your timetable). You can use this allocated hour to prepare your responses to the flipped lecture if you haven’t already. Later in the semester you might choose to prepare your responses to the lecture in your own time, and use this timetabled hour and available space to meet with your teams to work on your final proposals. When you do your presentations for assessment (Weeks 5 and 9) we will all meet at 8.30 for the full three hours, so that we can get through everybody.

All of your reflective writing and most of your assessment tasks will be housed on your individual student blog. You will also feedback and comment on each other’s blogs – the links for which are bookmarked on that sidebar on the left:

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Your tutors are Stayci Taylor (also your course coordinator) and Kim Munro. Here are our email addresses:

stayci.taylor@rmit.edu.au

kim.munro@rmit.edu.au

We look forward to working with you all this semester!

Credit: Header image by Daniel Benavides from Austin, TX (IMG_7891) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons