Midterm - Week 9 - English 110

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It's been a weird week and a half of weather, illness, and online conferencing, but here we are... back together face-to-face for at least one day before Spring Break.

Today's (Monday, March 7) class will consist of a check-in to see where everyone is at and to see how I can help with the activities, projects, and the rest of the semester. From there, we'll move into working on Large Project 2 by searching the web in various ways, as well as talk about how we can conduct our own primary research (lots of tips in our Research chapter of the textbook, by the way, and we'll be using those nuggets in class!).

In the Super Brief Overview schedule, it states that we'll use this week to wrap up Group 2 and introduce Group 3; I'll postpone the introduction until after Spring Break since most students are slightly behind in completing Group 2.

{We do not have class Wednesday, as I have another online conference*. Please reach out via email or text with any questions or concerns!}

We'll end with the journal prompt, which will be a response to the image below (found in our textbook):


Do you agree that that is the first step to solving a problem, or to conducting research? Why or why not?
Do you agree that you know more than you think you do? Why or why not?



*Last week's online conference was the Iowa OER Summit and this week is the Open Education Symposium. What that means is that I've been geeking out with people who create/implement OER (Open Educational Resources) like I do with the digitally free textbook, etc.😊


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