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So Your Class Has Been Moved Fully Online

Mar 13, 2020

Contingency Plan

Here’s the plan:

  1. continue to maintain devlogs for the rest of the term. I was looking for 10, remember.

  2. collaborate over email or whatever channel you want in a group to do your best to get some of your data published to Heroku using datasette - remember, documenting your process matters in many ways more than any eventual ‘thing’ that might get put together.

  3. if you are a discussion leader, put together a bit of a presentation and make it available online; then email the class via culearn to tell us where it is. Your presentation should give the rest of us something to mull over, so ask questions, include interesting quotes of text that we can react to, and so on. The easiest way to do this is to make it part of your devlog website, guidance here, but if you have another system you’d like to use - google slides, whatever MS uses, etc - go ahead but make sure there is a devlog to accompany it. The devlog can be as simple as, ‘you can find my presentation at this link’ or it can include a complete script that you would’ve read etc. I’d prefer the latter, but it might be that your slides are very wordy or compelling, in which case ok.

  4. if you are not a discussion leader, watch for notifications for upcoming presentations, then react to the presentation and to each other by using your hypothes.is accounts to annotate slides (if possible) or relevant devlogs, and the readings. This is the bit that will continue to make our class feel like a class. I’m not going to count number of comments or anything asinine like that. But I think we have a good class dynamic so let’s just be reasonable and keep that continuing.

  5. At the end of term, have a designated member of your group post the ‘paradata’ for your project work to their devlog, together with a link to wherever the data lives online (heroku, glitch, somewhere else). That designated member should also email the entire class through cuLearn to say ‘here it is!’ Remember, if it isn’t quite what you’d hoped it would be, that’s ok, as long as you have a critical discussion about why that is. Process over product.

And that will be that.

I understand that this is not optimal. Do the best you can, and stay safe. Folks who have not presented yet I will of course take all of this into account. Did I not say at the beginning that there was very nearly nothing we can’t roll with, as long as we’re talking to one another? I mean, man, I wasn’t expecting a pandemic, but no worries.

Try to keep to a posting-by-monday schedule if you can. But we can be flexible, just talk to me.