Team Project!

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You guys were an awesome class. Thanks for a great semester.

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The Final

Answer these six questions. This should take you about an hour.
Usually less is more, but for this assignment more is more. 

1. What was the coolest moment of your semester? (This doesn't have to be related to Writing 150.)

2. Tell me about the strengths of one of your peers in 150. (You can do more than one Question 2 if you want.)

3. What did you think was awesome about our team project?

4. What was one of the project's main weaknesses?

5. If you were running the show, what would you have changed about the team project to make it better?

6. Tell me the details of your contribution to the project. (Be specific.) Based on this, what score (out of 100) do you deserve?

If you brought food, record it here. 

And take a temple picture from the back!

Homemade Treats and the Final

I'll give you 15 points extra credit for bringing homemade food on the day of the final. Sweet is good, but savory is definitely welcome too (so we don't have a sugar overload).

Keep in mind—if it's not finger food, you'll have to bring utensils.

This 15 points is 1.5% of your total grade. It's enough to break a tie, essentially (say you're hovering in the high B+ range), but it won't rescue your grade from the abyss.



Our final is Tuesday 17 April from 3-6 pm in the computer classroom. I'm canceling the writing and the presentations (that I usually do for a final). Instead we'll be wrapping up our Team Project, listening to good music, and snacking. Sound okay?

What I Wish I Knew Post

Hey everyone! Don't forget to post something on the Google Doc that you have learned this year that could have been helpful if you had known back in August.  Thanks!!!

What I Wish I Knew: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xw-kGThlrgdv-O3IsRXe2_PfcTegBNIHp39vcJLrOUQ/edit?pli=1

—The Writing Team

Q&A Social Assignment

Hey everybody! Here is the link to the Q&A page:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1otJa31iKkUi9mLQhsLsZfrGfZcweX4aVKvPwShov-B8/edit

Here is what we are looking for:

• We want each of you to ask someone in high school what questions, concerns, and worries they may have about college.
• It does not need to be specific to BYU and doesn't necessarily have to come from a high school senior.
• You could do this via text, email, or even a Facebook post. Whatever is easiest.
• Post your questions you have collected to the Google Doc. The more the better!
• If you see a question on the Google Doc that you would like to answer, feel free to do so. Keep your answers relatively short (there is an example on there already).
• If you want to add to someone else's answer, go ahead. Just make a bullet point or something so we can keep your answers separate.
• Try to have all the questions ready by Friday in class. Any questions unanswered at this point will be answered by the writing team.

Thanks!

—The Writing Team

Post your articles!

Hey guys, post your articles as a comment here!

Keep them around 200 words and submit by Wednesday at 5:00!

May the odds be ever in your favor.

—The Writing Team

Team Project URL

Project Structure
Design Team
Publishing Team
Writing Team

Vote: FINALISTS

Remember, you get 2 votes! So select your top two.

VOTE: Team Project

Remember: Only vote FOUR TIMES. If you vote more, you'll be disqualified.

Team Project Proposal

Here's your template for the Team Project proposal.

And here's the list of volunteer roles, in case you need it to plan.

Due Wednesday: Printed copy of proposal. 2-minute presentation.

How to submit your paper

1. Type you Reflections* and paste them before your MLA header.
2. Save your paper as a .DOC or .DOCX file.
3. RENAME the file so it has your name and paper title (and don't delete the .doc extension!).
4. ATTACH it to an email.
5. In the SUBJECT LINE, write your name and paper title.
6. EMAIL it to me at travis washburn at byu dot edu.

*Write a paragraph for each of these three questions: (1) What did you do well on? (2) What did you struggle with? (3) If you could do this whole assignment over again, what would you change?

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Click this link, and follow the instructions. : )

Multi-Modal Project Proposal

What's Coming
For the multi-modal, we're doing a team project—a visual/textual something built by the whole class. This project could be just about anything—a book, a booklet, a movie, a website, a poster, or (likely) a combination of these. The content can be just about anything too—it could be about dentistry, politics, branding, skateboarding, traveling, losing weight, telling stories, or writing papers. You decide what message and what audience you want to send it to. Most of all, choose something that you think is important—both to you and to your target audience.

Students will each come up with their own ideas for what specific project we should do as a class. Then they'll each write proposals explaining their own unique ideas. The class will vote on which student's proposal to make into a reality. (These proposals will be due on March 21.) And then we'll create!

What's Due Tuesday
For this weekend, I want you to do a rough draft of this proposal. In this draft, tell your peers about your cool idea and convince them that it's the best—not just to you but to them too.

Because it's a practice round, you're just doing a brain dump—get your ideas out of your head and onto paper. Take 20 minutes writing ninja style—you should have at least a page, single spaced, possibly a lot more. The most important thing is that you explain the content.

The Ninja-Method Proposal is due Tuesday by 2:50pm—post it as a comment on the blog.

How to Do It
If you need help, answer these questions:

• What will the content be? A story? A guide? A piece of art? (Be super detailed on this.)
• Who will the main audience be? Five-year olds? Freshman women? Seventy-year-old politicians? 
• What skills will it take to create this? Will we need computer experts? Video experts? Photographers? Paintballers? Editors? Taggers? Pirates? Poets? 
• How might we divide the class to fit these roles? How many people will we need in each role? 
• What extras will we need? That is, if we create a book, will there be a website to go along? Or will there be poster ads? Or maybe t-shirts too?

Library Tour

1. Sign in to blackboard.byu.edu.
2. Under "Courses," go to Library Research Skills For First-Year Writing Courses.
3. Complete the (A) Library Tour and the (B) Library Tour Test.*
4. Also complete the (C) SMART Tutorial and (D) SMART Assignment.*
5. Due Friday.

* P.S. These are somewhat difficult, so take good notes as you go.