Melissa G's Lead Questions for Hicks Chapter 4

With so many powerful writing tools at our disposal, what elements of writing do our students need to consider and transfer over from their current understandings of print? Think about this question as you read Chapter 4, and then consider the following questions:

1.   How can the MAPS heuristic help you define the writing task for students as well as begin to think about assessment of the multimedia work that they will produce? After reading the chapter, how comfortable would you feel assessing students using multimedia compositions that may be new to us?

2.   Take some time to visit the Flickr page dedicated to visual stories (mentioned on p. 63 of Hicks). Read carefully through the instructions the site gives for those who participate. Pick 2 submissions to positively critique, and 2 submissions that you have suggestions for. What made you like/dislike the submissions you chose? What elements of author's craft helped you critique the submissions?

For your answer(s) to question #2, please include the titles of the submissions you chose to write about. We will look at them and talk about them more in class. There are a lot of titles to choose from, so feel free to explore as many as you like! Please follow the format used in our first discussion, posting "Melissa's Response to Question #1" as the title for your comments. Submit a different comment for each question to help you focus on one task at a time. Please submit your posts by MIDNIGHT on MONDAY, 10/11 so that we all have time to look at and reflect on each others' thoughts (and possibly explore some of the Flickr submissions!). Feel free to shoot me an e-mail for any kind of questions or clarifications needed. Thanks!