A Typical Class with Student-Selected Texts

When students have just drafted a post

• Students arrive and open their laptops to add to our shared document one feature (quotation or paraphrase) from the creative work they have selected.
• Devices are put away.
• Two students (determined in advance) share their full draft with the class in a revision workshop.
• All students are then invited to bring their examples into class conversation, collaborating with classmates to understand the complexities of the focus for the day (“how is your text narrated?” or “what is allowed and what isn’t allowed in the storyworld you’re encountering?”).
• Before the end of class, students open their devices and complete a discussion reflection to post on our course website.

When students have completed a creative assignment

• Students arrive with a draft of the creative activity they’ve started in advance. They open their laptops to add to our shared document information about the specific narrative technology they’ve decided to experiment with and their goals.
• Devices are put away
• Students bring their ideas into a full-group discussion about the challenges of the creative activity
• Students work in pairs to test what they’ve drafted.
• Volunteers have an opportunity to share their draft with the full class in a revision workshop.
• Before the end of class, students open their devices and complete a discussion reflection to post on our course website

When students have gotten feedback on their post

• Students enter at least one story-experience-technology-feature grouping to a table in our shared document.
• Devices are put away.
• Students bring their experiences into a full-group discussion about the challenges of classifying their experiences with creative works.
• WonderCat “Enter an Experience” demo, inviting students to do this when they’re ready.
• Class discussion about the experiences, technologies, genres, authors, periods students want to experience for the next assignment.
• Guided exploration of WonderCat, WorldCat, and other non-proprietary discovery tools.
• Before the end of class, students open their devices and complete a discussion reflection to post on our course website.