Activities
The Activities tab includes tasks for students to complete either in class and/or for homework on a variety of topics and skills. If interested in using any of the sources provided in the Writing Repository, please download documents and/or copy links and add them to your Blackboard course shells. Students should not be given direct access to this instructor-facing Lib Guide. Thank you.
Interviewing a Classmate Activity for students to get to know their classmates better.
Proofreading/Editing Activity for group in-class work for students in the editing process.
Research Questions Activity for group in-class work focused on developing research questions.
Checkology is a free platform with engaging, authoritative lessons on subjects like news media bias, misinformation, conspiratorial thinking, and more. Through interactive online activities, students develop the ability to identify credible information, seek out reliable sources, and apply critical thinking skills to separate fact-based content from falsehoods. You and your students will need to initially set up a free account, but access should be fine once this and a preliminary walk through in class is done.
Problem-Solving Activity for group in-class work focused on problem solving student scenarios.
Exquisite Corpse Activity for group in-class work focused on creativity and word play.
New York Times Dialect Map Activity for in-class work on how language and identity work together.
Map Narrative Activity for in-class work on visual storytelling, cognitive mapping, and visual rhetoric.
Time Management for College for in-class and/or homework activities for learning how to manage time as a college student.
Taking Notes for in-class and/or homework assistance on varying note-taking systems.
Silent Film Dialogue Activity for in-class work asking students to add dialogue to films.
Fortune Cookie Narrative Activity for group in-class work focused on developing detail and description.
Narrative Details with ChatGPT Activity for group in-class work on adding details and working with AI.
Writing Transitions Activity for in-class group work on writing transitions between images.
Visual Descriptions Activity for in-class group work on descriptive writing and explaining detail.
"How to..." Activity for in-class work on creativity, personal experience, and writing from different perspectives.
Poetry and Science Erasure Activity for in-class work on erasure poetry and how language connects poetry and science.
Reading or Viewing Activity to increase engaged reading of texts or viewing of videos for better comprehension.
How to Annotate to increase student abilities to actively read a variety of texts and develop annotation skills.
