Hi Doug,
I've been using Inkshed in its original and modified forms for years. I've used it on Moodle and in class with undergraduate engineering students, in my undergraduate classes on writing research, theory, and pedagogy, and in my graduate classes at MA and PhD level.
Recently, my PhD students and I had a chat how students' Inksheds in our class have developed since September (it's a two semester class) to become a genre of its own.
I have only heard good student feedback on Inkshedding. If we, for whatever reason, do not Inkshed for a week or so, students start telling me that they miss it. It's one of my favorite activities.
Natasha
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Natasha Artemeva
Associate Professor
Graduate Supervisor
School of Linguistics and Language Studies
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON,Canada, K1S 5B6
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On Jan 30, 2015, at 4:22 PM, Douglas Allan Brent <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Hi all,
I am planning to make an informal presentation to a local writing conference here in Virginia on using Inkshedding in the classroom. I know that some dedicated Inkshedders have made this switch from a conference tool to a classroom tool, and I’d really appreciate it if you could share your stories of what you did with it. Specifically, I’d be interested in hearing:
· Which courses did you used it and how much?
· What makes you think it’s more valuable than old standbys like journaling, freewriting, etc.?
· How have you adapted the basic formula of listening to a few presentations, writing comments by hand and throwing them in a pile, trading them around, and eventually publishing excerpts? Have you tried it in electronic environments, for instance?
· Have you received any feedback from students?
· Are you aware of any potential drawbacks to this practice? How have you worked around them?
· If you tried it and stopped, what made you stop? In what ways did Inkshedding fail to live up to your expectations?
And of course, anything else that you think might be helpful for others to know about Inkshedding. If you’re aware of others who have written about the subject, that would be really helpful too – I have Russ Hunt’s well-known piece “What Is Inkshedding,” but I’m sure there have been others buried in the Inkshed newsletter archives and other places.
Thanks in advance,
Doug
Dr. Doug Brent
Professor, Department of Communication, Media and Film
University of Calgary
Visiting Professor (August 2014-May 2015)
Department of English
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia
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