Another Mesa Assignment/”Where I’m From”
Some of you asked about assignments we use to help students become comfortable discussing their personal lives. We also discussed how “disclosure” can have a variety of effects. Here is an assignment we use at the beginning of class to help students open up while learning how to do a close reading, respond to text, and make connections. After we read and do this exercise, students write their own versions of where they’re from.
LPC–Talking to Our Students
April has seen our video team (Mass. Comm. students, aided by team member Michelle Gonzales and Mass. Comm. instructor Jin Tsubota) jumping into student interviews and filming. May has added on our English basic skills student co-inquirers, who are recording oral interviews with students currently in the basic skills program. I have uploaded our questions to the media library so that you all can poach them–it has been *so* valuable to hear what our students have to say to student interviewers! Finally, our counselor team member, Nancy Wright, has been calling students who have dropped and asking them a series of questions. A few of the students she called walked right over to her office and got some very valuable help! She wishes she could make a personal connection with every student. I have uploaded Nancy’s questions to the media library as well. All questions were drafted with the help of our student co-inquirers and the two student filmmakers.
Berkeley City College Preview: Unity
Hi folks,
I showed Sean this video last week, and he was going to post it on the commons for all to see, but I’m tooling around and decided to do it myself. It’s a video shot by our student team videographer before even getting started on this project, and it’s what convinced me that he could pull off the project we’re working on.
We’ll have some tape up soon!
Scott
Student Voices: Why We Hate Math
Four students taking precollegiate math classes give their theories about why soooo many students HATE math. This is a short excerpt from a series of student interviews at Los Medanos College posted on YouTube.
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