• Syllabus
• Textbooks
  • Handbook of Reading Research, Volume III
  • IRA Electronic Bookstore
  • Action, Talk & Text
    
• Technology Requirements (email addresses, class listserv, On-line Community Forum)
• Intellectual Autobiography Assignment
• Informed consent
• Pre-writing brainstorm activity
  

• No class

• Work on assignments

• Class does not meet due to bad weather
• Web assignment: Read Carefully Chapter 6, Handbook of Reading Research and complete the "reading guide-o-rama"
• Engage in a "virtual" conversation with your writing group on the Online Community Forum. You should post at least five messages.

• Submit a response to the first class on the Online Community Forum . Respond to at least one of your classmates.
• Purchase class textbooks.
• Read Discourse and Literacies by Jim Gee (on electronic reserve)
  • PowerPoint
• Read Chapter 1 (on electronic reserve) and Chapter 10 in Action, Talk & Text
• Review Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research. Make sure you read Gordon Wells' Editorial Introduction in the first issue.
• Submit responses to all readings on the Online Community Forum
• Write first draft of intellectual autobiography

• Discuss readings:
  • Gee
  • Wells
  • HRR, Chapter 6
• Writers' Workshop, Editing and Revising

• Revise your draft of the intellectual autobiography
• Read Chapter 6, Handbook of Reading Research and complete the "reading guide-o-rama"
• Post a response on the Online Community Forum

• Discuss reading
• Writers' Workshop, Editing and Revising

• Read Chapter 37, Handbook of Reading Research and complete the online study guide.
• Post a response on the Online Community Forum
• Develop a preliminary research question for your teacher/reseacher project. Post the question on the class listserv ([email protected]). Critique your classmates' questions as appropriate.
• Begin searching for articles related to your research question.

Class tonight will be webbased, due to weather. Your assignments:

• Carefully review Chapter 1 in Strauss & Corbin, and engage in a discussion on the Online Community Forum.
• Read all your writing partners' Intellectual Autobiographies (follow the link to the online papers). If you have not emailed your paper to Professor Moorman, please do so immediately.
• Pick one of your writing partners papers, and do a line-by-line analysis (as discussed in Strauss & Corbin, Chapter 5) on the first one or two paragraphs.
• Review and complete assignments for next week.

If you have any questions or comments, please post them on the class listserv.

• Final draft, autobiography due (Email to Professor as attachment by Friday, February 13)
• Read Strauss & Corbin Basics of Qualitative Research
  • Chapters 1, 2 (on Library Reserve) & 5 (class handout)