Week 13

Dear all,

Once you finish your D2E3, the workload will be leashed enormously. No more essays (except for D3E3, XD) will be assigned. However, the story to be written and told in your digital story shall be carefully addressed in accurate, natural, and powerful English to make your story presentable. The whole multimodal experience shall be helpful in your learning in another professor's class and other courses to come. I will still give you extra time in the last half hour to discuss this in class, and I will be on call whenever you need me. Please don't forget your progress report, which shall be uploaded weekly (to Daisy).

Tomorrow, we will continue reading essays that demonstrate how a topic is argued using multiple strategies. This may help greatly for your video story if your purpose is to introduce a place significant to you, its shining characteristics, unrevealed problems, or unheard voices. Then, you'll have to narrate what happened, describe the situation, compare it with other places/countries with better conditions, and then argue how we can improve it. Or, you can also introduce a new idea, a new invention, so as to improve human life quality. Some examples will be shown on my website (https://ntustmultiliteraci.wixsite.com/website-2). Since our time is limited, we can be flexible when choosing your topic. 

After reading essays and viewing some videos, I'll return to discuss your essays and how you can use software to self-assess for improvement.  (Paper Pater & ChatGPT, slide Week 13).

I believe you have found some essays I posted on Moodle were not talked about in class. They are for you to read, especially the one I uploaded a couple of weeks ago, "Community Service Work," hoping it may give you some ideas if you are interested in telling a story about your community, a place you are the most familiar with, and the stories in that community. However, I realized the time hasn't treated us too gently, making you feel tight about the schedule designed for this project. Then, I'll accept a broader range of topics, e.g., anything mentioned in the previous paragraph. Is that ok? My original intent is for you to experience developing your idea/ideal for a specific purpose you have yet to have the chance to do and express it by experimenting with multimodal semiotic choices we explained in class. We are not yet professional, so let's just enjoy the process and create a work that's memorable, fun, and proud. 

But, if AI is involved (which is okay), please still show how you work with AI. OK? See you tomorrow morning. Have a nice sleep!