JOURNAL
WRITING
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As you
begin to plan your journal for this course, keep in mind that your
journal must be submitted as a Word document that is attached to
the course web board.. |
You may make notes, take
photo's, cite articles, etc., but all of this material that you intend
to use must be included in the Word document and the journal must be attached
to the web board before Friday noon on the last week of classes.
Your
journal is for reflection of the discussions, activities, field trips and
readings experienced in the University Colloquium. You have much freedom
as to what you make part of your journal. The journal should be creative
and additions should be diverse in style. The successful journalist
varies style and media, using whatever they feel best captures the sense
of the message or idea being chronicled in the journal.
Below
are some suggestions for your journal:
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primarily
focus upon positive reflections
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balance
the (electronic) images with writing and vice versa
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be creative
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take notes
on 3x5 cards and transfer them to your journal
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use a
variety of writing styles, colors and formats
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reflect
on each field trip
-
reflect
on the Florida book you are reading
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include
quotes from your readings
Through
the ages, right into today’s creative world, journals have been the working-thinking
place of great thinkers, inventors, and artists; Einstein, Darwin, Margaret
Mead, Rachel Carson, Thoreau, Emerson, Muir, Pinchot, Gandhi, Churchill,
Eleanor Roosevelt, Jefferson, Fuller and Soleri. Now it is time for you……..
Distant
Students:
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Review
the scoring rubric for grading the journal
- Again, your journals
will need to be attached to the course web board as a Word Document.
The minimum (and I don't mean maximum expected) number of entries for
this course is 15. Please make entries into your journal regularly and
make sure they make their way into the Word version of your journal
or journal notes, files, etc. If you want to reflect upon electronically
generated news (say through ewspapers on the web or other sites) you
may want to save these articles as html files (using the save as function
in internet explorer and Netscape) and then use the "insert file"
function in Word to place them within your electronic journal.
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