{"id":15,"date":"2012-01-26T17:34:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T17:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english630sp12\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2012-01-26T17:43:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T17:43:13","slug":"tweet-a-week","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english630sp12\/tweet-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweet-a-Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is this “tweet-a-week” thing?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Every week – – typically on Thursday mornings – – I’ll tweet a name, phrase, sentence, or other textual nugget.\u00a0 Your goal is to figure out: what does this name, phrase, etc., refer to? what is the relationship between this name, phrase, etc., and Whitman or Leaves of Grass?\u00a0 Once you’ve gotten this far, blog your answer.\u00a0 Use the blog post not only to identify the name, phrase, etc., and its literal relationship to Whitman\/Leaves of Grass – – use the blog post to think-aloud and ruminate on\u00a0 broader or deeper thematic, historical, cultural, etc. connections and relations. You should probably use a least a couple of paragraphs to do this.<\/p>\n

To follow the tweet-a-week, you’ll need a Twitter account, and you’ll need to search via the hashtag #WhitmanSFSU.\u00a0 What is a hashtag? How do I “search” Twitter?\u00a0 The basics<\/a> are here.<\/p>\n

The tweet-a-week will require you to do some rudimentary research – – for instance, by google searching or wikipedia searching.\u00a0 If you really want to dig into the week’s tweet, great!\u00a0 However, don’t forget, the tweet-a-week is only a means to push you deeper into Whitman and his poem.\u00a0 Your most important labor will involve connecting the tweet and Whitman\/Leaves of Grass.\u00a0 As we move through the semester and you work with more and more tweet-a-weeks, you’ll start to develop an intuitive sense of balance between the tweet\/context and Whitman\/text.\u00a0 This is an important research skill, e.g. not being overwhelmed by context but using context to deepen and enrich a text.<\/p>\n

As you blog your tweet-a-weeks, the class will be building up a rich context.\u00a0 To capture this context, I’ll assign an editor\/secretary who will work to synthesize and condense the harvest of ideas and information found in your collective tweet-a-weeks.\u00a0 The editor will use our class wiki pages<\/a> to publish his or her synopsis.\u00a0 There will be serious extra-credit points attached to the editor’s job.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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