"Ultimate Discourse" Podcasts

For this week's journal assignment, I've asked students to leave voice messages on our Gabcast channel relating the story of their choice to the qualities and powers EL Doctorow attributes to fiction in the essay "Ultimate Discourse." Here are the voice messages so far:

Bonnie: Gabcast! Bigger Classroom #24



Linda: Gabcast! Bigger Classroom #25



Patricia: Gabcast! Bigger Classroom #26



Hank: Gabcast! Bigger Classroom #27



Dawn: Gabcast! Bigger Classroom #28



Linda: Gabcast! Bigger Classroom #29



Nate: Gabcast! Bigger Classroom #30



Listen to the podcasts at they appear at: http://www.gabcast.com/index.php?a=episodes&id=12483

Received Ideas Phone Messages

Here are the phone messages that students have left for the Received Ideas phone message assignment in College Writing I. The purpose of this assignment is to build community within our group, demonstrate that writing is a social act, and give students practice identifying and articulating received ideas and their own reactions to them.

Bigger Classroom #5 - Curtis' Received Idea
Curtis was the first one to call in his response to the received idea phone message assignment. Thanks, Curtis!




Bigger Classroom #6 - Nick's Received Idea
This is Nick's response to the received idea phone message assignment, in which he discusses steroid use among athletes. Thanks for being one of the first, Nick!




Bigger Classroom #7 - Cliff's Received Idea
Cliff talks about the phrase "Everything happens for a reason."




Bigger Classroom #8 - Nate's Received Idea
Nate's interested in the saying, "Guns don't kill people; people kill people."



Bigger Classroom #9 - Linda's Received Idea

Linda identifies the view that "Everyone know that kids today have no work ethic."




Bigger Classroom #10 - Dawn's Received Idea
Dawn has chosen the truism, "Television rots your brain."




Bigger Classroom #11 - Hank's Received Idea
Hank takes on one of the biggest nomenclature about-faces of our time: Pluto is not a planet.




Bigger Classroom #12 - Beth's Received Idea
Beth considers the preconceived idea that boys are easier to raise than girls.

Phoning in your Received Idea Topic

Here are audio messages on the topic of received ideas:
Bigger Classroom Gabcast #2 - SN's Received Idea

Bigger Classroom Gabcast #3 - Tracy's Received Idea


Bigger Classroom Gabcast #4 - Donna's Received Idea