We started today's class with the following writing prompt:
Summarize the TED Talk you analyzed in exactly three sentences.
In an unlimited number of sentences, discuss why your talk is interesting or important.
After everyone had a chance to respond to this prompt, we discussed students' responses to help give everyone a sense of the diversity of talks covered in class. Next, we reviewed the rubric for the TED Talk analysis and discussed what made for effective feedback. The points we addressed in class were that helpful feedback identifies the following:
- what someone should add to their paper
- what is already good in the paper
- parts of the paper that should be changed and suggests what that change may look like
- repeated mistakes in spelling or grammar usage
People then worked with a partner or partner(s) reading one another's papers and providing feedback in the form of comments throughout the paper and then a summary of the most important feedback in the "plus-plus-delta" format. In this format a "plus" (+) is a strength of the paper that the author should keep doing and a delta (a triangle symbol) is an area that the author could work on changing or improving.
Everyone had the rest of the period to proof read their partner's paper and provide feedback.
Handouts:
TED Talk Analysis assignment
Homework:
Begin making revisions to your TED Talk analysis based on peer feedback.
