Diorama. Poster. Flier. Brochure. Paper Tree. Six word memoirs. Obstacle course. Web pages. Paper mache Lobo. Video. Storyboard. Maps. Collages. Chapbooks.
These are visually-pleasing installations that represent and showcase your students’ writing. How so? The paper mache Lobo is covered in student writing. The tree leaves are students’ papers. The collages show students’ lives. The six word memoirs showcase students’ achievements and experiences. The video shows faces of friends, family, and community.
In other words, the art installations facilitate civic literacy through sharing of thoughts, feelings, experiences, and opinions.
Our one message to students: You matter.
There are multiple ways your students can showcase their work. It can be something that can be shown on a screen, like a video or a PowerPoint presentation (or a video presentation), etc., or it can be something non-digital like a visual display, a poster, a brochure, a graphic story, a flyer, etc.
Your students can prepare a presentation or installation all together as a whole class, but you can also work with small groups or even individual students.
Below you’ll find a few resources for integrating the CSW into your classrooms:
These are visually-pleasing installations that represent and showcase your students’ writing. How so? The paper mache Lobo is covered in student writing. The tree leaves are students’ papers. The collages show students’ lives. The six word memoirs showcase students’ achievements and experiences. The video shows faces of friends, family, and community.
In other words, the art installations facilitate civic literacy through sharing of thoughts, feelings, experiences, and opinions.
Our one message to students: You matter.
There are multiple ways your students can showcase their work. It can be something that can be shown on a screen, like a video or a PowerPoint presentation (or a video presentation), etc., or it can be something non-digital like a visual display, a poster, a brochure, a graphic story, a flyer, etc.
Your students can prepare a presentation or installation all together as a whole class, but you can also work with small groups or even individual students.
Below you’ll find a few resources for integrating the CSW into your classrooms:
The assignment attached below uses CSW as an opportunity to practice creative revision for the Final Portfolio for English 110-120. The file includes some directions for instructors and a short assignment that can be shared with students.
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The document below offers several genres with complementing art installations ideas. They include, as well, specific details and skills for using the brochure, a 3-D text, and a poster. These examples also include accompanying Writing Today chapters.
You can encourage your students to revise a paper they have already written into a new genre; for English 110 and 120 students, it can be a helpful preparation for the Final Portfolio. Students can also create a new project in one of the genres that fit the presentation goals. |
In .doc file attached below, Christine Beagle has created a prompt and rubric asking students to find one art installation, write a brief summary, and then reflect and evaluate that installation. This short writing assignment can easily be tailored to serve as an extra credit assignment.
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In the file attached below, Zoe Spiedel offers a worksheet for students attending the Celebration. You can ask the students to fill the worksheet out for extra credit or as part of your current sequence. It's great to developing descriptive writing and reporting skills.
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Tips for attending and participating
Art installation and presentations costs
We encourage you to keep your installations or presentations costs at a minimum. You should encourage your students to use what they have at home–or encourage them to get creative with recyclable items around town.
The Core Writing will provide poster boards, and we might be able to accommodate your technology needs as well (computers, projectors, etc.).
Organizing your class
We encourage you to keep your installations or presentations costs at a minimum. You should encourage your students to use what they have at home–or encourage them to get creative with recyclable items around town.
The Core Writing will provide poster boards, and we might be able to accommodate your technology needs as well (computers, projectors, etc.).
Organizing your class
- You, the instructor, are not required to attend the entire event (from start to finish). Instead, you can appoint the “natural leaders” in your class to serve as non-dictatorial supervisors whenever you cannot be there. For example, if you cannot be present for set-up and tear-down, you should designate set-up and tear-down leaders who you know will be responsible to rally their classmates and get everything organized and returned to the correct place.
- You will want to figure out which students will be available to set-up, socialize with the visitors, and tear-down. One piece of advice: You will not need many students to participate in the setting-up and tearing down (they’ll just end up sitting around bored), so try to encourage/assign your students to attend the viewing period.
- If students have class during the event, find creative ways to ensure their participation prior to the event.
- You may want to create a roll sheet for your students during the day and tape it to your table or provide a clipboard.
- Think about which of your students you would like to see sitting at your class’ installation table. We encourage you to utilize your social, talkative, friendly students to have this task, so when visitors come to see your installation, they’ll be met by eager, smiling faces.
- If you are awarding students extra credit points for attending, ask them to bring a certificate of attendance - we will have them available upon request at the event.
FAQs
Who can participate?
Your students from current or last semester. It can be all students in one particular class or only those students who decide to do so: it does not have to be the whole class, and it does not have to be only those students whose work you consider exemplary - all students benefit from sharing their work in a public forum.
How can I participate?
There are multiple ways your students can showcase their work. It can be something that can be shown on a screen, like a video or a PowerPoint presentation (or a video presentation), etc., or it can be something non-digital like a visual display, a poster, a brochure, a graphic story, a flyer, etc. Below are some examples of genres:
What kind of work or writing can we present?
Students can present an assignment they have completed as part of the class, or they can something completely new to display at the Celebration. Students can also revise their existing papers in a new, more visual genre that will be easier to display (such as a poster or brochure); this can count as creative revision that they can include in their final portfolio.
For example, if your students have completed an argumentative or an opinion piece, they can turn their papers into a poster that includes only the most important quotes from the paper, supplemented with pictures and/or other visual materials to create the persuasive effect their paper strives for.
You can also create a reflective exhibit talking about the process of writing and what your students have learned about writing during their time at UNM.
Finally, it does not have to be too time-consuming! You can easily create an exhibit in one class period.
All projects are welcome!
Do I (or my students) have to be there the whole time?
No, you do not have to stay with your display the whole time. You can spend as much time at the event as you have. You will just need to set up your display at some point in the morning.
Will there be technology provided?
Yes, we will have a few laptops and projectors available. However, our technology capacity is limited, so the earlier you sign up and indicate what you’ll need, the better.
We also have poster boards for you to use if you need them.
Is there a theme for this year’s Celebration?
The CSW usually goes together with that year’s Lobo Reading Experience book of choice. However, as this year’s book’s (Just Mercy) author will not be coming to UNM this semester, the Celebration will not be focusing on one specific theme. We
Will there be food provided?
Yes, there will be! There will be breakfast at 10:30 am and lunch at 12:30 pm provided.
What are the incentives to participate?
Participating in the CSW counts towards your community engagement requirement. For students, there will also be an award that will go to the best display as determined by the attending audience. And, of course, students should get extra points for participating!
Your students from current or last semester. It can be all students in one particular class or only those students who decide to do so: it does not have to be the whole class, and it does not have to be only those students whose work you consider exemplary - all students benefit from sharing their work in a public forum.
How can I participate?
There are multiple ways your students can showcase their work. It can be something that can be shown on a screen, like a video or a PowerPoint presentation (or a video presentation), etc., or it can be something non-digital like a visual display, a poster, a brochure, a graphic story, a flyer, etc. Below are some examples of genres:
- Visual displays
- PowerPoint presentations
- Videos (video presentations, video or digital memoirs, promotional videos, PSAs, etc.)
- Visual narratives or graphic memoirs
- Student presentations of discourse community websites
- Collections of student writing
- Creative Writing reading (we’ll have a microphone and staging area.)
- Presentation of student projects and surveys for the audience
- Slam poetry
- Songs
- Poems
- 6-word memoirs
- Writing games or puzzles
What kind of work or writing can we present?
Students can present an assignment they have completed as part of the class, or they can something completely new to display at the Celebration. Students can also revise their existing papers in a new, more visual genre that will be easier to display (such as a poster or brochure); this can count as creative revision that they can include in their final portfolio.
For example, if your students have completed an argumentative or an opinion piece, they can turn their papers into a poster that includes only the most important quotes from the paper, supplemented with pictures and/or other visual materials to create the persuasive effect their paper strives for.
You can also create a reflective exhibit talking about the process of writing and what your students have learned about writing during their time at UNM.
Finally, it does not have to be too time-consuming! You can easily create an exhibit in one class period.
All projects are welcome!
Do I (or my students) have to be there the whole time?
No, you do not have to stay with your display the whole time. You can spend as much time at the event as you have. You will just need to set up your display at some point in the morning.
Will there be technology provided?
Yes, we will have a few laptops and projectors available. However, our technology capacity is limited, so the earlier you sign up and indicate what you’ll need, the better.
We also have poster boards for you to use if you need them.
Is there a theme for this year’s Celebration?
The CSW usually goes together with that year’s Lobo Reading Experience book of choice. However, as this year’s book’s (Just Mercy) author will not be coming to UNM this semester, the Celebration will not be focusing on one specific theme. We
Will there be food provided?
Yes, there will be! There will be breakfast at 10:30 am and lunch at 12:30 pm provided.
What are the incentives to participate?
Participating in the CSW counts towards your community engagement requirement. For students, there will also be an award that will go to the best display as determined by the attending audience. And, of course, students should get extra points for participating!