{"id":9,"date":"2008-10-02T10:36:49","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T14:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/2008\/10\/02\/immersive-assignments-students-correct-us\/"},"modified":"2008-10-02T10:36:49","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T14:36:49","slug":"immersive-assignments-students-correct-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/2008\/10\/02\/immersive-assignments-students-correct-us\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Immersive&#8221; assignments: students correct US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am using a <a href=\"http:\/\/iggyssyllabus.pbwiki.com\/\">wiki<\/a> this semester without a spell-checker and I&#8217;m not the best proofreader on earth.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to that issue, I often forget to READ MY WORK ALOUD before I submit it.\u00a0 Thus I find small errors cropping up. How do I keep myself honest and students engaged?\u00a0 I give them extra credit on work if they spot an error in my own online posts and assignments. If I violate one of my own <a href=\"http:\/\/iggyssyllabus.pbwiki.com\/Peeves\" title=\"See Essid's Peeves\">Pet Peeves<\/a>, they get more credit still.<\/p>\n<p>One of my class mentors said the wiki (and the work in Second Life) provide a great example of &#8220;immersive learning&#8221; for students.\u00a0 I suppose they have at least learned that all writers must take care and be mindful of an audience&#8217;s watchful eyes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Score so far:<\/strong> 3 errors by me, no Pet-Peeve violations. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am using a wiki this semester without a spell-checker and I&#8217;m not the best proofreader on earth. In addition to that issue, I often forget to READ MY WORK ALOUD before I submit it.\u00a0 Thus I find small errors cropping up. How do I keep myself honest and students engaged?\u00a0 I give them extra &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/2008\/10\/02\/immersive-assignments-students-correct-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Immersive&#8221; assignments: students correct US<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcsCNV-9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}