Adventure Cycling Project

Instrumental to English 420 Public Document Pedagogy

2006 Technology & Pedagogy ShowcaseWe endeavor to achieve the following: Share resources that aid in teaching or evaluating this specific project

Display student work for the Public Document Project

Explain the project or we have developed and continue to develop

The Adventure Cycling Route . . .

Project Description . . . A collaborative effort to provide Adventure Cycling with educational support materials for their new, Underground Railroad Bicycle Route

Will include the following deliverables: Map of the UNRR route with rollover bubbles that contain links to locations of interest along the route

Textboxes that will appear at the bottom of the page, containing:

historic information about each of the locations/stops

information about locations of interest, including important, related information (addresses, contacts, etc.)

1. Proposal Stage We proposed to Joy Santee, a representative of Adventure Cycling, that we develop educational materials to accompany their new tour “The Underground Railroad”

Conscious of Time Constraints, we offered two alternative print packages: A Participant Pack: historical material about the UGRR in general and their stops as well

A Community Pack: publicity documents that local communities could use to learn about the trip and publicize their own involvement

Joy chose Participant Pack

2. Adjustments Made Research Allen Brizee suggested, and we all developed, an idea to deliver this information electronically [instead of paper]

New Deliverable: interactive map.

How Work? The interactive ap of the UNRR route with rollover bubbles that contain links to locations of interest along the route

Textboxes that will appear at the bottom of the page, containing:

historic information about each of the locations/stops information about locations of interest, including important, related information (addresses, contacts, etc.)

JOY APPROVED CHANGE

3. Template for the Map 3. Template for the Map EntriesEntries

•Each node that has historical information has this format•We also have standardize the content order and the fonts

4. Sample Entry: 4. Sample Entry: Carrollton, KentuckyCarrollton, Kentucky

How this Public Document Project relates to student work Real Client Performed in a Group Similar Activities

Proposal Adjustments Based on Client Needs Research Adjustments Made to Deliverables as Understand Needs More

Writing Templates Call for Adjustments to Text Technological Delivery Uses Text Developed

Similar Rewards [helping clients, their feedback, etc.]

What Skills of the 505 Group Does the Project Reinforce? . . . Advanced research skills

In-depth understanding of cultural issues related to the Underground Railroad along the route

Pedagogical creativity, knowledge, and experience

Teachers know what they are doing

Why in 505M? . . . Functions to prepare us for presenting/teaching the project to our students Encounter problems and determine how to minimize them in our classes

Create models to show students (solid, well written, expectations)

Help solidify a vocabulary for discussing the project with our classes

Give us similar experiences as our students (which is necessary if we are to teach it)

What Can We Learn From This Project? . . . Writing

Collaboration with group members and client Time management Conventions of genres in which we are writing

Further information about the Underground Railroad

Greater information about Adventure Cycling

Pedagogy Troubles our students may encounter Ways to deal with those troubles Various approaches to carrying out the project

Student Responses and Examples Satisfaction from a job well done

feedback from clients, instructors, group members, etc.

Understanding of an actual audience Understanding of what is at stake in certain rhetorical situations

Actual, usable documents A line on the resume (for our students)

We have placed some student examples on the table: Columbia Park Zoo mailer Better World Books informational flyer Boiler Volunteer Network Press Release University Place “Enabling Garden” Pamphlet

Future Teachers of Professional Writing . . . Great examples to show future classes From the Adventure Cycling project From this semester’s classes