Read your classmates’ “I Recommend Eating….” posts. Please comments on at least three posts, sharing something specific you appreciated about the post and adding an idea of your own. Be mindful of spreading your comments around to ensure that all posts receive feedback! (To do this, start the process by finding the post with the fewest comments and adding your voice there.) Please share your comments by Wednesday, March 10th
This week we are going to begin using Hypothes.is, a web-based platform that will allow us to annotate texts electronically and to share our annotations with others. Please use this Guide to Getting Started with Hypothes.is to walk you through the process of setting up a free Hypothes.is account, adding the Hypothes.is extension to your web browser (ideally Chrome), and joining our ENG2150 Hypothes.is group using THIS LINK. You will need Hypothes.is to do your work for Monday, so please let me know via Slack or email if you encounter any difficulties with this.
For Monday, please read Michael Pollan, “Power Steer”, available under the “Texts” tab above. Once you have opened the article, click on the Hypothes.is extension you added to your browser, and begin to experiment with adding annotations to the text. Make sure that you select our ENG2150 group. You should be able to see some annotations that I added to the beginning of the text as examples. Add a minimum of 3-5 annotations of your own. These could be definitions of words you had to look up, highlights of important passages, or reactions to ideas you encounter in the text. Use this as an opportunity both to understand the text more deeply and to play around with this new tool.