{"id":325,"date":"2020-04-29T15:39:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T15:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.ccu.press\/edwardslive\/?p=325"},"modified":"2020-04-29T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T16:00:00","slug":"a-battle-of-the-superheroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/projects.ccu.press\/edwardslive\/a-battle-of-the-superheroes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Battle of the Superheroes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Donna Corriher, lecturer in the Department of English, incorporated some fun into her English 102 course when she made the shift from in-classroom to the online atmosphere. In this piece, she explains how the study of argument and rhetoric became a classroom debate about the relative merits of two iconic superheroes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every\nsemester, in English 102, I have my students debate which superhero, Batman or\nSuperman, has most impacted American society. Although it may not appear to be\nthe best, most collegial topic to debate, it becomes so because I require\nstudents to find only peer-reviewed articles in support of their character,\nusing Kimbel Libary’s databases. You would be surprised at the amount of\nscholarly research that has been published about those characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During\na “typical” semester, I allow students to draw the name of the\nsuperhero they will “represent.” I allow them to work in groups as\nthey find articles, using their laptops in the classroom. Five students are\nassigned to be the jurors and judges, and they are required to research both\nsuperheroes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since we\nhad to shift our classes online, I tweaked the debate. I assigned students to\nteams (groups) within Moodle, and provided each team with a private forum. I\nthen assigned each team a superhero, AND two databases in Kimbel. Each student\non each team had to discover one article and post the MLA citation for and an\nexcerpt from that article into a team forum. Then, the team was required to\nread each other’s articles and “reply” to each other in the forum or\ncommunicate with each other via email to determine one great article to submit\nto a “Courtroom Forum” as that team’s “evidence.” I, the\njudge, selected the six, in my opinion, best, most credible articles and posted\nthem into another Moodle tool, “Choice.” I listed the pertinent info\nabout the articles and required all students to vote\/choose which article they\nfelt to be the best article, considering Ethos, Logos, and Pathos; i.e., the\nmost convincing article. Students voted anonymously. The winner was determined\nto be Batman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I used\nthe time restrictions on Moodle for all tools, forums and choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To\nannounce the winner, I created a PowerPoint that included cartoons and music,\nacknowledgements of team members and articles, and, eventually, named the\nwinner.<\/p>\n\n\n

See the Powerpoint Here: Batman VS Superman Spring 2020 (1)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

This\nassignment allows students to actively engage with the core skills of Critical Reading,\nWriting, and Information Literacy. Students\npractice using the basic rhetorical tools of Ethos, Logo<\/em>s, and Pathos<\/em>\nas they determine the best article in support of their superhero. Students read\narticles written for a specific audience, scholars, and do so in a way that not\nonly engages them, but also surprises them and evokes curiosity. They learn how\nto locate credible source materials using sophisticated databases, thus laying\neyes on the extent of databases, disciplines, and fields of study. They must\ncritically read the articles, analyzing the material as they seek out the very\nbest quote that they can find to submit in support of a particular superhero. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students\nlearn the value and importance of group work as they communicate within the\nforums. The forums are timed, so students must practice self-discipline and\ntimeliness in order to successfully submit an article to the Courtroom forum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Student\ngrades were based upon whether or not they individually submitted to the\ninitial Team forum, and provided all of the required information in a timely\nmanner\u2014a correctly formatted MLA citation (reinforcing the necessity of\nproviding source information), and an excerpt from the article (reinforcing the\nneed to correctly format in-text citations). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nonly aspect of the assignment that I will change is to weight the assignment\nmore heavily. The debate was a low-stakes assignment, and I graded student\nsubmissions within the Participation category in my gradebook, a category that\ndid not seriously impact grades, and thus, some students did not participate at\nall. I also attribute some lack of participation due to my offering extensions\non most assignments for the semester, due to our unusual circumstances, and\nsome students put it off until it was too late. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fifty-three\nof sixty students participated. I had hoped for 100% participation, but was\npleasantly surprised that two students who had basically disengaged from the\ncourse suddenly reappeared and submitted articles. One of the students who had\nselected a winning article sent me an email within minutes after I announced\nthe results, asking me to vote for his article. Students were waiting, enjoying\na little competition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s\namazing what a little comic relief will do for you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donna Corriher, Teaching Associate <\/p>\n\n\n\n

dcorriher@coastal.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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