Gamers,

Overall, we turned up the volume on the feedback this week by adding more details to our grading rationales. In this spirit, I decided on an experiment with Audacity, an open-source sound editor. I was thinking of how I could amp up the feedback and I thought 10 minute audio evaluations of each definitional argument might be fun. In the process, I noticed a lot of limitations in this format--at the same time, however, I think this format might be fun for us to explore more as a group, perhaps for our mid-term reflection pieces. At times I found myself playing with the role of "judge," and sometimes I felt like I did inhabit, in turns, the roles typically played by Simon, Paula, Randy, and Kara, the judges on my daughter's favorite TV Show, American Idol.

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Sue

Nate

Aldijana

Earl

Kristie

Lydia

 David and Dylan K

Jacob

Jillian and Kevin

Paul