@jkerrison @Journalismus_PR as a final project, my students had to compile their ungrading (self-assessment/reflection on the learning in the course) as an #unessay (which is basically: "you do what you want to do, be as creative as you want to be (or uncreative if you prefer), just make sure you go through the points I'd like you to go through". The best decision ever! Oh and I forgot to mention: English is not my students' native language, I am teaching in Austria

Reading the #unessays is leaving my speechless, gobsmacked and just wow!!!!! Students have written POEMS!!!!!!!!! Sorry for the shouting but I am really happy with my students!!!!! This was my class "English: International Media"

@Journalismus_PR

#teaching #ungrading #unessay #journalism #InternationalMedia

I have given my very first #unEssay assignment to my students. I am looking forward to their creativity #teaching #ungrading

Back to the office and received the most amazing #unessay — an mannequin of the “perfect 1950s housewife” made of papier-mâché from advertisements of the era. So creepy, but so good.

This #unessay renders the 1960 televised debate in comic form (ah, to be able to draw like this!) I think I reversed the order

Another #unessay, this time using "This Land is Your Land" as an inspiration to create a song about the @fitchburgstate@twitter.com campus and community. There was also a recorded version:

More #unessay submissions — who wants to play the suburban dream board game?!? It’s groovy!

In other news, students crushing the #unessay-inspired "Rewrite + rationale" projects for C19th British novel class. E.g. lyrics and jaw-drop recordings for "a five-song musical based on different moments from Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey" 🤯

Your move, ChatGPT.

Another painting, this time on prohibition, organized crime, and democracy #unessay

US survey unessay are coming in for our exhibit—this one responds to the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. #unessay

In a sense, this was one big all-class #unessay project.

Hi fellow #histodons and other #scholars teaching in #higherEd.

I will be teaching a #largecourse next semester (capped at 250 students).

Has anyone done #unessay #assignments in large classes?

#teachinginhighered #creativeassignments #historycourses

I’ve just done a guest workshop on inclusive assessment and the creative assessment/ #unessay for my uni’s PGCert* students. The sunny view to the cathedral was amazing!
(*This is training programme for lecturers and professional staff who are involved in teaching). #pedagogy

A morning of writing a book chapter on my creative assessment / #unessay and why I think it’s an inclusive assessment model #amwriting #pedagogy #histodons #readingweekworkpleasures