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Food Writing MOOC

Activities - reading models, writing, reviewing, etc.

• First week - scavenger hunt that orients people to all the different places where you could publish/share food writing
• Self-grouping by interests - everyone starts by proposing what you want to write about, or what your interests within food writing are (i.e Thai street food) - and then use this for people to identify their own groups and form their own communities after this first activity (vs. being randomly sorted into groups before the class begins...)
• Everyone early on pitches a "product" with a particular genre and product/place to publish it (ex. post a review on Chowhound vs. a Times article vs. write a cookbook vs. author a blog)

Analyze Models together in small groups?

• Participants (or instructors) contribute models of food writing they find compelling (or not); instructors pose a set of questions to help them analyze what makes those models effective or not.... (could even use the characteristics to generate rubrics) 

Peer Critique

• People post writing - and identify what they want feedback on, people in small groups offer critique to each other on drafts, identify next steps together

Involve experts - food bloggers, food writers, superyelpers, chefs, etc.

• How could we involve these people? 
  • Guest Lecturers
  • Youtube videos
  • Field trips in local areas (visit markets and restaurants and museums, do reviews, capture photos, etc.)
  • Flash Learning Mobs/Potlucks

Questions:

How differentiate for paying vs. non-paying participants?

• machine reading?
• payers get feedback from instructors/experts?

How filter out people from the beginning?