I’m working on my final paper for my syllabus today, and I’m considering ways that I could merge the “Create a Vampire” assignment with a Mystory. I think this would provide a really great opportunity for students to do research through themselves–and sort of connect their lives to the larger world. I’m also really intrigued by Melanie’s movie proposal assignment, and am wondering if maybe I couldn’t do something like that with vampires. Create a vampire story that you think would sell and discuss why. This would give students the opportunity to develop a playlist (I really like the Ipod playlist assignment that Jeff has his students do), develop an advertisement scheme/stragey, etc etc. Of course, it’s pretty late in the game to be coming up with all of these ideas, but I find that that is how I normally work. I’m always coming up with something that interests me in the final moments. More on this to come.