Once you have created your gmail account and your blog, you should make sure that you send me a link to the blog. I need this to communicate to your classmates where they can find your blog and subscribe to it as readers and commenters.
On my blog, I will post directions for each of the posts you should be writing, so be sure to check it regularly by becoming a follower. I will expect one blog posting for each day the class is scheduled to meet, whether or not we actually meet on any given day; you are encouraged to post as much and as often as you would like! With your blog, you want to provide me with some assurance that you are keeping up with your reading assignments, and making some effort to do some preliminary analysis in the form of a question or meaningful comment. You should take advantage of the structure of daily writing to begin to really wrestle with the content of the course, the meanings of the readings, and to prepare yourself to contribute constructively to the class discussion.
Take some time to complete your profile so that I and your classmates can get to know each other better. Also make sure that you follow your classmates' blogs by following the links I will provide you and subscribe to each one so that you can read and comment on them regularly. Think of these linked blogs as an ongoing electronic discussion that supplements and compliments what we do in the classroom; your blogs can help you think more concretely about the assigned reading materials, and you can begin to productively shape your assignments by asking the kinds of questions that lead to research topics and engaging presentations in your podcasts.
Finally, be sure to send me your individual gmail addresses if you have not already done so; I need to add you to my contacts to make sure no one gets left out of the communication loop
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Dr. Winand-
ReplyDeleteI'm new to the blogging scene, so I hope that everything goes through ok. My blog is called
"M V on Black Thought" and my site is http://blackthoughtaas301.blogspot.com
Hope everything works. Thanks.
Michael Vera Eastmond
Hi, Professor Winand:
ReplyDeleteIt has been a great while for me as a technologist. However, I'm looking forward to this experience with a lot of excitement! We have a great mix of people in our class plus the subject matter which should make for an excting learning experience.
Hello! Professor Winand
ReplyDeleteJUST TRYING OUT THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY SOMETIME I GET LOST BUT I DO HAVE MY 12 YEAR OLD TO HELP ME THANK YOU.
Just take some time to get comfortable with the technology, everybody. I hope getting used to blogging will help you all get more accustomed to writing regularly; consider these blogs a place to think "out loud" about the reading assignments and your group research projects. You can ask me questions about the reading and the work of the course in general, and we want to try as much as possible to use these blogs to create a conversation that we all participate in, and that we can all learn from each other over the course of the semester.
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