Hello Students:
Your first two sets of reading responses are posted in Blackboard. Please check them. If you believe I have missed one of your responses (and you’re sure that you have filled out the response properly), please send me the link and I will correct the grade immediately.
I must say: I was very impressed with your first two sets of responses. Please continue to dig into the material and continue to push forth in your thinking.
Hello Students:
I’ve posted tomorrow’s lecture/tutorial in the Lecture section. You can also find it here.
I will be posting the first two weeks of Wiki response grades this evening as well. We should be completely caught up and ready to rumble tomorrow.
Hello Students:
A friend + former colleague Evan Ratliff wrote an amazing piece in Wired called Vanish. But this was more than a story. It was a distributed competition as well. The versus: Evan would try to disappear off the grid and the world would try to find him.
This idea is one of the cleverest ways to meld the idea of a story with the power of the crowd. The story stands on its own, but there is something bigger here as well.
Hello Students:
A question fluttering about the cyber-sphere about Endnotes for your paper.
If you are using Word 2007, you can use the REFERENCE tab, set your citation to CHICAGO and click INSERT CITATION (you will Add New). This will prompt you with the elements for that Endnote.
Once you have completed your paper, set your cursor where you would like to add the Works Cited or Bibliography and then click the BIBLIOGRAPHY button (under the Chicago tab).
Or you can simply type in your references at the end.
For Macs
Go to View>Toolbox > Citation. Select citation style (Chicago). Add required fields.
To insert the citation, set the cursor and double-click on the source you typed in.
To create the bib/works cited, go to Insert > Document Elements > Bibliography (should be in the gray bar across the top of the document, above the ruler).
Hello Students:
Here is a link to the MTV “Viral Video” created by Jack Black, Ben Stiller and Robert Downey, Jr.
Here is a link to Fake Steve Jobs.
Hello Students:
For those of you who want to change the structure of your permalinks, I’ve created a video in the lecture section (and it’s on the class Wiki).
Please join Professors Jill Christman & Mark Massé (from the Departments of English & Journalism) to celebrate their recent work in River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative:
Tuesday, January 26th at 7:30 p.m.
Letterman Building 125
Mark Massé’s literary journalistic account of social activism, Inspired to Serve: Today’s Faith Activists, was published in 2004 by Indiana U. Press. His first novel, Delamore’s Dreams, was published in 2005 by Booklocker.com. Currently, he is working on a new book on trauma journalism. Professor Massé directs the Journalism Writing Center in the Department of Journalism, and in 2006, he established a master’s degree program emphasis in literary journalism.
Jill Christman’s memoir, Darkroom: A Family Exposure, won the AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction and was published by the U. Georgia Press in 2002. Three recent essays appearing in River Teeth and Harpur Palate have been honored by Pushcart nominations. Professor Christman teaches creative nonfiction writing at Ball State and in Ashland University’s low-residency MFA program.
Hello Students:
The week 3 notes are up in the LECTURE section. I would encourage you to skim them before reading.
On Tuesday, three former students will be in class to talk with you about their writing process and this class. You will have time to ask them questions. We will also cover, again, what your story idea packet will look like.
On Thursday, I will use the Wiki to facilitate a discussion on thoughts you have about potential stories. I suggest you have your thoughts down for all of us to see. These will not be fully fleshed out ideas, mind you. Just thoughts as I discussed in my Week 2 lecture.
Hello Students:
Your Tuesday lecture is up in the Lecture section. Also, you should note the Thursday small group discussion outline is available as well. The paper described in the outline isn’t a second assignment. You should simply makes notes from Reaction Paper #1. I would like this discussion to be informed by research.
Finally, please don’t forget to include your definitions of Foundation on the class Wiki.
I would encourage you to summarize things in your own words and not paste large chunks of other writings in the Wiki. It will become unmanageable (and if you include chunks of other’s texts in your papers, you will receive very low grades as I couldn’t care less about your ability to cut-and-paste quotes).
However, this is your Wiki and that is merely a suggestion on my part.
Hello Students:
Please check the Lecture section.
I have added a Quick Start Guide for WordPress, which we will go over in class on Tuesday. This will be a basic run-through of the WordPress Dashboard. I want to make sure everyone feels comfortable with publishing.
I’ve included a few videos as reminders in case you have a moment of weakness and forget everything we’ve discussed.
On Thursday, we will have a discussion on cluetrain. Last week was truncated, so I lectured. This week, we will go around the room and everyone will discuss what they wrote on the Wiki (as a starting point). This is how discussion will run the rest of the semester (with a few small exceptions).
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