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 [...]

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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.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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.

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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).

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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