Week’s Readings
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M 31-Aug Cambridge / Narrative Chapters 2-3 plus
Willa Cather: “The Affair at Grover Station” (1900)
& Zora Neale Hurston: “Spunk” (1925)
W 02-Sept Cambridge / Narrative Chapters 4-5 plus
Dorothy Parker: “You Were Perfectly Fine” (1929)
& Parker: “The Last Tea” (1932)
F 04-Sept Cambridge / Narrative Chapter 6 plus
Katherine Anne Porter: “Theft” (1929) & (TBA)
Due: First Blog Entry
Over the weekend, please create your blog; then, post your link in a comment below.
In your first entry, please briefly introduce yourself (as we’ve not during class time): flexible expectations for this, but please include
major/grade and “technical experience level” (with tech./social media); rationale for taking course, (seeking what from this experience?); your “working definition” for “experience”; and any interesting information you’d like to share, perhaps an “experience narrative” (after Friday’s class)…
Note: See prior post for suggestions / elaboration on “blogging” in weekly entries.
Register @ Wordpress
WP Support site
Technical Instructions for Blog Setup:
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(from syllabus)
Blog Entries
1 minimum per week, beginning week 2; (100-200 words. Credit/no credit assigned).
Every student will create and maintain a blog throughout the semester, preferably using Wordpress
Blog entries due Wednesday each week, starting week 2, unless otherwise noted (e.g. weeks 8 & 14).
Elaborating upon today’s class, specific suggestions for blogging below.
Note: more technical instructions for blogging coming soon (i.e. setup / “tech. support”) — need not create your blog until next week (over weekend?)
Also, optional / additional ideas:
as part of blogging, use Twitter, Facebook, or other social media (?).
More on this below — could be very interesting and unique approach!
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Timely and relevant (brief) interview on The Wired Campus blog today:
“How Students, Professors, and Colleges Are, and Should Be, Using Social Media.”
Marc Beja & S. Craig Watkins. Chronicle of Higher Education. 24 Aug 2009.
More on this soon, with some specific Qs / uses for our class…
Greetings, Fall 2009 students!
Our “experiment” will begin shortly… I will update this blog as we proceed; so, be sure to check regularly (or use the RSS feed)–especially for updates to our schedule.
In the meantime, closely review the syllabus and schedule (of readings and class sessions).
As you can see, you’ll need the first book for class on F 28-Aug.
All of the required texts will be available at Goerings Book Store (1717 NW First Ave.)
Update: as of Monday (5pm), Goerings has about 10 copies of Cambridge / Narrative; (also, some of the later texts have not arrived).
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