F 04-Sept Cambridge / Narrative Chapter 6 plus
Katherine Anne Porter: “Theft” (1929)
Online Discussion — required (attendance/participation credit)
See instructions below and post replies in comments here.
Reminders / Other Tasks:
- Request Discussion Dates (by 04-Sept)
- First Blog Entry (“reading journal”) — Due Friday (on your blog)
- Discuss any of the 5 short stories from this week;
and/or any concept(s) from Abbott (first 6 chapters), illustrating with narratives of your choice.
- General Suggestions
- “Tech Support” entry
Read The Great Gatsby over long weekend.
- (discussing through Chapter 4 on W 09-Sept)
- Read Abbott Chp. 6 closely for Gatsby discussion.
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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…
