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Agenda for Monday 1/28

1. Survey by Professor Yi Gong
2. Attendance
3. Introductions
4. Hand in HW 1
5. Your 3 questions about the reading or the course
6. Break
7. Distribute handouts for HW 2, HW 3, and HW 4
8. Discuss Dan Burstein’s “From Cave Painting to Wonkette: A Short History of Blogging”
9. Your interesting post from one of the blogs relevant to the course listed on the “Blogs I’m Watching” page

If you didn’t get a question answered, or didn’t get to share your interesting post, please feel free to click on Comments and write your question, or provide a link and short description for the interesting post. Contributing to the discussion in this way benefits all of us, so don’t be shy!

The agenda for the first class meeting of the Monday/Wednesday section was:

1. Introductions
2. Review syllabus 
3. Break at about 12:50
4. Hand out calendar, reading response blog sheet, and HW 1 instructions.
5. Demonstrate how to create a blog on Keeneweb with Wordpress (Thank you, Hanna!), as described in HW 1.
6. Explanation of the assignment to find an interesting post on one of the blogs relevant to the course on the Blogs I’m Watching page of T Blog.

I forgot to distribute the HW 2 handout, so I dropped it in campus mail to the students who were present in class today.

I enjoyed meeting the students in the class, even though Butterfield 214 sounds like a wind tunnel!

Here’s a question I was asked by a student in the Tuesday/Thursday class, and I’m going to share it because others might wonder the same thing:

—–Original Message—–
Sent: Tue 1/22/2008 11:08 PM
To: Mendham, Tracy
Subject: homework

Hi Tracy,

I was looking at the assignment sheet you gave us with all of the homework from now until the end of February and you said we are supposed to write questions about class or the reading–what reading is that exactly?

Thanks so much,

And my answer:

From: Mendham, Tracy
Sent: Wed 1/23/2008 9:03 AM
Subject: RE: homework
Hi ___:
Good question. The reading I’m referring to there are the blogs from the “Blogs I’m Watching” list.
Tracy

Remember, you don’t have to read all the blogs from the Blogs I’m Watching list–just explore several of them to get an idea of some of what’s out there, and to find an interesting post to print out and bring to class.