Friday, August 31, 2007

Bibliographies and blogs

Several people had questions about formatting your bibliography sources on your blog. This actually should not be a problem. The only thing that won't work (for most people) is indenting. Also, if you are using URLS in your citation please cite as < http://www.google.com >. Please note the spaces after and before the carrots.

That should do it for you, when you need to cite bibliographical information in html. (Now I do know that if you know htmlc docing, then this isn't an issue for you.)

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Grading

As I grade items I put your homework points on your grade spreadsheet. Sometimes I will batch grade all of one thing. For example, syllabi contracts. Then I will go back and grade blog posts. Just because you look at your gradesheet and you have points for one thing and not another does NOT mean you didn't get (or won't get) credit for that. Be patient with me. :)

If a homework assignment has a zero, then this is when you can worry. This means it is late and you will not receive points for it. Where can you find your deadlines? On your blog, there's a huge white Google calendar on the side. All of your deadlines are there. If you are in section 7891, you will see this also tells you when we are meeting on campus and when we are NOT. Please review this weekly to know if you need to make the drive or not.

Once the stragglers catch up, I will share our Google calendar with everyone so you can all have full access to the calendar at all times within Google itself.

Monday, August 27, 2007

RSS feeds

Ever spend way too much time going from website to website looking at all of your news articles, keeping up with your friends and family's blogs, and making sure you check your instructor's websites? Watch this short video to learn how to do this is all a lot faster!

Del.icio.us

Do you want to know why we use del.icio.us for this class, and my explanations don't make sense? Please watch this short video and you'll have no more questions.

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Calendar & Syllabus

To your right you will see a link to the syllabus. I also emailed the syllabus to the class. Below that you will see the Google Calendar that has all deadlines on it. If you click on a deadline, there'll be a pop up where more information maybe.

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Welcome

Welcome to the English 102 Section 2513 Online Course. I will post announcements, updates, and new (read fun) tech tools throughout the semester.