On 15th September – come to the Olscamp class with two printouts

1] a classmates blog post based on Chapter 2

2] a classmates blog post based on Secondlife explorations thus far – something that you can discuss and connect to my lecture on Friday and the reading material in Chapter 2.

Attendance will be taken.

On 17th September – class will be in LIB 125. Make sure you have read Chapter 3 before coming to class.

Attendance will be taken.

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On September 19th – class will take place in Hayes 107. Make sure you have done your reading based blog before coming to class. From this week on I will be looking at dates and times of your blog post to see that you have met deadlines as I grade your activities and assignments. You have had enough time to get used to the pedagogic design and process of this class.

You will have to blog in comments sections of classmates’ blogs after class.

Make sure to get the reading done and blog as instructed – both based on the reading and the secondlife exercise on wednesday before you come to class.

Location – Monday – Olscamp (no computers needed – its a lecture and discussion day).

Reading for next week – once again the blogging based on reading will be due by friday and I will have the reading schedule on blackboard.

Location for Wednesday – Hayes – student Tech center.

For the blogging homework that I told you about in class on Friday – go to the following page

Also note – I am taking account of who is attending class and who is not when I grade. And yes you are being graded on the content of your blogs as well.

http://blogs.bgsu.edu/radhik/2008/09/03/class-location-today-and-friday/

But Grad Researchers are not required to be with us unless they choose to join the discussion based on the readings.

Reading for friday – see what I listed for week one on blackboard. I will update the schedule over the weekend. Have the reading done and the writing assignment based on the reading done – as described in class yesterday.

This is why it is important to attend class. I am serious about face-to-face interaction – Verbal and non-verbal face-to-face communication as offline practice. I will not always translate this verbal face-to-face communication into writing – either here on blackboard or on the blog or by email.

Reminder – today all Grad Researchers will also be with us.

Deadline for posting your homework assignment on your blog as described in class (i.e. on a separate page – not post – on your blog) is today.

On Friday we will continue discussion of the homework assignment and readings scheduled for this week (see blackboard week one readings – since we did not get done last week with readings we are doing them this week). I will have you post to your blogs based on the readings as well – so stay tuned for instructions via email and on Blackboard Course Assignment section.

Class Location:

Wednesday 09/03/2008 LIB 125
Friday 09/05/2008 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM LIB 125

http://www.inews3.com/play.php?first=Radhika&last=Gajjala

Those of you who submitted the blog links will see your blogs linked under the student blogs list.

Those of you who missed class today – please find a classmate and find out what we did.

have a nice long weekend!

r

First – a reminder – anything you post to this blog in the comments section is accessible to the “whole wide world”. Therefore I recommend you think before you post. Do you want what you are about to write to be used as a way for potentially the “whole wide world” to evaluate your intelligence? (:))

Imagine being “googled” …

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Okay – now about the homework assignment I mentioned on the first day of lecture this week. I am planning to explain it more tomorrow in class as I show you how to blog and what I expect from you in blogging for this class.

The homework assignment is for you to have done by Wednesday of week two.

In order to understand the homework assignment as I explain it in detail tomorrow in class, you will need to read this link – http://blogs.bgsu.edu/radhik/langdon-winner-do-artifacts-have-politics/

also read about the sections on Technological Environments (starting para 9) and Progress Narratives in the following article – http://www.rhizomes.net/issue4/gajjala.html

see you in the Library computer lab tomorrow at 2.30 pm!

r

Today we have eight graduate student researchers who were assisting as I delivered the workshop on secondlife in the student tech center. This morning I had “synced’ rad Zabibha’s outfit with what I was wearing RL.

It was a good class period. Everyone got their secondlife avatars and joined Rad’s Cybergeeks group. They all teleported into the Bowling Green’s Cybergeeks area on Educator’s Coop Island where rad and Cyb own land.

I am looking forward to the journalling from all class members once they set up their blogs on Friday.

See you all on Friday! Class is in the Lab in the Library on Friday.

On Monday I will give you your reading schedule and explain how you need to do the reading related reports.

r