Welcome to our class blog for summer session 2008. This blog will serve a number of purposes:
1- Communication I will post frequently during the next six weeks. I will expect you to check the blog daily for current updates. Dennis, Willie and I will all use the blog to keep you “posted” as to any last minute changes. All of you will be able to comment on the posts, so it is my hope we can have a bit of a “virtual discussion” using the blog.

2- Community Once each of you create your own blog, I will include you on the blog roll. That way we will all be linked and can give each other suggestions, encouragement, support, etc.

3- Synergy The most important goal for you this summer is to create a good proposal for your thesis. As we learn more about each others’ research interests, t is likely that each of us will find sites and sources that would be helpful for someone in the cohort. By each of us joining “Del.icio.us, we will be able to “tag” sources and make them available for the whole group.

4- Tutorials Most of the things we will be learning about in 613 involve a series of procedures (i.e. creating a blog, making a video). It is unlikely that any of us will be able to recall those procedures the first time they are presented to us. Consequently, I will create some tutorials that you can look at outside of class.

5- Feedback One of the nicest things about blogs is that they can be used to give and get fairly immediate feed back. With that in mind, I would like each of you to follow the link below and take a short survey. Thanks!

Survey