Welcome, students!
Education is all about learning new ideas and skills. I wanted to learn how to create a blog and have a message board, so here we are. I hope that you are as excited as I am about learning and growing technologically.
Why am I creating this blog and message board? One very simple reason: many of your college classes will communicate via message boards, and some of your professors may even want you to submit your papers electronically. I feel that this experiment will be a good way for you to be introduced to this method of communicating. Toward the end of the year, I'm even going to have you submit a paper to me via email. But, more on that later...
Here is what I expect from you:
1. At least three times a week, you will post questions, comments, or have conversations with classmates about the literature we are reading. These posts will be worth points. I will respond to the posts daily and grade on the weekend.
2. You will be respectful and polite. You know what I will accept in class, so don't use the anonymity of cyberspace as an excuse to be disrespectful.
3. Since this is for an English class, I want you to use appropriate grammar and punctuation. (As I sit here typing this, I can see the spellcheck key. Please use it!)
4. Avoid acronyms: lol, idk, and the like. Write out what you are trying to say.
5. If you are having issues with the site (no computer access, won't post, etc.), come see me immediately. We will work these issues out together. If you don't tell me, I won't know and I'll assume that you're not doing your blogging assignments.
I want us to have fun with this. If you can think of anything that we could do using this technology, please post and let me know. As for now, I'll leave you with this question:
What do you think of Othello so far?
Mrs. Myers
So far I am really enjoying Othello! I like it more than Macbeth because the problems in Macbeth were very far fethched, However, with Othello I feel it is more easy to relate too! Can't ait to see how this one works out! :)
ReplyDeleteEven though I still do not know what is going on in Othello, it is better than Macbeth. Reason is that I can somewhat distinguish what the characters are saying.
ReplyDeleteWithout having the lovely Mrs. Myers, Othello can be hard to understand sometimes! We are now meeting on Fridays in the morning, and after having a review at the end of the week, I really like Othello. Othello seems like real life situations, and is easy to relate to.
ReplyDeleteHere's an idea (it does not have to be used, it's just an idea!) In my art history class at UW-Stout, we have to reply to the discussion question as well as comment on what someone else said. It forced us to communicate with each other and soon after that I and others started to respond to each other's thoughts without being asked to.