Shauna, I hoped I helped you and JD out. See you Tuesday!

Comments from conferences thus far: Although I like when students design their own outlines, I think giving you all one possible one this time definitely helped out. I didn't get to see your rough drafts for paper #1 which was maybe a small mistake, but I thought allowing you to go to your peers would be better.. for you (to get to know others) and for me (more time for me to concentrate on other teaching stuff)...

Paper #3 (to be talked about/examples handed out= Tuesday November 5) will be even more interesting and fun for you all, I think.

P.S. Class will be canceled for December 5th.. SO I am going to have to rearrange the syllabus a bit. I will hopefully update it BY this next Thursday.

ALSO: Paper #2 will be due by 5pm on Friday November 8. I have to change around what we are doing this next Tuesday and Thursday. Show up for class OR read this blog for further details on what's going on.

The first two writing conferences today went well. Two good rough drafts.. and I hope you two (Joe and Amanda) can take them, add to them, etc, and make them even better.

How are the rest of you coming along.. with projects or papers? Remember that as long as you let your reader, somehow, know of the path of your essay (Possible sentence focus: "Before giving the details of how I went about doing this project, I plan to give history/background/reasoning/insights/etc.. to *whatever*."), the paper will have flow and give your reader an organization to follow.

I hope that helps.

Oh- I have good news (well, for me and kind of for you all too)... A paper of mine (that gigantic blogging paper) got accepted at a conference.. the University of Alberta, Canada actually.. it's in DECEMBER (brr.. cold here= colder there!!) and, *gasp* I might have to cancel class on a Thursday!! I know you are all devastated (find some tissues), but it's important to me. Plus, it's a conference JUST for graduate students! Yes, I am a geek.

See you all at your conferences!! I have some openings on next Tuesday's afternoon.. e-mail me for details.

I am glad you finally got on Chelsey, and I am glad you having fun with your project. How is everyone else doing??

Shauna, I would (to make it easier on YOU) just use the templates that most free website places give you.. like tripod.com or geocities.com ... With them, you and James can just plug in all your research. IF you want to go with something fancier/cooler- use Dreamweaver (might want to watch/view one of their tutorials first to see how to set up a cool, simple page, etc)... {HOWEVER, since you are doing a huge research paper/project (vs. students that are teaching themselves Dreamweaver, etc.. you both are teaching yourselves about your major instead..)- you don't need to place it on the web.. BUT since we are doing online portfolios later in the semester, you MIGHT want to just learn how those work now.} Essentially, you both could put together a research paper or presentation (for right now) and then place it all on the web later too. I hope this isn't too confusing.