Class #1 Post-Game and Reminders for Next Week

Update: All links fixed. I think.

It was great meeting all the new people and reacquainting with the old people. One thing I forgot to announce in the Tuesday afternoon section... you are free to switch to the Monday night section, which would benefit me by evening things out. (10 in one and 21 in the other!) Or if you need to attend the other one once or twice because of a scheduling conflict, that would be fine too. It's not the best because your assigned partners won't be there, but as a back-up let's say.

Reminders:

-Share 390 proposal with Aaron on Google Docs if you have not already done so. (This is only necessary for last semester's students if you have made substantive changes.) Email attachment is fine as a backup if you're having trouble with Google Docs. Note: you will generally not get a confirmation from Aaron when you send a document, because he gets like 50 every day and can't immediately respond to all of them. You will get notification if something didn't work!
-Write a test post in the blog comments if you have not already done so.
-Read Boix-Mansilla & Duraisingh article. 
-Read sample papers and mark as instructed. The samples and instructions are posted in the "Sample Projects" page above.
-Meet with your faculty mentor as soon as possible. Here's the form to give them. Click that link, then File -> Download original, and you can print the PDF or email it to them.

Welcome

This is the course blog for BIS 490. I will mainly use it to make announcements and adjustments to our schedule; you will use it to post your answers to any homework exercises I may give, and to extend our classroom discussion.

You can preview the course syllabus for the Monday night section and the Tuesday afternoon section.

Please write a test post in the reply below so I can make sure the blog is working for everyone. You can either use an existing Google/Gmail I.D. or make a Blogger I.D. Let me know if you have any difficulty and I can help. It would be best if your test post was some kind of question or comment about the syllabus. Read it carefully!

As noted in my email, I recommend Graff and Birkenstein's They Say / I Say and I recommend against the Strunk and White guide on the bookstore's required reading list. The other textbooks are ones you already bought for previous courses, or articles I will post or xerox.

I look forward to meeting all of you soon.