This is a copy of an email I sent on July 12, 2009, reviewing your immediate assignments in History 300:
This email is for all students and for staff and honorary staff of our course. For simplicity Frontier Washington Easterners will be FW-E and Frontier Washington Westerners will be FW-W. The assignments are fundamentally the same with some tweaks for East and West. No river rafting for West-Siders and no Blakely harbor cruise for East-Siders. Sorry!
But this email is not about our wonderful adventures afoot and afloat. Instead it is about our assignments, which ideally add spice to the adventures in historical sites and vice versa. In my assignments overview I've mentioned things like writing comments on each others' blogs, reading HistoryLink entries for Frontier Washington, and making frequent blog entries. But how many comments? How much HistoryLink knowledge? and How many entries? Here's the deal: each week you will need to:
1. Write and post 5 or more comments on blog entries on other course blogs (including blogs on the homepage).
2. Write 2 or more new entries for your own blog with good historical content, citations, and new media. (Part of our job is to help you write better and better historical blog entries.)
3. Be prepared for a diagiostic quiz covering (a) our blogs up to 24 hours before the quiz, and (b) HistoryLink entries for the first half of the timeline.
-- First quiz for FW-E will be next Thursday, and first quiz for FW-W will be next week.
-- By "diagnostic" I mean that this test will be a list of short answer questions with your goal to be to answer as many as possible. I will grade on a simple pass or fail basis. This will help you and me determine whether you are carefully studying the course blogs and learning the basic framework of frontier Washington history.
4. Work with other class members on the class timeline for frontier Washington -- each entry, remember, should include (a) title, (b) brief description, (c) a why statement -- why is this important?, and (d) citations of two or more articles you have studied on this subject. We will continue to work on this in class.
5. Move forward on your final project: your blogs provide a good avenue for developing the final projects.
But this email is not about our wonderful adventures afoot and afloat. Instead it is about our assignments, which ideally add spice to the adventures in historical sites and vice versa. In my assignments overview I've mentioned things like writing comments on each others' blogs, reading HistoryLink entries for Frontier Washington, and making frequent blog entries. But how many comments? How much HistoryLink knowledge? and How many entries? Here's the deal: each week you will need to:
1. Write and post 5 or more comments on blog entries on other course blogs (including blogs on the homepage).
2. Write 2 or more new entries for your own blog with good historical content, citations, and new media. (Part of our job is to help you write better and better historical blog entries.)
3. Be prepared for a diagiostic quiz covering (a) our blogs up to 24 hours before the quiz, and (b) HistoryLink entries for the first half of the timeline.
-- First quiz for FW-E will be next Thursday, and first quiz for FW-W will be next week.
-- By "diagnostic" I mean that this test will be a list of short answer questions with your goal to be to answer as many as possible. I will grade on a simple pass or fail basis. This will help you and me determine whether you are carefully studying the course blogs and learning the basic framework of frontier Washington history.
4. Work with other class members on the class timeline for frontier Washington -- each entry, remember, should include (a) title, (b) brief description, (c) a why statement -- why is this important?, and (d) citations of two or more articles you have studied on this subject. We will continue to work on this in class.
5. Move forward on your final project: your blogs provide a good avenue for developing the final projects.
Yay, this is precisely what I needed to get and stay on track for our postings, thanks Bill.
ReplyDeleteI have really enjoyed this class and I am grateful for the technical aspect of it too. It was nice to have Professor Cebula with us on our rafting trip too, without his comment about technology in today's history jobs, I would not have been interested in getting technically savvy. Thank you, Larry.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the class information. I just got back from Montana and will be updating my Blog.
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