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Merry Christmas everyone!

I hope your holidays are going well, and that the new year begins with no troubles.
posted by Froyd at 8:13 PM

 
Ok, here we go, here is my My Final Project. Have a happy holiday everyone, don't drink too much egg nog cause you know what happend to Grandma when she drank too much, yes, thats right.. got ran over by a reindeer.

It's been grand it's been fun but now JPs gotta run!! :)
posted by JP at 8:21 PM

 
Here is a link to my final write up as well. I really tried to boil this stuff down, but there was so much I wanted to say. I think I reached a happy medium. Whatever that means. Cheers to all, and condolences to those who lost their blogs.
posted by Jonathan at 10:33 AM

 
My final write-up is done. So after you're all done reading that (ha!) you should all go to You Never Can Tell with Bees. It was "dead" for a little while--funeral pyre and everything--but it's back now, and I can assure you it will never die again (well, at least not for another month or so).

See ya in the funny papers.

-Aaron

posted by Reinman at 1:13 AM

 
Okay...I do believe I am done with my final project write-up. I think. I sure hope so. 'Cause after all that work I'm just all kinds of tired...
posted by Sue at 11:44 PM

 
the same thing that happened to sweetandsourgoth. A plague has started among blogspot users! A PLAGUE!!!!

REPENT BLOGGERS, FOR THE END IS NIGH!!!!

actually, they're probably doing server maintenance or something, but compared to the apocalypse o' the blogs, it sounds so boring.
posted by Froyd at 1:10 PM

 
What happened to walkawayrenee's blog? I can't find it?

posted by Barb at 9:57 AM

 
I haven't been able to find it either, Erin. But the blogger help pagehas links to the status page and some known issues. It looks like blogger might be moving servers around. You might try emailing blogger support to see if it's fallen off the truck somewhere.
posted by morgan at 4:53 PM

 
Blogger seems to have eaten Sweetandsourgoth's blog, but none of the other blogs I'm a part of. Anybody know why my blog could all of a sudden be a "URL not found"? Any help would really be appreciated. I'd really like to have my blog back. Thanks.
posted by Temporary Display Name at 1:29 PM

 
There are a lot of angry people out there, sheesh. I read that link on "Grading system gets an F" and talk about a wide variety of audience, a high school sophmore to a Screenwriter. I didn't think it was a bad article, I'm sure there are more college students in the world than her, that agrees with this topic. I personally don't agree with her article but I have seen some prime examples of what the first comment talked about, that I worked my ass off in a class and received a C because I just didn't understand the professor, and another class where I slacked off and recieved a B. Good article to discuss on.

JP
posted by JP at 8:34 PM

 
Here is my Final Reflection. Enjoy! Great class, all. It's been fun.
Have a wonderful Holiday, and I'll see you around!

posted by Berne at 8:32 PM

 
For those of you wondering what in the *%$* The Ditch Walker was all about, I give you my Final Flashback.


posted by j e p p e at 7:49 PM

 
Here's Bill's Final Project Writeup in as few words as possible. Merry Christmas!
posted by Bill at 3:22 PM

 
You know, I don't remember if we read the article about consumerism in pedagogy or in my classroom, but I think it's rather appropriate now. I especially enjoyed the first response.
posted by Jonathan at 10:10 AM

 
when audiences collide
Those of you interested in audience might want to have a look at Ailee Slater's column about grading in the University of Oregon student paper. Don't just read the column; read the responses.

But don't let this reading distract you from finishing those write ups!


posted by morgan at 8:05 AM

 
I've finished my Project Write-Up. So there, procrastination! Cheerio, everybody.
posted by Lindsay at 2:42 PM

 
In a related story: online poetry submissions are at an all time low, spurring an anonymous freshman BFA student to respond,

"&@$% you! I'm a poet
I
can
write whatever
I
want wherever
I
want!
My boyfriend
says
so!"
posted by Jonathan at 1:32 PM

 
every thesis needs an antithesis
and so to counter the recent NY Times article on problems corporate America has composing email, we can to look to history (1999) for this article on the StrunkenWhite Virus.
posted by morgan at 6:16 PM

 
there's a future for you in business
The perennial literacy crises resurfaces in yesterday's Times - this time cast as a problem of email in business:The New York Times > Business > What Corporate America Can't Build: A Sentence. The article is even-toned (no End of Civilization as We Know It language), and mostly avoids the over-simplification of the Grammar Cops. But it fails to ask whether business writers a) don't know how to handle written language, b) simply miscall the rhetorical situation, or c) don't care.

[shameless plug] This is the kind of stuff the new course (for fall 2005) Elements of E-Rhetoric is going to look into.[/shameless plug]
posted by morgan at 9:21 AM

 
Care to Comment?

On Wednesday the 1st, we had a bill introduced in Student Senate that would support going smoke free in the residence halls as of fall 2005. The county decided to go smoke free and this wouldn't apply to the residence halls until 2007. If you have have any opinions on this (whether they support or oppose), contact senate. Our office is in the Upper Union, next to the Northern Student Office. You can also send an e-mail to me at berne.christiansen@st.bemidjistate.edu . Our office number is 755-2099.

Any feedback is appreciated.

posted by Berne at 11:29 PM

 
ready for monday
Looks like we're all set for project presentations starting Monday, 6 Dec. (Thanks Angel). When your classroom presentation is ready, you can cut a link to the wiki page (or blog, or whatever) from the entry point.

Until Monday morning, 10:00 am.


posted by morgan at 1:12 PM

 
There's something to blog about. Corporations telling people that they can't build their own networks because the companies would lose profits. Sounds like a autocracy to me. All hail the CEO of Verizon, for he is wise and will provide us the right to communicate!
posted by Jonathan at 11:31 AM

 
Fast Internet service is coming for those who can't afford it.
posted by Bill at 11:15 AM