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Reflecting in the middle of the term. . .
posted by JJ at 11:39 PM

 
Jessica Hahn's Midterm Reflection
posted by Lemon at 9:00 PM

 
I really hope everyone's having just a splendid day. Goodness knows that I'm not. But Evilness knows that I am. Regardless, the link to my mid-term reflection, which I just finished, and for which I am contracting for a whopping 200 points, is....



here.
posted by Dr Kuha at 8:04 PM

 
Reflection found here.

200 Point contract.

My name is Michael Heilman



posted by Michael at 7:55 PM

 
Here's a link to my Reflection. I had to get it done this morning 'cuz tonight I'm going swimming and hot-tubbing at a hotel for a friend's personal bridal shower. I still get all giddy and excited about going to hotels and swimming in the pools. :)
posted by Loni at 8:51 AM

 
Mr. Morgan, here is a link to Molly's midterm reflection.
posted by snapdragon at 11:35 PM

 
This is the link to my midterm reflection.
posted by witchfairie at 10:21 PM

 
Here is my Midterm Reflection.
posted by Sharon at 7:04 PM

 
Here is my Midterm Reflection.

Also, I feel the need to promote the spring musical here for those of you who don't read my random and infrequent posts on Rage Dump (which I'd imagine is most people since I don't even read Rage Dump). Everyone should come see A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. It runs this Friday and Saturday, and next Friday and Saturday at 7:29. Also there is a Sunday performance on April 9th at 3:00. It's a funny show; there is tons of great dancing; I play a pimp. What more could you ask for to fill a boring Bemidji evening?
posted by Tiffany at 5:13 PM

 
reminder: mid-term reflection

It's a grey day today: a good day to put on some ambient music and look back over where you started, and what you've done so far.

The MidTermRelection is due Friday, 31 Mar, midnight.  To make the reflection useful to you,  draw on what you've done so far, comments, studio tours, and our discussion notes from last week on the Entry Point. 

When you've finished, post a link to it on the Daybook.

Listening to Grey Day from "Divine Madness" by Madness
posted by morgan at 6:22 AM

 
Getting Rid of SPAM...and other E-mail Pests

"This is a must-read for anyone who wonders why they get so much junk e-mail and what they can do about it! It is well-written and not technical." The Spamprimer is a product of Randy Cassingham, a respected online publisher who has several services of his own that he delivers to subscribers. He shares his knowledge with the public by outlining 'the basics of spam, "phishing" and other e-mail pests, how they got your address in the first place - and what to do now that you're inundated.'
posted by Sharon at 12:22 PM

 
I dont think my project is linked to over on the "blog roll" of the daybook.
posted by Dan at 9:29 PM

 
The Internet of Things

I found a site that proves we aren't the only class exploring blogging. They are Canadians and they seem to be a bit more serious about their blogging than we are. Those crazy canucks.
posted by Michael at 2:47 PM

 
txtng 4 u

Winner of the 2002 Guardian txt poetry contest that I mentioned in class today

I left my pictur on th ground wher u walk
so that somday if th sun was jst right
& th rain didnt wash me awa
u might c me out of th corner of yr i & pic me up

Emma Passmore £1,500

more here

Listening to Three Minute Hero by The Selecter
posted by morgan at 4:24 PM

 
The problem I had with Blogger (when I changed EVERYTHING over to a wiki) resolved itself... So before you do all that extra work, just wait and try again later!!
posted by Sharon at 6:36 PM

 
Having significant picture posting problems with Picasa and Blogger. Trying to figure out how to tansfer posts to a new publisher, or maybe them problem will correct itself.
posted by JJ at 10:36 AM

 
We're back!
Welcome back from break.  We meet again face for face for the coming week: Mar 20 - Mar 24.  Discussions, surprises, food...  Be there.  Details for the week at the Entry Point.

Pass it on.

Listening to Whippin' Piccadilly from "The Alternative Album" by Gomez
posted by morgan at 8:29 AM

 
Hey look, I found a map o' the Blogosphere...
posted by ~B at 2:54 AM

 
Thanks Jes, Aspen and Loni for your helpful and sweet comments about my project blog!
posted by Tiffany at 2:07 PM

 
I don't know what I'm more amazed about:
that I paused mozart's requiem to listen to the hobbit song,
or that the hobbit song was kinda catchy.

but I don't know if it can ever beat Spock singing about Bilbo with groupies.
posted by Froyd at 8:00 PM

 
last orders please

Studio Tours are in and posted, done and dusted, points awarded as requested.  If you haven't already, visit your visitors, and leave them comments on their studio tour wiki page, if you feel like it.

I'm hoping that getting a perspective from the outside will help you see and re-see your work so far. Getting a second and third and forth pair of eyes on your work can tell you a lot about how your work is being read at large.  Studio tours tell you a lot about how visitors read: what they see and what they miss, the terms they use to describe and the criteria they use to evaluate ... and that perspective can be valuable to you, both as blogger and as visitor.

We meet f2f on Monday, 20 Mar. Have a good break. In the meantime, here's a movie.
posted by morgan at 8:19 AM

 
The link to my Studio Tour.

Kingery, Kuha, Hawkins.

Good day, and good night.

Spring Break is now official: Free at last, free at last. God Almighty, free at last.
posted by Michael at 11:27 PM

 
I have completed my first tour, posted here. Grapevine, Hodgson, and Easterling. It is very obvious that there has been a lot of work put into these projects.
posted by Morgaine Le Fae at 11:26 PM

 
Studio Tour One completed. Jessica H., Sharon and JJ, I hope they provide some helpful insight.
posted by witchfairie at 9:25 PM

 
Greetings Spring Breakers.
I have completed my Studio Tours for:

Swensen

McAnnany

Heliman

Good job guys :)
posted by Aspen at 8:37 PM

 
JJ' Studio Tour Numero Uno. Pemberton, Votava, and Grapevine.
posted by JJ at 8:30 PM

 
Here is my tour. Kuha, Hawkins, Hahn.

Happy Break.
posted by mur at 3:24 PM

 
Never mind... I mentioned my problem to my son, Colin and he showed me how to change the preferences.... {now hangs head in shame}
posted by Sharon at 11:16 AM

 
Help!!! I just found out that if I go to another computer in our house, I can only READ my wiki, not EDIT it. So what happens when I get back in the third grade class next week? Part of the project is letting the students see their words 'on-line' as soon as they are done dictating to me... I seem to be running into problems wherever I turn... {pout}
posted by Sharon at 11:08 AM

 
Studio Tours I: Of Hodgeson, Easterling, and Swensen to be found HERE.
posted by ~B at 5:57 AM

 
I finished my tours of Molly, Sandi and Jess's blogs. You are invited to click here.
Or not, it's your choice!
posted by Sharon at 8:45 PM

 
I have completed StudioTour1, in honor of Hawkins, Hahn, and Simpson. I hope you all (particularly those very specifically targeted) enjoy it. And it is right over....

here.
posted by Dr Kuha at 7:34 PM

 
HEre is my link to studio tours for Pemberton, Grapevine, and Hodgson: Click on Meeeee! Mr. morgan, I have also completed my blogging posts for this week: "Always learning" and "Picture Tour" - I think were their names.
posted by snapdragon at 4:16 PM

 
My studio tours for Molly, Sharon, Jessica

Jessica Hahn
posted by Lemon at 3:16 PM

 
I've completed my tour of Tiffany's, Michael H.'s, and Muriel's blogs. This is the link.
posted by Loni at 6:42 PM

 
I have finished my studio tours. Here's the link.
posted by Tiffany at 4:56 PM

 
reminder: studio tour 1

Break is approachig fast.  Be sure to finish Studio Tour 1 before heading for warmer climes.  Put a link to your studio tour wiki page on the Daybook so your colleagues know you visited, and mention on the page what you're contracting for.  For you late-nighters, it's due Saturday midnight (that's an hour after Saturday, 11:00 pm), but you are allowed to post it earlier.

Listening to Friday Night, Saturday Morning by The Specials
posted by morgan at 3:18 PM

 
Go into Blogger, then to the right, 'Edit Profile'. Then down to 'Identity' and 'User Name'.
posted by Sharon at 8:34 AM

 
I don't know why my name is Lemon...or how to change it, but this is Jessica Hahn.
posted by Lemon at 10:22 PM

 
I was also a victim of a spam blog filter's false positive. You need to follow through with the suggestions given to you. If you don’t they will shut down your blog. If you do, they will review your blog and realize their mistake. The same thing happened to me. Do you post a lot of links? That is what got me into trouble, but once my blog was reviewed, I was promised that I would be off the radar of the spam blog filter for good.
posted by Lemon at 10:14 PM

 
This is the message I recieved when trying to log into my blog tonight.

**WARNING!-This blog has been locked by Blogger's spam-prevention robots. You will not be able to publish your posts, but you will be able to save them as drafts.

Save your post as a draft or click *here* for more about what's going on and how to get your blog unlocked.**

To unlock it you need to follow the link and pop in your e-mail address and a word verification. Apparently blogger will have an individual look over my blog and reinstate it.

Interesting. Anybody know how they decide what spam blog is?
posted by Sweetandsourgoth at 9:03 PM

 
Please announce to your classes

The "iMovie Film Festival" has officially returned as the "Beaver  Film Festival"! The event will be held on Student Achievement Day -  April 12th.

We had over 20 films and 350 people attend last year and we can only  anticipate another success to follow!

Prizes:
This year we are paying out over $600 in cash prizes for the top  three BSU student filmmakers. All of the winning team members will  also receive an iPod nano courtesy of the BSU Computer Store.

Registration:
The Beaver Film Festival is open to BSU students of ALL majors. The  only requirements are a 3 - 5 minute film (on any topic) and it must  be edited with iMovie (on all Macs in the SuperLab). Films are due  April 10th.

We have free cameras and tapes for checkout at the SuperLab for all  students.

For more information and online registration - please visit  www.beaverfilmfest.org

This is an event you do not want to miss!
posted by morgan at 3:08 PM

 
I finished my studio tours for Swensen, Easterling, and McAnnany.

-Jessica Hodgson
posted by Jes at 10:21 AM

 
Keep with it, Sharon. You're tough, and we know you will kick a--!
posted by Morgaine Le Fae at 8:51 AM

 
Well........ after spending all morning re-formatting my scans of all the children's written work... moving the pictures I've taken so far, moving the interviews..... Creating a new wiki page for the project... THEN Blogger started working again!!!! AARRGHH!!! I'm too old for this!
posted by Sharon at 8:13 PM

 
Okay, I'll bite - how do you feel about blogger???
posted by Morgaine Le Fae at 7:37 PM

 
I give up. My Third Grade Blog is now a Wiki...... I have transferred the interviews, pictures, and scans of written work to my class Wiki...under, are you ready for this? Third Grade Project...
Such an original name!
Ask me how I feel about Blogger... go ahead, ask me!
posted by Sharon at 2:05 PM

 
/growl Froyd
posted by Aspen at 12:45 PM

 
I am having trouble accessing the blog I created for the third graders. I may have to transfer things to a Wiki....
posted by Sharon at 9:52 AM

 
waitwait...kids who read....and australian on top of that????

now I've heard everything.
posted by Froyd at 1:16 AM

 
According to an article in The Australian, Kids are hooked on book sites...
posted by Aspen at 12:34 PM

 
Studio Tour 1
For this week, it's Studio Tour 1.  This is a chance to give each other feedback on what you see happening: a chance to get fresh eyes on your project.  You decide on how many points to write for: I'll assign what you decide on.  Deadline for the tour is midnight, 11 March, but you can always finish early.  Tourees are looking forward to feedback.

Those who are visiting Sharon Simpson's project should follow the link to her project page and email her for the url to the project itself.

Post your comments on all three projects to a single page on your WikiHome page (title it /StudioTour1).  When you're done with all three tours, post a note on the Daybook, linking to your comments.
posted by morgan at 12:08 PM

 
Closing Time
Congrats on finishing SeedTheThird.  I'll be looking things over this week - and there is a lot to look over. You've been one very active smartmob.  If I haven't emailed you about your contributions already, I will this week.  I'll check the list of topics you kept during the week to record points, but the interesting side of the work is how you developed the threads and documents.  Pat yourself on the collective back: You've made some real inroads and have developed a lot of material for us all to work with further.

JessicaHodgson made the last contribution at 11:58 am on the topic, OffTheCuffBlogging.  Bonus over-achiever points. 
posted by morgan at 12:05 PM

 
I noticed quite a few changes on the Entry Point wiki. I've got to say, I think it makes the wiki much easier to navigate!
posted by Morgaine Le Fae at 8:58 PM

 
Mr. Kuha, I would like to blow rasberries at you and let you know that I too have traveled to your wiki. Regretably the reasons on Micheal's list (though not the part about his blog being tea or the part about being disappointed that your wiki was not about tea) seem to also meld into a list for me. I did though leave you something on your wiki last night. This post is to let you know that you are not alone in feeling a lack of feedback. I also feel like no one is watching, but in the immortal words of someone I can't remember the name of (and mind you it's not a direct quote) We should do these things for ourselves, not for others... It didn't help me either, but I thought that I'd try. Plus Micheal has another good point we are destined to get feedback when the assignment begins.
posted by witchfairie at 7:31 PM

 
I've been there at least 4 times now Mr. Kuha. I haven't added anything because I'm

1. Lazy
2. Over worked from other classes
3. have stuff to post to the class wiki
4. have stuff to post on my tea blog
5. Can't think of anything interesting to add
6. A little dissapointed that it wasn't really about tea

Just breath man - and don't worry.

Dr. Morgan is going to force us to comment on each others blog/wiki as an assignment so I'm sure you will receive feedback shortly.

So... what kind of cheese would you like? (insert sarcasm)

posted by Michael at 11:19 PM

 
Good for you, Eric!
posted by Sharon at 9:35 AM

 
So I couldn't help but notice, that not a single person, with the very notable exception of Sharon, from this class has taken the time to stop by my project site for this class. Not a single one. Nobody.

I've posted comments on many of your blogs, added my thoughts, and given the effort. And nobody has reciprocated in kind to stop by my site, take a look around, and add even so much as a line of text to it.

I don't ask for much. A comment here, a question there, a criticism over yonder. And so I've thought that maybe the reason is that many of you don't think that Anarchism is your thing. I'll let you in on a little secret: it doesn't have to be for you to engage in a discourse about it, learn about it, argue against it, ask questions about it.

And I have a whole section devoted to news commentary, which doesn't even necessarily need any sort of specific focus on Anarchy. And so, I'm going to leave a little link here, for all of you to click on. I expect you to do it.


The Anarchist Tea Party
posted by Dr Kuha at 7:38 AM

 
Will you offer different ways to make bonus points? I always seem to be working when they are offered, and I think I may need some bonus points.
posted by JJ at 11:29 AM

 
SeedTheThird deadline

SeedTheThird is going so well, let's take it until Saturday, noon, to make five posts. There are still bonus points to be earned for being the last to post before or at 12:00 noon, Saturday.

I'll post the next exercise - StudioTour1 - about noon on Saturday. We can run that exercise up until Saturday, 11 Mar - although you can always finish earlier
posted by morgan at 9:41 AM

 
Is the SeedtheThird assignment over at 12AM Friday morning, or 12AM Saturday morning?
posted by Loni at 9:19 AM

 
writing the wiki continues

Breakthroughs!  I can see that, collectively, you've devised a way of organizing your work on the wiki pages.  This one on HowTheWikiChangesWriting -

I propose refactoring by subtitles in relation to the above bullets. Erase the ones you refactor and add more you feel need addressing. We are done refactoring when the bullets are used up. Use the threads to work out the topics in more depth. To help us refactor using our threads we should put what subtitle bullet we are working on at the top in bold.

And on HowBloggingChangesWriting: this restructuring of the threads to make them more accessible -

There are many different ways to blog, and in return, many different interpretations of blogs. It is true that blogging has changed writing, but analyzing it completely would almost be impossible. One thing I think we can all agree with is that blogging has made writing more timely. We can now read something that has been written and published within the same 10 minutes. Blogging has also brought together communities of writers to support (or criticize) during the writing process. In addition, blogging may have made writing shorter, because one does not have to explain every aspect or every word because links can provide those. [...] here are some threads that I have collected from this one long thread. I tried to compile everything that had to do with these headings in one place so that conversations about specific topics could happen. Feel free to change or even roll the page back. I just thought this might be a more precise way to talk about such a broad issue.

followed by a list of topics that sprung up in discussion.

And someone started TheCollectiveNotebook.

It warms my compositional heart to see you take control of the text this way.

It also looks like you're also bringing different purposes into the discussion, seeing that, for instance, the way writing changes in the new media depends on the purpose of the wiki (Wikipedia cf Rose Coloured Glasses and cf Adventures in Wikiland).  The kickback, of course, is to consider how writing wikis and weblogs changes the branch of society doing the writing: how a family changes when they write a common blog or wiki; how collegial interaction changes when scholars use a wiki to collaborate; how student roles, identities, and interactions change when students write a common blog or wiki....

Or not.

There's a lot of participation going on, and plenty of time to do more.

Listening to Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3 from "Reasons To Be Cheerful (With Blockheads)" by Ian Dury
posted by morgan at 8:05 AM