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This was sent via email Thursday, December 13, as our contingency plan due to a lovely New England snowstorm. DO NOT post appointments here (disclosing your precise location at a specific time in a public forum is a violation of FERPA).

Contents 1 Final Reflection Papers and Rewrites 2 Individual Appointment Overview 3 WikiTeam 4 MagazineTeam 5 Individual Appointment Time Slots 6 LAST TWO ASSIGNMENTS 6.1 last blogpost 6.2 final wikiwork 7 take good care

Final Reflection Papers and Rewrites

Hi everyone,

Well, there's really only one way to do this that I can think of that might actually work. You'll have to bring your Final Reflection Paper Portfolios to me, in person, at my office in Machmer, E36, during the day tomorrow (Friday).

I will physically be in that office from 9-11 am and again from 1-3 pm, Friday, December 14.

I hope to receive some "This I Believe" rewrites, too. (In a portfolio with previous drafts.)

There will be one more blogpost due, I will post it soon. Before you can answer the question, you will need your own copy of the course magazine, "What's Goin on?"

Individual Appointment Overview

Everyone will need to email me to set up your REQUIRED individual appointments for the final one-on-one meeting next week. More on this below.

WikiTeam

WIKITEAM: You can go public with your site now. Just be sure there is some way (from the new HomePage) that classmembers can get to the 'old stuff' easily in order to get around. For instance, maybe you can make a link to the "Last Homepage" that I just archived? (You can find it at the bottom of the Homework Page.)

MagazineTeam

MAGAZINETEAM: Can you pick up and bring the magazines to my office in Machmer tomorrow morning earlier rather than later? That way I can distribute them as people come in to drop off their work. Note that I will NOT be in the office between 11 am and 1 pm.

Individual Appointment Time Slots

Now, for appointments next week: tell Steph by email, only!

All appointments will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, Dec 19 and 20.

On Wednesday, I can see up to ten of you for twenty minute appointments. First come, first served. You might want to send me your top three preferences. There are sixteen slots on Thursday. There are only 19 of you, so hopefully there is enough flexibility for everyone to meet me with no difficulties. Keep in mind that if you fail to show up to this meeting you cannot pass the class.

WEDNESDAY: 10:30 10:50 11:10 11:30 11:50 12:10 12:30 12:50 1:10 1:30

THURSDAY: 10:30 10:50 11:10 11:30 11:50 12:10 12:30 12:50 1:10 1:30 1:50 2:10 2:20 2:50 3:10 3:30

LAST TWO ASSIGNMENTS

last blogpost

I have written two blogposts for, about, and (hopefully of some interest) to you. The obvious blogpost is a response to "keep talking," titled Teacher's Lament (end-of-semester), in which I extract quotes from both you and the students from the Junior writing course.

The less obvious blogpost announces the course I'll teach in the Spring, which (I am sad to say), is probably not a course any of you can take.  :-/ I would be so happy to have any/all of you in class again! Small Group Communication is a 300 level Communication course; I think the course is only open to communication majors, but if you are interested and want to try and get an exception, I certainly encourage you to try.

Please

1. read both blogposts fully before responding - decide which ONE you will Reply to (not both).
2. consider (in your own mind) the potential current and future audiences of each blogpost: who are the most likely people to read anything you now write? Keep the audience(s) in mind while you consider the next two questions (about the rhetorical situation, yes?)!
3. imagine (in your own mind) the "content" of the conversation - draw on what you know historically (what the current posts and quotes are about, what the quotes reference, the larger context of how/why the conversation ever even came about) and decide what point you can bring to this conversation.
4. finally (still before you write a Reply), decide how you want to present yourself as author. Will you write your point (content) and appeal to your audience on the basis of logos, ethos, pathos, or some combination of two or even all three?
5. Write your Reply in a word processing program and save it.
6. Login to your own Wordpress weblog.
7. Return to the blogpost you've selected (links above) and paste in your Reply.

final wikiwork

I am highlighting particularly insightful and useful sentences in your Final Reflection Letters for a baseline point (or just to make me happy) on the Reflection Letter Page. As always, you can earn an additional point by posting your entire letter on your User Page and providing a link to it from the excerpt page. The deadline for doing this will be midnight, Thursday, Dec 20 (as I have to turn in grades on Friday). This will give everyone several hours to earn these last points after meeting with me and receiving your paper back.

take good care

Ok folks, I hope you are using this "extra" time today (snowday, last scheduled day of class!) well. Be safe. See you sometime...

steph