Week 5 Internet assignment available NOW. For the next eight weeks (Week 5 through Week 12), your Internet assignment will consist of reading people's Storybooks and leaving comments for them. This is an assignment that you cannot do early - but on the first day of each new week in the class, that is, on Tuesday, the Internet assignment becomes available, and you have the rest of the week to complete it. So, today, Tuesday, is the first day of Week 5, and the Internet assignment for Week 5 is available through the rest of the week and weekend. I hope you will enjoy looking at other people's coverpages and giving them some feedback!
The Ning Comment Wall. People will be leaving comments about your Storybook at the Ning Comment Wall which is part of your Profile page. In order to get your Profile page ready, I would strongly suggest that you make the latest activity and blog activity invisible, so that there will be more room on your Profile page for the Comment Wall. There is a Technology Tip for cleaning up your Ning Profile in order to make room for all the activity that will now start happening at your Comment Wall.
Storybook Stack. The Storybook stack is HUGE this week. If you turned in an assignment on Saturday, you should have comments back from me now. If you turned something in on Sunday or Monday, it is probably still in the stack, waiting for me to get to it. If you want to check to make sure your assignment is in the stack, you can see the contents of the stack here. A word of warning: based on previous semesters, I can tell you that this is the single busiest week of the semester for me. I promise that if you turned it your assignment in on time, I will get comments back to you on or before Friday. If you turned something in on Monday or later, you may not get comments back from me until this coming Saturday, depending on how the week goes - but I will get comments back to you by the very latest on Saturday.
Tuesday Events on Campus. There will be a seminar on Time Management from 3:30-4:30PM in Wagner Hall 245 (time/location/details). Find out more about this event and other events happening on Tuesday at the Campus Calendar online.
September 20: Jay Ward. Today marks the birthday of Jay Ward, the great American cartoonist, who was born on this day in 1920 and who died in 1989. He was the producer of the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show, which also included Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman as well as Dudley Do-Right. These are all cartoons that I grew up with and which I still love to watch. Here's a DVD cover showing Mr. Peabody and Sherman (image source), which was always my favorite part of the Rocky and Bullwinkle show:
