Should we talk about the weather?

Posted by David
“Hello, how are you? I know you, I knew you, I think I can remember your name, name”

I can’t believe we’ve lost yet more class meetings to snow. Someone must have missed the memo that Emory is in Atlanta.

I’ve had to reschedule my conference yet again as a result of this latest weather event. I’ve spent the day canceling flights, catering orders, room reservations, dinner reservations, and starting to look into dates in the future when we can reschedule the event.

Here’s why this matters to you: if Emory is opened on Thursday, then we’ll have class since I won’t be at my conference. This would bring us back more or less on track.

The reader response for this week was posted earlier today–you should all read and think about it. I’d suggest leaving comments on the post if you have thoughts or questions. The responders do not need to get something posted tomorrow. I’ll give the responders and historians some further instructions about those posts on Thursday, which will vary depending on whether we have class or not.

In the meantime, there are two assignments for you to work on between now and Thursday:

First, I’d like you to work on your domains. If you haven’t changed your theme yet, do so. Make certain that the front page is a static page, not a posts page. Choose an image to go on your home page, preferably a photo of yourself. Write a paragraph or two of text for your home page, welcoming readers to your site and giving some sense of your interests and affiliations. I will create and post a badge for myself like the badges I had you make and I’ll ask you to insert the badge on your site and have it link back to my page here. I’ll also ask you to insert some text indicating that you’re taking part in the Domain of One’s Own pilot and to insert the Domain badge on your site.

Second, join in on the first #allwrite collaborative Google doc before midnight on Wednesday. Here’s the text announcing the project & providing further instructions, written by Janine Debaise:

This week, my students are going to take the lead in setting up a google document that explores the environmental implications of the food we eat. (They figured it was a universal topic — everyone eats food!) We’re hoping to get as many people as possible contributing.
We plan to begin on Tuesday at 1 pm EST and end Wednesday at midnight EST. (Let us know if you think your students need more time — we can extend it.)
My #nifkin students will use Eustace B. Nifkin — a legendary, unofficial student  — to spread the news.
On twitter, tell your students to follow @follownifkin
Or if they prefer Facebook, they can follow Nifkin here:
Or they can check out Nifkin’s blog:
Or they can follow Nifkin on Google+
By Tuesday at 1 pm, we should have instructions up everywhere.
Or if you’d like to just give them direct links, you can use these bit.ly links:
REMIND YOUR STUDENTS AND FRIENDS TO SIGN THEIR NAMES AT THE BOTTOM.
Since I only have 20 students in the class, they are really hoping for participation from some of your students. I keep telling them that there are students in Georgia who want to collaborate with us ….

This sort of collaborative writing is probably best done from home anyway, so it’s the perfect activity to take the place of classtime missed because of a snow day.

Leave comments here if you have any questions at all. More tomorrow!

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