Some General Instructions

1. From week to week, I’m going to simplify things for you by just having you send me the homework, the weekly response, and the criteria altogether. As per the syllabus, you can earn up to a total of 30 points for WRs. But in the class, that was usually an opportunity to respond to anywhere from 5 to 9 criteria presented over the course of the week. Since one hour per week is likely to be much slower (as last night proves), I’ll allow you to still comment on two ideas per week if you want to. Just keep in mind that this would normally be 2 out of 5-9 rather than 2 out of 2, so if you only want to do one per week, that would make perfect sense. In any case, when you get to 30, you may keep doing them, but you won’t get any extra credit. I just didn’t want you to feel like you had to force two out of only one hour, which wouldn’t normally be a problem.

2. Send everything to me by noon on Monday. Please send it in a text email, Arial black (I find other fonts hard to read) rather than an attachment. This will allow me to comment back to you easily. I will be trying to get them graded/commented on and returned to you before the show that evening. This allows me to clarify anything before moving on, so that misunderstandings don’t compound.

3. When you listen to a show, you get credit for that hour, but obviously I need you to tell me the fact. So, along with your HW, WR, CR email, you can include a notice that you did or did not hear the previous show.

4. I’m really hoping you guys will make use of the blog comments section, so I’m going to make a post for every Criteria we cover. They will not have much details, essentially only what I would ordinarily have put on the board in class and possibly things that I did not have time to include in the broadcast. As I said, I hope you will treat these like discussion zones.

5. Podcasting. I know. I know. Not yet. Hopefully, but no promises. On the flip side, there was never a podcast for my lectures in class. People who wanted to make up work had to get notes from someone who was there. Unless I’m mistaken about how Outlook works, the recipients of this email should have the ability to contact other class members by email pretty easily.

6. Emailing me during the show is a great way to get questions answered. Obviously, you can also call (602) 274-1360.

7. Let me know if you have any other questions. I’m pretty excited to be doing this, and I hope you are also. =)