We have the blogging software up at http://www.unm.edu/~loboblog/.
If you would like a blog of your own, for personal use or for your class, let me know at thegrape@unm.edu.
Thanks for your input and your enthusiastic participation!
-stephanie
Third time's the charm! Hopefully, this time I'll get it right.
I'm a cyberidiot who feels that teaching students to communicate, discuss and argue via cyberspace gives them valuable tools that will help them succeed in their professional lives. I'm currently working on my doctoral dissertation on the use of chronotope theory with cross-cultural novels. Writing and teaching writing = my life.
This tall dark stranger--break--This short pale well-known--break--start over--Out of no discernible (sp) past came this stranger/strange/anomaly--break--just "stranger"--stranger. We do know that he has made a "home"--break--stayed/lived/hung out for some amount of time in such places as Portland, CT, and Denver, CO. "Originally" from Seattle by way of Yakima, Washington; the other "Washington".
I have been instructed to post a biography-type post for this blog. My full name is Juan Morales, and I am a first year graduate student studying in the Creative Writing area. Also, I am a TA.
Before moving to Albuquerque, I lived in Colorado Springs, CO and went to the University of Southern Colorado (now Colorado State University-Pueblo) in Pueblo, CO.
Some of my favorite writers include James Wright, Bruce Weigl, Charles Simic, Ralph Ellison, James Joyce, Flannery O'Connor, and too many others to name.
On a personal note, Rx Bandits, Nofx, and Radiohead have been stuck in my CD player as of late, I like to play hacky sack, and I'm dreadfully afraid of aliens and heights.
Here I sit in an orientation session on blogs, typing about myself for a public post. I'm Michael Page-English. This will be my first term teaching at UNM. I've been teaching comp at TVI for the last two years. I also taught comp at the University of Oregon, where I earned my MA in English. I received my BA in English from the University of Notre Dame. I'm excited to be at UNM, working with a team of people all trying to do their best at teaching.
Hint: if the student thinks an auto biography is the life of the family car, the adult teacher needs to do more work on audience analysis.
People tell me to tell them about myself, and the question is, of course, "What do you want to know?" Eventually we reach some happy medium. It usually involves hobbies, habits, pets, and books.
I just finished Evolution of a Revolt, TE Lawrence - should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in military activities on the Arabia Peninsula. Produced an excellent motto for students: "An opinion can be argued with. A conviction you can only shoot." Or is that more of a caveat auditor? Currently reading the Tournaments of Shadow, which is a 3# treatise by Meyer & Brysac on the Great Game, the Victorian era version of the Cold War. Seems appropriate that the red-headed stepchildren of the Victorian Great Game nations would be carrying on the Cold War, no?
Grad student, starting my third year in Professional Writing, working on defining the banana republic and checking on whether New Mexico is one. Moonlight as an admin asst in the Division of Continuing Education's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Studies Program, and as a tech writer/editor for the Training and Research Institute. For the first, I'm helping evaluate juvenile drug court programs; for the second, I write training materials for security personnel working with civilly committed sexually violent predators. Ohyeah, and I TA Freshmen English as my day job.
Right, then.
Two xx and an xy brought me to this earth. Been traveling around, fell in love a couple of times, had babies come out of me--learned to give up on trying to shape them into angels. They were destined to taste from the tree of life and savor existance. Gonna teach freshman at UNM, worry about commas and semicolons--maybe learn philosophy. At the end of the day, I hope to sit and read a spicy book and have a cat curl up in my lap.
Enough said.
I wanted to invite you to participate in our two sessions on thursday about teaching with technology.
The thursday 9:00 session (DSH224) "Teaching with Electronic Media: Multiple Arts" will deal with adding technology into your class mix. We'll be discussing websites, blogs, listServs, discussion boards, and other types of technology that can contribute to class richness.
The thursday afternoon session "Teaching with Blogs and other Electronic Media" will be in the Lobo Lab Training Center in the new SUB (SSC 263).
For this class, everyone will be able to interact with a blog and have their questions answered about the media and its implementation.
In the meantime, your logins and passwords are good for comp.theanswergrape.com. Feel free to nose around and post comments and posts.
If you've forgotten how to use Moveable Type, you can see the posting instructions here:
You can also view my impressions of the last bloggging session.
Welcome to CompTheoryBlog. This blog was originally created to house discussion from Susan Romano's Spring 2003 CompTheory class. We're repurposing it to demonstrate blog's ease of use.
You'll all be added to the CompTheoryBlog located here at: http://comp.theanswergrape.com/. Your first step is to submit a brief biography about yourself to CompTheoryBlog.
I've included the instructions for logging on, changing your password, and submitting your first "post" (discussion). You can also find discussion about class blogging and a version of these instructions at my blog here: http://theanswergrape.com/aweeblog/mt/archives/000576.html.
You are now ready to post to the blog.
If your post is very long, post the first paragraph in the "Entry Body" and the remainder of your post in "Extended Entry". This will create a link at the bottom of your post where people can view the complete entry.
Post your entry by selecting the "save" button at the end and make sure the drop-down post-status bar is set to 'publish.' ("preview" if you want to view it first). Wait for the site to rebuild (it will say that it is rebuilding). The "edit entry" page will tell you that "Your entry has been saved. You can now make any changes to the entry itself, edit the authored-on date, edit comments, or send a notification."
Notifications let everyone know that something new has been posted to the blog. They are very important, especially for new bloggers, to keep everyone abreast of what is being posted to the blog.
In the future, you can edit any of your entries by selecting the "edit entry" button on the left panel, and then selecting an individual entry to be modified/deleted. You can only modify/delete your own entries.
You can contact me at thegrape@unm.edu(IM: Answergrape) or via phone at 272-7090.