Week 3

Tuesday, January 22

In-Class Exercise: Creating a communications architecture (exercise 2, option 1, page 169)

"Basic HTML" (ppt)
- Using HTML allows you to organize your memos and make them easier to access online
Discuss Forum Posts:
- Meta-Comments: post as separate threads within the forum
- Click here for an excellent example of a meta-comment provided by JenniS
- Excellent Extension Post and Query Post posted by jennifer 14
- Remember to label your posts
- Remember your first post should be 500-600 words and your second post (unless you post a meta-comment) should be around 300 words
Review Attendance Policy

Memo: Who Teaches Professional Writing? Due 1/27 (post to blog and select category as "Who Teaches PW? Memo")
- For information on this deliverable visit the project description page
Read (in light of "decision architecture"): Peeples, 267-268 and 319 – 383 (1/24)
Post: Launch Posts (Team Isocrates) by 1/28; Query Posts (Team Protagoras) by 1/29; Extension Posts (Team Corax) by 1/30; Meta-Comments (Team Gorgias) by 2/1. All posts due by midnight of the day due
Be prepared for in-class composition of the “Profile of a Professional Writing Teacher” report
- Review the interview reports of your fellow team members