Preliminaries

One of the requirements of the class is that you blog the course. This means that you will be reading books, articles, working on projects, and listening to the occasional guest presenter. As a result of your active engagement in the class you should have thoughts, observations, and meditations regarding what you are learning. Your blog is the place where, each week, you will post an entry that reflects your current thinking. It could, for example, be something on an idea that you read about in our current reading project: The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell. The point is that by writing you explore your thoughts and you formalize them through the writing process.

May I suggest that you use blogger.com as the site for your blog. It's quick and easy to create one. After you have done so please share its location with me so I can include it on the class page.

Remember, you are required to blog, to read others blogs and to post comments and observations on their web pages as a part of the class conversation.

You might spend a little time looking at other blogs to see how they are constructed, what people write about, how much they write, etc.

On another note, you will find information about the class on the site I created for the class, please read so you'll know what we are up to each week. For Monday I should have your resume, you should be reading Gladwell, and you should have perused the class page so you are knowledgeable about the class and how it works.

Also, I will publish my thoughts, lecture notes, and observations in this location, just like you will be doing.

Have a great Sunday!