• syllabi stuff: purposes, policies, pet peeves; expectations, evaluation, engagement; (and also, apparently, alliteration!)
• defining literacy

• Discussion of “Words” (as both approach and example)
• Course website “orientation” (take 2)

• Login to the website here with your MyFAU username and “3310” as the password. You must go to your profile area, change your password, and upload your own avatar. All other fields are optional.
• Listen: RadioLab “Words” WNYC (Podcast, August 9, 2010, ~60 minutes). You may stream or download directly.
• Write: ~300-500 word (informal) response to “Words” as your first blog post. Certainly, your post should demonstrate that you listened, but also, feel free to make connections to your own experiences, etc.

• Login to the website with your MyFAU username and “3310” as the password. You must go to your profile area, change your password, and upload your own avatar. All other fields are optional.
• Read: “The Importance of Getting Curious,” (must be logged in to MyFAU), from Ballenger’s The Curious Researcher (2011).
• Read: “Why Blog? Searching for Writing on the Web,” by Alex Reid from Writing Spaces, Vol 2.
• Write: ~400-600 words in response to this prompt.

Use the category tag “mini analysis” and publish your post before class time today.

• continued essay 1 small group peer review & feedback
• cultural artifacts; discussion examples–Tinder, Red Bull, Starbucks…

• essay 1 peer review – you may make comments, ask questions, etc. on your peers’ drafts; your comments should be substantive and/or higher order (about ideas, topic, scope, organization, content); please do not comment on, mark, or correct lower order concerns such as grammatical errors; in addition to comments on peers’ drafts, please write at least 1/2 page of substantive feedback (can be handwritten) – aim to be helpful, thoughtful, collegial, and to participate in the exchange of ideas.
• think about 3-5 possible “cultural artifacts” associated with your topic. while we will discuss and define “cultural artifacts” in class, for now, please think of items, objects, apps, practices, etc. that are products of culture and contribute to culture (or, produce culture and are produced by culture)

• Read “Do Artifacts have Politics?”
• Revised Essay 1 due for instructor feedback. Please save as a .doc/x file as “LastName-E1-Rev” and submit to the Bb assignment upload area by class time on today.

Please write a blog post (at least 200 words) identifying and briefly explaining three cultural artifact ideas you could write about for a future paper. (In class, we discussed random examples like Elf-on-the-Shelf, Powerpoint, and syllabi as cultural artifacts and talked about ideas and directions for hypothetical papers.) I would prefer your cultural artifacts be related to your topic in some way, but it’s not required.

Please use the new category available—artifact ideas—for this blog post (This is a one-time-only category tag to identify blog posts for this assignment. After this assignment, you can still write about cultural artifacts for your regular weekly posts, but you’ll go back to using ‘readings’ or ‘ideas’ categories.)

Although you’re using a different category, this post will count towards your weekly blogging goals/requirements. In other words, for this week, it can replace either a ‘reading’ or an ‘ideas’ post.

• Respond to at least three of your classmates “artifact ideas” posts (you should be logged in to the site to leave comments. click the “add comments” link in the upper right corner of the post to leave comments)
• Read “Do Artifacts have Politics?”