Extra Credit

As promised, here is your extra credit option.

Friday, instead of having class, I will be running the Composing Ourselves conference in TUC all day. Your extra credit assignment, if you so wish to take up the challenge, is to attend a session and listen to the presentation on using blogs in the classroom. This session is the last of the day, starting at 4:00 and running to 5:25. The blog paper will be presented second (after a paper on Stephen Colbert, so not too bad, eh?). You do not need to arrive at 4, as papers generally run 15 minutes or so- but if might be safer to err on the side of 'too early.' You are free to leave as soon as the blog paper is presented, or you can stay for the rest of the panel. If you plan to leave, please sit in the back near a door so you don't make too much noise. I will be there and see you if you attend.

After listening to the presentation, the rest of the assignment is to write up a short (one page) response to the talk and post it to your blog. This WILL NOT COUNT as your weekly blog post- it is extra, after all. But, if you attend and write a blog response, you will get an additional 1% added to your final grade, which may not seem like much... unless you're right at the border between a B+ and an A-.