Welcome to our course blog! I’m Stephen Siperstein, the instructor of this course and I am excited that we will be using a blog as a primary assignment in our class. One purpose of the blog is to widen our discussion beyond the classroom. Blogs are also great because we are all so immersed in media in our daily lives, and a blog helps bring the questions we discuss in class to bear on a wide range of media, texts, and other conversations. We’ll use the blog posts to generate discussion in class, and to open new directions of inquiry that are not necessarily in the syllabus. Here are a few examples of blogs from other environmental literature courses. I would suggest taking a look at some of the posts on these sites to get an idea of the many possibilities and different kinds of blog posts:
http://eng4301f10.wordpress.com/
http://aml24101614.wordpress.com/
If you ever need help with technical questions relating to the blog, email me (siperste@uoregon.edu), or contact the Information Services Help Desk at 541-346-HELP or helpdesk@uoregon.edu.
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