Friday, March 25, 2011

Here We Go into the Blogosphere!

Welcome to the Remixzone for our English 101D class. As the name implies, this is a space where old and new ideas mix, mingle, and come out looking just a little different than before.

During this quarter, we will explore a range of topics and ideas within our major themes of identity, community, and tradition. This blog exists as a border zone of sorts: partly academic, but also partly personal, as it's your space to make your own. It's also a space where you can meet and mingle with students from our class outside of a traditional, online environment.

For the next ten weeks, we will be blogging about a few different things: what can we really learn about someone without even ever meeting them? Where are our communities? And what does what we eat say about us? The quarter will culminate in a lovely e-portfolio posted in your blog space, consisting of your choices of writing from the quarter, which you'll definitely want to stick around to see and do.

Let us introduce our space a bit. Look up and you'll see where we, the instructors, are, hoping to prove we exist in a 3-D world with our 2-D photo. We're really excited you're here and look forward to many great blogs to come. On the sidebar is where the ghosts of English 101D hang out in the Alumni section, previous blogs from students of the past to help you in case you're in need of inspiration. We have kept some exemplary e-portfolios in this section as well so you can get some ideas about possibilities. And finally, you'll find all the students of our current class listed. To access their blog, simply click on their name. (Make sure you enter the blog from your browser and not the class link.) So as you can see, the Remixzone is really a hub for all your blogs.

Come back to this site often to see the development of our thoughts on these important issues confronting our society today. Feel free to leave us a message and let us know what you think about what's going on and to do the same for each other.
P.S.Want to know the magic word? It's BigtimefunEnglish class!

Looking forward to a great quarter!
Andrea and Lolly