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 -- Forwarded Message  **From:** Cynthia Sarver   **Date:** Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:23:38 -0500  **To:** Dustin Bush , Saul Shama , Amanda Haessler , Christine Larsen , Elizabeth Campbell , "elizabeth.elena.campbell@gmail.com"   **Conversation:** Miscellaneous important notes regarding ENG 506  **Subject:** Miscellaneous important notes regarding ENG 506

 Dear All,

 Here are some important notes regarding ENG 506. **Please read and act accordingly. Remember: //we are a team.//**


 * 1) **TST BOCES DISCUSSION**: Elizabeth has begun posting on the TST BOCES site — starting Wednesday. I EXPECT you to participate (BEFORE SUNDAY). If you have not yet participated on Saul’s posts, please go back and do so AND engage with Elizabeth. Once there is a critical mass of response from you, I will engage, too, but as I said, it is important for the primary “push” or input to come from you all for many reasons. []
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">**ASSIGNMENT LINKS**: For your convenience, I have added links assignments to our sidebar on the Course Calendar wiki: http://eng5062011.wikispaces.com/home
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">**PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO**: I have also updated (significantly) the Portfolio assignment. I think you will like our approach: http://eng5062011.wikispaces.com/Professional+Portfolio . Please note: there was a misconception circulating among some of you that you needed to complete pages on all 13 Learning Outcomes. Please read the new assignment page for clarification of what exactly I expect you to produce (i.e., just a shell of that final doc that you will produce in AED 578/678).
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">**VIDEOTAPED INTERVIEW ON MONDAY**: As I’ve mentioned to almost all of you, on Monday in class while you work on your various projects, I will be interviewing you on video about your learning process using Web 2.0. I am going to make a brief infomercial of sorts about learning Web 2.0 for digital immigrants (haven’t chosen the genre yet) and will send you the questions via email that I will be asking, so that you can think about the way you would respond ahead of time. Also know that I will ask for your permission before publishing any final cut of this (so you can have final approval rights). Please keep your eyes peeled for that email.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">**GRANT-WRITING WEBQUEST**: Here is the grant-writing site of mine that I mentioned: [] . You can also see here how I integrated a webquest and an interactive wiki site here that was a little difficult for us to wrap our heads around in class on Monday. The site was made a while ago and needs major updating, but it is a decent sample, I think.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">**CREATIVE COMMONS**: Here also is a table that includes an entry about using Creative Commons to find images that I created a while back [] and a slideshare about how to atrribute credit using CC licences []
 * 7) <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">**VIDEO-EDITING**: If you plan to work on video in class on Monday (many of you do), please bring your **//headphones//** and (if necessary) microphones. It will be too noisy otherwise.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">**WEBQUESTS**: Here are some sites that orient you to webquests as a genre []. Several of us have discussed the format for our particular webquest in our meetings this week, so I will be compiling that info and sharing it with you before Monday, I hope, in which case I will post details on edmodo (be sure you are getting edmodo updates sent to email or your phone).
 * 9) <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> Elizabeth has some ideas about the webquest that she is going to be writing up on our student wiki or google docs. Please be courteous and look these over as they are posted, so that we are all on the same page on Monday.
 * 10) <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">**HOMEWORK**: There will be no official homework this week, but I will post the body of this email on our Course Calendar so that you know where to look for it in the future. It’s up to you whether you choose to Diigo/Tweet/Blog/Respond.

<span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> Thanks for meeting this week and I hope you all have a lovely weekend.

<span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> Cynthia <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> -- End of Forwarded Message