Oct. 3 – Oct. 9
After weeks of roaming around in the wilderness of early Chinese history and its weird magical creatures, we’re back in the twenty-first century and getting our training wheels on to prepare for our textbook work. We have two guests to help us in this journey, and you may find yourself working closely with them for your textbook work, because they are experts in their field. Producing and publishing a book is a complex business, involving many people, as you’re about to find out!
Unless otherwise noted, all assignments and tasks are due by 11:59PM. I strongly suggest you keep a healthy life-work balance and make sure to get enough sleep. Check the “best-before dates” policy in the syllabus.
| Monday |
- □ Look ahead at the readings and tasks for this week, and plan in when you will do them.
- – This prevents last minute panic, and means you can make the most of our time together in class.
- □ EXTENSION on best-before date for Weekly Report (aka “5-15”) covering week 5: tonight, as a blog post in category HST107. Thanks!
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| Tuesday |
- □ Please prepare before class:
- – Trexler Library Subject Guide: Article exercise: At the very bottom of the page you find links to 6 articles. Check in this Google Sheet which article you are assigned, and read through it. Take brief notes (for reference in class) on what you see as strengths and weaknesses of the article.
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- □ Meeting: Trexler Library, B01, 3.30PM (halfway down the stairs, turn immediately right past the vending machines, and it’s the first classroom)
- Guest: Kelly Cannon: reference librarian for Humanities
- □ Feedback on your fellow students’ posts
- – Read through and use Hypothes.is (Group HST107) to comment on your fellow students’ First Post: everybody likes some encouragement! Here is a random selection of three posts. If two or more posts are the same, or one is your own, just refresh the page for a different set. It’s all random, it’s all good!
- * Post 1:
- * Post 2:
- * Post 3:
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| Wednesday |
- □ [No classes: Yom Kippur. Make it a meaningful break!]
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| Thursday |
- □ Prepare for class: [awaiting info from Tim, but likely: just bring an open mind and your curiosity about Open Education Resources (OER) and Pressbooks (our textbook‘s platform)]
- – Ponder your possible role in the textbook: check out slide 9 in this Slideshow: what are your top 3 choices?
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- □ Meeting: Ettinger 204, 3.30PM
- Guest: Tim Clarke from Digital Learning
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| Friday |
- □ Catch up with any missing tasks or help a fellow student! Check in the Discord chat.
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| Saturday |
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| Sunday |
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Where to get help:
- Tea Room on Discord:
- open anytime for you
- I will be hosting Tue 2PM-3PM; Wed. 11AM-12PM, or at other times by appointment via Google Calendar. You can also find me in my office during Tea Room times.
- Private room for confidential chat available on request.
- Discord Channel #hst107 and the (anonymous) Padlet (both also useful for chatting, sharing fun stuff)
- DLAs: Digital Learning Assistants: schedule coming soon!
- Writing Center: Sunday-Wednesday: 3:30 – 5:30 pm and 7-11 pm; Thursday: 3:30 – 5:30 pm and 7-9 pm; drop in or make an appointment
- Trexler Library Course Subject Guide: our own dedicated subject guide for the course
- Safety on/around campus: report an incident
