Course Announcements

Just a quick announcement to congratulate Kama Sue Siegel, winner of the iPod Touch drawing!

And congratulations to everyone who participated in the Challenge this year--faciliators, instructors, and students. Course completers will receive their certificates by email by the end of the month.

Also stay tuned for the post-Challenge survey!

Have a good weekend,

Meg

Hello everyone,

Just a quick reminder before the holiday weekend that your week 5 assignments are due at 11:59pm on Friday September 11.

If you have any make up assignments to complete, they should also be submitted by that deadline--and remember to let your facilitators know that you have completed the work, so that they don't miss it during the final round of grading.

Remember that you must fully complete all course assignments to be eligible for the final prize drawing for the iPod Touch, which will take place on Friday September 18.

Everyone who completes the course will receive a certificate of achievement by the end of the month.

Thanks again for all your enthusiasm and hard work. We hope you've had a great time learning over the past five weeks!

Best,

Meg

Hello, everyone! 

It is hard to believe that we are now halfway through the Challenge, with week 4 set to begin on Monday! We hope that you'll continue to have fun with social networking and Twitter even as we move onto LibGuides and wikis. Watch your email (and spam filters) for your LibGuides account information.

Remember that if you weren't able to complete a previous week's assignments, you can always go back and do them before the end of the course. Just let your facilitator know that you have submitted new work to be graded. You will need to complete all assignments to be eligible for the iPod Touch drawing.

Also a quick tip about blogging: if you want to draft your blog entry elsewhere for fear of losing your work if your browser crashes, please use Notepad or another plain text editing tool. Copying and pasting material from Word introduces hidden markup that is unfriendly to the course site. This is true with most other blogging software you may use.

Thanks once again for all your enthustiastic participation and enjoy LibGuides and wikis!

Best,

Meg

Hello everyone,

With the first week of the Challenge drawing to a close, here are a few announcements:

Assignments for week one are due Sunday night at midnight. To submit an assignment, use the "my assignments" link in the left sidebar. Each week's assignments are already listed for you; simply update the student notes column to let your facilitator know where to find your work for the week. Use this field to point out your relevant blog posts, for example, as well as the location of the work you've done on outside websites (later in the course this will include sites like Flickr and LibGuides).  N.B.: don't put your actual work in this field, just use it to let your facilitator know where to find your work.

Facilitators wil grade your work and provide feedback by Wednesday morning at the latest.

A word about group chat sessions: we know that unfortunately chat functionality on the site has not turned out how we hoped.  Tom is working on a solution for next week. In the meantime, we will be sending some alternative options to your facilitators.

Week two starts on Monday. Are you ready for Flickr and Social Bookmarking?

Best,

Meg