Post two times in your blog (research journal), using the numbers, letters, and phrases in bold as the titles of your respective posts:
RJA #13a: Field Research Report–Provide a detailed report on your field research. If you conducted an interview, include your questions and the answers. (You don’t need to include the name of the person you interviewed if he or she is concerned about privacy.) If you conducted a survey, include the questions and the data you collected.
RJA #13b: Annotated Bibliography, Part 1–Following the instructions for the annotated bibliography, create annotated MLA-style entries for four of the sources you will be using for your argumentative paper. Make sure that your bibliographic information is in proper MLA style.
Use the department and course number (ENG 1020 or ENG 122) and other appropriate tags (”Labels” on Blogger) for each of the posts.
Categories: Instructional Technology
Tagged: assignment, ENG 1020 FA 09, ENG 122 FA 09, research journal
November 9, 2009 · 1 Comment
Following the instructions and examples on pages 155-63 in your textbook and in “Annotated Bibliographies,” create an MLA-style annotated bibliography including all of the sources you use for your argumentative paper except your own experience, observation, experiment, or survey/questionnaire results.
Categories: Writing
Tagged: annotated bibliography, bibliography, ENG 1020 FA 09, ENG 122 FA 09, MLA documentation
James Rollins intertwines the Oracle of Delphi, the Punjab region of India, Gypsies, Chernobyl, intuition, and autism in The Last Oracle (New York: Harper Collins-WilliamMorrow, 2008). I’m amazed at how he ties these disparate threads together in an entertaining and exciting yarn.
In the “Author’s Note to Readers: Truth or Fiction,” Rollins lists some of his sources that might be worth reading (431-34):
The only book in the Sigma Series that I haven’t read is The Doomsday Key. It came out in June of this year, and I’m number 32 of 34 holds at the library.
* The real title appears to be Born on a Blue Day.
Categories: Reading
Tagged: James Rollins, Ora, suspense
I learned about The Templars’ Secret Island (New York: Barnes & Noble, 2002) from watching “Holy Grail in America.” In this book Erling Haagensen and Henry Lincoln try to tie together medieval churches on the Danish island Bornholm, the Knights Templar, the Holy Sepulchre, the Temple of Solomon, and the Ark of the Covenant.
They hypothesize that “Bornholm was laid out [by the Knights Templar] with absolute precision as a teaching aid. . . . Here would the student come to learn, and to learn not merely the mathematics and the gemoetry. Here also could be taught the underlying symbolism” (132). In other words, the student would learn the secret knowledge the Knights Templar uncovered and retrieved from Jerusalem.
While their hypothesis is intriguing, I think their extrapolation of geometric figures from the positions of the churches on Bornholm is based on too few points and requires more evidence.
They do list some interesting books in their “Bibliography”:
Categories: Reading
Tagged: Erling Haagensen, Henry Lincoln, Knights Templar
November 4, 2009 · 1 Comment
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iCyte enables you to highlight and save text on any webpage, allowing you to recall the most relevant information. You can save sections of webpages or the whole thing.
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The first technology to bring Social Networking features to every website online AND the first to combine Social Networking and Search Engine technologies! Every search result…EVERY website – Interactive!
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Boolify makes it easier for students to understand their web search by illustrating the logic of their search, and by showing them how each change to their search instantly changes their results.
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Welcome to LORE, an e-journal for adjuncts and graduate students who teach writing at colleges and universities. This journal is designed to provide a forum for sharing knowledge, building communities, and voicing concerns about what happens in the classroom.
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PageSlider allows you to generate a bookmarklet (JavaScript macro) which contains a list of your personal website favorites. The list is displayed in a special way so that you can switch between many pages easily. Only the current page and the following page are being loaded. The other pages are loaded on demand. In addition there’s an overview function for having all pages at one sight.
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By Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle
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Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that’s notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you’ll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that’s evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes.
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The Galileo Project is a source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Our aim is to provide hypertextual information about Galileo and the science of his time to viewers of all ages and levels of expertise.
Categories: Bookmarks
November 3, 2009 · 1 Comment
My ENG 1020 students at Metro had an option for earning extra credit by creating a Zakta guide for their research topic and embedding the guides in their research journals (blog). Several of them took advantage of the opportunity. Here are links to their guides:
Categories: Instructional Technology · Research
Tagged: ENG 1020 FA 09, Zakta
PARISH OF READING PRIMLEY, RENAISSANCE ISLAND
Events for November 2-8, 2009
Parish Calendar
Parish Website
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK:
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JOUST PRACTICE
Tuesday, 3 November, 2009
5:00 pm SLT
Tilting Yard, Renaissance Island
Joust practice in the training arena. We practice our jousting and fencing. Anyone is welcome to come practice with us or cheer from the stands. We also have all items necessary available for purchase here in our Village.
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Story Telling
Thursday, 5 November, 2009
5:00 pm SLT
Crown & Rose Tavern, Renaissance Island
Bring your favorite story to tell or just come to listen. Storytellers can use either text or voice chat.
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En Garde Fencing Tournament
Saturday, 7 November, 2009
1:00 pm SLT
Fencing Area, Renaissance Island
Once again our fair Parish will be hosting a United En Garde tournament at 1 PM SL time, next Saturday, November 7th. The tournament is open to all players ranked Class C and below (and if you don’t know what this means you are likely in that category)
25L Entry Fee, all fees go for prize money.
Feel free to come and enter, or watch.
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Weekly Parish Meeting
Sunday, 8 November, 2009
5:00 pm SLT
Location TBD
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Categories: Technology
Tagged: fencing, jousting, Renaissance Island, second life, Tudor England, virtual worlds
