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Extra Credit Assignment 3

November 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Create a Squidoo lens for your research topic.  Bookmarks the lens in your Delicious account and subscribe to its RSS feed on your Protopage.  The lens must include a minimum of twenty items with links and four sections, including an introduction to the topic, a presentation of pro and con arguments, books, and websites.

For help in creating the lens, use the Squidoo Answer Deck or watch these videos.

When you have completed the assignment, e-mail the instructor at the address in the syllabus that you have completed the assignment.

You may earn up to 50 points for this extra credit assignment.

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Research Journal Assignment #13

November 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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.

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Annotated Bibliography

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.

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The Last Oracle by James Rollins

November 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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.

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The Templars’ Secret Island by Erling Haagensen and Henry Lincoln

November 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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”:

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Links for 2009-11-04 [delicious.com]

November 4, 2009 · 1 Comment

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Results of Google Alerts Test 11-2-09

November 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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My ENG 1020 Students’ Zakta Guides

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:

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Video: “Google Sites Tour”

November 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I didn’t know until yesterday that Google had Sites, which are basically wikis.

Video:  “Google Sites Tour

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Renaissance Island: Events for November 2-8, 2009

November 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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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