Click for Link to 30 Infographic Tools

For my English 105WS Investigative Piece, you should be integrating some great infographics.

This is a link to over 30 different types of infographic-makers–with some comment about how to use them.

Here is a link to five more! (Some may be repeats).

If that wasn’t enough–Here are 17 more!

WAIT!  Makeuseof.com has a nice article on Infographics with links to ten more!

You need to get caught up before Midterms!!  These are assignments I will be including in your midterm grade:

1. Annotated Playlist (draft, peer response, final)
2. First Week at CAU project (make sure this is posted to MyCompLab)
3. Feature Story (draft, peer response, final)
4. Opinion Piece (draft, peer response)

Make sure you have PAID FOR MY COMP LAB BY OCTOBER 15TH!!  If you haven’t done it, you cannot continue in WISE classes next semester!!

Meet in the WISE Lab in Kresge Hall on Monday to learn how to use TweetDeck and Twitter professionally.

You should have finished the rough draft of your feature story in my English 105WS class, and started the peer review of your editorial group papers.

The next step in this process is to publish the work with your group.

There are a lot of ways to do this–Weebly (a website program), Microsoft Word’s Templates, or e-Zine programs are some of the ways you might publish your work.

This is a convenient list of some of the ways you might want to publish the editorial group’s work.  Scroll down to “presentation” for a list of possibilities.

Click picture to learn about Rosh Hashana.

Sunday night, September 16th, through Tuesday night, September 18th is the Jewish Holiday of Rosh Hashana.  Therefore, Dr. K will be “off line” from Sunday night until Tuesday night.

I have arranged for the WISE program Instructional Teaching Assistants to teach you WordPress in McPheeters-Dennis room 337 during your scheduled class time.  If, for some reason, they do not show up, please wait 10 minutes, then you can leave or stay and work on WordPress on your own, following the directions posted here.

As always, you are welcome to e-mail me or text me if you have any questions or problems.  I will answer those when the holiday concludes.

I will end with the traditional Rosh Hashana blessing for my students:

“May you be inscribed in the book of fate

for a year of health and happiness.  

May G-d Bless You and Keep You, and

Grant you the Blessings of Peace.”

Sincerely,

Dr. K

Here is the slideshare of my “How to do a News Interview” that I presented in class on Friday.

I hope it is helpful!

Sincerely,

Dr. K

Can’t cut the mustard? Just catch up!

I wanted to give new students to our class time to catch up with the assignments, so . . .

1. I have reopened the Annotated Playlist Rough Draft with a deadline for September 9 at 11:59.
2. I have extended the deadline for the peer review of the Annotated Playlist Rough Draft to September 11 at 11:59. (If you have any peer response due, please finish them up! )
3. I have extended the deadline for the Final Draft of the Annotated Playlist to September 12 at 11:59.
4. I have extended the deadline for the “First Week at CAU” to September 12 at 11:59. (You will find the rubric for the project under the 105WS tab!)

I have also added the FIRST WEEK AT CAU page to the WIKI so that you can add your name and a URL link or an embed of your project on the WIKI page. If you can’t upload your project to MyCompLab (which is entirely possible!), you simply enter the message “Please see my project in the WIKI” into the MyCompLap “Composing” section and submit it.  I will then look for your project on the WIKI, but issue the grade via MyCompLab.  (Make sure you do this, or I can’t enter a grade into the MyCompLab gradebook!)

Dr. Kandace Harris

Also, mark you calendars for a guest lecture by MMA Chair, Dr. Harris, on September 19th.  She will be discussing media convergence with my classes.  We are very happy to see her coming to share this important information with you.  Please be on time and show her the highest consideration!