Reminder! Please submit a recording of your Short Take on Statistics (using evoca) with your text in the class Zine. Practice reading your paragraph a couple of times before you call it in. (There is a document called "RecordingHelp.doc) with some suggestions about how to read more effectively in the course folder. Use the link to the right.)

Note that we will be working with the injury data in a second piece of writing; I have posted that assignment and linked it to the assignment page.

If you have questions about this statistics assignment, check the Assignment Questions in the Help & Feedback section of the discussion group. I often provide help there. Remember that there is no such thing as a "dumb" question.

Finally, I have added several additional general-interest topics in the discussion group, and you can write in response to them to meet the discussion group requirement of this class. Make sure to write good solid well-developed paragraphs (no one sentence responses please!) These topics are open to students in all three sections of this class, so make sure you either have a signatiure file or sign your entries with your name. Use the Active Topics link at the top right of the discussion group page to see just the new entries since you last read. Or you can select a time interval you prefer from the drop-down box. I often go back to see what has been written in the past 2-3 days, just in case I missed something good.

Let's do this a different way

Because Blackboard has been unreliable and unstable, I have moved all the course materials to the class web page and the course blog home page. Right-click on these links to add them directly to your Favorites or Bookmarks. See the links to the far right for frequently-used pages (to the assignments, the archives, and the discussions). Do not access this course through Blackboard. I have stopped updating materials there.

I have created a grading rubric for this Short Take on Bartering. If you have already submitted your paragraph, you can still make changes and revisions right up to the deadline and afterwards too. Just open your paragraph to edit it in the Zine and paste in your revised version, replacing your earlier version. If you have any questions about elements of the rubric, ask them in this special area in the the discussions

If you're a little behind, don't worry. You will not be penalized for Blackboard's technical problems. I'll work with you to get caught up and to get all your work submitted properly. There's a lot of help in the discussion groups -- everyone has been wonderfully generous with advice and encouragement! If you need one-on-one help, contact me by email and we will arrange an appointment by phone or on campus.

You're published!

The first paragraphs have been published in the Zine. Hooray!

Read (and listen to) the ones from your section and maybe some of the others too. Read my comments about this assignment, and then comment in the discussion group about these -- your first "publications" in this class.

Did you know that I list all the files (well, almost all the files) for this in the archives? If you can't find something, check the archives. Most likely it's listed there. If you can't find something, ask me!

Don't forget to check this assignment off your task list in Blackboard.