Have you heard of MOOCs? Massive Open Online Courses offered by the best universities in the world for free. Yep. Colleges are actually pretty nervous. They attract millions for each class with free online lectures, chat rooms, peer marked papers, and all while in your pj's at home, but they also have a huge attrition rate. Completion rates range from 1% to 5% typically. Maybe some days even pj's are too much? Anyway, THIS University of Pennsylvania class begins Monday, and I'm going to take it. I invite you to do the same, and I imagine the assignments will work for both.
Next, here's a link for the Sound Cloud project, a Poetry Foundation website that crowdsources poetry reading so anyone can listen to a poem online. As part of your poem of the day assignment, I'd like you to record your poem here for class and posterity. Start looking for poems you like, or considering questions you might like to ask to find poems you might like. There are many online poem sites, of course, and the school library has a decent collection. I'd also recommend neighborhood libraries or the Common Good Books poetry collection (you'd have to buy it then, I imagine).
While I have your attention, I'd also encourage you to create a blog on blogger. Use your new gmail account and create with whatever privacy settings you prefer (although I'll need to be able to read and comment on it). Then send the url to me @ jwensman@gmail.com so I can link it to this one.
Next, here's a link for the Sound Cloud project, a Poetry Foundation website that crowdsources poetry reading so anyone can listen to a poem online. As part of your poem of the day assignment, I'd like you to record your poem here for class and posterity. Start looking for poems you like, or considering questions you might like to ask to find poems you might like. There are many online poem sites, of course, and the school library has a decent collection. I'd also recommend neighborhood libraries or the Common Good Books poetry collection (you'd have to buy it then, I imagine).
While I have your attention, I'd also encourage you to create a blog on blogger. Use your new gmail account and create with whatever privacy settings you prefer (although I'll need to be able to read and comment on it). Then send the url to me @ jwensman@gmail.com so I can link it to this one.
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