Review

Besides creating and writing in your own blogs, please also take time to review the work of your colleagues.

It's fun to explore each others blogs to see how they put their imagination, skills and understandings to use.  We learn new information, perspectives and pick up great ideas by shopping around in the rich market place of each others minds.

Please formally review three of your favorite blogs from the student list.   This task has a few steps:

1. Visit 3 classmate's blogs and explore their posts and features for several minutes each.
2. Leave a respectful and useful comment on each.
3. Write a few sentences about each blog in your blog and create a link to each. Be sure to explain what you like about each blog, and most importantly, why.
4. Title your post "Blog Reviews"

30 Points.

Poetry Out Loud!

Hey you hip and happenin' high school poets, check out these links to information about how you can participate in poetry at the local, state and national level.


Juneau Arts and Humanities Council

Poetry Out Loud!

Extra Credit ! - Poetry Slam at The Canvas This Friday - 25 pts.

November Woosh Kinaadeiyí Poetry Slam & Open Mic

- with NaMee & Na Haan

Friday, Nov 18, 6:30-9pm

Our community open mic and poetry slam series enters its second season! We welcome poets and performers of all ages and abilities. Sign up at 6:00pm. The Open Mic (6:30) is open to any type of performance—poetry, music, yoga poses while beatboxing classic rock songs—whatever your talent may be! 

The Poetry Slam (7:15) is a friendly competition, with the winner taking home $25 cash. Come share your stuff, or listen and cheer folks on!

This project is supported in part by the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council. $5 suggested donation

50 Points Extra Credit!

 Hey you hip, happenin' writers!  Check out the writers retreat workshop at the Canvas this weekend.

Woosh Kinaadeiyí Writers’ Retreat

Sunday, Nov 13th, Noon-4pm

Join us for our first-ever Writers’ Retreat! Connect with fellow writers in the community and write in a relaxed, supportive environment. We’ll hang out, facilitate some exercises to sharpen our skills, and leave with new work, new ideas, and new homies. Writers of all ages and abilities welcome.
$10, scholarships available, just ask.

http://canvasarts.org/

Read This - Ethics, Safety & Style Standards -

For safety and to guard against invasions of personal privacy, wise use of the web requires each person to carefully consider the kind of information they reveal about themselves and each other.

The consequences for inattention to privacy run the gamut from personal pain and humiliation for others to personal legal liability for the author.

As matter of personal and professional style, it is always best to avoid revealing too much about oneself to the world on the web.

Unlike popular social media, we will use the blogs created for this course as portfolios of your best work.  As such, please choose thoughtfully what you post on your or others' blogs.

For this course, please adhere to the following principles:

• Comments: Post respectfully at all times.

• Photos: Do not post any personally identifiable photos. 

• Profiles: Limit information to the essentials. 3rd person biographical style. No last names.

• Blog Name and Title: Choose a blog name that is symbolic. Avoid using your name.

• Credit: Attribute all works, always.

Gratitude

It's two days until Thanksgiving as I post this.  But in truth, we need thanksgiving everyday.

Here is a beautiful TED video about our connections to life and each other. 

Louie Schwartzberg - Gratitude 

Please watch the video if you haven't seen it before....or watch it because it's beautiful.  Feel free to post a blog about gratitude. As always, words and images are good companions for each post.   25 points.

Read a Riff

Students who elect to read a riff in class may also choose to post their riff on their blog, along with an introduction to the piece as well as a fitting image to accompany your selection.  - 25 points.

• Title your post, Read a Riff
• Begin with a brief introduction to the riff.
• Include attribution links for others words and images.
• Include an image/video/audio that supports the writing.