Hey. If you guys want to put up some pics just find the ones you want and save them to a file you store pictures in. Then go in and create a new entry. On the left-hand side of your screen is a column of tasks, just pick the one titled "Upload File". Hit browse, find your saved pic, then type in the first box below the browse option "Image". Then hit upload. Its easy.
Here, as promised last class, is a question—well, two questions— to get you blogging about The Rover:
What, if anything, distinguishes the female characters from one another?
And what, if anything, do they have in common?
For anyone interested in pursuing blogging, here is an entry from Klastrup's Cataclysms with links to various articles about blogging. Thanks to jill/txt for the link.
For people with Blogger accounts (which is most of you, I think), here is a nice walk through of the whole process of adding comments to your blog. With pictures! (scroll down a little to the entry from Sun. Feb. 1/04).
I have finished the aforementioned list of blogging tips. You can download it as a PDF file from here, or open it in your browser here.
I'm putting together a page of blogging how-to's. Watch this space. And get blogging, people! After a good start, some of you are pooping out already! Come on, I need something to read!
This will be my first attempt at blogging and already I feel like a technological wizard...compared to my usual relationship with my computer. Before this class I had no idea what a blog was but now that I am enlightened I think I am going to enjoy it. It almost feels like I'm writing a really intellectual e-mail...where I have to watch my spelling and discuss some really indepth subjects...or attempt to atleast. I have finished reading the material for todays class. These women are pretty incredible! I am shocked by the persecution of Anne Askew by the Catholic community. I am not very familiar with the struggles which have occured over the subject of religion, so I found Anne's imprisonment and death over such apparently trivial differences of religious opinion to be almost unbelievable. Today, the concept of freedom of speech and opinion is so ingrained that it is hard to imagine a past where someone is put to death for their personal beliefs. Anne Askew appeared to be a humble woman whose only fault was to stand up for her rights to retain her own opinions concerning some aspects of the Catholic religion. She did not flamboyantly voice her opinions but stood firmly when asked to conform to the Catholic beliefs. I found this quote particularly disturbing:
"she might have lived in great wealth and prosperity, if she would rather have followed the world than Christ"
This quote sugests that Anne would have been spared if it weren't for her devotion and faith in God, an admirable quality which should have been recognized as such by the Catholic church. Instead, Anne's failure to deny her faith and conform to "the world" lead to her death. The text describes the torture which Anne endured and the final chance she was given to renounce her faith before being burned at the stake. I cannot imagine such a dilemna occuring today with an outcome of such bravery. OOPS...I have to go to class now!
I've been slowly making my way through this week's readings and I'm amazed at the writings. I was quite amazed by Anne Askew's ballad. It surprised me just how much she believes in God and that he will always be there to protect her. Her belief surprised me because of how much religion has been taken out of our lives. We don't have the religious faith that we once had. Religion has been taken out of much of our lives and it's hard to see why someone could be that devoted.
When I was reading Queen Elizabeth I's poem it took me by surprise. I never thought of she as a writer. All I have know her as was a very powerful English ruler. It was nice to see a different side to her. I really enjoyed the poem because I know how she was feeling. Sometimes you are feel something but are forced to show something else.
Here, by a circuitous route (a review of the book Art and Fear from Kevin Kelly's blog, via Chris Corrigan's Parking Lot), is a fable for young bloggers:
The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the "quantity" group: fifty pound of pots rated an "A", forty pounds a "B", and so on. Those being graded on "quality," however, needed to produce only one pot -albeit a perfect one - to get an "A". Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the "quantity" group was busily churning out piles of work - and learning from their mistakes - the "quality" group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.
I want to thank you Dr. Jones for your patience with me. I am usually not that stupid when it comes to computers and the net, but I just have to get used to this Unbsj system. Finally, with your help, I found the Web-page manual. Thank you.
A.R.N.
Hey everyone, I think that I finally may know what I'm doing on here, although I'm still a bit skeptical, but I think that I got it. I am thinking about setting up my own blog, but for now I think that I'll just stick to the course blog! Well since I'm just getting up and ooing, I think that I'll just keep it short for now, but I'll be back on to submit a blog for this week on the novel that we are studying.
Ready... set... BLOG!!! For something so seemingly easy, I sure had lots of problems getting started with this. I know computers are supposed to be these marvelous machines, and our friends (yah right), but man, does mine ever hate me. After much debating and compromise, an agreement was eventually made between my computer and myself, in which it will allow me to finally blog, and do so on a regular basis, and I must forfit my first-born child......
I have decided not to push my luck with this first blog, so I will keep it short and sweet and write more on the readings and class in my next entry. I'm also considering starting my own blog, but that will involve re-evaluting my aforementioned agreement with my computer, and that could take some time.
Just the thought of what I might have to forfit in order to have my own blog scares me. In fact, just thinking of it is giving me... dare I say it... A RASH!!!!!!!!
Jessica and Anette join Christina, Kathryn, and Kristin in the blogosphere.
I have posted a PDF file, called "Four ways to set up your own webpage," that you can download from WebCT/Homepage/Resources. (There is also a copy of the "how to blog" document there, the one I handed out in class.)
Post any questions here.
Folks, when making entries, be sure to switch the post status (button below) from "draft," which is the default, to "publish."
I know this a rather late entry but hey better late than never:) I really enjoyed the first class. I think the use of the net, and computers is actually a really refreshing difference from the usual write and essay blah blah blah. I am looking forward to doing a webpage even i though i havent two sweet clues what i am doing. Wohoo! i think it is a really interesting opportunity for discussion and stuff. Well that is all for now i suppose
ttfn
I just read "The Wife's Lament". I absolutely loved this poem. I could actually feel the loneliness that the woman was experiencing in this poem because it was so well written. I loved how the setting was described in point form and was still imaginable. I can still picture the cave that she lived in in my mind.
The poem gives the readers the sense of the roles men and women were suppost to take on when this poem was written. The woman in this poem was clearly distraught about her husbands exile, however, the husband is described as not showing his sadness on the outside but feeling the sadness inside. I think this is probably because women were expected to show their emotions and men were not suppost to show their emotions in this time period...(I guess in some respects that has still not changed completely today.) I would love to hear your opinions on this last thought. Have a good weekend.
Kristin
Two of you have already set up your blogs (addresses on the left), though I must say, so far you are being pretty restrained with your names. I was expecting things like "Sonic Girl Speaks" or "Bunchastuff."
(There are some hilarious blog names out there. Some of my favourite titles: "Die, Puny Humans!," "My Boyfriend is a Twat" (she actually seems to like her boyfriend a lot), "godofthemachine," "long story; short pier," "Lying Media Bastards," "Bookslut," and my most favourite, "Alas, a blog.")
Welcome to the course. This is another place for us to have a dialogue (as well as via individual blogs, and in class, of course!). Working with a weblog ("blog") may seem intimidating, but once you get the hang of it you'll be blogging away in no time. I've been blogging for a little over seven months now (here is my blog, scribblingwoman; take a look and please feel free to comment via the convenient comment feature), and I find it addictive. This is the second class I have asked to blog; the first was English 3722: Contemporary Science Fiction: gender and sexuality, last term. The exercise was pretty successful and a real online community grew up (If you want to read some of the blogs from that class, they are linked from my blog). I hope we can build the same sort of community here. And who knows? Some of you may want to keep on blogging after April.