The Cognition of the Read/Write Web

This blog ends up mainly being a place holder for presentation materials. Check out the static pages to the right for more information on a variety of topics.

If you’ve found your way here from the USG computing conference, you’ll probably be looking for the facebook or twitter resources

Dear Students of Sociology/Psychology,
    It is on behalf of Alpha Kappa Delta that this letter is being written. We invite those students with an interest in Sociology, no matter how great or small, to join our Honor Society provided they meet the requirements of initiation. These requirements include that the student:

• Must be an officially declared sociology major or demonstrate a serious interest in sociology within an official program of the host institution.
• Must be at least a junior by standards of the host institution.
• Must have accumulated the equivalent of an overall GPA of 3.0 and rank in the top 35% of their class in general scholarship
• Must have maintained the equivalent of a 3.0 GPA in sociology courses taken at the host institution prior to initiation.
• Must have completed at least four regular courses in sociology prior to initiation.

    If you are interested please contact our faculty advisor, Dr. Franziska Bieri, no later than March 10th. Thank you in advance for your interest and we look forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely,
Cassi Gerjets
Lambda of Georgia Chapter President

Group 2 (A&B) will go head and go on Wednesday as planned. We will finish Semantic info then take our test, probably delayed one class period.

No class on Monday because I have to go in for potential jury duty on Monday (20th).

I am still behind on getting folks majors changed to psychology (I have also been lax on the minors).

It is my intention to devote time every Friday morning to this task. You are more than welcome to schedule an appointment with me.

I’m keeping a lot of class info centralized on my website… go there for syllabi, schedules, podcast channels, etc…

I totally need to leave town tomorrow for a conference and I’m making chili for the annual cookoff.

Can anyone help cure cancer by serving my chili up. Of course, there’s always a pirate theme and you’ll get to talk smack about the chili Dr. Lloyd an Dr. Smith serve up.

I’ll have everything ready for you… just look pretty and lick your fingers and go “yummy” put your vote in the skull.

So… I’ve been mostly listening to Pandora lately… not sure why I don’t listen to last.fm much anymore.

I may give it another chance this week and see what I can discover… I’m sure I don’t realize how to use the software.

For instance… check out this site:

It is so much easier to consume and not share… much less create.I guess I could blame my job… but I think it’s me  

Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.

If you like this then you need to check out his other stuff… I think it’s even better… The Machine is Us/ing Us

So I’m leading a workshop at the fall faculty retreat today on using facebook. If the wi-fi will work up here in the woods, we’ll be fine. There really does seem to be a shortage of tutorial material for facebook. However, with its dynamic/mashup capabilities & continual improvements I can see how you could spend a lot of time working on a guide that would soon be obsolete. I’m going to list some resources below, feel free to share what you find as comments. I actually find the absurd / joking / humor sites to be the most informative… you should revisit them when you’ve gained some experience.

Tutorials & start-up guides:

• Newbie’s Guide to Facebook
• 7 Things You Should Know About… Facebook II via Educause
• Social Networking: A beginner’s Guide to Facebook
• Facebook Tutorial from Diversity College

Apps:

• Facebook powertools from Mashable

Jokes (that also inform):

• The Unofficial and Smartass Guide to Using Facebook
• Facebook Etiquette (a college humor classic)
• Steve Speaks about Stalking
• and finally the Facebook songs doesn’t say it all, but it says a lot…

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