Blog Lecture

The blog is not being taken seriously.  If you read the handouts from the first class, you'll see that this is a place for conversation.  I do not want to forbid students who need a forum for frustration or questions and, for that reason, I want to keep it open to conversation. 

However, most of the content on the blog--recently--does not stimulate conversation at all.  

I expect FULL blog responses.  That means a paragraph, a thoughtful response, and a real commitment to thinking about the question(s) posited in front of you.  I am feeling like, based on yesterdays homework, you are not really considering what is being asked of you at all but moving too quickly to "I don't understand" or something of that sort.  There is validity in not understanding, but only if you work through that misunderstanding.  

Since I have seen some of you on facebook, some of you finishing papers, and some of you not taking the blog seriously, I am putting restraints on it.  I want CONTENT.  I want your BOOKS to come into the conversation.  And I want each response to have a new question; this way, we'll see how questions build and how difficult it is to have one answer or even come close to clarity.  We'll see how much more room there is to think and wonder.  

This is a serious warning--the first week is over and Monday was not one of our better days.  I am expecting some seriousness and some academic labor.