Welcome to WAC Online at Franklin Pierce University!

Why WAC? Why Online? Why FP?

This blog will serve the Calderwood Initiative Write-to-Learn Workshop, August 13-17, 2007, at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, NH. The workshop is co-led by Zan Goncalves and me (Wini Wood), and will focus on developing write-to-learn assignments in online environments for participants teaching in a variety of disciplines.

We'll begin by introducing ourselves in a disciplinary kind of way. Each of you is registered as an "author" of this blog, so you are allowed both to post and to make comments after other people's posts.

Your assignment: Create a post introducing yourself to our workshop group. To make your post, look at the top of this page; you should find a button labeled "New Post" on the blue bar. Click that; you'll be taken to a separate page where you can write and edit your post. Notice that you can give it a title in the title field. For consistency's sake, let's all title our introductions in a similar way: Introducing XXX. When you've finished, simply click "publish post," and voila!

The second part of the assignment is to read other people's posts as they come in, and to write a comment after one or two.

I will post two versions of an introduction to me as models. The first will be plain vanilla; the second will be a bit fancier (with links and a photo). If you want to learn how to insert a photo on the first day of class, you'll need to have a digital image available to you in the computer lab. One way to ensure this is to email a photo to yourself at your Franklin Pierce account. This blog site will accept photos in JPG, GIF, PNG, TIF or BMP formats.

And of course, you can post more than once, too, if you find that you have new things to say, or questions to ask.

Looking forward to meeting you all in person next week...

Wini