Notwithstanding the importance placed on accuracy, oral narratives often present variations—subtle or otherwise—each time they are told. Narrators may adjust a story to place it in context, to emphasize particular aspects of the story or to present a lesson in a new light, among other reasons. Through multiple tellings, a story is fleshed out, creating a broader, more comprehensive narrative. Should listeners ever recount the narrative elsewhere, they would likely alter it to some degree to reflect their understandings of events and to better apply the story to its present context. In some instances, precision may be crucial: both precision and contextualizing have their place in oral societies.

Indigenous Foundations .arts.ubc.ca

I am not so arrogant as to attempt even heuristic science of the computer. The advantage of this platform in this medium is that I can revisit this blog – a ‘living’ document – and add / retract.

Student blog.

 I have passed a wonderful couple of days reading our blogs and following links. You have provided some good links and a good answers to my questions and the growing dialogue via our comment boxes is excellent. Thank you all.

One of the wonderful elements of working online is that you can go back and correct typos and small errors that you did not see while composing, and even better, I do not stop to evaluate your blogs until mid-term, so you have the opportunity to make these corrections before “official evaluuation” occurs.

My Instructor’s blog is responsive: I read your work and respond. Because I have made a decision to spend my weekends with family and friends, instead of my past practice of working every day because I love my work — I think I need to change my Monday blogs to a Tuesday or  Wednesday blog.

Reading through all your blogs can take a long while  because you hypertext and send me off to places like this , where I learn about new ideas and endeavours and have all sorts of new and wonderful insights to add to what I think I already know. Check it out: Wattpad.

After reading through all your blogs I have a few technical notes and general suggestions for you:

• In the future, link in your sources in your works cited when they are avalible online.
• Also, delete the sample page to clean up your blog
• Paste the question you are answering at the top of the post – and you are free to make introductory comments on why you chose this question
•  If you have any questions or comments about this lesson or the assignments in the next lesson, please do post on our FaceBook page
• Links to EBSCOhost do not always work for me?
• If you can find the same article in pdf form – that is the best way to link
•  In order to encourage comments, it is a good idea to end you blog assignments with a question.
• Use MLA style for your citations: This is a great style guide: OWL

BE SURE TO READ THE GUIDELINES FOR BLOGGING AND HYPERLINKING IN THE SIDEBAR!

One more note, that I will probably make many times in different ways:

• can you see what is wrong with the following phrase:   “… the Western one and the aboriginal – are equally valid.” Post your answer, if you have one, on FaceBook for me – thanks.

I want to encourage you to explore different blogs this week, even though you may have made a connection with someone you easily identify with, for the first couple of Units it will be more interesting if we explore beyond our comfort zones and engage with each other as widely as possible. Thanks. 

Some notes on Monday’s assignment:

Your task is to take the story about how evil comes into the world, the one from Silko that King’ retells in his text, The Truth About Stories, and change it to tell it. First make the story your own, you can change any elements you want, or not. The only thing you cannot change is the meaningfulness of the story. The story will always end with the same meaning: Be careful about the stories you tell AND the stories you listen to because once a story is told it can never be taken back.

Learn your telling of the story by heart –  and then tell the story to your friends and family.  When you are finished, post a blog with your version of the story and some commentary on what you discovered. If you want, you can post a video of you telling the story, in place of text.

This is an unusual assignment and I encourage you to have fun with it – play with whatever ideas come to mind for you. Let your intuition and inspiration lead your storytelling choices. The best way to approach this exercise is to read the story a few times, and then begin re-telling it to as many people as you can. Let your listener shape the story. Each time you tell the story, let it change in the moment, until you find the story inside the story that you like best. Then, memorize that story by heart and tell it again to as many people as you can. Then post it on your blog in what ever form you fancy.

Just so you know, I will also typically leave a smiley face on your blog after reading each post; this is just to let you know I have enjoyed my read and am moving onto to the next blog (sometimes I get distracted and forget to leave the smiley). Most of my commentary will be here, on my blog where I post excerpts from your blogs. Thanks and enjoy your week.  Have fun with your story-telling assignment, that is the most important criteria.

Good Tuesday morning all;

I have finished reading all of your introductory blogs and am most pleased to meet you all and learn a little about your interests and objectives; you are indeed an interesting group of people. According to my class list, we are a group of 33, counting myself, but so far we only have 25 blogs posted. So, I am assuming a few people will arrive late and am hoping that if you are having technical difficulties, or any difficulties at all — that you will feel free to email me: erika.paterson@ubc.ca. I realize many of you will have little to no experience with using social media in an educational endeavour, so please do not panic if you are feeling frustrated with the tools we are using, I am patient and understanding.  My goal is to teach not judge; no question is too small or too long or too late to ask.

Just so you know, I like to work very early in the mornings most days and I like to quit working around one.  During this time I am always monitoring our Facebook page and my inbox. I do not like to work on weekends, but I am dedicated enough to “typically” check daily when difficult assignments are coming due, in case someone is really in a panic – I don’t like panic, it is not good for your creativity or your well-being. I can also disappear for a couple of days during the week sometimes, but I will typically let you know ahead of time.  I also post my Monday Blogs on Tuesday – some days, like today, I will always post a link on our Facebook page when I post a new blog.

Here is a little extra guidance for this weeks assignments which is inspired by your Facebook questions. I realized that the instructions for this first “comment’ assignment were a cut and paste from the blogging instructions, but really this week is different then the coming weeks. Here are the original instructions:

Assignment # 1 . Students are required to read two student blogs and post a significant and relevant observation or question in the comment box of each blog. By significant I mean; the comment offers a new insight or a question with some measure of complexity, or a criticism.

And, here is how I have improved the instructions – thanks to a Facebook question which alerted me to the need to improve my instructions:

Students are required to read two student blogs and post a significant and relevant observation or question in the comment box of each blog. For this week, you will be reading each other’s blogs for the first time, I would like you to spend some time reading a number of blogs and find a couple of people who inspire a response from you. Use the comment box to introduce yourself and ask your questions. You ARE expected to respond to comments left on your blog.

Please NOTE: you are always expected to respond to comments on your blog.