Happy Sunday All,<\/p>\n
Thanks for all of your introductions – what an amazing group we’ve got assembled here!<\/p>\n
There are 42 of us (including your instructors) on this journey. \u00a0A few thoughts on our first steps together, and the road ahead:<\/p>\n
Conversations:<\/strong> \u00a0 I’m pleased with how everyone is being convivial & concise in their postings and responses. \u00a0We also encourage everyone to experiment with images, video, infographics, etc, as a means to leap beyond text in our media environment. \u00a0 Always aim for whatever is most appropriate to the message and to our learning together.<\/p>\n Week-to-Week Transitions:<\/strong>\u00a0Each week of the course ends Sunday at midnight (Pacific), so that\u2019s when you should be finished any contributions relating to the previous week, and can begin posting in relation to the next week. \u00a0Posting early or late will be considered asocial & could impact your participation grade. \u00a0The only exception to this is when materials specific to the next week\u2019s activity are being posted by your instructors or any of the A2 teams: \u00a0Sundays from noon to midnight is an appropriate \u2018move-in\u2019 period to set up for the next week.<\/p>\n Assignments:<\/strong> \u00a0 I (DavidV) will be marking A1 & A3 for everyone, meaning that David P will be marking A2 & A4. \u00a0Please direct your inquiries about these assignments to the appropriate one of us if you can.<\/p>\n A1:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 By now you\u2019ve probably begun thinking about your A1 topic. \u00a0Hopefully the Emerging Markets Poll activity helped you to scope out some ideas. \u00a0Don\u2019t hesitate ask me if you are unsure.<\/p>\n A2:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Later today your instructors will break out the results of the Emerging Markets Poll & use these to determine the topics, teams and weeks for your A2 presentations. \u00a0 \u00a0If you don\u2019t know your topic, team & week by tomorrow noon, please let DavidP know about it.<\/p>\n In the Flow:<\/strong> \u00a0Finally, if you have any questions or concerns about the course, how this WordPress platform works, or what is expected of you, don’t hesitate to ask. \u00a0You can email either of us, reply to these announcements, post in the Question & Answer category, or consult with your peers.<\/p>\n DavidP will be following shortly with an announcement concerning instructions for week 2.<\/p>\n All the best,<\/p>\n DavidV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy Sunday All, Thanks for all of your introductions – what an amazing group we’ve got assembled here! There are 42 of us (including your instructors) on this journey. \u00a0A few thoughts on our first steps together, and the road ahead: Conversations: \u00a0 I’m pleased with how everyone is being convivial & concise in their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7929,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7928\/revisions\/7929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}