LitMUSE

A few days ago, I received the following email: HUH???!!? While the email did include the student’s name, I did not receive any of the other necessary information needed for me to respond. Folks, please be considerate when sending me, or any of your professors, an email. Please review my email policy and kindly follow [...]

The first grades have been posted for my online section of ENGL 2112: World Literature 2. While we had some fine observations on the first Tartuffe forum, the “Viewing Tartuffe Forum” had a class average of 1.6. Ouch. Be sure you understand how to write in the forum: that all forums are worth 10 points [...]

The following links are my notes about some of the literary theory that we’re discussing this semester. They are offered as thoughts about our readings, not definitive interpretations of these challenging texts. I will likely be adding to this list all semester, but you might wish to subscribe to the Humanities Index RSS feed. Plato’s Republic: Book X [...]

All gradebooks are now ready and available to students. In order to view your grades, follow the instructions to login. If you do not have your student ID (your social security number will not work), you should be able to log into Banner to get that information. For my World Literature II Online section: you [...]

Class, first, let me apologize for the registration snafu this evening. I trust we took care of everyone before the end of class and that all of you are now registered for the correct section of the course. If not, please contact me right away so we can take care of it. Your assignment for [...]

Over the last week, I have designed all my courses and redesigned this web site. I wanted it more user-friendly, so I put the main sections on the front page, and moved the blog to a secondary place of importance. I really think it will work better for this sort of content site. There’s a [...]

As of this weekend, my gradebooks for World Lit and London as Text are current. Tomorrow, I will give each class directions for accessing your grades online via Engrade. Henceforth, it will be your responsibility to keep up with your grades and discussing with me any assignments you have missed and your intentions about submitting [...]

The following was sent in an email, but here it is again for your reference. Two days before Technology and the Creative Artist is scheduled to begin, my server crashed. I’m out of town, and I will be until June 13th. Therefore, we must go to plan 2. Get a blog on Blogger or WordPress [...]

The LitMUSE.edu server (litmuse.maconstate.edu) is down. I am out-of-town until June 13, so I’m going to try to get someone to reboot the server on Monday. If this fails, students in my London as Text and my Technology and the creative Artist courses will be further instructions — which will likely include getting a blog [...]

Today, I’m announcing a new back-end to LitMUSE: LitMUSE.edu. Several of my more advanced courses will use this system, while other online sections will continue to use Humanities Online. LitMUSE.edu uses WordPress MU, BuddyPress, and bbPress, so think of it as Facebook does Blogging. BuddyPress makes WordPress MU (multi-user) a social community much like Facebook: [...]