First Team Meetings

Now that you've actually met your other team members and exchanged contact info, I expect to see a lot more activity on this blog. Only about half the class has actually signed up as a contributor to the blog, so at least those of you who have should start the blogging process. If you've never blogged before, the prospect can be a little daunting at first, but you soon get used to putting your thoughts out into cyberspace, and the important thing is that you can share ideas with each other outside the class that everyone else can look at and respond to on the site.

Because of the very public nature of blogs, however, we should keep our class discussions confidential, and comment on them only in the letters you write to each other (or on Moodle, which isn't public). However, questions and critiques of your own that you come to in your own reading or that your team comes up with are all fair game in the blogoverse.

I want EVERYBODY in the class to sign up as a contributor to the blog by the end of Week 3, at the very latest. Looking forward to our discussion of Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters next week.

I leave you with a picture of Xena and Nunzilla, engaging in a little swordplay. Feel free to comment. Or maybe it will inspire a story of your own. You can, of course, use this site to try your hand at a little fiction, if you choose.

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