czwartek, 23 kwietnia 2020

Continuing reminder Academic Presenations!

Another reminder to send in your academic topics and/or preliminary academic outlines.

As always, take care and stay healthy!

czwartek, 9 kwietnia 2020

Class Materials for April 09, 2020

First, here is some help for your academic presentation outlines.

There are two sample outlines for you. Please note that they have bibliographies.

There is also some information on how to format bibliography entries. Generally you don't have to include everything, but you should have two to 6 (2-6) sources. Wikipedia cannot be used as a source (it's a great place to go to find sources but it's not a source by itself).

Also, you should stop working on written assignments until you have submitted an outline for the academic presentation to me. The academic presentation is your number one priority at this time.

I will ask some people if I can share my editing of your outlines with the other students (anonymously for the time being).

Even if we start real, in person classes again on April 30 we won't have time to do full academic presentations in class. Therefore it's really important to have them done as much as possible before then.
Most of the time in classes will be spent on writing and excerpts from academic presentations (it'll be okay, you'll see).

Also, here's a dissenting opinion about the disappearance of work: The idea is that capitalism will always create jobs (even if many of them are bullshit jobs).



As always, take care and stay healthy! and...

Have a Happy Easter!



czwartek, 2 kwietnia 2020

Class Assignment(s) for April 02, 2020

 Three things this week.

First, let's have a fun video! This will help you think about the future of work (if you have not yet thought about it....). This is not the only opinion. I'll post a new video every few days (next one - Monday). Please note that there are Polish subtitles if you need/want them...



Second, I'm dividing you all into two groups.

Group one: Those of you who have an academic topic selected and cleared with me. You should just  keep on keepin' on (as the old song said). That means start working on an outline and when you have a first draft, then send it to me. The name of the document should be
Yourlastname academic 1 (use your real last name in place of 'yourlastname').

Group two: Do not yet have an academic topic selected and cleared with me. Send me an email as soon as possible with a topic that you think you can do (that is you can find online resources for it).

Third, if you haven't sent me an email declaration yet, then please do so (include the word declaration in the subject line). Don't worry about translating it (I can read Polish just fine). But if you haven't sent it then get to that right away.

Take care and stay healthy!