Welcome to the final week of LIS 757! I know you are all busy working on your papers, so we’ll keep things fairly light this week.

Tasks for the week

  • I want to hear about your personal experiences with the social software tools we’ve used & looked at this term. Which ones have worked for you, which haven’t? What is your opinion of blogging as a learning tool? Do you plan to continue blogging? Are you hooked on Bloglines or do your RSS subscriptions haunt & torture you? Do you think you’ll continue using del.icio.us (or any other bookmarking/tagging tool)? Let us know!
  • I’d like you all to think about the educational journey we’ve been on over the past 13 weeks. How has the distance ed. experience been for you? What could I have done differently to make the learning experience better (be honest, I can take it!)? I’ll be posting my own wrap-up thoughts later this week and invite your feedback on those as well.
  • If you haven’t had a chance to add your best (and worst!) practices to our wiki, you have another week to do so. I’m thrilled with the flurry of activity on the wiki, there are some excellent and inspired ideas on there that will prove to be extremely useful!
    If it’s OK with everyone, I’ll make the wiki public at the end of the week so we can share our ideas with the rest of the web world.

And finally, the admin stuff for the week

  • Final papers are due this Wednesday, Dec 6th (by midnight).
  • No blogging deadline this week!
  • Office hours this week are on Tuesday, 8-10 pm EST. I’ll also plan to be online Wednesday evening, in case you have any last minutes questions about your papers. As always, feel free to email me if I’m not online when you are.
  • I’ll have your papers and final grades back to you some time during the week of December 18th.