Two kinds of work on the Web

Today you have the chance to learn a couple of important ways to share your writing with others. I've prepared two instruction sheets that are meant to make it possible for you to walk through the processes without assistance, but I'll be here to assist you if you need it (and so, I hope, will some of the people who already know how to do this).

I'll distribute the instruction sheets.  They're on line, but often it's easier to have them next to your keyboard.  Like any computer instructions, they need to be followed pretty exactly (computers are persnickety, and dumb, if you didn't already know that).

We'll begin with the easy one: registering and posting on the course Forum.

When everybody's registered and posted something, we'll turn to posting on your STU Web page, and if you have a report on what you've learned so far about either the Hostage or Unidentified Human Remains, you'll be able to post that and see what it looks like.

We'll be using the same procedure for the weekly learning journal; we'll start those next week.

By next Wednesday, you should have posted a research report on your Web site, posted a reflection on reading The Hostage on the appropriate Forum, and, if you choose, posted one on reading Unidentified Human Remains on that Forum.

Note on Unidentified Human Remains

In a normal year in this course people would have choices about which scripts to read and which plays to attend. This year I began with the assumption that at least the first two plays would unavoidably be required. However, I think Unidentified Human Remains poses a challenge to that.  Although I was aware that the play was, as they say, "challenging," and called for an "adult content" warning, I hadn't actually read all of it.  Having done so, I want to make sure that everybody knows that it isn't "required."  You may -- I never know how people will react -- find it offensive. If you do, we'll work out alternatives. I'll have more to say about this next week.