Tuesday, November 13
You have a choice: You can either WRITE a piece of Flash Fiction (250 words OR 750 words) and put it into the online discussion OR you can READ "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. LeGuin and write about it in the online discussion.
David Brooks on what the story means to him.
Dread Pirate Roberts story from Princess Bride
Thursday, November 15
Steve Blank: Innovation, Change, and the Rest of Your Life (a blog post)
Diestler, Sherry. "Critical Thinking about Language." In Reader.
"Online Social Change: Easy to Organize, Hard to Win." Zeynep Tufekci, video less than 15 minutes.
For fun, watch this interview with Han Han, famous blogger and race-car driver
The questions are asked in English but Han Han responds in Chinese and we see subtitles.
If you want to incorporate a survey into your presentation and paper, please bring copies of surveys to class or you can use an online survey -- which we will do in class. Or you can send one to Ms. Patton and I will bring copies. This is not required. It is only if you want to do it.
11:59 pm Friday, Nov. 16: "Fiction: You write or you choose" Discussion will close