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Please leave a comment to this post related to the food and drink you'll contribute to the final class.

Please sign up for the TLT Tag Team.  This is the stuff we'll be asking for you to be helpful with:

Hi all ... Bart Pursel from the College of Information Sciences and Technology will be in class on Thursday to talk to you a bit about virtual worlds and how they play out in a learning landscape.  Bart maintains a blog that you might want to take a look at it.  He also passed a link along to a PDF he'd like you to skim over.  It should be a fun and interesting discussion, so please try to come ready to participate.

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Just a quick note to let people know to beware that the default when creating a blog post on MT4 is published (pull down menu in "Publishing" section.  So, if you are typing something as a draft or for yourself that you don't want published make sure and select unpublished in the status menu.

Can you please leave a comment on this post (at the course blog site, not at Pligg) if you are still having problems with Pligg.  The one issue I am most interested in fixing is the problem we've seen wit ha couple people's posts coming in being attributed to someone else.  If this is still happening let me know in the comments.  Thanks!

I just wanted to let you all know that the Blogs at Penn State toolset is now working with visitor comments.  If you want to turn on commenting, you can follow the directions here:

At least one week this semester your group will be asked to take the top vote getters on the Pligg site and facilitate an in-class discussion.  To the degree it is possible, you should focus the in-class discussion around the themes of the course (community, identity, and design).  How you run the discussion is up to you.  You can be as creative as you like, and draw upon technologies (either ones we have discussed in class or not) to help you.  You will need to check the Pligg site after 5 pm on Tuesday and then organize your discussion in time for Thursday's class.  If you need things (materials, etc.) from Cole and I make sure to request them ASAP.  We will do what we can to accommodate you.  You should anticipate approximately one to one and a half hours of discussion, so plan accordingly.  

One of your weekly assignments will be to post responses / reflections on the readings that you are doing.  These responses should focus around the three themes of the course: Community, Identity, and Design.  Not all readings will address all themes, so it is not a question of commenting on each theme with each reading.  The idea is for you to start to build up a strong theoretical foundation for the way technology should be used in teaching and learning and the implications of various technologies.  You will also be asked to respond to the responses / reflections of your classmates.  Here are the deadlines and details:

• Monday (by 5 pm) - Post your reflection to your blog, it will automagically be posted to our course Pligg site.
• Tuesday (by 5 pm) - Read reflections of your classmates, pick three (3) that you think are interesting / provocative / need more discussion, vote for these three reflections and write a response about why this reflection earned your vote.

Each week one group will be responsible for harvesting the top vote getters and facilitating a discussion about them in Thursday's class.

Just to clarify - there is NO face to face meeting on the 17th in 236 Chambers.  Checkthis post if you have any questions about what you are doing this week.  We will post assignments on Thursday for next week and then we will all see each other in the flesh on the 24th.