Due Date: Wed. 6/2; Grace Period Ends: Fri. 6/4 (11:59pm, PST)—There are nine tasks for this deadline.
Points Possible:

• 25 points for account set up & intros (tasks #1-8)
• 25 points Sign Ups (task #9)

For this first deadline you will need to set up the various accounts you’ll be using in the course. To test out the accounts, your course introductions will be done in 3 different spaces (the wiki, shared timeline, and shared map). You also need to sign up for the various early American literature time period, themes, authors, and texts you’ll be taking responsibility for during the course.

1. Watch the course introduction videos.
• About Course Technologies
• Fast & Furious Overview of How this Will Work
  
2. Download document, “sign” and email the document to your instructor from your MyMaricopa Gmail account. Go to http://google.maricopa.edu, login with your MEID username and password, and click on Gmail in the menu across the top in the far upper-left hand corner. Email me at: shelley.rodrigo@gmail.com
3. You will be setting up a variety of accounts in different web-based applications. Feel free to use pseudonyms; however, you will need to be sure to share with the instructor the email you used to start the account and/or pseudonym you plan to use.
• Regular Google Account (you don’t have to start a new one if you already have one; however, the student Gmail accounts through MCCCD or ASU will not work for Google Maps). I suggest you start at the gmail.com page to start your new account.
  
• TimeRime timelime account (http://timerime.com/). You’ll need to tell the instructor the email address and username you used to start the account.
• Fill out the “Accounts Info” form so that the instructor gets all of your account information: LINK
  
4. Once you’ve been invited to participate in the course wiki, post an introduction to yourself on your wiki profile page. Take a moment to answer the following questions:
• Why are you taking this class?
• Why this particular class instead of another class that fulfilled the same requirements?
• What do you want to learn from this class?
• What do you expect to do in this class?
• I suggest that you start getting in the habit of typing your wiki postings in a word processor first, and then cutting and pasting to the wiki. Too many times students, and myself, have lost work by typing directly into the wiki and then a glitch in the network looses everything. If you choose to make your wiki account with a pseudonym instead of your name, please email me with your pseudonym so I know who does what work!
5. Comment on two of your classmates’ introductions (click on “Members” to find everyone; sort by “Date Registered” to find folks from this summer’s course) using the “threads” feature at the bottom of each wiki page. This is not changing the wiki page. Think of these comments as conversations at a party, you are just trying to get to know one another. Keep track of who you commented on (you’ll need to inform the instructor). Make sure you look for classmates enrolled in the Summer 2010 session.
6. Shelley will invite you to a shared “Getting to Know You” TimeRime timeline. Input three “nodes” (dates/times) with relevant dates/information about yourself. Include a picture of something (it doesn’t have to be you) in at least one of the nodes.
7. Shelley will invite you to a shared “Getting to Know You” Google Map. Input three “nodes” (locations) with relevant dates/information about yourself. Include a picture of something (it doesn’t have to be you) in at least one of the nodes.
8. Fill out the “Introductions” form so that the instructor gets all of your introductions information: LINK
   
9. Finally, you have to sign up for the literary works and associated wiki pages you’ll be updating. To officially “sign-up” for it you must update the shared Google Doc (Shelley will invite you as soon you fill out the form above with your Google email) as well as submit fill out the “sign up form.” You must sign up for the following:
• one period (no more than 5 people per period)
• two authors for three periods (not period listed above); at least one must be an author of color or woman (no more than two people per author); six author's total
• two texts per author listed above; at least one text must be a novel and another must be a poem (no more than one person per text); 12 texts total
• two literary themes (no more than four people per theme)
• two literary terms (no more than four people per term)
  
• Sign Up form: Download Document