Links from Widget in Sidebar

Having added a new link to other websites that I've collected in a sidebar widget, I decided that it was about time to introduce them in a new blog post. I've copied from the sidebar and pasted into this post the content of the sidebar widget (Course Links, below), and expanded the list with notations that don't appear in the sidebar to explain each link briefly here. The list from the sidebar served as a working outline for this post about...

Course Links

• Writing Studio Wiki
• At the wiki is where I recommend starting every day in class. Shortcuts (links) in the sidebar there will open almost every other site that you'll need for classwork.
  

• Writing Studio Blog
• You are at the Writing Studio Blog now. So maybe keeping this link is a bit redundant. It made the list look longer months ago, as one of the three sites that I originally listed when I set up the sidebar widget to list links on this blog. It still works as an easy way to return to the top page from pages displaying individual posts (and comments).
  

• WinK HomePage
• The Weblogging in Kumamoto Homepage (above) covers virtually everything that Tomeiter, Pukman and I have been doing with with a growing community of student bloggers for the past few years. (There is too much stuff there to mention here. So please have a look around when you have some quality browsing time on your hands.) Tomeiter & Pukman are university teachers that have been blogging and wiki-building longer than I have. You can find their blogs via the next two links (below).

• Tomeiter's garden (a Vox blog)
• [Tomeiter maintains this blog as a model for students in various classes.]
  

• Pukman@WinK (another Blogger blog)
• [Pukman maintains this blog as a model for, and for guidance of, students in various classes.]
  

• MyBlogLog
• This link is new today; it's the addition that prompted me to explain my current sidebar links here. MyBlogLog is a free service listing two other blogs that I work on when I'm not busy with the Writing Studio Blog. That service also cross-links with the WinK HomePage.

• Gmail Signup
• This is another of the links included in the sidebar for the first class meeting last spring. It was there in case you hadn't found your way directly from the Writing Studio Wiki to the Gmail Signup (and Blogger Account Setup) tutorial.

• Computers & English
• Computers & English is a Blogger blog that Tomeiter set up to model blogging tips and tools not only for the C&E class, but also for overseas studies prep. courses and other writing classes as well.

This was going to be a quick post, but it turned out much longer than I had planned.

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tomomi's big book review 2-[0]5

Another EXAMPLE

tomomi's big blog: book review 2-5
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book review 2-5

[...copied and pasted title]

I think Tomomi wrote a marvelous book review. I real like the part where she... and .... She also... Her... is ... and ....

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Book review 2-[0]5 "Princess Diana" (*:*yuka*:*:)

EXAMPLE

:*:*room*:*:: Book review 2-[0]5 "Princess Diana"
[Title from back link function, IF available.]

Book review 2-[0]5: Princess Diana

[Title copied (Ctrl+C) and pasted (Ctrl+V) into your blog post title and post, if no back link is available.]

I think Yuka's book review is a good one because..., and .... I really like the part where she.... She also includes .... All in all, I think she wrote a really good book review.

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No TSTs today (Nov. 28), but...

Though there will be no typing speed trials (TSTs) in class today, timely, back-linked posts reflecting on near-peers' book reviews will constitute attendance. If your attendance blog post today isn't back-linked to a book review from another class, or is more than ten minutes late, I will count you absent today (Nov. 28). Please read on for detailed instructions.

Book reviews (12+, to date)

A brief review of a near-peer's book review is required for attendance today. Please go walk-about looking for near-peer role models, to discover their best book reviews, and reflect upon them; browse and review:

WinK: http://winkhome.org/ (KGU Writing):

• Writing III/IVa: Wednesday, 1st period (Mr. Tomei),
• Writing III/IVb: Wednesday, 1st period (Mr. Lavin), or
  
• Writing III/IVb: Wednesday, 2nd period (Mr. Lavin).

Then backlink from the best book review that you find, and explain what you think makes it a good book review in a post on your own blog. Write two or more reasons for your appreciation of that book review in a post backlinking to it from your own blog, within 20 minutes of the beginning of class.

Timely posting of your reflections on a near-peer's book review, from another class, will demonstrate your attendance today (Nov. 28). If you post a peer review of 150 words or more, on time today, you may fulfill the typing speed trial requirement for fall semester. If you already have surpassed the 150 words in five minutes threshold, you still must post your reflections on a book review by a near-peer in another class.

Portfolio component updates (two, to date)

Please bring both portfolio components copied to your blog up to date.

• Proto-Portfolio 2-01: Reviews, Posts & Words (October--November)
  

• Proto-Portfolio 2-02: Essays (four, to date)

Please include word counts on every post that you have made (and will make) fall semester, in square brackets at the lower left corner of each post.

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Fine-Tuning Formatting: Show 14 Days

To make it easier for visitors to your blog to see all of your recent posts at a glance, please revise the formatting settings found through your Dashboard:
For the rest of fall semester, I would like you to set your main page to show all posts that you've made during the last fortnight (14 days).

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