For Further Reading: Wendell Berry

For those of you who just can't get enough of Wendell Berry, here is a link that leads you to a website that, doubtless, Mr. Berry does not admire. The page links to lots of bio information, interviews, and essays of his that have been made available online.

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This blog is a space for you to extend conversations and activies begun in class. From time to time, I may ask you to post specific things to the blog, but feel free to add material anytime you like. You can raise questions for your classmates to consider. You can post links or upload files of relevant material. You can do whatever you like with this page -- just so long as it is relevant to issues that further the objectives of the class, respectful of the ideals of democratic discourse, and, of course, legal. Think of this blog as a common resource for everyone in the class.

Credit toward your participation grade: You'll get credit for posting equivalent to contributing a comment in class. More importantly, the quality of this discussion forum will count toward the overall quality of class discussion, and thus to a significant part of your participation grade.

If you do the mediawatch posting in place of a weekly reading, you can and should post it to the blog. But be sure to give me a separate copy of your posting so I can make sure to give you credit for it.

For now, I have the blog set to be readable to anyone so that you will be able to read the blog. But once you have all joined, I can make it readable only to authors (i.e. students enrolled in the class). But if you are inclined to share your wisdom with the world, I am happy to make it available to anyone on the web as well.