November 20, 2006
Class 11/21 - BRING YOUR OWN COFFEE
Bring your own coffee (or tea, or whatever) to class on the 21st. We're being a bit wild and crazy. :-)
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November 15, 2006
Class on Thurs 11/16
As many of you probably remember, I wasn't feeling too hot on Tuesday. By the end of section 5 on Tuesday, my voice was going downhill fast, and it has continued to deteriorate since then. What you don't know is that I had a 6-month period of 'catastrophic voice loss' last year - my winter '05 class described me as sounding like "a teenaged Darth Vader crossed with a chipmunk." I'm sounding nearly as terrible now as I did then. As a result, I'm going have to go on voice rest (i.e., shut up as much as humanly possible) for a few days. Thursday in class I will likely have my laptop connected to the projector, and I'll probably give some instructions and answer some questions by typing responses onto the screen. I will also have a small microphone and speaker setup to allow me to speak at least a bit.
The good news of this is that you don't need to bring a computer for Thursday's presentations; just email me (or yourself) the ppt or bring it on a USB drive or CD.
I will also probably have my laptop out at office hours today to answer some questions via writing. I will then email you the document with my comments as a bit of compensation for having to have a bizarrely half-written, half-spoken conversation with me. But PLEASE do not avoid office hours because of this. I've done this before and know that it won't hurt me - I spent 6 months of last year doing this, actually. :-) It's a little awkward but there's no reason for you to avoid coming.
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November 09, 2006
Admin Update, 9 Nov 2006
A few bits of administrative updates.
1. If you have arranged for a powerpoint projector between now and Thanksgiving, please cancel your reservation. I have arranged for a projector for the three remaining classes (globalization, global environment, European environment) and will have it available for both classes. You must, however, arrange for your own laptop computer to connect to the projector.
2. Use the drop box for paper drafts; submit them no later than Tuesday 14 November. My initial FAQ handed out in class incorrectly said to email it to Hyeran.
3. Please turn in your presentation papers in hard copy in section. I will ensure that they reach Hyeran.
Any other questions, my email is LPowner@umich.edu. Please feel free to submit questions for the blog that way as well. I can't know what questions to answer unless you ask. This is a totally anonymous way to ask; no one will know who asked except me, but everyone gets to benefit from the answers.
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November 07, 2006
Welcome to the 160 FAQ
I will use this blog as a place to answer any questions that you may submit that we don't get to address in class. I will also post helpful information related to the readings and administrative stuff related to office hours, classwork, etc., on here. If you have additional questions, you are welcome to post them on here (anonymously or with identification) and I'll get to them as I'm able.
Accessing the Blog:
If you have Firefox, you can click on the orange logo at the end of the address URL line to create a "live bookmark" of this site. Then, you can look for new entries by simply looking in the bookmarks file of your web browser. Other popular blog systems and RSS aggregators also support this feature, but as I don't know how to use those I can't help much.
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