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Post book contributions as Forum Topics, not Blogs!

Mon, 08/17/2009 - 18:07 by Terri  

Hey there Team Bell members,

please paste any book contributions in the Forums. These are split up by chapters, so that once you choose the appropriate chapter, your work is automatically categorized. This makes it SO much easier to move ahead in editing the book!!!

Blogs are there so you can post more personal or chatty messages.

If you've posted your book contributions in your blog, please open a new tab, call up this website again, and create a new forum, pasting your previous blog material into the forum. Once you've created and saved that forum, erase the old blog.

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Full List of Team Bell Members

Mon, 08/17/2009 - 17:49 by Terri  

To find a Team Bell member's account,
1) click Search on top right of website
2) click Users tab
3) paste in Username (not "real" name)
4) click Search again, and the User's name will show up
5) To contact User, click Contact tab, and fill in the appropriate boxes, and send email
6) You should also be able to find User's contributed website content through their account.

To figure out more about the website in general, spend some time on it.

Rohan Shamapant
Georgiana
jojodbruin
Sarah Nagy
DulceV
hjang
MarieHaritzalde
Justin
SaeedM
nmickell
jcasillas
nerbear00

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What's next?

Sun, 07/26/2009 - 16:42 by Terri  

Dear Team Bell,

we had a really good meeting on Monday, July 20.

Following the brainstorming session at the first meeting (in June), your ideas were categorized by where they might fit into the book, as follows:

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Chapter 1: Welcome to College
- Expectations of college- met or not
- Adjusting to new environment- school city, physical/natural environment
- Learn campus services
- Safety/Awareness/Naiveté
- Top 10 things to do before you get out of college (by year)

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MANILA TYPHOON- URGENT

Thu, 10/01/2009 - 08:35 by HeyitsJohnnyC  

Folks, I am here in Manila now and the tragedy going on is seriously underreported by American news media. I am posting here due to the urgency of the situation from my firsthand account.

A friend escaped the highway last week on a styrofoam raft from seven feet of floodwater.

My caretaker swam through three rivers to lose everything and her home, having nothing more than her mother and daughter, whom she found on the roof of what was her home. Not even a cell phone now, just them and the clothes on her back...and now a huge pile of medical bills.

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Burning Man and the Internet

Sat, 09/26/2009 - 03:52 by Sarah Nagy  

A speech made by one of the founders of the Burning Man project, at the start of the millenium. He made some interesting comparisons to the internet, and a lot of other things in the speech are relevant to different sociology fundamentals.

Burning Man is an event where people gather by the thousands in the middle of the desert to form a city for only about a week or two, culminated by the burning of a huge wicker or neon man.

http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/lectures/la_vie.html

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Next meeting October 11 (same place / time) - have 2-3 sentence bio ready!

Mon, 09/14/2009 - 16:47 by Terri  

Dear Team Bell members,

our next (and final) group meeting will be on Sunday (yes, Sunday!), October 11, 4-6 pm, in Haines A25.

Please bring to that meeting a 2-3 sentence (more or less) autobiography for the book.

thanks!
Terri

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9/14 Meeting HELP NEEDED

Fri, 09/11/2009 - 20:46 by HeyitsJohnnyC  

Hey folks,

so I am getting surgery on September 17 in Manila and have been repeatedly getting sick here, meaning I won't be returning to the United States for our 9/14 meeting! I won't even be there until January, but I'd like to have a chance to somewhat be there.

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Next meeting?

Fri, 09/04/2009 - 16:12 by Georgiana  

Hello-- do we have a confirmed date and time for the next meeting? I believe the 13th (Sunday) was the tentative day. Any updates? Thanks.

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Just thought I'd throw this out there

Mon, 08/31/2009 - 13:38 by JosephG  

I read this article in Wired a few days ago, and I think it's really good to "think with" as we go into the technology section. I know there are a lot of people writing about the way that technology has affected writing and literacy in particular, but I think we can do a lot better than the "moaning" pundits Clive Thompson writes about below:

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READ THIS!

Wed, 08/26/2009 - 09:07 by HeyitsJohnnyC  

Taken from

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020466060457437045046584914...

How Facebook Ruins Friendships

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By ELIZABETH BERNSTEIN

Notice to my friends: I love you all dearly.

But I don't give a hoot that you are "having a busy Monday," your child "took 30 minutes to brush his teeth," your dog "just ate an ant trap" or you want to "save the piglets." And I really, really don't care which Addams Family member you most resemble. (I could have told you the answer before you took the quiz on Facebook.)

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