Welcome!!!

Welcome to Dr. V's grammar course 300-1 for education majors!

This is going to be a fun course.


As prerequisites, you need three things:

1) your new email address, which is firstname.lastname@grammar300.com, and which you will receive on the first day of class if you were enrolled in this course. Example: mike.fisher@grammar300.com

Your password for the log-in is firstnamelastname. Example: mikefisher

You can change your passwords, if you like. Note that if you don't, your peers and teacher will be able to read your emails -- but, who would...

If you join this course AFTER the first day of class, and were not on the class list before, talk to me in order to receive your email address!!!

This is the ONLY email address with which we will correspond. I have a corresponding email address with my name, Christina Voss. This system will facilitate the correspondence among peers, because if you have a name list, you will be able to email anybody from our class, which is important for our peer-editing session and other exchanges. It also enables me to send out mass emails to all of you, such as your exams or homework. It further saves me the trouble of finding out who is behind dancingqueen@aol.com ;-)


2) an invitation to join this blog. It should be in your grammar300.com email inbox. If it is not there for some reason, talk to me!!! If you got it, click on it to accept it. Your homework for coming Wednesday, January 14th, will be a first blog post, so you all need to be signed up.


3) access to the livetext account I set up for this course. There, you will see our syllabus and schedule. Also, the pdf files of our course readings are attached to the separate classes. Here, you can see what we are going to do each day. I will also post your due dates for presentations there, for example for the mini lessons each of you is going to hold.

You do NOT need to have a livetext account on your own to join our profile (it costs about $90). You simply log into mine with the password I give you on the first day of class. You do NOT need to type anything into livetext; it is for reading purpose only.