Welcome to the English 200: King Arthur course blog, “The Roundtable”!
You are required to write at least one "post" and nine "comments" throughout the course of this semester. A post is approximately a screen's length; a comment is approximately half a screen's length.
In order to upload posts and comments, you must accept the e-mail invitation you will receive and login with the username and password you create. The schedule for posts and comments will be determined by your TA, who will serve as the director of the "Dragons," "Eagles," "Lions," or "Bears" blog [see tabs above]. Each of you will select, on the course wiki, a character/author (aka “blog avatar”) from one of the assigned texts and must write in the voice of that character in response to his/her own text and other texts assigned in the class. For example, if you are assigned Arthur from the alliterative Morte Arthure, you become Arthur on the blog, writing both about the alliterative Morte Arthure (in which he appears) and other texts such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Malory’s Le Morte Darthur. For some examples of previous student blog posts and comments in a similar course, see http://roundtableknights.blogspot.com/. You are encouraged to blog more than the specified minimum since frequent online interaction will certainly enrich class discussion and written work.
You are required to write at least one "post" and nine "comments" throughout the course of this semester. A post is approximately a screen's length; a comment is approximately half a screen's length.
In order to upload posts and comments, you must accept the e-mail invitation you will receive and login with the username and password you create. The schedule for posts and comments will be determined by your TA, who will serve as the director of the "Dragons," "Eagles," "Lions," or "Bears" blog [see tabs above]. Each of you will select, on the course wiki, a character/author (aka “blog avatar”) from one of the assigned texts and must write in the voice of that character in response to his/her own text and other texts assigned in the class. For example, if you are assigned Arthur from the alliterative Morte Arthure, you become Arthur on the blog, writing both about the alliterative Morte Arthure (in which he appears) and other texts such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Malory’s Le Morte Darthur. For some examples of previous student blog posts and comments in a similar course, see http://roundtableknights.blogspot.com/. You are encouraged to blog more than the specified minimum since frequent online interaction will certainly enrich class discussion and written work.