It will change depending on how we as a class decide to structure rules for episodes. I can’t give a more concrete answer to that question until we have that discussion.

Yes, the site is yours and I will be thrilled if you edit and expand on it. I will ask you to keep the specific subdomain you create for this class stable at least for a few weeks after the semester ends, for purposes of program assessment (we’ll talk about this more later). But you should use your domain however you’d like beyond that. In fact, if you want to create subdomains for other purposes or flesh out your primary domain in other ways or set up sites for other classes right now, please do!

The letter grades are organized that way because I am explicitly trying to cut against a theory of grading that says every student starts out with a 100 in the class and loses points as they screw up. More on that later, too!

The final will be a presentation of your final portfolio.

Everything for this class will be published digitally one way or another. There shouldn’t be any occasion this semester where you turn in something to me in hard copy.

Yes, lots of different types, but the primary one I only mentioned glancingly — we’ll be producing a podcast series together over the course of the semester and those episodes will be produced in teams. We’ll talk lots more about that next week.