Welcome

Welcome to our course blog.

On this site you will find reading and study guides, a forum to ask questions and to continue our in-class discussions, as well as other useful links. In addition, you will create posts on this site throughout the semester. This blog will also be a tool we will use when creating our maps of Paris.

Everyone needs to become a blog author/contributor. I have sent an invitation to become a contributor by email to all of you. Please follow the links and the steps to make this happen. It will involve creating a google account if you do not have one already. This is a simple process, which we will run through in class.

This course is meant to be interactive. This inherently means that I want your input. I am interested in what you want to learn, how you want to learn it and why. I would love this class to be one long discussion forum - a place where you tease out your ideas and employ them by adding to and challenging other people's thoughts.

Your participation in the blog is meant to be free flowing and continuous. I will never require you to post. Posting, however, is a great way to participate in the course. A good percentage of your final grade is based on your participation. The blog will become a forum for you to actively create knowledge in our class and to shape the direction of our class on the whole.

This semester will be spent engaging with Paris. The city is a pivotal part of what we will learn and how we will learn it. It is the context for everything we will discuss, read and learn.