Journal 1/20

January 20, 2017 by

Throughout this week I began my reading of “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court” by Mark Twain. In the beginning I found it a bit challenging to get used to the way that Twain wrote and I found myself reading a whole page and having to go back and re read it to figure out what was really going on. As the book progresses though, I find that it is easier to read and keep up with.

I really found Thursday’s class to be very interesting. I enjoyed picking a time period in which I would like to live in and one in which I dreaded. For the time period that I dread, I chose the Holocaust. I chose that time mainly because it was a time of great distress and terrible things were happening while innocent lives were being taken.

When describing my role in that time period. I said that I would want to be a person who lives really far away from Germany during that time because I wanted nothing to do with what was going on in that country. At first I felt that I was being a little selfish and sheltered because I would just be avoiding the problem and watching like a bystander; although, as we opened up to discussion I felt differently. We talked about how this was a very narcissistic exercise. Most people wanted to go back in time and be in a position of power, or be a person that survived the terrible things and were able to come out on the other side stronger. It just got me to thinking that, in an ideal world, we all really want the same things mostly. We want to have power, and be safe and be free of the terrible things that are going on in the society at that time. Now there is nothing wrong with that, but I think its very telling of how humans and the human brain works.

 

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Creating a Post

August 4, 2016 by

Before you can create a post on your course site, you must log-in to the site with your regular Bucknell username and password (use the Log-In link at the bottom of the website). You will know you are logged in because you will see a black toolbar at the top of the page

  • On the black toolbar at the top of the page, click +New; by default this will create a new Post.
  • This will take you to an edit page that says Add New Post at the top (if it says Add New Page, you’re creating a Page and not a Post; you want to create a Post)
  • Write the title for your post in the box at the top of the page that says Enter title here
  • The main edit box on the page is for the body of your post
  • There is a formatting bar above the edit box where you can Insert/edit link, format the font, etc.
  • Once you’ve added your text, be sure to select the appropriate Categories from the right side-bar
  • You may also add any relevant Tags (think of these as hashtags or topics that you cover in your post)
  • When you’re done, click Publish
  • You can then click on the View Post link
  • Remember that you can Edit a post at any time
    • Access the post via the website and click Edit Post in the black toolbar at the top of the screen
    • Or go to Dashboard > Posts > find your post and select Edit

If you have any questions, email Emily at egs008[at]bucknell[dot]edu, Deb at balducci[at]bucknell[dot]edu.

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