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Final Research Essays

Today was the day! Students in the multimedia-themed section of Comp106 have posted their final research essays and survey results onto their blogs. The links are on the right. Take a look and leave comments. We would like to hear your thoughts.

A conversation with Nikki Giovanni

DEARBORN / Nov. 6, 2009---Poet, writer and activist Nikki Giovanni will visit the University of Michigan-Dearborn on Friday, Nov. 13 to discuss race and social justice as part of the campus’s “Conversation on Race” discussion series.

The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Kochoff Hall inside the campus’s University Center.

More evidence of the things we discussed in class last week:

On the Media Podcast

Welcome to my blog.

Please send me the name of your blog so I can add you to the list. My email address is amyerks(at)gmail.com

Make sure to send the NAME of the blog, i.e.

nameofblog.blogspot.com

Let me know if you have any Qs.

Help the Green Generation Win $200,000!

Earth Day has been presented with a wonderful opportunity to grow the Green Generation for Earth Day 2009, 2010 and beyond, but we need everyone’s help and we need it fast! All you have to do is click the "Support" button at this link by this Friday:

http://www.justmeans.com/competitionidea/10651/promoteidea.html

With enough votes we will become finalists for a $200,000 dollar grant. With a couple hundred votes, we will do seriously well in our category (Empowering individual action) so please, please, please get your friends and anyone you know to vote for ours too! They also take comments into consideration so feel free to post your support as well.

The international focus and massive scope of the Green Generation and Earth Day 2010 should make it an attractive proposal for Green Mountain Coffee, so we need to make sure we are finalists!