3/8/01 Readings for Class 27 on "Machine Literature" (with guest lecturers Jeremy Douglass and Elizabeth Freudenthal) have been announced. See Class 27 on schedule.

 3/5/01 Student Web assignments are now listed on the Student-Created Materials Page. Please e-mail Alan Liu if you see a mistake in your listing.

 2/21/01 To prepare for the upcoming reading quizz, students may wish to look at the online demo of the quizz.

 2/4/01 Drop-in technical help hours with Michael Perry in the Transcriptions Studio (South Hall 2509) have changed to: M, T, Th, F, 1-4

 1/30/01 Required book now in at the Bookstore: Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. Please purchase before the Bookstore begins returning books to publishers on Monday, Feb. 5th.

 1/25/01 Announcing technical help sessions for the Web-authoring assignment in the course:

• Web-authoring workshops with Transcriptions research assistants Michael Perry and Eric Weitzel in the Transcriptions Studio (South Hall 2509). Students are welcome to either or both of the following workshops:
  • Tuesday, January 30th, 1-4pm
  • Monday, February 5th, 1-4 pm
• Drop-in technical help hours with Michael Perry in the Transcriptions Studio (South Hall 2509): M, T, Th, F 1-4
• Students can also e-mail Michael Perry (mperry@umail.ucsb.edu) for appointments

 1/15/01 Results from the course-entrance questionnaire (which students filled out at their first section meeting) have been tabulated and have been put online here.

 1/15/01 The course e-mail alias (english25@humanitas.ucsb.edu) has been stocked with the e-mail addresses students supplied on their course-entrance questionnaires. Please notify the instructor if you have not received a posting to the alias (this would mean that we either don't have your e-mail address or we have typed it wrong). Please also notify the instructor if you have left the course and wish to have your name deleted from the alias.

 1/10/01 Elizabeth Freudenthal, your teaching assistant, has add codes for the course. Additional syllabi for those who do not have them will be available in section meetings and in the lecture. 

 1/10/01 The required books for the course are on the shelf in the UCSB bookstore with the exception of the book by Walter Ong's Orality and Literacy, which the Bookstore says will be in by c. Jan. 20th. Please also act now to purchase the required reader at the Alternative Copy Shop and the required CD-ROM work of hypertext fiction titled Califia from Eastgate Systems, Inc. (order by phone or online).