HUM 210: Contemporary Cinema

There is a continuely updated listing of scholarships @ the MCC Financial Aid Office Scholarship Website (http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/services/finaid/scholarships/apps.html) and the district’s website (http://www.maricopa.edu/resdev/scholarships/apply.php).

I know you all are frustrated with the various technologies I’ve had you cobble together for this course. I promise…I have a point!

Furl
Hopefully you all have started to figure out the usefulness of Furl. My hope is that by the end of the class you find Furl useful enough to key using it. If you haven’t noticed, the really powerful aspect of Furl is that it archives, literally saves, the page that you bookmark. So, if the page changes tomorrow, or The New York Times puts the page in its “old” archive that you have to pay to access, you have the page saved…in Furl! If you are still unsure how to Furl…make sure you practice, practice, practice. I expect everyone to be comfortable with all the technologies by the end of module 1.

Uniblog
The blog is just an online journal that allows the rest of us to make comments. As I said above, if you are still unsure of how to use the blog, practice. Make sure you understand how to post new entries to your blog and how to reply to others. I would spend some time smacking all the buttons in the administration area to get a feel for what you can do with the Uniblog.

Gritwire
But I know, I’ve talked to many of you, that you really don’t get this Gritwire thing. First, you need to understand what RSS feeds are. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication (among a few other variants). Basically, sources can “push” their information out to the world through RSS feeds. So various newspapers and bloggers syndicate their new headlines through RSS. Individuals subscribe to the different RSS feeds using an RSS aggregator. Guess what Gritwire is?

Gritwire is useful to this class for two reasons. First, you can subscribe to a variety of newspaper, journal, and blog RSS feeds (in Gritwire they call them speedfeeds) about films and the entertainment industry.

However, Gritwire is more useful to this class for the second reason…it pulls all the course materials together. You know how you are responsible for reading through one anothers’ blogs and making comments? You can do that one of two ways. You can go to the course homepage (http://rrodrigo2.uniblogs.org/) and find everyone’s blog and furl links there. You can then link out to those pages, read material, reply, etc. OR…you can subscribe to everyone else’s blog and furl RSS (speed) feeds and have all the materials come to you in Gritwire.

There are help files on the week one homework page (http://rrodrigo2.uniblogs.org/course-schedule/week-1/). These should help you get everything set up and rolling. They also tell you have to find my list of feeds to subscribe to your classmates’ feeds. It is easy to identify all the furl feeds, they say “furl.” Look for feeds with “HUM210” in the title for the class blogs. Be careful, I also have HUM205 (Introduction to Cinema) feeds too!

I have checked that everyone did their homework for last week; however, I know that many people were still struggling with the technology. You all have until this Saturday, 1/28, to get caught up with everything (basically all the work from week 1 and module 1). As usual, if you have questions, email me!

MAMASHEALTH.COM SCHOLARSHIP (Deadline: January 31, 2006)

* Available to freshman, sophomore, junior and senior students attending a college or university in the United States with a minimum 2.5 GPA.
* Must have a minimum 2.5 GPA.
* Must submit an essay with a maximum of 750 words and address the following
question: Should corporations be required to provide health insurance to their full-time employees?
* Eligible students may not have already been receiving or awarded a full-tuition scholarship or waiver from another source.

FRANK O’NEILL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP (Deadline: March 31, 2006)

* The 2006 Frank O’ Neill Memorial Scholarship is open to anyone attending a university, college, trade school, technical institute, vocational training or other postseason education program in the 2005-2006 or 2006-2007 academic year.
* You must submit an essay of fewer than 1,000 words on how one person in particular has influenced your life in a positive way to be eligible for this award.
* Must describe how you will contribute to a peaceful and just society in the future.
* Eligible students may not have already been receiving or awarded a full-tuition scholarship or waiver from another source.
* International students are welcome to apply.

DOROTHY VANDERCOOK PEACE SCHOLARSHIP (Deadline: March 1, 2006)

* Must be a high school senior or in your first year of college.
* Must write a brief autobiography of your activities relating to peace and social justice, nuclear disarmament issues, and conflict resolution.
Include some proof of these activities (e.g., copies of newspaper articles, verification by your references).
* Must describe how you will contribute to a peaceful and just society in the future.
* Must include two letters of recommendation.
* There are no grade point or age requirements, and students from any country may apply.

DALE E. FRIDELL SCHOLARSHIP (Deadline: January 14, 2006)

* The 2005-06 Dale E. Fridell Memorial Scholarships are open to anyone aspiring to attend a university, college, trade school, technical institute, vocational training or other post-secondary education program in the 2005-2006 academic year.
* Scholarships are awarded to women 20 years old or older, who are returning to school to acquire better job opportunities.
* Eligible students may not have already been receiving or awarded a full-tuition scholarship or waiver from another source.
* International students are welcome to apply.

ARIZONA BUSINESS and PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP (Deadline:
March 1, 2006)

* The Arizona Business & Professional Women’s Foundation was created in 1989 to help women move forward in a changing world and achieve equity and economic self-sufficiency through education.
* Scholarships are awarded to women 20 years old or older, who are returning to school to acquire better job opportunities.
* Funding is available for various scholarships (see application).

LA UNIDAD LATINA FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP (Deadline: February 15, 2006)

* Must have a cumulative GPA of 2.80 – 3.60 out of a 4.0 GPA Scale.
Cumulative GPAs above 3.60 or below 2.80, do not qualify for a scholarship.
* Must be currently enrolled in an eligible bachelor’s or master’s degree program at an accredited four-year college or university. Eligible
Degrees: all Bachelor degrees and Master of Arts, Master of Science, Master of Public Administration/Policy, Master of Social Work, Master of Education, and Master of Divinity.
* Must be a full-time student at an accredited college, university, or community college.
* Must completed at least one full-time year of study for undergraduate applicants, and at least one full-time semester of study for graduate applicants.
* Must reside in the United States.

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS) SCHOLARSHIP (Deadline: March 1, 2006)

* Must be of African, Hispanic/Latino, or American Indian decent.
* Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident of the U.S.
* Must be a full-time student at an accredited college, university, or community college.
* Must be a high academic achiever in chemistry or science (Grade Point Average 3.0, “B” or better).
* Must be able to demonstrate evidence of financial need according to FAFSA form (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) and the Student Aid Report (SAR) form
* Must be a graduating high school senior, college freshman, sophomore or junior intending to or already majoring in chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering or a chemically-related science and planning a career in the chemical sciences or chemical technology
* *Please note that students intending to enter Pre-Med programs or pursing a degree in Pharmacy are not eligible for this scholarship.

These scholarships as well as other available scholarships are listed on the MCC Financial Aid Office Scholarship Website (http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/services/finaid/scholarships/apps.html).
Please share these opportunities with your students.

Thank you.

MCC Financial Aid Office and Scholarships

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1. What are the two or three most “important points” from this week’s readings on the course, course policies, course technologies, etc.?

2. What questions do you still have about the course, course policies, course technologies, etc.?

If you are reading this…want to do the extra credit assignment I sent out the first week of class…STOP…do not do anything else in the class. Email the instructor immediately. If you are not interested in participating in the extra credit study…please, by all means…get crackin!

Shelley

I’m glad you found the course! This site is a mixture of both static (always the same, never moving) webpages as well as a dynamic blog. The blog will function as an announcement system for the course. The static pages (see the list to the left that starts with “Pages”) provide all of the course materials (syllabus, assignment prompts, etc.).

The easist way to get started to to read all of the static pages on the left. Email me (rrodrigo@mail.mc.maricopa.edu) with any questions you may have.

P.S. If you have never taken an online course before, consider going through the online learning orientation at the Distance Learning cite: http://dltutorials.mc.maricopa.edu/.