Sept 04, 2007: Our first session

Welcome folks,

here we go and start with a new adventure. New? Yep, as well for you as for me. So let’s talk about the idea behind this strange new thing called “SF” |more|.

And then we need a frame within to work – my suggestions:

1. semester: “Globalization” |basic resource Spiegel Special “Globalization – The New World” >>more | [reading tip: today's article in the ON about butter and dairy-farmers in East Frisia facing a global economy]

2. semester: “Africa” |basic resource Spiegel Special “Afrika – Das umkämpfte Paradies” >>more |

3. semester: “Migration – Emigration – Immigration” or “Resources – Energy – Global Changes”

Your Facharbeit would more or less follow the topics of the first two semesters and would have to be handed in around May 2008, but that has to be discussed in due time.

And now let’s start working:

The first method & medium at the same time to accompany our learning process will be a learning diary, in this case a blog. Each of you will create her/his own blog and that’s what you are asked to do today, so let’s start with http://de.wordpress.com/ .

When you’ve successfully created your own blog with an address easy to remember, please send me an email with the proper address so that we can make a list of all our blogs to enable each of us to access all of them.

Your first blog should comment on the topics I’ve suggested and reveal your personal choice and ideas concerning these topics. Then you should create a page “about me” with a personal introduction [please only your first name and neither address nor email-address, but a decent photo would be fine]. If you can’t finish all this today @banana, finish it @home and improve design & contents of your blog by playing with ‘themes’, etc.