The document outlines the agenda for a class meeting, including reviewing an artifact analysis project on a Kindle 2, sample student essays, and setting up online peer review using Google Docs. Students will analyze artifacts based on provided questions, write papers that will be peer reviewed, and the artifact analysis assignment is due by November 12 while peer reviews are due by November 17.

2. TODAY’S AGENDA
I need note takers for today.
Reviewing the Artifact Analysis project
Sample artifact: Julie’s Kindle 2
Collaborative composition of an artifact analysis
Sample Student Essays: Questions
Setting up Online Peer Review with Google Docs
Wrap-Up

3. ARTIFACT ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT SHEET
Please do get it out!

4. THE KINDLE 2: QUESTIONS
1. What is the history of this artifact?
2. What is the context of this artifact?
3. What is this artifact used for?
4. What can this artifact be used for?
5. What cultures are associated with this artifact?
6. What assumptions do we make about this
artifact?

5. TWITTER QUESTIONS ON SAMPLE PAPERS
What is the general purpose of the artifact paper?
Does the artifact have to be technologically related?
Or from the 21st century?
Who is the audience for these two papers?
Is it acceptable to use the first person? How personal can
we be?
Do we need to start off the paper with a story?
What’s good and bad about each essay?
Which paper is more correct?
How did the writers come up with their ideas?

6. PEER REVIEW WITH MSU’S GOOGLE DOCS
Go to: http://googleapps.msu.edu/
Click on Google Docs.
Log In.

7. WRAP-UP
Artifact Analysis is due at 5pm on Friday, 12 November.
Upload a copy of your paper to the site via the upload tab
AND upload a copy to your group’s specific Peer Review
folder in Google Docs.
At this point you can begin your Peer Review homework.
Follow the directions on the guideline sheet I uploaded
into Google Docs.
Your Peer Review is due by 5pm on Wednesday, 17
November.
DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE.