I see that you have found the blog. Great!

So, having gotten through the first class of the course, let me note a couple of things that I didn’t actually mention in class, in all of the technological confusion.

The syllabus/schedule I handed out mentioned a survey as “homework.” It’s not serious, it’s just a little questionnaire asking things like what languages you speak. I would like you to fill it out (or just email me the answers), but I’ll mention that on Thursday. Having handed in or not handed in the survey does not have anything to do with the “homework” part of the course grade.

So far, we’re still basically on schedule, just a couple of slides from today left over for Thursday.

Also, take a look at chapter 1 in the Adger textbook, which covers these kind of bigger picture things from today, but also try to look through chapter 2, sections 2.1 to 2.4.1 (as indicated on the syllabus I handed out today), since that’s what I’ll be talking about on Thursday.