Maren's Wou Blog

B&N textbook rental program

2010-01-11T12:29:00.000-08:00

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100111006040&newsLang=en

An interesting concept. I think Chegg.com might be more useful to WOU students in the short term, but maybe not for long!

an excerpt:

Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, announced today that it has created a multi-channel textbook rental program for college students that could result in millions of dollars of savings for college students across America. Barnes & Noble College is the first nationwide bookseller to offer a multi-channel program.

Barnes & Noble College has made the program easy for students, enabling them to rent their textbooks from the comfort of their dorm or home simply by logging into their campus bookstore’s e-commerce site. They can also rent from their campus Barnes & Noble bookstore. This innovative rental program gives students the added flexibility of paying for their rentals using any form of tender, including campus debit cards and student financial aid.

--mba

Winter 2010 books

2009-12-01T15:22:00.001-08:00

Rent the books from Chegg.com:

ENG 104http://www.chegg.com/details/an-introduction-to-short-fiction/0312442718/
ENG 105
http://www.chegg.com/details/12-plays-a-portable-anthology/0312402090/
http://www.chegg.com/details/rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-are-dead/0802132758/

Search for "The Curious Researcher.

For those who want to buy the books online, here are links to the books on Amazon.com:

ENG 105
12 Plays: A Portable Anthology
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
ENG 104
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction

WR 135
search for "The Curious Researcher"

NaNo Class Text

2009-10-18T13:27:00.000-07:00

This book is for the Novel Writing class through DEP.
m

Mauritus at SRT!

2009-09-29T14:31:00.000-07:00

https://www.ticketturtle.com/index.php?show=8608

Here is a play option for you. It's at the Salem Reperatory Theater in Salem, OR.

m

WR 115 Chegg.com procedure

2009-09-28T12:58:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone!

If you are in one of my WR 115 classes Fall term 2009, then I will make some allowances for you to use Chegg.com, which allows you to rent the textbook for the term (see the earlier post about Chegg.com here).

1) email me that you have rented the book
2) tell me when the book is due to arrive
3) ask me nicely to give you the writing assignments until the book arrives.

I will give you the writing (essay) assignments so that you can keep up with the class until your book arrives.

Ta!
maren

WOU Bookstore Online!

2009-09-17T12:48:00.001-07:00

http://bookstore.wou.edu/SelectTermDept.aspx

Here's the official WOU bookstore website. It's a nice feature. :)
maren

Death of a Salesman in Hillsboro

2009-09-10T14:16:00.000-07:00

Playwright and essayist Arthur Miller (October 17, 1915 - February 10, 2005) needs little introduction. More than any other playwright, he dedicated himself to the investigation of the moral plight of the white American working class. With a sense of realism and a strong ear for the American vernacular, Miller created characters whose voices are an important part of the American landscape. His insight into the psychology of desperation and his ability to create stories that express the deepest meanings of struggle made him one of the most highly regarded and widely performed American playwrights.

In 1949, Arthur Miller's most famous and well-respected play "Death of a Salesman" premiered. "Death of a Salesman" focuses on a failed businessman as he tries to remember and reconstruct his life. Eventually killing himself to leave his son insurance money, the salesman seems a tragic character out of Shakespeare or Dostoevsky. Winning both a Pulitzer Prize and a Drama Critics Circle Award, the play ran for more than seven hundred performances. With its incisive critique of the American Dream and how economic circumstances can drive personal despair, the play is a true classic, as timely today as sixty years ago.*

Bag&Baggage Productions opens its 2009-2010 theatre season with "Death of A Salesman," starring Dr. Marion Rossi of OSU as Willy Loman. Director Scott Palmer has created a production which focuses on the authenticity and voice of each character, and how they affect one another. The Lomans are one family in Brooklyn. We may find them a metaphor for what's wrong with the American dream, but to them, their story is intimate and very personal…and that is, in the end, how we perceive it as well.

Eight-minute video - Watch the director and actors discuss the play:
http://www.youtube.com/user/BagnBaggage

Student and group discounts available; call 503.516.4840 for reservations or more information.

Bag&Baggage presents
Arthur Miller's "Death of A Salesman"
The Venetian Theatre 253 E. Main Street, Hillsboro, OR 97124

Previews: Wed Sept 23 and Thurs Sept 24, 7:30pm
Opening night: Fri Sept 25, 2009, 7:30pm
Evening performances: Thurs, Fri and Sat,
Sept 26; Oct 1, 2, 3; and Oct 8, 9 and 10; 7:30pm
Sunday matinees: Sept 27, Oct 4 and 11, 2:00pm
Tickets: Previews $12; other shows $13-$23, depending on day and seat selection.
Student, senior and military discounts.
Reservations: www.bagnbaggage.org

*Information adapted from www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/arthur-miller/none-without-sin/56/

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would like to change your address or other settings, click here:
https://www.ticketturtle.com/?unsubscribe=359661546

Textbooks for Ms. Anderson's classes

2009-08-05T21:03:00.000-07:00

Chegg.com lets you RENT your textbooks for a term. While I have regretted selling back every book I ever had in school, I can imagine how this would appeal to some of you. Below are the texts I use for my classes. Apologies to the WOU bookstore.

WR 115

http://www.chegg.com/details/steps-in-composition/0131100696/

ENG 104
http://www.chegg.com/details/an-introduction-to-short-fiction/0312442718/

ENG 105

http://www.chegg.com/details/12-plays-a-portable-anthology/0312402090/

http://www.chegg.com/details/rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-are-dead/0802132758/

For those who want to buy the books online, here are links to the books on Amazon.com:

WR 115

Steps in Composition (8th Edition)

ENG 105

12 Plays: A Portable Anthology

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

ENG 104

The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction

Amazon Textbooks link

2009-07-24T08:57:00.000-07:00

Amazon Textbooks

Here are the texts I use. You can type in the ISBN numbers and get your texts. Please allow for time for the books to get to you before classes start.

WR 115

Steps in Composition, 8/E
Lynn Q. Troyka, Jerrold Nudelman,
ISBN-10: 0131100696

ENG 105

1. 12 Plays: A Portable Anthology, ed. by Gardner

ISBN 0-312-40209-0

2. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Stoppard, Henry Popkin (Editor)
ISBN: 0802132758

ENG 104

The Story and Its Writer Compact Edition ed. By Ann Charters

ISBN-10: 0312397291

online note taking tools

2009-04-14T14:41:00.000-07:00

Google Notebook is going away. Wah!

I wouldn't care so much if I didn't ask my students to make use of online notetaking tools during their research. So, here is the result of my very short quest to find a (FREE) replacement (for tomorrow's class).

I started with an article that compares/contrasts some tools.
http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/05/28/7-apps-for-online-note-taking/

I chose two to look at, based on the article:

1. Notefish
http://www.notefish.com/index.php

My main hang-up with this service is that it requires that you download the widget that works with your browser to copy/paste things to your notefish notebooks.

The interface is limited--you can only copy/paste things to the notebook; you cannot link to them for example. Only text and pictures are available. However, I like simplicity. If I'm writing a research paper, why would I need to put videos in my notebook? Fewer features=fewer distractions.

I could live with all of these if it weren't for the downloaded widget. This makes the tool less useful because people like students who use different computers (and computers they don't have admin priviledges for) can't use the service at a library computer, for example.

2. Zoho Notebook
http://notebook.zoho.com/nb/login.do?serviceurl=%2Fnb%2Findex.do

At first, I didn't like this one as much as Notefish because it seemed overly complicated. It has so many features, most of which I know I'll never use and that most of my students won't use while researching an academic paper.

However, it has not silly widget-thingy to download, which means that my information is available on any computer with an internet connection. Plus, it looks very easy to export the notebook pages into something my computer could read off-line. Plus-plus, it has a tool to import my existing Google Notebook pages (I suspected this might be the case when it told me that I could log on using my google login).

And, I got to liking the over abundance of features. Plus, the way the pages are set up as tabs in the "books" makes it really easy to navigate around.

I miss Google Notebook, but maybe I'll learn to like these others.
m

All my classes are FULL

2009-04-07T14:07:00.000-07:00

Really. They are bursting at the seams. Please don't ask me to add you. I can't.

m

Maren's Wou Office Hours

2009-04-06T12:03:00.000-07:00

Hi Folks!

Here are my Spring 2009 Office Hours:

Monday: 1-1:50 PM
Tuesday: ONLINE 1-3 PM
Wednesday: 1-1:50 PM

On Mondays and Wednesdays, I'll be logged on to Meebo for online office hours.

On Tuedays, there's an 80% chance that I'll be in my office (Todd Hall 338), but I won't guarantee it.

Have a good day!
m