And we're off!

Okay, let's do this!

The CHS Liberté class begins this Wednesday, the 5th, so we're officially taking off with the Shadow School project now! We will continue until May, and then take stock of what the project has become and begin assembling the book/s that will be compiled from what we have done.

As explained in the introductory post below, the goals for this project are not preset, and will emerge from everybody's participation. So this first few weeks we can all communicate and experiment with what we would like to get out of it, and what we can contribute.

As a basis of shared reading, early each week I will make a post relating to a reading from the textbook (see the free PDF link to the right), and linking to additional material. These readings are not "required" obviously, but are co-ordinated with the assigned readings for the CHS course. Later in each week, I'll post other materials, links, questions, thoughts, images, sound files, or whatever else.

If you haven't yet, hit "join this site" to the right under "project collaborators", and as soon as I see you've joined the project I'll make you an administrator so that you can post, comment etc. 

I'll post about the initial reading (pp. 11-24) tomorrow (Monday). Let's all try posting responses to that reading; related images, texts, etc. that we'd like to share with each other, questions that others may have answers to, and whatever else we think of--experiment with what we can do with this blog.

Especially in these initial weeks, it would also be good to post about our various goals, interests, and thoughts for the project itself; and I'd appreciate any advice or comments regarding how to make this blog more usable and helpful.

Thanks for taking part!

Olchar