Emerging Churches (MC535 W06)

Emerging Churches Book Discussion

There are a couple things I wanted to announce:

Thursday March 2nd Eddie Gibbs and Ryan Bolger will be discussing their book at Fuller and doing a book signing afterwards.

And starting today, March 1, Barclay Press is hosting an online discussion of the book for the whole month. I've also written about this on my blog.

I would also like to solicit your comments and thoughts on my series of posts on Evangelicalism (if you have the time - sorry no extra credit if you do it!!!).

Finally - just as a fun tip, I have recently been asked to review box.net on my blog (I haven't done it yet) but I have been given invites to get others involved.  This is something that I think both bloggers and students will like to use. So as your TA I am telling you about it. Basically its 1gb of free storage online for documents, music, pictures whatever.  Its a great way to backup your documents or store them when your at the computer lab.  There's no catch, its totally free and a great service. 

Here's the referal link for box.net.

That's it for now.

Some Suggestions From Week 7

I just finished grading your work from week 7 and everyone is doing a great job. If I had a specific request or question I left it as a comment on your blog.

Here are some thoughts and suggestions:
1. We are looking into how to get grades to you.
2. We are working on putting an email together with the powerpoint.
3. We have a no-late policy, in other words if your assignment is late there will be no credit given. 

    NOTE: Many of you were late this week (Book Reviews are due Wednesday by 12am and Group Comments on Sunday by 12am) and I gave you some credit but I will not be able to do this anymore.

4. Please follow the requirements and posting title format for your posts as laid out in the Class Wiki.

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1. When you do your comments on your teamates blogs, if you know how or can figure it out it would be good to include a link in the text pointing to the blog you are commenting on. 

In blogger you do this by:
A) Copy the URL (web address) of the blog you are commenting on.

B) Go to your blogger posting page and highlight (first you must write it) the text that you want to have the link in.  In other words, if you were comming on me and you wanted the link to be hidden in my name you would Write something like - "When I was reading Wess's review of Emerging Churches," highlight "Wess's review of Emerging Churches."

C) With that text highlighted, click on the chain-like icon in the formatting toolbar and paste the copied URL from your friends' blog into the little box (or manually type it in - make sure it begins with http://).  The link to my "Emerging Churches" would look like this - Wess's review of Emerging Churches.   

Important note for Mac users: Sorry that I forgot to put this in initially, thanks Jen for reminding me.  If you are using a mac, as I do, then you will need to be using the free firefox browswer.  Once you have that installed then go to your blogger account, and the post-editing screen and magically the formatting bar with the link icon will appear.  For some reason blogger doesn't play well with safari.

Doing this helps readers of your blog know who you are talking about in case they want to see for themselves.

 

Small Groups

A number of you have already wanted to know who is in your group so that you can do your comments, the groups are listed in the class wiki.  Also on the wiki it gives an explanation of the assignments and guidlines to follow.  Keep up the hard work, everyone did well with their first posts.

Need More URLs

I began putting the links down below for all of the student blogs.  Check and see if yours isn't down there, if its not then I lost that email or you haven't sent it yet, will you send it to: cwdaniels@gmail.com and in the subject please write "MC535 BLOG" that will help me greatly.  Thank you.

Setting Up Your Blog

I just wanted to let you know that if you haven't heard from me, then I had no problem getting your blog and I will be adding them to this site in the next few days.  Thanks for your hard work so far.

Also I have created a class resource page on my blog that may be of use to some of you, especially if you are looking for some cool free apps, and some pointers on blogging. 

Just go to my site, and click on the resources tab at the top.

Wess Daniels

Welcome

                        
Eddie Gibbs and Ryan Bolger welcome you to Emerging Churches, MC535!! We look forward to spending the next two weeks with you face to face, and the following weeks of the quarter through interactive group work. This class promises to be an exciting encounter as church leaders/students discuss critical issues facing the church in light of current research.

Wess Daniels will be part of our team as well, serving as TA.