Weebly Tutorial

The video below might be helpful to you as you build your websites using Weebly.

Website tool for documents

Scribd.com is a great tool for placing your essays on your websites. Scribd works like Youtube for documents. You create a free account and then upload your essays to it. You can then take an embed code for the document from Skype, go to Weebly, drag down the custom html box, and paste the code in. This is what I use for all your assignment sheets on my own website.

Google My Maps

The video below explains how to make a My Map with Google Maps. It is an option you may want to try for your project.

Online Handbook

The Purdue OWL, sponsored by Purdue University, is an excellent resource for question with citation, editing, and other writing issues. Check it out.

Example of a well done Blog Post

The example below, from english 102 student Lisa, shows what components a good blog post contains. Lisa does a close analysis of some portion of a chosen reading, responding to it with her own opinion, and includes a relevant link to information that adds to her post.

Friday Night at Iowa 80

While reading Iowa 80, I thought a lot about the imagery the author used. He used a lot of sensory details, and it made me feel as if I was there, conversing with the people, and even just people watching. Observing how they would function, and just how the truck stop functioned. Everyone was like a family, it seemed. To me, it gave me the feeling like I was at a small town coffee shop, much like the one in my hometown. Everyone got a long and laughed with each other, just like a family.

I liked when the author was describing when he met this guy named Gordy. He said "Gordy spoke with easy affability, and underneath his three say growth of beard, I detected once boyish good looks reminiscent of the actor Lee Majors".(Feildworking: Zollo 30) I was very impressed with his details. I could see exactly what this mans face looked like. He goes on to describe the rest of this man saying he was "a vetran with 22 years of service on the road". (30) Clearly this man is an older man.
While the people of The Iowa 80 truck stop are important, it is also very important to get a feel to what the place looks like, and he does a great job. Overall, i think the author, Rick Zollo, does an outstanding job describing this truck stop. This is a video of the Iowa 80 truck stop