Critical and Creative Thinking

Click on the link below and read “The Style Invitational” by The Washington Post.  After reading it, you should participate in the contest.  You must submit your answers to The Washington Post via email and you must post your response here as well.  The due date is Monday at midnight.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/12/AR2010021202557.html

Send your entries by e-mail to losers@washpost.comor by fax to 202-334-4312. Deadline is Monday, Feb. 22. Put “Week 856″ in the subject line of your e-mail, or it risks being ignored as spam. Include your name, postal address and phone number with your entry. Contests are judged on the basis of humor and originality. All entries become the property of The Washington Post. Entries may be edited for taste or content. Results will be published March 13. No purchase required for entry. Employees of The Washington Post, and their immediate relatives, are not eligible for prizes. Pseudonymous entries will be disqualified. The revised title for next week’s results is by Tom Witte; this week’s honorable-mentions subhead is by Roy Ashley.

I have scheduled two online meetings in case you have any questions about your assignments or need any extra help.  Here is how this works…

1. Go to www.dimdim.com
2. Click “Join Meeting” – you don’t need to register or install any special software – it should just work.
3. In the “Meeting Room” box, type in “docfleetwood” (without the quotes)
4. Put your name in the “Your Name” box
5. Click “Join” and that should do it.  If you have a microphone, you can speak to me.  Otherwise there is a chat box.

The meetings are scheduled for 12:00 Friday (2/12/10) and for 11:00 Saturday (2/13/10).  They are scheduled for an hour each but you can just pop in and out as you wish.  So stop in and ask any questions you might have and then go about your day

From a technological perspective, I’m interested to see how this works – so feel free to stop by and say hi even if you don’t have a question

Click on the link below and read “The Style Invitational” by The Washington Post.  After reading it, you should participate in the contest.  You must submit your answers to The Washington Post via email and you must post your response here as well.  The due date is Monday at midnight.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/29/AR2010012902180.html?sub=AR

Send your entries by e-mail to losers@washpost.com or by fax to 202-334-4312. Deadline is Monday, Feb. 8. Put “Week 854″ in the subject line of your e-mail, or it risks being ignored as spam. Include your name, postal address and phone number with your entry. Contests are judged on the basis of humor and originality. All entries become the property of The Washington Post. Entries may be edited for taste or content. Results will be published Feb. 27. No purchase required for entry. Employees of The Washington Post, and their immediate relatives, are not eligible for prizes. Pseudonymous entries will be disqualified. The revised title for next week’s results is by Larry Yungk; this week’s honorable-mentions subhead is by Pete Morelewicz; the headline on this week’s Web supplement, “Death Poetry Jam,” is by Tom Witte.

Click on the link below and read “The Style Invitational” by The Washington Post.  After reading it, you should participate in the contest.  You must submit your answers to The Washington Post via email and you must post your response here as well.  The due date is Monday at midnight.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/09/AR2009100901696.html?sub=AR

Send your entries by e-mail to losers@washpost.com or by fax to 202-334-4312. Deadline is Monday, Oct. 19. Put “Week 838″ in the subject line of your e-mail, or it risks being ignored as spam. Include your name, postal address and phone number with your entry. Contests are judged on the basis of humor and originality. All entries become the property of The Washington Post. Entries may be edited for taste or content. Results will be published Nov. 7. No purchase required for entry.

You must sign up at itsyourturn.com using the directions given in class.  You must challenge me in a game before Sunday, 10/4/09.  You must choose one of the specific games in the instructions given in class.  Next week you will challenge 3 classmates.

Samorost is a game that requires both critical and creative thinking to solve the various screens and save your home!  There are purposely no instructions – you just have to figure out what to do.

Use the link below to play Samorost…

http://amanita-design.net/samorost-1/

Click on the link below and read “The Style Invitational” by The Washington Post.  After reading it, you should participate in the contest.  You must submit your answers to The Washington Post via email and you must post your response here as well.  The due date is Monday at midnight.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/11/AR2009091102245.html

Send your entries by e-mail to losers@washpost.com or by fax to 202-334-4312. Deadline is Monday, Sept. 21. Put “Week 834″ in the subject line of your e-mail, or it risks being ignored as spam. Include your name, postal address and phone number with your entry. Contests are judged on the basis of humor and originality. All entries become the property of The Washington Post. Entries may be edited for taste or content. Results will be published Oct. 10. No purchase required for entry.