The Mackerel Wrapper

A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

COMM 207: Extra credit for Thursday

As an inducement to get more people looking at the blog and answering the daily extra credit question(s), I will try to set this one up so it is not too intellectually demanding. Answer all three questions.

1. In what large German city is the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung located?
a. Frankfurt, Germany.
b. New Berlin, Ill.
c. Frankfort, Ky.
d. the Cozy Dog Drive In on South 6th Street in Springfield, Ill.
2. How many spaces do you leave after a period when you're writing copy that will be set in type?
a. one.
b. two.
c. three.
d. as many as you @#$%! well please.
3. Do you see a pattern in the answers to these questions?
a. yes.
b. no.
c. maybe.
d. what questions?
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Springfield (Ill.), United States
I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.