The Mackerel Wrapper

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

Student blogs

Students please note: Web logs evaluated for course credit in my classes comprise a virtual community and an electronic extension of my classroom. In asking students to post to blogs, as in all of my classes, I encourage you to think for yourselves and try out new ideas; to do that safely, we have to respect and trust each other. Therefore, I must ask that we refrain from negative personal comments or "flame wars" on line. What sounds like friendly kidding when we're F2F (face-to-face) with each other can look hostile and intimidating in writing.

Communications 337 - Fall 2011

Tabitha Bock http://tbockphotography.blogspot.com/

Missy Chott http://missyhc8com-missy.blogspot.com/

Katie Dowis http://katiedowis.blogspot.com/

Dylan Hardin http://dylanhardin.blogspot.com/

Julie Haskell http://jh0486.blogspot.com/

Corey House http://chouse337.blogspot.com/

Kristin Jordan http://kristinj-kmj.blogspot.com/

Kaitlyn Keen http://kaitlynleann.blogspot.com/

Allie Ladige http://alliecat2007.blogspot.com/

David Maziarz http://dmaziarz.blogspot.com/

Kristen Nieslawski http://knblog337.blogspot.com/

Adam Pemberton http://adam-pemberton.blogspot.com/

Rachel Seaver http://rachelpie11.blogspot.com/

Stacie Taylor http://stringersfinger.blogspot.com/

Christina Ushman http://www.cmu62704.blogspot.com.

Van Wirth http://thedubbingtonpost.blogspot.com/

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About Me

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.