First day message

Hi and welcome to Anthro 4320/4321 Human Evolution. Please feel free to call me Marc!

The syllabus for this class is attached and you can always find it here online or on AsULearn. The calendar is found both on AsULearn and also online by clicking here

You can see that I divided the class into days (Monday-Thursday) sort of like if the class were Face-to-Face. This is to help you manage your time. You could of course "work ahead" or "catch up" as you please. It is your class as much as it is mine.

For most class days, the readings are there for you to read and think about. As you see on the syllabus, they are all posted on a shared site that lets us 'annotate' the readings. Please do so as much as possible. This is in lieu of class discussions etc. I won't count the number of comments you make, but do feel free to engage as much as possible.

If you have any questions use the class Slack ()https://join.slack.com/t/anthropology4320/shared_invite/zt-efttdpad-69de08a~hjoglTsYUPItoQ) to ask them! This is also a place to chat more informally about the readings, news, etc. I won't 'monitor' everything going on but will check and see what is happening. Feel free to share stories and thoughts you have as we learn about human origins together

In sum, this course is an experiment in many ways. Please be patient as we work on this all together. WIth the exception of the online game, everything should be up and ready for you to do (I'll get this done by Tuesday night).

If you want to chat via Zoom or phone just let me know. Looking forward to working with all of you

This week:

Today, Tuesday :

• get things setup (see https://www.notion.so/Day-1-tasks-1c1aff525e944456b67639ac04205011) for more info or see the bottom of this email. Most impt is to set up your blog
• No readings/work for today, but make sure everything is working correctly. You might want to start looking at the readings for wednesday, since there is a lot of them!

Wednesday:

• Readings on decolonizing paleoanthropology;
• start blog post on the topic

Thursday:

• readings on evolutionary theory
• Optional Zoom meeting (at 1 pm?) to talk about class

Friday -Sunday

• finish first blog post!
• work on projects and do some research

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Note that we will not be using AsULearn that much. most of what we do will be on the course blogs etc....

Note: all of these things are FREE for you. Don't choose anything asking for payment :)

1. Join the class Slack - You can create and join our Slack using this link (https://anthropology4320.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-efttdpad-69de08a~hjoglTsYUPItoQ#/). enter your email address in the sign in screen and you will get an email with an invite to the class. If you haven't used Slack before you can make an account really quickly. Once you do this post a 'hello' message
2. create a blog - You can do this by following the instructions here (https://anthro4320kissel.blogspot.com/2020/05/why-use-blog-in-this-class.html). This shouldn't take too long (it took me longer to choose a theme than anything else). Once you do that, maybe write a 'hello' post there as well saying who you are. Note that as the instructions note you can do this with a pseudonym if you want (just let me know who you are in real life for the purposes of final grades), 
3. Signup for Perusall at https://perusall.com/. You can log in with with your Facebook, Twitter, or Google accounts or just use an email account. During the setup process it will ask for a course code. type in "KISSEL-6N6B8" and then you sill see all the course readings. The tutorial is pretty easy to follow
4. Finally, if you haven't already create  a Sutori account. Go to https://www.sutori.com/signup and sign up for the site. When the site asks “Before you get started, let us know who you are for a more tailored experience” make sure to choose ‘student’. When the box pops up asking for a code put this code there: twwk4