Summing up Class: Friday, March 9th
Today in class everyone was productive most of the period. Several of you were reading on the couches, several were writing handwritten rough copies, several were researching for their historical and geographical blog entries on Trieste, and several were writing final blog entries (one of us was cleaning his locker to find a notebook, but that counts as being productive too!).

I would like to remind the class that our new "posting" procedure for our Language Arts blogs is to write our first final copy on the word processor on the computer, and then cut and paste it into Blogger. we have discovered that trying to type directly into the Blogger site during some of our class periods is inefficient due to the longer up/download times between our IST server and the host servers in the USA for Blogger.com. This new procedure should help us all out and be more productive.
Remember what Stefano, the tech consultant, told us today when we started class: that there is nothing we can do because of the speed "bottleneck" between Italy and the Blogger.com host servers in the USA. But he also said that if we write, save, then cut and paste into Blogger, we will be able to do our work with a minimum of frustration.
This should save us all time as we move forward in this quarter. Thanks!