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Although I haven’t found many uses for it in daily work, using Dropbox is a big help for sharing larger projects with groups. It allows you to share a folder with various people, who can each access and edit it. As a free user, you start with something like 2GB of space, which increases as you invite people. You can also pay something like $10 a month for up to 100GB. It’s come in very handy when working with music and video, since often these files can’t fit in an email or have to be sent one at a time, I can just load up several songs at once, wait for a partner to download them to their computer, then replace the items.
The explainer group is still laying the ground work for our contest; we have begun to create two explainers, one visual explainer on Walden and a video explainer on the rules and submission format of the contest. We expect to have both of these done by Thursday, March 5th. We created a rubric to grade the submissions, and will be judging the submissions within our group. We have also created an email address, explainercontest@gmail.com. We will be speaking with various professors in the department over the next week to see if any of them would be willing to offer extra credit in their classes for participation in the contest.
For the contest itself, we have decided to open it on March 10th, we will make posters to promote it, put a notice in the weekly college digest email, and ask individual professors to promote it in their classes. To incentivize participants, we will offer an english department award, small monetary prize, and potential extra credit from professors in the department. The contest will be open only to Geneseo english majors, minors and concentrations. All of the explainers must be about a topic in the English field.
We still need to know when the English dept. awards are, so that we can plan enough time to finish the contest and judge any submissions. We also need to know how large the prize will be, so that we can advertise the amount. We would also like to make sure it is acceptable to speak with professors to ask them to offer extra credit, we are not sure how that would go over.