Cover & Title of Our Class Peer-Reviewed Journal

Your job while I'm gone is to a) provide feedback to Collin about his design for our class journal and b) brainstorm titles for our journal. If you do that here in the comments section, I can keep up with the discussion from New Orleans.

I unfortunately cannot upload a pdf file as an image to blogger. So Collin, if you can save it as gif or another image file, we can all see it.

Did you know?

Did you know that at the University of Dayton there are 12 fraternities and 9 sororities?
I didn't know that. Here is a little insight to all the fraternities and sororities available and UD; UD also has fraternities and sororities specifically for business students, engineering majors, and even law students.The fraternities on campus are: Alpha Nu Omega, Alpha Phi Alpha, Beta Theta Pi,Delta Tau Delta, Epsilon Delta Tau, Kappa Alpha Psi, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Sigma Kappa, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu, and Sigma Phi Epsilon.The sororities on campus include: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Alpha Phi, Chi Omega, Delta Sigma Theta, Phi Sigma Pho, Pi Beta Phi, Theta Phi Alpha, Zeta Phi Beta, and finally Zeta Tau Alpha. This variety helps students to figure out which fraternity or sorority they belong in!!

Better Late then Never...

For many sororities around the University of Dayton, Big/Little week is over, unfortunately. Big/Little week is one of the best weeks as a pledge. Throughout the week, your 'big' who's identity is unknown to you, brings presents to your room and decorates it. This goes on for a week and is a ton of fun; your presents could be anything from movies to blankets to flip flops. At the end of the week you find out who your 'big' is, that is one of the most exciting parts of the whole week!! A week of presents and baked goods, who wouldn't want that?

Place to BE!

Do you ever walk by KU and wonder why its always packed with people? Do you ever walk around to waste time? Well if you answered yes to one or both of these questoins then you need to become a pub member! Thats right a pub memeber! To become a pub memeber all you have to do is spend hours upon hours a week talking with people and eating with them in the pub. It is a fun past time that most upper-class men and some freshman! The food is better than most places and the atmosphere is just a desirable place to be! Come to the pub and become a member!

Video Games, Boys Reading, and Parental Involvement

Jason, Palmer, Kathryn, and Sara proud of their research panel. Jason discovered that there is no difference in reading attitudes and practices between students who play a lot of video games and those who don't. Palmer learned that young men's attitudes toward reading seem to improve over time. Kathryn and Sara learned just how important parental involvement is to literacy, and how important it is for children to watch their parents read.

I particularly love Palmer's title:

Sports and Literacy

Rob and Sean, proud to be literate football players. Sean helped us understand the multiple literacies of football coaching, while Rob detailed the academic problems of athletes.

Yes, coaches *can* read, too:

Songwriting, Visual Learning, and Music's Effects on Reading

David sings a song he wrote for his study of the songwriting process. Collin looks on, thinking about how drawing can help visual learners write better. Tricia is thinking about music's negative effects on reading comprehension.