Tamra's 4365 Reading Blog

2003-04-14T22:44:00.000-05:00

I read nearly everything for the rest of the semester this weekend (except the Tebeaux) articles. I was doing research for the global history of Tech Com for my final paper, and I thought that I might as well just read the rest of the articles for this class that are concerned with that same subject matter. I started my interviews this week, so I wanted to have some intelligent questions to ask and a good understanding of what had happened globally so that I could understand TTU's history better.

After reading so much about the 1850s to the 1950s and the development of Tech Com within colleges of Engineering, I was interested to find out why TTU's program is instead in the college of English and Arts and Sciences. Dr. Locke Carter gave me a good answer to that question today when he said that we are in the college of English because we are concerned with how to do things with words, how to "delight with the written word," as he put it. He also said that this professiona took a very humanistic turn in the 1970s, which put it on the college of arts and sciences.

I was also concerned with how the TC department of TTU got its first teachers since there were no Tech writers to come in and teach what they had learned in a PhD program. I leaned that TTU's first TC teachers were composition teachers who learned additional TC information by going to conferences and reading journals. They added audience analysis and more types of documents to their teaching programs--and the Technical Writing program was born.

There is a lot more that I could summarize from my interview today with Dr. Carter, but I will save that for the final paper. I learned a lot from my readings this weekend and from speaking with him. I now feel that I have a better idea of the scope of my paper, and the specific questions that I will ask the others whom I get a chance to interview. I still want to speak with Dr. Rude, either Dr. Barker or Dr. Dragga, the Dean, and Dr. Kimball. Dr. Carter told me today that he sees a weakness in the TTU program in that we are losing senior professors and filling up with junior professors. He said that this program is getting a bit "bottom heavy," and he is anxious for some of the junior professors to get tenure. This is something that I would like to interview Dr. Kimball about. It's also something that I personally find very interesting because I am still considering the possibility of going on the get my PhD and becoming a professor of tenure.

This will be my last entry before the grading period. I will summarize the articles that I read this weekend as we discuss them in class so that I will have something to be graded for Blog IV.

2003-04-10T13:00:00.000-05:00

Today's class was more interesting than I anticipated. I have to admit that I did not enjoy reading about sewing machines and mower-reapers, but I did like the additional information that Dr. Kimball gave about women's issues in those days. The part about women being equal to cattle was just like the episode of Maury that I watched yesterday. It was about abusive husbands, and they were all saying that their wives were their property and had to do whatever they said; the marriage certificate was the Bill of Sale. I wish Dr. Phil would have got a hold of those guys. Anyhow, let me get back to the article.

I liked the way that Brockmann laid out his article. It was a style that I could have used in my jounal analysis because we both used a similar methodology. When I was reading the chapter, I was a bit uninspired by the topic he was discussing, and I thought that his graphs were a bit excessive. I paid more attention to the way that he presented his topic, told what specific things he was going to research, presented the information in graphs and tables, and then summarized his findings. If I would have read this article before I did my journal analysis, I think that I would have done a better job of summarizing the information in my tables in written form. I made the mistake of letting the tables speak for themselves without a good commentary.

Like Dr. Kimball said, we can't read everything at the first of class and leave all the assignments to the end. I'll just keep this knowledge handy for anything that may come up in graduate school. (And by the way, can I take this class again as a grad student? This summer?)

2003-04-07T10:10:00.000-05:00

It's time to do a little summarizing of Playfair and the guys who wrote about him and his ideas before we move on to Dr. Dragga's articles. First of all, it is very interesting to note that Playfair was not a stand-up guy. The main motivations for all the work that he did was to make money and be accepted by the higher-ups in society (by complementing them within his graphical presentations). Playfair made use of the graphical techniques that he had learned in his previous employment and from his brother. There are many experts who write about Playfair, and the ones that we read excerpts from were very careful to gloss-over his unsavory image. He was generally presented as a very important mind of his times who developed many of the graphing techniques that we either still use today or have built into more relevant methods.

Playfair made it possible to look at a graphical presentation of the manner in which diseases were wiping out populations at that time. He did extensive work comparing the imports and exports of England and other countries (though we see these graphics to be a bit biased). He also made table-sized nobility family trees to sell to the rich families of the day.

These Playfair articles that we read tie into the previous articles about the need to integrate more graphics into text and teach graphical methods to technical writers. The Dragga articles that we will discuss next class present a whole different side of graphics (one that I doubt Playfair ever considered). Dragga and his co-author make an interesting claim about the need to humanize graphics that present human statistics. More about that next Blog after we discuss it in class.

2003-03-30T19:49:00.000-06:00

Dr. Kimball and I had a meeting on Friday afternoon, and I feel really good about my final project now. I am going to do an ethnographic study of the Technical Communication program here at Texas Tech, interviewing various people who are active in the program. I will also do additional research on the global changes in TC instruction.

My first step is going to the library and looking through the old course catalogs and English department meeting converstations. I need to get a good sense of the changes that have happened her at TTU so I will be able to develop interesting and relevant questions for the people that I will interview. I am also going to research the books of Kynell, Conners, and others to get a good idea of the changes in TC in a more global sense.

My next step will be composing the questions to ask my subjects and developing a methodology that I will use with everyone. I need to be sure to let them know exactly what I am doing and why I am asking them these questions. I will also need to tape record the sessions so I won't forget any important information that I hear in my interviews.

The next step will be to set up the interviews with all of the poeple that I want to include in my ethnographic study. Dr. Kimball recommended that I speak to Dr. Rude, the Dean of the English department, Dr. Carter, Dr. Dragga, Dr. Barker, and the person who teaches the internet course from another state (I can't remember his name). I can forsee the possibility that it could get rather difficult to meet with each of these people because of all of our busy schedules here at the end of the semester. It is important that I get started on this step right away.

My final step will be to organize all of the information that I have obtained into an interesting and well-organized paper. When doing this, I can imagine that I might have some problems knowing how many quotes will be good to include and how many will be overkill.

Basically, I feel like I have a very good sense about what I am going to be doing for this project. I definitely understand it much better than the previous two assignments that I have done for this class. I am still worried about my re-write for the literary review, and we haven't gotten our journal analysis papers back yet, either. I hope that all turns out well.

2003-03-27T23:36:00.000-06:00

I absolutely forgot that Blogging existed until today in class. Spring Break was lovely, and the only homework that I did was re-write my literary review. Let me get going again by giving a re-cap of today's class conversations.

Today we spoke about Moran and Brockman. I did not read the Moran article because I thought we were supposed to read Conners, but I assume that both Moran and Brockman wrote about the same thing: there is not enough emphasis on learning how to use graphical elements in technical writers' educational background. He said that there used to be lots of graphics in technical documents (in the shipbuilding days), but they are no longer used enough.

Brockman exemplified this theory in Chapter 1 by talking about Oliver Evans. Brockman gave illustrations of Evan's first milling machine promotional document that was only text and then told how it was not well-received. He then showed how Evan's next document that included illustrations was much better. The thing that Brockman failed to note in his analysis is that it is much easier to mislead people when using pictures. Communication happens more quickly and there is more potential for ethical problems.

A classmate reminded us that the reason that graphics are not taught to technical writers is because we are part of the English department, and English departments traditionally want to focus on literature rather than graphics. Dr. Kimball talked about how this is changing, especially here at Texas Tech. Any of us who have taken Dr. Susan Lang's class know this fact first-hand.

Pictures and other graphical elements are everywhere today, and people are used to getting their information quickly and in an exciting format. Nearly everyone has at least one television in his or her home, and the news has become very quick and to-the-point. Even technical manuals have come to rely more and more on pictures rather than words. Some businesses do not require their technical writers to do their own graphical work, but some do. There is definitely a place for learning basic graphical design techniques in the overall education of technical writers.

2003-03-05T17:06:00.000-06:00

I am having difficulties deciding on a topic for the Primary Research Project. The main thing that I do not understand is how it is going to be any different from the first two papers that we wrote. If I use the same topic--the way the American Psychologistjournal has become more culturally aware--how would my PRP be any different from the Journal Analysis? And if I changed topics, what would I choose instead?

I was thinking about the oil company idea that Dr. Kimball suggested. My family is good friends with two of the big oil families around here, and I would be interested in researching how they got started. But if I chose this, what would I really be looking at? The documents that the company used within its own employees? Or the documents that they used to communicate to their stockholders? Or the documents that they used to buy land or ask others if they could drill on their land?

Next problem: What does this stuff have to do with Technical Communication? How would I keep from writing a history paper like I did with the Literary Review?

Another idea that I thought about is looking through the old course catalogs to see how the teaching of Technical Communication has changed here at Texas Tech. It would be interesting to see how engineering, advertising, and pre-med majors have integrated Tech Com classes into their course loads. I think this topic would be a lot easier to show significance to Tech Com because it is actual research about the teaching of Tech Com.

2003-02-28T20:47:00.000-06:00

We've been slowing down a bit in our readings, and I'm grateful. This journal analysis has been very time consuming. I keep changing my mind about what feature that I am going to analyze, so I have to go back and look through them again and again to record new data. Ten years is a really long period to analyze.

In class on Tuesday and Thursday, we talked more about scientific writing. For the second time this semester, I am excited that the things that I am learning in my history of Latin America class are overlapping with my readings for this class. In Spanish class on Wednesday, we watched a video on the Incas and the Nazcos that mentioned the book Chariots of the Gods, and I had just finished reading the first chapter of that book. I always feel like I'm getting a very well-rounded education when I learn about things from different angles from different teachers.

Even though the readings by Von Daniken and Sagan were interesting, I didn't feel the desire to continue reading either of their books. I guess this just goes to show that no matter how much a writer tries to make his or her subject appeal to a broader audience, there is just no way to suck in that reader who doesn't have an innate interest in the writer's subject matter. I don' t know if anyone could write so excitingly that they could convince me to read about planets and light years and black holes and gravity.

We didn't really get around to speaking about plain language, but I did read the articles by Whitburn and Mazur. I also looked at the completely un-plain styles of Bacon and Burton. The latter two were so complicated that I didn't really get any meaning out of their words. Before I read the former two articles, I didn't really know that there was a debate over whether plain language was a good idea or not. I feel like it has been taught all throughout high school and college, and I never stopped to think of its downside.

I have noticed that I am sometimes on the wrong track when I analyze articles before we talk about them in class, so I'm just going to stop here and finish my summary of the plain style articles next week.

2003-02-21T14:46:00.000-06:00

In class yesterday, we talked about the scientific writing articles. My favorite one was the story about the little boy who grew up reading the Iliad and made it his ultimate goal to someday explore and excavate the land of his childhood dreams. He learned many languages, became very wealthy, and went to fulfill his dream. It was really a romantic story. At least I thought so until Dr. Kimball told us that the man really stole all of his ideas from other people and was generally a big liar and thief.

The scientific writings were a nice break from the traditional histories that we have been reading. Even though it may sound weird to say that reading science is much easier than reading Technical Communication history, the real reason for this is because the scientific writings were done in a narrative style. The narrative style helps the readers identify with those people who made great discoveries (the cosmos, the microbes, buried cities). It makes the information easier to grasp because it is not given text-book style.

I do not enjoy Star Trek, Star Wars, aliens, UFOs, or other science fiction. I just looked through those sites without getting very involved. I think the reason I am so opposed to that sort of stuff is because it is just too much to think about. There are probably some type of other beings out there, and we will probably fly around and meet them someday. However, I do not want to deal with that right now. It just makes the things I do every day too insignificant. The whole endless universe, spirituality thing is not something that I want to start blogging about. Way too deep...

2003-02-21T14:25:00.000-06:00

I am devoting myself this weekend to working on my Journal Analysis and re-doing my Literature Review. I have already read all of the articles for Tuesday, so I'd really like to take this free time to get ahead in my writing.

I have an interesting idea about what to analyze for my journal: I want to look at the covers of the journals (which have become culturally-themed, modern art) and see how this shift in cover design relates to the shift in the cultural content of the articles. I looked through the journals again today to assure that this idea would work, but I have to get an answer back from Dr. Kimball before I will know for sure.

I also have to spend some time this weekend looking for old Spanish text books so I can use them in addition to the books that I already cited in the defunct version of my paper. I'm not sure if it would not be easier to just start all over with a new and more technical topic. But I did spend a lot of time reading through my previous twenty sources, and Dr. Kimball says that the project is still salvageable if I will just add some primary documents and talk more about the layout than the content of the books.

2003-02-19T21:57:00.000-06:00

In class Tuesday, we finished talking about Longo, but did not get around to Zappen, which frustrated me a little because I stayed up late Monday night reading it. Anyhow, we talked a lot about the metaphor of the Spurious Coin and the extreme repetition that Longo uses to bridge her thesis throughout the entire book.

So why does Longo talk about the coin so much? And what does the coin stand for? Someone in class said that the relationship between technical writing and scientific knowledge is the same as the relationship between coins and buying power: the stamp is what gives value to the coin and technical writing is what gives science its exchange value.

We decided that Longo’s overuse of the metaphor of the Spurious Coin as the coin of knowledge, the currency of science, and a debased coin ties her too strictly to her transparent system of transmitting ideas. Longo’s book does not consider the ideas that we are not sure of until we start to write them down. She also neglects to consider the things most considered by a well-trained technical writer: the audience, the scene where the message is being transmitted, and the feedback or lack of feedback from the audience. The main error in Longo’s book is that she suggests that scientific writing is intended for other scientists. But in reality, most technical writers are employed to clarify things for a lower level of audience—not write upwards or even horizontally. Thus, debasing is sometimes quite good.

At first, I did not enjoy the Longo book. But as I kept reading, it got more interesting. I enjoyed the section that told about the way that the early writers had to try not to go against the church. When I read that, I was learning the same thing in my Latin American history class, so I liked the overlap. I also liked the chapter that told how the modern-day worker/manager relationship came about.

I think that the book would have been better without all the coin metaphors. It got really confusing when she started talking about the actual minting of coins. I thought it was a metaphor that I could not follow. Then, when I realized that she was really talking about minting coins, I wondered, “How does this fit in?”

Now, I am reading the popular science articles. I am also doing a re-write of my literary review. Why is it that I just can’t get the hang of the assignment?

2003-02-17T23:14:00.000-06:00

I devoted myself to Spanish last week because I had an incredibly hard test about the history of Spain from before Christ to the 1500s. Now that I got that over with, I must catch up on my Blogs.

First of all, let me recap Thursday's class. We spoke more about Longo, focusing on the concept that the purpose of technical writing is to exert control. I thought that the section where she talked about prison guards using a tower so that the prisoners never know if they were being watched or not was really interesting. I thought of "Oz" when I read that: the way that they have their prison set up on the show. (If you're not familiar with "Oz", it's a nasty show on HBO that takes place inside a prison.) The guards have a control tower that is on the level of the sleeping quarters so that they can always see into the glass rooms and can also always watch what is going on in the activity area down below them. I think the concept generally works because the prisoners always know that there are eyes on them. However, many unsavory activities still go by unnoticed (or are they just ignored?). Before I go off on the plot of the show, let me discuss another point that we addressed in class.

Longo spoke about the different ways that the pay methods that we use today came about. This is something that I had never really thought about, and it was interesting to see the advantages and downsides of each method. Getting paid by the hour means that pay does not have to go up for the busy-body worker (a plus for the employer), but it also means that there is no motivation for workers to go beyond the least that they can get by with. If someone knows that he or she is going to get paid the same amount of money whether he or she builds 6 computers or 8 computers, what is going to motivate him or her to kick out those extra two computers?

On the other hand, if workers only get paid by the amount of computers that they are able to produce, work will turn into a competitive and unpleasant place where the person in the next cubicle is nothing more than an income threat.

Longo says that technical documentation is the entire way that management controls how workers work: time clocks, talleys of work done, progress charts. In the work world today, we do not even notice these things because they are so much a part of everyday life. It never even occurred to me that some people might think that it is wrong for management to watch workers while they are at work to make sure that they are doing what they are supposed to be doing. If I had a company, I would constantly watch my employees to make sure that I was not paying them to mess around. I would also not be entirely opposed to pitting my employees against each other to ensure maximum productivity and a bit of a tattle-tale system.

I'm a psychology minor, and we've studied this stuff in class. People are bred to want to gain the most from those that that they do not share loving and committed relationships with and be equal to those that they do. Workers share an exchange relationship rather than a communal relationship. A very effective way to get people who don't care deep-down about each other to do their part for the community good is to let them know that they are being watched, and they are responsible for all of their actions.

Technical Communication is imperative in the workplace, just like it is imperative in all areas of our lives. In her book, Longo shows how technical communication has evolved out of the realm of mining, science, and engineering to become intrinsic in all parts of our lives. (Is Longo female?)

I am still working on the Zappen reading, and I am finding it terribly confusing. I will have to Blog about it after we talk about it in class tomorrow. I must get everything straightened out first.

2003-02-11T17:51:00.000-06:00

Since it has been a while since I have blogged, I must look back into my memory to highlight the key points of the last few readings. Last Thursday we had a very informative and involved class discussion about Chapter 3 of Rose. This chapter is about visual methodologies/content analysis. It presents the concept of analyzing a large quantity of photos by making a classification system for the common elements in all of them and then counting these elements to give a more technical quality to their merits and content rather than using the typical way of describing them using impressions and emotions. As I was reading this information, I was thinking, "What is the point of this?" and "Why would someone even want to analyze photos that way since they were meant to be expressive and artistic and show a glimpse into a world that is not likely to be seen by the masses?"

As we analyzed the reasoning behind content analysis, I began to see why it is used. For companies that have long photo histories (such as National Geographic), it is important to understand what kind of images sell magazines and what kind of things turn people off. This analysis is important to all advertisers because they do not want to present things to the masses of consumers that the consumers do not want to look at.
I am still a little unsure about the merits of content analysis of photographs in the technical realm, but I do see how it may be important to advertisers.

I really like the way that Rose uses real-life examples to show the concepts that she is presenting in each chapter. I don't think that Chapter 6 of her book would have been quite as interesting if it had not involved the use of photographs of prostitutes.

Next Blog: Longo (after I read a bit more of the book)

2003-02-01T20:01:00.000-06:00

I have been researching instruction manuals for Spanish teachers for days and days. I have a lot of primary sources but not many secondary sources. And really, I don't know what to do with the information that I do have. I think that I am going to start the paper with a time line introduction and then start introducing the books in chronological order. However, I don't know where my secondary sources will fit in if I use that kind of construction.

I also have a lot of information that is not specifically about teaching Spanish but about teaching secondary languages in general. I'm still going to include this information because, as Dr. Kimball pointed out to me and I MUST remember, I am not writing about the history of teaching methods; I am writing about the development of the technology and documents that were used to present those teaching methods. It's really difficult to decide where that dividing line is. How much background should I give on the primary books that I am siting? How can I site secondary sources without getting completely into the theory of teaching secondary languages (since that is all that the authors write about)? How am I going to find secondary sources that speak about the development of the technical aspects of the books rather than their content?

This project is very stessful--mainly because I do not know exactly what I am doing. I am afraid that my paper is going to be off-task. Dr. Kimball suggested that I write about the rhetoric of translating business documents, but I have had little success finding sources in that area. I hope that what I am doing is what I am supposed to be doing.

2003-01-29T15:14:00.000-06:00

I have been reading a lot about Virginia (the state, not the girl) these last few days. The article that I spent the most time on was the Moran one. I enjoyed reading the Moran article the most because it is written in easy-to-read English rather than the old, weird spelling. I also liked that Moran encapsulated the other texts that we just read about Virginia and gave the background on why they were written in the style and format that they were.

It was interesting to understand why Barlowe wrote in the fairy tale, Garden of Eden, promotional style to describe the lands of Virginia. It was also interesting to see how Raleigh had several different audiences to convince of the merits of Virginia at the same time (the Queen, the Christians, the traders, the wealthy families) and the way that he tried to convince all of them simultaneously in the same document. He assured the traders that the Natives were willing, and somewhat gullible, traders who would love the clothes that the English had to offer. He assured the wealthy families that there was plenty of land for them to own huge estates. He assured the preachers and missionaries that the Natives were civil and peaceful but needed to be saved becuase they were worshipping false gods. And he assured the Queen that the Natives were not hostile, and Virginia would be a good area to keep the Spanish from advancing their claims on America.

After Raleigh and his team did such a good job of promoting Virginia as a place of wealth and treasures for everyone, there was great dissapointment and even death when people began to colonize the land. The Natives did not have the ability to feed populations other than themselves, and the English did not have the skills to farm lands that were not nearly as self-supporting as Raleigh had advertised. The fairy tale that Raleigh and his group had advertised was not really true.

I had a hard time understanding the Hariot article. I think it was written from the travels of Ralph Lane, who was at first convinced of the wonderland that Raleigh described but then came to see the truth of the land. Maybe this report was telling that truth in the last section, but I had a hard time deciphering exactly what it was saying. I think that the main purpose of this document was to give a sort of inventory about what things were available in America and what things new travelers would want to bring. We will probably talk about this in our class dicussion.

2003-01-28T16:07:00.000-06:00

I am thinking of my topic for the literature review. I told Dr. Kimball that I would write about the dyeing process, but now I am considering writing about the teaching aides for the Spanish language. Since I am finishing up my Spanish minor, I am constantly studying the changes in the language. I think it is interesting to try to understand how these changes came about and who has the authority to change the language. I have been spending a lot of time with my A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish, and I wonder about the books that were available a long time ago to help people learn Spanish.

I understand the assignment now, but I think that I would like to change my topic. I need to look up a few things on the internet to see what kind of sources are available on each topic and then write Dr. Kimball to see what he approves of. Both topics are interesting to me, but I think that researching the Spanish texts would help me in my other field of study.

2003-01-27T18:29:00.000-06:00

I looked at the rest of the class's blogs just now, and mine is awfully boring-looking. I have NO knowledge of HMTL or whatever it takes to change fonts and designs. I know that I can change the template, but I wonder how much Dr. Kimball actually cares about the looks of the blog page.

There is a tremendous amount of reading to do for this class each week, and I do not understand the assignment that is coming up: the literature review. I'm sure that I should be started on it by now, but I need a little more information before I know where to begin. What should I review? How do I review something old? What format should it be in? What am I supposed to present to the class? Where will I get my 20 sources? Do I have to turn them in to Dr. Kimball?

2003-01-25T18:31:00.000-06:00

I just wanted to make a quick summary of the last few articles that I have read so that I won't forget them down the road and so that I'll be sure to have enough written for my first blogger grade. Since I wrote last, I have finished reading Rivers, though I don't know how much of it actually went into my long-term memory. My greatest impression of that reading, as I noted in class, was that I couldn't understand how these certain people had the time and money to just keep publishing books and articles about different subjects. (Dr. Kimball cleared that up for me.) I also learned from Rivers that most of the research that has been done on the history of Technical Communication has been done on the things that have been written in English, but there is so much more out there that needs to be explored.

We also had a nice class discussion about the articles back and forth between Jo Allen and the Connors. These articles shed some light on the problems that actually come about when studying technical documents in other languages because so much can potentially be lost in the translation. I thought it was really interesting to see someone pick apart the arguments of someone else in a public magazine. I think the arguments of the Connors made the first article that Jo Allen wrote get noticed a lot more than it ever would have had it passed through the magazine uncriticized.

This weekend I will be reading the various histories of Virginia. I am still unclear as to how to go about reading the Hariot article, but I'm sure that I can figure it out. I have noticed that the writing is very strange, (Old English?) and it will probably take a while to read. I guess I'd better get started on it right away.

2003-01-21T10:46:00.000-06:00

I am in the process of reading the River's article, and I have been wondering: What is the definition of rhetoric? What is pedagogy? He keeps arguing about what rhetoric is or is not, and I am having trouble following.
Of the two articles that I have read--the one by Kynell and Moran and the one by Locker--I found the Locker article easier to follow and understand because of the conversational nature and the extensive breakdown of ideas. I also like the way that the topic was introduced and then several different viewpoints were given.

There were a couple of facts in the article that really stood out to me. I was shocked by the extensive measures needed to view some texts from other countries. It could take weeks for someone to access an old text, and there is no way to see many of the texts without going to the country of their origin. I am so used to electronic reserves and instant access from the internet that I found it hard to believe that all of these things are not easily available for researchers everywhere.

On this same note, I was very aware of the comment by Malcolm Richardson at the end of the article where he said,"We need something that will do for business writing what the distinguished Selden Society series has done for English legal studies" (125). His earlier comment that asked the readers how they know that he is being truthful in his articles and that he has not misquoted something kind of startled me. I had never entertained the idea that all the information that is being published by these writers of technical history is basically unchecked and could be erroneous. I'm not sure what the Selden Society is, but I think that these writers definitely need one.

In general, I learned from these two articles that a lot of research is being conducted on the history of technical communication, and there are many different angles that a researcher can take to study this vast array of subject matter. I am thinking now of what areas I would like to look into to write my upcoming papers.

2003-01-21T10:44:00.000-06:00

We are setting up our blogs in class today.