Time Travel Narratives | OTIS

 

Questions

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I will be using this space to post links to questions on your readings and viewing materials for this class.

 

These questions will ask you to think about issues raised in the course content. Though we are not using a "blog" (because I honestly thought one more site for us to manage and log in to would be just way too much), I want you to treat these sections like a blog and I have certainly tried to give them that general appearance.

 

When you respond on this wiki, please be sure to include your username so I can give your credit. Also, please separate your answers using the "Insert Horizontal Line" icon (next to the eraser on the formating menu) so I don't get lost trying to distinguish your answers.

 

REMEMBER: What you post and the quality of your posting is a reflection of you. Make sure you are presenting yourself appropriately. What you post contributes to your on-line identity. You should never publish personal information such as your phone number, address, or last name. In addition, once you publish something on-line, you cannot take it back entirely, even if you delete it. I do not want to frighten you so much as caution you to think seriously about your postings on this wiki.

 

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Rubric for Questions:

Category
4 - High Proficiency 3 - Proficiency 2 - Some Proficiency 1 - Limited Proficiency 0 - No Proficiency
Wiki Use Comments are submitted for every post. Comments are mostly submitted. Almost all required comments have been completed. Entries are few. No attempt made.
Engagement with Post/Question Comments demonstrate engagement with the post and connect back to the issues raised in readings and/or class activities. Answer includes interesting/reflective content. Comments demonstrate awareness of most of the key issues raised through readings and/or class activities. Responding to post for the most part, though not all of them may give evidence of a substantial contribution. Could have provided more reflective insight in key areas. Comments stray off-topic without any apparent reasoning for it. Make some reference to issues raised through readings and/or class activities. Needed more reflection/thought in response. Comments are entirely unconnected to posts and make no reference to issues raised through readings and/or class activities.Generally lack any thoughtfulness. Clearly demonstrate that you made no effort.
Mechanics Entries show a very good command of Standard English and have some flair and originality. Entries may contain multiple links, images, or video when appropriate. Very few typos or misspellings. Entries show a good command of Standard English. No problems for your audience. Entries demonstrate some evidence of correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc. Audience will have a little trouble reading your response. Entries use incorrect grammar and syntax consistently, making it difficult for others to follow. No links are included connecting your thoughts to those of others. A mess. Cannot extract any ideas.

 

"Today, we know that time travel need not be confined to myths, science fiction, Hollywood movies, or even speculation by theoretical physicists. Time travel is possible. For example, an object traveling at high speeds ages more slowly than a stationary object. This means that if you were to travel into outer space and return, moving close to light speed, you could travel thousands of years into the Earth's future."

CLIFFORD PICKOVER, Time: A Traveler's Guide

 

 

You should compose your answer first in a word document, and then copy and paste your text over so you do not unnecessarily tie up the page. Other students cannot contribute to a page while a user is editing it.

 

 

What to do with titles? Try to be consistent when you blog . . .

Book titles and Play titles --> underline or italicize, example The Man Who Folded Himself or The Man Who Folded Himself

Movie titles and Television titles --> italicize, example Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure or Quantum Leap

Essay titles, Short Story titles or other short works like Poem titles or Song titles --> put in quotation marks, example "The Theory and Practice of Time Travel"

 

Tips for Blogs

 

Extra Credit: You can earn points when you go back and correct the highlighted errors. Make sure you delete the highlights.


Week 8:

Time After Time (Extra Credit)

Clifford Pickover's "Some Concluding Musings and Thoughts" and Michio Kaku's "Physics of the Impossible"


Week 7:

Through the Looking Glass

Bearing an Hourglass


Week 6:

Quantum Leap

Donnie Darko


Week 5:

Man Who Folded Himself

Somewhere In Time

Robert Heinlein "--All You Zombies--"


 

Week 4:

Sliders

Noein

"All the Myriad Ways"

 


Week 3:

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Doctor Who

 

 

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