Welcome, Winter 2026!

Welcome to all of my students in Physical Anthropology from College of the Canyons!
(Anthro 101)

This course uses the blogging system for submitting approximately half of your assignments.  Part of each blog assignment will include points granted for constructive comments submitted to other student posts.  You will need to read and review what other students post and then add a comment to their post, providing positive and/or critical feedback to the information they have submitted.  You are encouraged to review the comments left on your blog by other students (and your instructor), as they may provide information that will help you better understand the material.  You may also reply to these comments, though that is not required.  

Use this blog as just a sample of what you might want to do with your own blog. You aren't required to personalize it... If all you do is use the posting function, that's up to you, but have some fun with it! I do ask that you limit posts to strictly course projects for the duration of the 8 weeks of this class. After that, it is up to you what you want to do with it.

There are two parts to this section of the Day 1 procedures:

1.  Setting up your own blog:
To get started, click the link to the right for the page "Setting up your own blog on Blogger" and carefully follow all of the directions listed there. You will need to submit the url link to your new blog through the assignment portal by midnight of Day 1, though formatting and personalization of your blog can be done at your leisure.  Make sure you are sending the correct "url" format in your email to me.  Your url should resemble the sample in the guidelines.

2.  In addition to setting up your blog, get some practice in taking part in a blog discussion:

• Submit a comment to this post with regard to the discussion question listed below. Please submit as a comment below, NOT on your personal blogs. Click the "Comments" link below to get started.

• Make two constructive responses within the comment thread below to comments made by other students. You can do this by clicking the "reply" link at the bottom of the comment to which you wish to respond.  Please make sure to follow the course Netiquette rules (available on Canvas under "Course Info").  Again, these comments should go on the comment thread below, NOT on your personal blogs. 

You will be posting three separate comments, worth 5 points each, one response to the prompt and two responses to other students.  

Discussion Question: A question I hear often, with regard to evolutionary theory, is "Do you believe in evolution?" You do NOT need to answer this question for this discussion, but think about how this question is asked and the words that are used to ask it. 

• What does the question tell you about the questioner's understanding, perceptions and possible misconceptions of evolutionary theory?
• What is a better way to phrase this question and why is it better?

Ready? Go!