Re: Public Journal ideas

[KILBORNJ@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU]

We've also used a tutor's journal over the years -- although now we're mixing a
print journal and a listserv. (And the listserv will, I think, eventually
replace the journal.) I too find lulls are a part of the landscape of keeping a
group journal. I've found that cartoons, editorials, trivia questions, and odd
sentences found in various and sundry places tend to liven things up. Tutors
now, for instance, are reacting to this week's  Doonesbury series on changes in
academia -- and they brought them in, I didn't.

BTW, I think that lulls are fine -- especially once the journal gets
established. I find that now when no one writes in it for a while, the tutors
make a concerted effort to get it going.

Judy Kilborn