Dear Colleagues,

Welcome to "Using the Computer as a Research Tool". I'm so glad to be teaching this
course and it's going to be nice to see some familiar faces as well as get to
know some new ones.

This post is an essential dry run, but it is only one of a number of ways
that we will communicate during the next 5 weeks or so.

The class will meet at 8:00 AM on the following days: Saturdays, Jan. 16, 23,
Feb. 4, and 27. If all goes as expected, the class on Jan. 23 will take place online. That's right. Our next class will be online; therefore you can break out the snuggies and the hot chocolate and never leave your couch.

In addition to our actual class time in MEC's lab, we'll be meeting virtually in
my office in TI's virtual professional development center (more about that
later) or via blogs (yours and mine) and email.

During the beginning of the first session, I'm going to try to learn about your
interests for your research and which directions you might want to proceed in with regard to your class project.

Before I forget, I want to give you my email address. It is egroves@comcast.net
and you'll find the addresses of your fellow students in first email's header. The address (URL) of this blog is the following: http://mec-researchclass-sp2010.blogspot.com/ and I will be using it to communicate with you between classes and as a fairly accurate chronicle of what we cover in each class.

More later on...

I'm trying to see if this will come through as an updated post.