I'd Rather Be With Y'all But...

So Sunday was the shindig at the Club Quarters Midtown, Monday was dinner at the President's penthouse (awesome view and gorgeous apt. but I was far too tired to enjoy), tonight is the shindig at the NYTimes hqtrs, tomorrow Pres. Sexton speaks at Kimmel, Friday is the Princeton Club. It is not the whirlwind of parties you think it is, it's very hard work. I feel like I'm a finalist in "The Apprentice" with all the stress that comes with putting together a five-day event. However, instead of getting a highly paid position with Trump, I get to keep mine at NYU. :-/

So here's my design document idea anyway ... I'm going to put together a simple e-learning site to teach a writing course. It will called "Write Tight." It's about how to write more concisely but with grace and style. There will be 10 lessons (10 days total).

I tend to do things ass-backwards, which is designing the Web site first, then telling you what will be in it. So what I'm envisioning will be very rough. By the time I finish the site, it will have more or less the things I'm planning on including.

Home Page -- Welcome
Course Syllabus
Instructions

Lessons
Readings
Assignments -- identifying mistakes and editing verbose paragraphs

The Algonquin Lounge (Forum/discussion board)

The Teacher's Office (Chatroom during office hours - by appointment)

Final Exam
Rewrite three articles

About Me
My bio and photo

Contact Me
Contact info

This is probably more ambitious that I can produce in the next 2.5 weeks. We'll see.