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Email, Announcements and Communication

Please make sure you understand these procedures for email, announcements and general communication in this course.

Read the Announcements EVERY DAY. Every morning, Monday through Friday, there are new class announcements which you can find at the class website. You can also find the class announcements in Desire2Learn. It is very important that you read these announcements! If for some reason you miss the announcements one day, you can find announcements for the previous five days in Desire2Learn. You can also sign on to an email list so you will receive the Announcements in the form of a daily email if you want.

If you have a question about ANY aspect of the course, please ASK - just send me an email. There is no need to agonize or be anxious - if you are having some problem with the class or are not sure about just something, just let me know, and I will contact you promptly. My full-time job is teaching online courses here at OU, so that means I am easy to reach online, and my goal is for everyone to have a really great experience in this class. So, if you are not having a great experience, get in touch with me, and we'll find a solution to whatever is causing the problem.

Check your OU email EVERY DAY. You need to check your OU email every day, Monday through Friday. You can either check your OU email directly, or you can have your OU email forwarded to another address. In order to forward your OU email to another address, log on to account.ou.edu and follow the instructions there.

Save your email for this course in a FOLDER. Your "Sent Items" folder should contain copies of the email that you send me, in case an email gets lost and you need to send it again (email is definitely not 100% reliable at OU). In addition, you should create another folder in your email where you can save the emails I send you. In particular, you need to save all the emails I send to you about your Storybook project.

Contact me by EMAIL, not by telephone, Twitter, or Facebook. If you need to contact me, you need to do that by email: laura-gibbs@ou.edu.

Make sure the email Subject Line contains the COURSE NAME. Whenever you send me an email, it is essential that you include the name of the course in the Subject Line of the email - either Myth-Folklore or World Lit or Indian Epics, depending on which course you are enrolled in. If you are submitting an assignment by email, check the assignment to find out what other information you need to include in the Subject Line.

Monday through Friday, I will respond to you within 24 HOURS. If you send me an email during the week, you should have a response to any email you send to me within 24 hours or less. If you send an email and do not receive a response within 24 hours, please send the email again. I check email less frequently over the weekend, so if you send me an email on Saturday or Sunday, you may have to wait until Monday for a response - but if you do not hear back from me first thing on Monday, please send me the email again.