Hello fellow Indus River Valley Civilization group members.

This is our group's official blog. Everyone should register for a Google account as soon as possible so I can add everyone to the authors list for this blog. 

Basically, we are receiving a grade for a group project as well as individual topics of our choosing. The critical deadlines are, Group Project Proposal: Wednesday, February 16 @ 11:59pm, Group Project Blog: Monday, April 4 @ 11:59pm, Group Presentations: 4/29; 5/2; 5/4; 5/6. We will be meeting most Fridays in the Arts Library starting February 4th at 12pm(subject to change). Please email me if this is a bad time. I know everyone won't be able to attend every meeting, so if you miss one it's not a huge deal but you will still be expected to make reasonable progress on your portion of the project. 

We will need to independently start researching various subtopics so we can build a background knowledge of this civilization. As a group we will be preparing a ~20 minute presentation. I would like to designate a portion of time for each and every member to speak about a specific subtopic, along with a basic introduction and conclusion(take home message). Since the project will be done in presentation format(Power Point), I would like if at all possible in to be done with Google Presentation not power point. The main reason I prefer GP over PP is because it's free and available to any computer with an internet connection, so no one has to go to the library just to work on the project. It also features real time collaboration, which means everyone in our group can edit the same file at the same time. So we don't have to play a game of tag sending a million emails with file attachments to each other. We can discuss the use of Power Point or Google Presentation at our first official meeting. 

If anyone has a general topic proposal, please feel free to post it here as soon as possible. 


Personally, I would like to explore the social organization of the IRVC. 

How to register:

1. Go to www.google.com

2. Click "sign in" in the upper right hand corner.

3. Where it says "don't have an account", click "create one now."

4. Enter your UTA email into the email and fill in the other forms. 

5. Check your UTA email and confirm your Google account. You should also see my invitation to the blog in your inbox. Confirm that too and you should be good to go.


If you already have a Google account, just email me through blackboard and I can add you.