Welcome to ANP264: Great Discoveries in Archaeology.  We’ll be talking in detail about the class (assignment, student responsibilities, schedule, blah, blah, blah) in detail on the first day of class.  However, there are a couple of things that I’d like to point out/have you do ASAP:

• You’ll be receiving an (automatically generated) email with login/password info for the course website by next weekend – keep an eye on your inbox for this.  Sometimes the MSU spam filter catches these emails.  So, if you haven’t received yours by then, give me a shout via email or talk to me in class.
• Go and sign up for a Gravatar account (http://en.gravatar.com/). A Gravatar (glabbally recognized avatar) is a profile image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog (ie. the course website).  To get an account, just go to the Gravatar website, and sign up using your MSU email (using your MSU email is key).  This is a class requirement!
• If you are on Twitter,  I regularly send out interesting class related stuff using the #anp264ss15 hashtag
• Open Access and Open Educational Resources are a big deal in this class.  You should spend a little time becoming familiar with the Creative Commons licenses – they are important.