Kickstarter Context

Cliches about fools and money?

To start us thinking, here's an article I happened upon over the weekend:

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/12/05/tip-of-the-iceberg-how-the-illusion-of-products-can-mislead-customers-about-the-realities-of-business/

This caused me to follow the link about the T-shirt. Which brought me back to Kickstarter.

Thinkwrite: How can we tell whether a Kickstarter project has the ability to actually produce its product?


I hand out the assignment sheet for the Solo paper due next Tuesday. We need to discuss criteria...


Homework:

1. Finish the "Language Use in Kickstarter" assignment due tomorrow.

2. Finalize your choice of two Kickstarters to write about, and begin the steps of creating Solo Assignment #1. Start with taking a page of notes in your daybook. This leads to choosing criteria and identifying Key Elements. If you wish to do this over the weekend, you can add the page of notes into your daybook when I return it.

3. Daybooks are due tomorrow, Friday. I will return them Monday.

3. TWFTD: criteria