An enterprising recent Ph.D. from Stanford's Department of French and Italian, Audrey Calefas, assistant to the renowned professor of literature, and member of L'Académie Française, Michel Serres, has set up an interesting spin on the edublog.

http://www.stanford.edu/~acalefas/serres/

They have created a blog that is intended to garner questions in advance of a class, which will be offered this coming Winter Term at Stanford - Topics in French Literature, Philosophy, and Humanities. There are a fixed number of posts, which are in effect a set taxonomy for questions. Anyone can post a comment, however, and in this way ask a question of Michel Serres, which he intends to answer in the class -- and online (for the benefit of those not attending Stanford this winter).The categories are Philosophy, Metaphysics; Religion, Theology, History of Religions; Critical Theory, Linguistics, Stylistics; Culture, Ethnology and Anthropology; Psychology, Human behavior; History, Economics, Law and Civil Rights; Science, history of science; Arts and Aesthetics

Rhetoric isn't on the list, but I figured that Kairosnews readers would be interested at least in the pedagogical implications of front-loading a course in this manner, and of course the electronic medium and the impact that has on the process. You are all also welcome to post questions (French language preferred, but not required)

The Serres Weblog has yet to be announced or advertised, so this is a sneak peak for Kairosnews readers.