I placed this on Moodle Announcements, so you should see it on our Moodle page also, and you should have automatically gotten it to your email. If you don't check your university email, you should set it up so that it forwards to your more convenient email. (Instructions are on the Univ Website somewhere, or you can contact IT). Once I announce something on the Moodle Announcements, my buns are covered because it is YOUR responsibility to keep up with university/course related emails, so if you don't get emailed announcements from me, follow up with IT. **BELOW THIS ANNOUNCEMENT POST IS THE DISCUSSION POST #2 PROMPT.
Whew! This has been tricky! The hardest part of this process is getting set up and following each other, trust me. After that, this will be a breeze. We have spent about a week and a half going over instructions, addressing issues in class, and talking expectations. Because it has been such a rough start (mostly with the part about following and commenting on your group mates) I am making changes to the way I will grade the first week:
This week, full points will be given to those who have:
-set up their blogs and written bios (in the about me section or as a post)
- given their group mates the info needed to allow them to follow their blog
-posted responses to discussion post #1
Note: the “Blogging Instructions” on our Moodle page clearly reads that in order to get points for your response to my discussion post, the answer to each question must be done with a full paragraph. If not, how can I be sure you are incorporating the reading into your thoughts? If not, how can your group mates find something interesting to comment on, so they can get their commenting points? So, if you didn’t read this in the instructions the first go around, you may want to reread the section in “Blogging Instructions” on how to get full points (it discusses directions for commenting on others, and suggests ways to comment thoughtfully).
You have this opportunity to redo your answers to discussion post one in order to create more full answers, and the deadline is THIS SUNDAY. Also, remember, as long as you have completed the items above, you will get full points for this week, don’t worry about issues that you may have had finding and commenting on your group members’ blogs.
MOODLE LIVE CHAT:
This Sunday at 3pm, come to our class Moodle page, find the “Live Chat” and click “enter this chat”. We will discuss any more issues and try to get them solved. If that time doesn’t work for you, email me Saturday or Sunday and I’ll get back to you to try to get these issues sorted out. Don’t wait until the last minute, this set up grace period ends this weekend.
AS OF NEXT WEEK:
I will consider the blogs up and running and we won’t address blog issues anymore in class. You will need to meet me in my office hours to get things resolved after that. If you are hard for your group members to find and comment on, you risk that affecting your participation grades. Use the emails you have exchanged and keep in contact with each other. I am ready to move on to the “hard skills” components involved with prewriting and drafting your papers, and that means we are done with handholding and ready to step up our game.
If you don’t have your books, you need to get a buddy and borrow them or copy the readings, because the next blog discussions will be based on our Reader readings. Refer to your course schedule to keep up with the reading due dates.
The next discussion post is up, the due dates for response posts and comment posts are on your course schedule.
ENJOY YOUR LONG WEEKEND!
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