It's Monday again!

Good morning everyone! I hope you had a great weekend! I just had to share a picture of my new-puppy-to-be. We've (temporarily) named her Mila (pronounced Mee-lah) until we get her in a few weeks: we need to make sure her name matches her personality before we decide for certain! I'm sure she'll keep us very busy! :)

Anyway, here's a list of what should be keeping you busy for the next few days:

1. What's due today? Mondays and Thursdays are BUSY aren't they? Today you have three assignments due: Your Chapter 2 Final Thoughts and your Chapter 3 Reading Quiz are due tonight by 11. Your Chapter 3 Starting Assumptions are due tonight be 8 with responses and declaration by 11.

2. What's coming up? That Chapter 3 Digging Deeper assignment that I've been warning you about for many, many days. You absolutely have to start the assignment this morning (i.e. immediately) to complete it properly. Let me know if you have problems with the dropbox--I always think I have it set up correctly but I can't tell for certain until you start posting assignments in there.

3. Starting today: I am becoming a hardball with substantive responses. If I see a non-substantive response on the discussion board, you will automatically lose half credit for your assignment. That means if it's a Digging Deeper assignment, you get 5 out of 10 points. If you are a repeat offender, you will lose full credit for the assignment. After that, I'm resorting to academic misconduct reports and lowering your final grade in the course. I have sent many email reminders, there is an entire webpage on the course site dedicated to addressing this problem, AND I've sent out at least 5 different examples of what constitutes a quality response. Any response that is not substantive at this point is simply due to lack of effort on your part.

4. Did you know.... that Sarah goes by Katy? And that James prefers to be called Cory? and that there are at least 7 other students that don't go by their "D2L names?" Folks, please be courteous and call people by their preferred names. If you go by something other than what appears on D2L, help me correct those folks out there that can't remember!

Ok, I'm done nagging you for the day! I'm looking forward to reading all of your Starting Assumptions tonight!

Heather