1. What's due today? Week 2, Chapter 1 Starting Assumptions are due tonight at 8 with responses and declaration by 11:00 p.m. Your Week 2, Chapter 1 reading and reading quiz is also due tonight by 11:00 p.m.
2. What's coming up? Week 2, Chapter 1 Digging Deeper assignments are due Tuesday at 8 with responses and declaration by 11. Check out the sample assignment if you want to see an example of how this assignment should look!
3. Responses? Now is the time that I start to get pretty picky about the responses on the discussion board. I expect the responses to your peers to be substantive. What does this mean? It means that the response pertains to the actual content of the post and contributes a new opinion, perspective, or idea to the discussion at hand. A substantive response is not one that simply pats your classmates on the back for doing a good job, or says "I agree." Try asking your classmate a thoughtful question pertaining to the material in his/her post, or add a personal experience or idea that might take the conversation in a new direction.
If you had your Starting Assumptions responses posted by last night around 9:00 p.m. I've gone through and read over them. If I felt like your response was not substantive, I sent you a "heads up" email (but don't expect that I'll do this for every assignment). If you did not have your responses up by 9 last night and are not certain that your responses are substantive, drop me an email and I'd be happy to look at them for you!
4. Week 1 Grades: I've gone through and looked at all of your Week 1 assignments and most of them were really great! There were some problems, however, with people not following directions and declaring full credit for their work. I have sent emails to all of those people addressing the specific problems and letting you know that I will take points off in the gradebook for this. Here's how I handle this situation:
- Since last week was the first week of class and everyone was stilling trying to figure out this course, I only removed a point or two (depending on the severity of the offense) from your grade in the gradebook.
- Starting now, if you declare work that does not meet the assignment criteria, you will only receive 1/2 credit for the assignment.
- If you declare incomplete work on a second occasion, you will not receive any credit for the assignment.
- After your second offense, I reserve the right to lower your final grade in the course and report you for academic misconduct. It is a violation of the honor code (and therefore academic misconduct) to declare work that does not meet the assignment criteria.
- Address your peers by name!!
- Address your peers by their PREFERRED name!!
Ok, I think that's all I have for today! Please get in touch with me if you have any questions and especially if you think your grade was reduced in error!! There are 25 of you, LOTS of assignments to look at, and only one of me, so I do make mistakes! :)
Enjoy your Monday!Heather
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