| |
EN220/IN250, American Identity, O'Conner |
[Home][Syllabus][Assignments/Grading][Attendance][Netiquette][Policy/Style][Blackboard][Links]
Electronic Discussions--240 Points (12 at 20 points each)
Read Academic Email Netiquette
Read Subscribing
to a Blackboard course
Read Posting
a Discussion message in Blackboard
You will be responsible for writing and posting email messages during the semester, once a week for twelve weeks. Your messages should be done as part of your weekly homework assignment, and will be graded on a weekly basis. All posts and replies are due for the week by Monday midnight. If you miss your weekly postings, you will lose your points for them. You cannot make up a missed electronic post and late posts will not be graded. Early posts for the week are, of course, welcomed and recommended. I am always aware of when a global problem develops with Millikin's blackboard software. Personal problems with posting at the last minute are not excused.
All postings should contain a Subject line with the Post number and subject of the post stated. Example: Post Two: My Thoughts on Skills Software . Of course, Replies will automatically have a subject line. Posts should be a minimum of 200 words in length but generally not exceed 400 words. All posts should end with the word count of the entire post in parentheses, like this (233).
Strong Recommendation: write your postings in a word processor, like Microsoft Word, that has a spelling/grammar checker. Then copy and paste the text into the body of the Blackboard post. In Microsoft Word, easily get your word count by highlighting your own text (not the quote), then going to the Tools Menu, then go down to Word Count.
This assignment is worth 240 points for your twelve electronic postings, 20 points each.
The email messages you send should include educational commentary or observations about your textbook reading, media and technology use in education, your successes and failures with technology and media, new educational web sites or resources you find or other discoveries you make concerning media and technology use in education. They should be a minimum of 200 words in length but generally not exceed 400 words.
Most of the time, the post topic will be given to you ahead of time.
Otherwise, many students may choose to write about:
a passage from your assigned readings, copying the passage then commenting on
it (positive, negative, agreement or not)
a passage on one of the many educational resources on the web, after exploring
it for a while
a passage on a piece of software you have experienced or experimented with
a passage on something new or fascinated you learned about media/technology
and its relationship to teaching
EXTRA. Replies: Feel free to "reply" to other student's postings. Your responses to other student's posts should be thoughtful and worthy of typical college classroom discussion. Try to add to the student's comments or observations by adding some of your own thoughts. These replies or "Unofficial" posts are also always welcomed. Extra posts like these show the mark of a superior "A-level" student.