RRRR Sequence (Online Participation)
For each assignment that is marked in the daily course plan as an "assigned text" (or just "text" on the "Outline" page), follow these steps as part of your participation grade.
- Read: Read the assigned text.
- React: 24 hours before we discuss an assigned text in class, post your Agenda Item (a brief quote from the assigned reading, and a brief note explaining what you'd say when called on in class) posted to your blog, following the trackback procedure (which I'll explain when the time comes). Even if you haven't finished the assigned reading, please post your agenda item on time, so your peers will have something to talk about.
- Respond: Before class time, I'd like to see everyone post 2-4 comments on peer blogs, but our class is small enough that I think we should all follow each other's blogs.
- Reflect: Bring to class a half-page reflection paper that mentions by name a student whose agenda item helped you notice or question something about the assigned reading. I encourage you to post that half-page reflection on your blog, but doing so is optional. (Your upcoming portfolio assignments will ask you to include examples of blog entries that show your ability to reflect deeply, to launch a good discussion, etc., so it will be to your benefit to plan to publish longer reflections on topics that really interest you.)
Is this something that should be done for tomorrow, or something that will be gone over tomorrow?
This is a reminder of the blogging process I've gone over orally in class a few times.
Make sure you have blogged something for each item listed on the course syllabus as an assigned "text," and don't leave your peer commenting until the last minute.
I won't spend much time talking about this in class, so I've put this here on the schedule as a way of reminding you to keep up with the online component of the course.
Ah, thanks. Sorry, the "tradeback" phrase threw me.