Hey class!
Great debate on the Greatest Problem in the World today! (I'm totally assuming it went well. I'm writing this before class...)
By now you should have received by email a link to join the Google Group email list, so I can email you all as a single group. You should also have soon thereafter received a link to the course Google Drive folder. If so, your first bit of homework is already complete!
Please be reminded that with the exception of physical projects I only accept work electronically, either through your blog or via Google Drive as a Google Doc file (no Word, PDFs, or Pages!). So copy and paste if necessary. This is in order to make giving you detailed feedback much more easily and to avoid having to repeatedly search for and save files on my hard drive.
As discussed in class, please set up your personal course blog ASAP, and send me a link to it in a comment below this post.
Your homework for Friday has three parts:
Work hard! =)
Great debate on the Greatest Problem in the World today! (I'm totally assuming it went well. I'm writing this before class...)
By now you should have received by email a link to join the Google Group email list, so I can email you all as a single group. You should also have soon thereafter received a link to the course Google Drive folder. If so, your first bit of homework is already complete!
Please be reminded that with the exception of physical projects I only accept work electronically, either through your blog or via Google Drive as a Google Doc file (no Word, PDFs, or Pages!). So copy and paste if necessary. This is in order to make giving you detailed feedback much more easily and to avoid having to repeatedly search for and save files on my hard drive.
As discussed in class, please set up your personal course blog ASAP, and send me a link to it in a comment below this post.
Your homework for Friday has three parts:
- Your first blog post, which will be an argumentative piece explaining and justifying your view on what constitutes the greatest problem in the world. You do need to do some research to gather data to support your claims. I am not expecting a formal essay, but you should have a couple paragraphs at least. Really strong posts will refute a possible counter-argument, i.e., other contenders for the greatest problem and/or evidence that is contestable. This post will be assessed using the Blogging Rubric I (will have) showed you in class (found on Google Drive). This is due on Friday evening by 8 p.m., so everyone will have time to read and comment on other peoples' posts. You must also read and comment on at least two other students' blogs (URLs will be in a blogroll on this blog soon) by Sunday.
- Read and outline pp. 3-10 in the course text by time for class on Friday. A good sample of a reading outline can be found in the Writing, Questioning, and Documentation folder, which you should use as a model for the structure I'm looking for.Go to the "Submitted Student Work" folder on Google Drive and create a sub-folder using your name. Submit it in your personal folder.
- Write a short paragraph by time for class on Friday in which you describe an everyday life example of the collective goods problem (discussed in the reading you will outline) and how the dominance, reciprocity, and identity approaches would try to solve it differently. Be prepared to share it in class.
Work hard! =)