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After a few chat sessions, you might find that a question or issue gives rise to a discussion or someone may want to introduce a topic or make a criticism of a reading or argument. Try to take on the discussion as a group and demonstrate philosophical methods and goals. If things break down, you can also go back to study questions. | After a few chat sessions, you might find that a question or issue gives rise to a discussion or someone may want to introduce a topic or make a criticism of a reading or argument. Try to take on the discussion as a group and demonstrate philosophical methods and goals. If things break down, you can also go back to study questions. | ||
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Revision as of 19:00, 13 May 2013
For your online course, you will be asked to engage in an online discussion board and join a small chat group.
Discussion Board Involvement
For each week of the course (based on a Friday to Friday week), post at least 1 topic note and 2 replies to the Google Discussion Board for your class. For your topic note you could identify something in the reading that you agreed or disagreed with, found interesting, or hard to understand.
Points are given for knowledge of content, but also for raising interesting questions and for being a helpful and supportive student colleague. I'll make the scoring available to you each weekend by Sunday.
Chat Session Transcripts
Based on your availability data, you will be assigned a small group to schedule chat sessions. You should schedule 2 chat sessions per week of class. Two members of the chat session will copy and send a transcript to me of the session which I will review.
The goal of the chat sessions to eventually to model philosophical discussion, but in the early sessions, you should stick to answering study questions. After introducing yourselves, you might start a discussion on a question and agree about some of the elements of a good answer. At some point, your group should agree to take several minutes to write up answers. Sharing and comparing answers to study questions is a good initial or "default" activity for a chat session.
After a few chat sessions, you might find that a question or issue gives rise to a discussion or someone may want to introduce a topic or make a criticism of a reading or argument. Try to take on the discussion as a group and demonstrate philosophical methods and goals. If things break down, you can also go back to study questions.
The main two things you should want to do in each chat session are: be a helpful contributer to answers to study questions or any discussion going on and make sure you facilitate the involvement of everyone in your chat group. I will try to drop in on chats in progress.
