Georgia
Thanks for your questions. And questions are good. The weekly blogs should reflect the weekly themes, the timing of their publication on the NING site is somewhat arbitrary. You could actually require them to posted by Friday or Saturday or even Sunday. The key point is that they should occur after you have discussed them, and students have had time to digest and reflect upon them. The same thing goes for those they write responses to. Typically, my students will turn in theirs to me at our home site at Miami, after I have reviewed them for content and appropriateness, I select a featured blog for the week then have them post them on the NING site. This might take as many as 3 days after the due date. And thus theirs will not show up on the NING site until mid week or so. As this is a process, the blog due dates are intended to be suggestions where we are really aiming at getting students in the habit of regularly writing and posting blogs. As the semester gets underway, they will adjust (as will all of us) to the pace and it will become more normalized. If this is unclear or if you have any further questions, please ask.
And yes, I know this can be somewhat daunting for the first time. We have been working on this for 3 years, and are sensitive to the many questions that might arise..
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Rodney D. Coates
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From: The Partners Project [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of gsitara
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2012 6:39 AM
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Subject: more questions
Thank you for your help. I am hoping that our University library will be able to find stable links to all the articles and put them on the e-reserve on the library web page. Meanwhile, I am doing the best I can from my end.
I have more questions and I thank you in advance for your patience and help. (I was in Greece visiting my parent, hence the delay in figuring out the details for participating in this course.)
How does it work to have students submit blogs based on material from the week before (ie, the Monday night deadline)? I am concerned that if they are writing on last week's material for the Monday night deadline, they will show up to class without having read the current week's material.
And how did it work to do the featured blog on last week's material?
My class meets Monday and Thursday. Ideally I would like us to discuss the material on Monday and for them to have their blog written for the Thursday session. This would keep them on track with the readings. Would that put us out of sync with the rest of the Partners? I recognize that some universities start before us and others after us.
Thank you in advance for sharing your insight and experience.
g
> Copy the link. Past it into word doc or web browser. See if that works
>
> The links are accessible from the pdf right. I am not a tech person.
> And not knowledgeable. Do you have tech folks there. If the students
> can copy and paste the links into a browser if all else fails. Let me
> know if this works. R Sent from my BlackBerry device from Cincinnati
> Bell Wireless
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: gsitara <[log in to unmask]>
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> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:06:22
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> Subject: Re: Final syllabus Attached
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> in most cases, the pdf is accessible. I can copy and paste the http
> address...but it does not appear as a clickable link on my outline...
>
>> Can you access the pdf.
>> ------Original Message------
>> From: gsitara
>> Sender: The Partners Project
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>> ReplyTo: The Partners Project
>> Subject: Re: Final syllabus Attached
>> Sent: Aug 24, 2012 9:49 PM
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>> Partners,
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>> I am *trying* to draw up my course outline and I am not able to copy
>> and paste the link to the readings onto my outline. Please help.
>>
>> Thank you in advance for any help you can offer.
>>
>> Technologically challenged,
>> g
>>
>> Dr. Georgia Sitara
>> Sessional Lecturer
>> Departments of History
>> and Women's Studies,
>> University of Victoria
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> Dr. Georgia Sitara
> Sessional Lecturer
> Departments of History
> and Women's Studies,
> University of Victoria
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