Some time this week, you will receive an e-mail message in your JSRCC e-mail account from sender name "Class Climate Survey" inviting you to participate in an online survey. This is the college's request for you to evaluate my performance as your instructor. You will receive a separate e-mail message for each course section in which you are enrolled.
Each e-mail message contains a password-protected link to the online survey, specifically identifiable by instructor name, course number, and course section. By clicking this link, your password is automatically recognized, and you are able to respond anonymously to the survey.
The survey itself is very bare-boned, just fourteen questions, so please do it as soon as possible, and feel free to add commentary wherever possible. Thanks in advance for your participation.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Portfolio due date changed. It is now: Tuesday, 15 December
I've moved your portfolio due date from Saturday, 12 December to Tuesday, 15 December. Please plan to have turned in your portfolio to me by Noon on the 15th, and I'll start grading them that afternoon. Of course, if you want to turn your portfolio in early, this is OK, but let me know via email. As the 15th approaches, I'll include details of how you can turn in your portfolio.
Essentially, there are two options for formating your portfolio: an e-portfolio or a physical portfolio. In the e-portfolio, you include an annotated list of hyperlinks to the works you want to include in the evidence section of your portfolio, and you post your cover essay as a blog post and as a .doc attachment in an email to me. Your cover essay is documented by links to the works to which you refer. With the physical portfolio, you turn in a file to me on the morning of the 15th. This file will contain your cover essay and evidence section. Most students document their essay by using short titles and page numbers of the hardcopy of their work, that is, the work to which they refer in the cover essay and which they then include with the essay in the evidence section of the portfolio.
If you want me to, please ask that I look at drafts, and feel free to ask questions. DO NOT PUT THIS PROGJECT OFF UNTIL THE DAY BEFORE IT IS DUE. If you haven't already, start collecting evidence and drafting sections of your portfolio. This week, I will require a paragraph level outline of your cover essay to be posted to your blog.
Essentially, there are two options for formating your portfolio: an e-portfolio or a physical portfolio. In the e-portfolio, you include an annotated list of hyperlinks to the works you want to include in the evidence section of your portfolio, and you post your cover essay as a blog post and as a .doc attachment in an email to me. Your cover essay is documented by links to the works to which you refer. With the physical portfolio, you turn in a file to me on the morning of the 15th. This file will contain your cover essay and evidence section. Most students document their essay by using short titles and page numbers of the hardcopy of their work, that is, the work to which they refer in the cover essay and which they then include with the essay in the evidence section of the portfolio.
If you want me to, please ask that I look at drafts, and feel free to ask questions. DO NOT PUT THIS PROGJECT OFF UNTIL THE DAY BEFORE IT IS DUE. If you haven't already, start collecting evidence and drafting sections of your portfolio. This week, I will require a paragraph level outline of your cover essay to be posted to your blog.
Assignments and Discussion Starters for Week 15 Are Posted.
Two more weeks. The second week of the course just doesn't seem that far behind us.
This week, you'll produce a paragraph level outline of your portfolio cover essay. You'll read and listen about the wide range of religious belief in America. In particular, I've concentrated on the religios beliefs of the founders in the personas of Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and Franklin, and I've concentrated on the Great Awakening--a period of intense religious ferver which preceeded the Revolution. The Great Awakening is represented by a sermon by Jonathan Edwards and a podcast on George Whitfield. You can think of these last two as the rock stars of their age. Woman fainted when they spoke. Men of good judgment gave all they had to charity. Remember Franklin's going to hear a preacher and first decding to give him the copper coins in his pocket but ending up giving all he had--including the gold? That was Whitfiled to whom Franklin was listening.
You'll also get to hear Enlightenment's take on Christian Religion. These will come in the form of Jefferson's "Statue for Religious Freedom" and Tom Paine's "Profession of Faith" in his Age of Reason. I know you'll be surprised to discover how seriously the founders took religion and the role they gave over to debate and discussion of religion as a means through which each individual could weed out superstition from true belief. If you want to get a handle on just how differently many founders viewed Christianity, google "The Jefferson Bible."
Your blog post for the week will have you writing your own profession of faith--a la Paine, and a discussion thread will have you attempting to track down religious believes you--as a class--share in common. This last discussion should give you some idea of the problem religious diversity was to the founders. How do you bring together colonies, many of whom had state sanctioned religions? As you read, listen, and write this week, begin thinking of the "Right to Religious Freedom" and "separation of church and state" as brilliant solutions of building a shared sense of political nationalism among diverse states and people.
As always, write with questions.
Steve
As you read these different accounts,
This week, you'll produce a paragraph level outline of your portfolio cover essay. You'll read and listen about the wide range of religious belief in America. In particular, I've concentrated on the religios beliefs of the founders in the personas of Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and Franklin, and I've concentrated on the Great Awakening--a period of intense religious ferver which preceeded the Revolution. The Great Awakening is represented by a sermon by Jonathan Edwards and a podcast on George Whitfield. You can think of these last two as the rock stars of their age. Woman fainted when they spoke. Men of good judgment gave all they had to charity. Remember Franklin's going to hear a preacher and first decding to give him the copper coins in his pocket but ending up giving all he had--including the gold? That was Whitfiled to whom Franklin was listening.
You'll also get to hear Enlightenment's take on Christian Religion. These will come in the form of Jefferson's "Statue for Religious Freedom" and Tom Paine's "Profession of Faith" in his Age of Reason. I know you'll be surprised to discover how seriously the founders took religion and the role they gave over to debate and discussion of religion as a means through which each individual could weed out superstition from true belief. If you want to get a handle on just how differently many founders viewed Christianity, google "The Jefferson Bible."
Your blog post for the week will have you writing your own profession of faith--a la Paine, and a discussion thread will have you attempting to track down religious believes you--as a class--share in common. This last discussion should give you some idea of the problem religious diversity was to the founders. How do you bring together colonies, many of whom had state sanctioned religions? As you read, listen, and write this week, begin thinking of the "Right to Religious Freedom" and "separation of church and state" as brilliant solutions of building a shared sense of political nationalism among diverse states and people.
As always, write with questions.
Steve
As you read these different accounts,
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