Each one of you brings something valuable to our course. You each have your own life experiences, opinions, and background knowledge. Everyone in our class should plan to become an active member of our virtual classroom by participating in our lesson discussions. Use these discussion board questions as a means of sharing your point of view and providing encouragement and constructive critiques to your fellow classmates.

Important Reminder: Discussion board questions must be completed in the week they are assigned since they count as your class attendance grade. Late submissions to the class discussions will not receive credit.

Required Components for Each Discussion Question

Present original thoughts and ideas in your initial posting. (1)

Respond to questions in a manner that demonstrates you have read the lessons and required readings. (1)

Respond to one of your fellow students with thoughtful and valuable feedback, constructive critique, OR encouragement. (1.5)

Respond to a second classmate with thoughtful and valuable feedback, constructive critique, OR encouragement. (1.5)

Points will be deducted for the following:

Simply stating you agree or disagree when replying to a fellow classmate without further explanation. (-1)

Simply restating what the student you are replying to has said (-1)

Un-constructive critiques. (-1)

Required Components for Each Case Study Posting

Are there any points in my analysis that you may have missed when completing the case study? (2)

What did you get out of my analysis of the case? (2)

What did you learn from this particular case study? (1)

5 = Exceeds requirements

4 = Slightly exceeds requirements

3 = Just meets requirements

2 = Slightly below requirements

1 = Considerably below requirements

0 = Not submitted by due date