The basic way you do collaborations is the same for Unit 1, Unit 2, and Unit 3. The instructions for this collaboration has additional information because it covers a primary (a requirement of the History Department) and this may be the first time some of you have worked with a primary.
Why
Concepts and Why Collaboration?
The
Requirement for Your Using Only Two Sources for Definitions
The
Requirement for Signaling What You Wrote and What Merriam-Webster or Dr. Bibus Wrote
Why
Can’t You See Your Post Until After I Read It
Understanding concepts is frequently essential to understand accurately what you are reading, but students have different backgrounds. With on-campus classes, it is comparatively easy to cover key terms or concepts with a group. With distance learning classes, it has been difficult. I have permission from my Department to try this method to help students with concepts and to do in a way that means:
· That every student does not have to look up every concept but instead could collaborate or share the labor by posting definitions that all can use
· That students can ask or answer questions about those concepts
Click on Required Concepts and you will see a list for Unit 1 as a whole. You may post on any of those that are not in dark gray.
This rubric tells you how many posts of definitions of concepts or posts of questions and/or answers are necessary for an A, B, or C. It also tells you that students can earn a B- just by reading posts.
Click here for the rubric.
A fellow student should not have to click on every discussion posting to find what he or she needs. Make it clear in the Subject line.
Treat a Discussion posting like work where you get paid: no one pays you (if the boss) or no one likes you (if fellow workers) if you waste time. The examples are from concepts about the primary, but they apply to all Unit Work.
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If you are posting a definition of one of the
concepts above, you would place in the Subject line the word Concept and then
the exact term from the lists.
If you were going to post a definition for the word slave in the list in the row above, you would type
Subject line for this example: Concept: Slave
Tip: You do a good
deed for your colleagues in the class and you make points for this kind of
post.
·
If you found a word in the primary the
Requerimiento of 1510 that you had to look up in order to understand the
primary, you place in the Subject line the
words Term in Primary and then
the exact word. If you had to look
up the word terra firma in the primary, you would type
Subject line for this example: Term in Primary: terra firma
Tip: You do a good
deed for your colleagues in the class and you make points for this kind of
post.
·
If you are posting a question, you would place
in the Subject line the word Question
followed by the simplest way you can ask your question.
If you were confused about the difference between slaves and serfs, you would
type
Example of the Subject line: Question: What’s the difference between a
slave and serf?
Tip: You do a good
deed for your colleagues in the class and you make points for asking or
answering a question.
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You may use Merriam-Webster’s
Online Dictionary available at http://www.merriam-webster.com/
If you used that source for your definition, you would type at the end
From Merriam-Webster’s
Online Dictionary at http://www.merriam-webster.com/
·
You may use definitions I provide with this
primary.
If you copied a definition from my file, you would type at the end
Copied from the definitions provided by Dr. Bibus.
In American usage, the method used to signal to your reader that you are using another person’s words is a pair of quotation marks (“ ”):
· A “ at the beginning of the words you are quoting.
· A ” at the end of the words you are quoting.
If you insert words into another’s words, you must use square brackets ( [ ] ). If you remove words from another’s words, you must use ellipses (…). An easier method is avoid all of these rules by using the Brain Trick in this link from the Good Habits for Evidence tutorial.
For an example In the discussion itself, see the posting for Concept: slave – Instructor’s example from Merriam Webster’s Online Dictionary.
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"someone who
is legally owned by another person and is forced to work for that person
without pay Etymology: Middle
English sclave, from Anglo-French or Medieval Latin; Anglo-French esclave,
from Medieval Latin sclavus, from Sclavus Slavic; from the frequent
enslavement of Slavs in central Europe during the early Middle Ages First Known Use: 14th century" From
Merriam-Webster’s
Online Dictionary at http://www.merriam-webster.com/ |
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someone who is legally owned by another person and
is forced to work for that person without pay Etymology: Middle English sclave, from Anglo-French
or Medieval Latin; Anglo-French esclave, from Medieval Latin sclavus, from
Sclavus Slavic; from the frequent enslavement of Slavs in central Europe
during the early Middle Ages First Known Use: 14th century |
You will not be able to see your post until after I read it to be sure it is accurate. The reason is that once a false definition is in your head it will stay there.
I will normally read them each afternoon.
