Friday, October 5, 2012

Update

Class,

I can see many have already posted for this on liberty, sexual morality, and same-sex marriage.  Looks like the presenters are doing a great job summarizing, analyzing, giving a personal opinion, and offering two questions.  Presenters, make sure you also follow up with those five replies.   

Our presenters for next week are: Eunice Prentice, Nena McAllister-Taylor, Ronald Wagner, and Ryan Curenton.  I currently do not have a presenter for Altman and if that essay interests anyone, let me before Sunday, midnight via email.

I have graded all of week three abortion (discussion, presentations, evaluations).  Student presenters check your email for your evaluation sheets.  Overall, strong work in this section.

I am in process of grading week four euthanasia and am hoping to have the discussions done soon and then get presentation scores and evaluation scores up asap.  I will have the new celebration on chapter five up by Monday morning.

Reminder that your papers on power for your service learning are due this Sunday, at midnight.  I will attach in the content section the rubric i will be using to evaluate these service learning papers going forward.  

I am experimenting with ways to make the class more 'live' and feel more like a platform to understand and comprehend.  I think the strength of the class is the discussion, students sharing and working out their ideas with student presenters.  I think the weakness is that we do not interact much except through evaluation and assessment.  If you have any clever ideas of how we can improve the course, let me know.  I am always looking for student feedback.  Blessings as we move forward.