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DISCUSSION BOARDS (2009) |
NOTE: The 2235 bulletin boards for Spring 2009 are ready. You may start at any time.
Those of you who have taken a course from me before, please note that the appearance of the 2009 bulletin boards
is very
different from the 2008 boards. The old system (MSN) is closing, and I
have chosen D2L (the school's system) for the new discussion boards.
Click here or scroll down:
Go to your section's bulletin board:
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Discussion Boards: https://inverhills.ims.mnscu.edu/shared/login/index.htm
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IMPORTANT--PLEASE NOTE! (1) Please remember to fill out and mail the "Student Information Sheet" (which I will also pass out in the computer lab).. (2) I always return your emailed homework, marked to show I received it. If you are not getting your homework back, contact me right away - I may not be receiving your emails. (3) You can always check your records by clicking on "FOL Records" above. Check them every week or two to make sure you have received credit for your attendance and homework.
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What do you have to do? Because we have few meetings in person, the discussion boards replace class attendance. You generally must attend two discussion boards per week, with two messages of 200+ w. each (which makes a weekly grand total of 4 messages and 800+ w. per week). In these discussion boards, you will use "prompts" (questions) to write half of your messages each week - about the readings and about general matters concerning our course. The other half of your messages will be responses to other students. Full instructions are on the discussion board web site.
What are discussion boards? Discussion boards also are known as bulletin boards. They are online pages for posting messages to all others in the class, and for reading their messages. When you post messages in a discussion board, it is like putting up a message on a corkboard: usually people are not online at the same time. Instead, you post messages whenever you want-- and read them w whenever you want-- like you would add a message on a corkboard or refrigerator. Please start with the "Introduction," below, and then go to "Signing Up."
How do you sign up? If you have registered for the course, you are already signed up. If you are not registered for the course but want to be a part of this term's discussion boards, please email me with a request for me to add you.
How do you start?
(1) Start by going to the IHCC D2L web site and sign in: The web site is at
https://inverhills.ims.mnscu.edu/shared/login/index.htm
To sign in, you'll need your Tech ID # (e.g., 00001234) and your IHCC password. If you do not know what these are, there are instructions on the sign-in page to help you.
(2) After you've signed in, find the name of our class and click on it.
(3) Once you are in our class's D2L web site, click on "Discussions" (just below the IHCC logo and name).
(4) Then read the starting messages in "USING THESE DISCUSSION BOARDS."
(5) Once you've read the starting messages, scroll down on the beginning "Discussions" page to "Week 1" to get started.
What is the due date for each week's discussion boards? It is Thursday midnight. In actual practice, I accept whatever discussion-board messages and email homework I find when I look at them. I look at them once a week sometime between Fri. noon and Sunday evening.
How long is discussion-board class supposed to take? The length of each bulletin-board class is supposed to be about the same as a regular class in a building. However, I am unable to determine your BB attendance time by the clock. Instead, I determine it by how many words you write--the length of your bulletin-board messages. Each message must be 200+ words, and there are two to four messages to write each week.
How can you make discussion boards? Please send discussion board (bulletin board or "BB") make ups by following these three steps:
Add the messages you need to the real BBs in the week(s) you need them.
Then copy just your own messages (not other people's), box and all (or as much of the box as you can get copied: i.e., all the info in the box). (Why? This is so I can see that you have put each message on the BBs before sending them to me.)
Then paste each message into an email and send the email to me, with the proper heading or note at the beginning telling me what it is you are sending, who you are, what week it is for, etc. In the subject line, tell me why I'm getting the email. (See "2" below for what to put in the subject line.)
Please send everything in-text--in the text of your email itself--not attached (unless otherwise instructed). That means you should simply write them as an email message or, if you already have them on a word processing file, you should use your mouse and your "Edit" function to mark, then "Copy," and then "Paste" them into a regular email message.
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