Please review the work other students have done on assignments 1.1 and 1.2, and interact with them by commenting, adding questions, or engaging on their posts in some way. Please be sure to comment on people’s posts who have not received comments yet, or who have less than others. For example, if one person’s post has 4 comments already, and another person has less, please make commenting on the post with less comments a priority. Everyone should end up with a similar amount of total posts. Please comment on at least 3 people’s posts for Assignment 1.1. You may decide to share similarities/connections, ask questions, comment positively, or anything you want, as long as it is respectful and in the spirit of getting to know each other and forming relationships.
Please comment on at least 3 people’s posts for Assignment 1.2. You may decide to share similarities/connections, ask questions, comment positively, or anything you want, as long as it is respectful and in the spirit of working together in ways that support and help each other.
How to receive credit for this activity
Respond to 3 people’s posts on the Assignment 1.1 discussion board.
Respond to 3 people’s posts on the Assignment 1.2 discussion board.
Submit a list of the 3 people’s names for each discussion board post that you responded to here for credit. In other words, you are making your comments on Assignments 1.1 and 1.2, and only submitting the list of names here for each.
Tips For Responding to Discussion Posts:
Try not to overthink the discussion posts too much! Pretend like we are in an in-person class. In person, we don’t worry too much about saying something incorrectly because we can correct it right away, we might not be as concerned about things like grammar because we can clarify in the moment and use hand gestures, etc., and generally we say things and think about them more later – in other words, even when we talk in class, we might change our minds later. It is the same here, with some modifications! Don’t worry about being right all the time, or being perfect in terms of grammar and spelling – we will focus on that more when proofreading your papers – and don’t fall into the trap of believing that just because you wrote it out it means you are now stuck with it. We are all here to learn and grow, and we can’t do that if we don’t just let ourselves think and free ourselves from being “perfect” or “on point” all the time. Yes, do your best to think and write with clarity and depth, but also know that these assignments are designed for the messy spaces that real critical thinking needs to grow. In other words, we do these activities and assignments as drafts so we can revise our thoughts and ideas into the more “on point” stuff we strive for in our formal academic essay writing.
If you want to know when new people add to discussions, please “subscribe” to them by clicking the Subscribe button on the post, and check your Canvas notifications settings to make sure you are set up to receive notifications. Normally Canvas won’t tell you when people post, but it will if you subscribe. This is especially helpful when you are working as a group or when you need to know when others post so you can respond.
Consider the following phrases to help you interact with each other as a way to get things started:
This made me think of…
I appreciate that…
I wonder if/about…
Have you considered…
A connection I see…