Course 6 Week 1

We want to welcome Roger Dutton, who will be joining us in our online journey for the next eight weeks.

Here are the general requirements for each week.

You have three assignments each week
(1) Make at least two initial posts in your posting area. The first one will be the name of the course, and the names (or numbers of the DVD's) of the chapters or lectures you will be covering during the week. The second one will be a comment on one of those chapters. You will receive one point for getting the first post in on Tuesday or Wednesday. You will also get a point for getting at least one more initial post in.

(2) Go to your fellow student's posting areas, and ask them a question or questions about their intial posts. You will recieve one point for completing this assignment before 6:00 a.m. on Friday morning.

(3) Answer the questions asked.

(4) On Fridays, I will also give directions for making remaining posts during the week. Be sure and read those, and take them into account when making at least one of your remaining posts.

(4) In all, we want to make at least nine posts during the week. You will receive points for that as follows:
9 or more posts - 12 points
6-8 posts - 10 points
3-5 posts - 6 points
1-2 posts - 3 points

You will have the extra points you had accumulated by getting things in on time. Those are bonus points that will be used only to move your grade closer to 100 if you need them. They will be awarded each week if needed to move your grade up to 12 for the week. If you do not need them for that week, they will be carried over to the next week(s). Remember the posts that count for points will be at least three sentences long.

The first week of any course is an introduction week.
Make one post telling us about yourself.
Ask each other questions.
Almost any post will count as a quality post this week if it is three sentences long. We always want to have fun, but this is a great week to do it. This is also a good week for Roger to ask questions.

If you choose to cover a chapter or chapters (or DVD's) this week, divide the number of chapters in the book by eight. That will tell you how many chapters you need to try to cover this week. That's what the first item in the requirements refers to. Then pick out important parts of the chapter or lecture and comment on them. This will be letting the rest of us know what you are studying, and it will give us the opportunity to get in a discussion on a certain topic if we wish.

Tyler and Sean, help Roger "learn the ropes" as we go along.

Roger, you want to pick out an important part of your chapter to talk about, but don't agonize about what to pick. If nothing jumps out at you, you just pick something from the chapter and talk about it.

We hope you enjoy the experience.