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discussion / participation components (Web-based and real time) of this
course are essential for us to be an actively engaged learning
community.
The group led discussion / presentation
is worth 10% of your final grade).
Group led Discussion/Presentation Guidelines
Presentations
should
reflect not only the group's ideas but also consider your classmembers' responses
posted
to Townhall on those readings. Your group should expect to present a
well informed, imaginative
presentation. Your own thinking / reading should complement the
material
from other members of this learning community and the texts.
Guidelines
for
leading presentations:
- Prepare for your presentation well in advance
of the due date. Get together with your group members
(swap e-mails, arrange meetings)
- Your
discussion / presentation
should last approx. 45 minutes. Provide a balance between sharing
knowing and eliciting responses from class members.
- Read
the assigned
material. Take notes on important points you want to bring up.
- Divide
up the material
among your group - with each member assuming responsibility for a
particular
component.
- Don't
regurgitate/summarize everything
in the readings (We all should know what they say)
- Use
the theme for the
week to focus your perspective
- Feel
free to bring in
additional information (Web material, news articles on latest
developments
related to the subject)
- Facilitate the discussion.
Don't take over or read a "lecture." Think of creative ways to
get class
members to participate in the discussion.
- Feel
free to use visual
aids - Web sites to illustrate the subject, handouts of questions to
stimulate
discussion, class participation in hands-on exercises.
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