Saturday, July 9, 2016

Canvas site will soon be open

NASA image, public domain
Hi everyone,

Two days till blast-off! Are you ready?

For those taking my course with Dr. Swearingen, the Canvas site for the course will soon be published and you'll get to see what the first week will cover. For those doing the course online this first week, you may be especially anxious to get started, since you're going to be pretty busy during the week doing your internships. I get that.

Because you may be anxious to get going, I'm going to publish the main site, called RNC Convention 2016 (which none of you can see now) before I'm actually finished loading everything.

Remember, there will be three sites for the course, of which each student will see TWO:

  1. RNC Convention 2016, which everyone can see, will include lecture slides, readings, and resources that the whole class will use, from both Dr. Swearingen and Dr. Buchanan. It will also include short quizzes for those of you doing the course online, to take after viewing the lectures and doing the readings. This will count toward your Participation grade. Those taking the first week in-class will join in discussions which will test your knowledge the same way, and count toward the Participation grade instead of the quizzes. 
  2. CO 295-51 Sp Tp: Rnc Cleveland 2016 is for those of you in the Political Science side of the course. It is already published. 
  3. CO 399-51 Sem: Pol Com: Covering RNC 2016 is for those on the Communication side of the course -- whom I will call "the Commies" for short. It will contain all the Assignments and related materials. It has not been published yet but will be by Monday, July 11, because the first Assignment will be your blog, which you need to start right away. BOTH sides of the class will be doing these blogs, so I'll make sure Dr. Swearingen gets the same materials I'm using on my side, to post on the CO 295-51 site. 
For those doing the class online, we are planning to videotape our lectures in the classroom and post them, by the end of each day, on the main RNC Convention 2016 site. If this doesn't work as planned, you will have the slides from those lectures and the readings. But we do hope the lectures upload conveniently and you can access them without any trouble. We'll use a YouTube platform to upload them, which I have done often before, so I don't anticipate major problems. 

That's all for today, folks!
Dr. B


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