We are finalizing plans for the course

Today, Dr. Swearingen and I met and finalized our plans for the course. We are completing the syllabi -- one for each side of the linked course -- and posting things on the Canvas site, which we haven't published yet.

You will be using two Canvas sites:

• The first one is called RNC CONVENTION 2016, which is the main site that both classes (CO 399 and PO 295). 
• The second is specific to your section: either CO 399-51 Sem Pol Comm: Covering Rnc 2016 OR PO 295 Sp Tp: Rnc Cleveland 2016. 

The main site (highlighted in green above) will use to find out what we're doing each day, the readings for that day, the lecture slides, and -- if you are doing this online -- videos of our lectures and short quizzes you will take after viewing each lecture to ensure that you have absorbed the material. If you are not doing the first week online, you won't have to take the quizzes. Instead, we'll have class discussions and your participation in those will be graded. For the online students, the quizzes will count for your participation grade for that week.

The section site (the CO side, with orange highlighting above, or the PO side, with turquoise highlighting above) will be for Assignments, which are sometimes different between the sections, though some are the same in both sections.

ALL ASSIGNMENTS will be explained in the Assignments tab of the section site for the side of the course you are in. You will file some assignments online, though some will be done elsewhere (for example, the CO side will be live tweeting, and everyone will be blogging -- both those things will be done on other platforms). But for every assignment, click on the Assignment folder, then the specific Assignment name, and inside there you will find these things:

1. an explanation of what's expected 
2. a rubric for grading that you can see ahead of time
3. the deadline for that assignment
4. how you will submit it -- for example, the blog assignment will require a link so we can find your blog on the internet

Each section will have its own Syllabus, but the Schedule attached to it will be identical for the two sections. You will all receive the same lectures and readings, but what you do with them -- the assignments -- will differ sometimes. 

I hope this is clear. If not, feel free to post questions in the Comments section, since it will probably help everyone to get the answers. 

Dr .B