- Nuclear Nebraska
- Position Paper
We broke into dyads and students answered questions on Ch. 5. We then went over the questions in class.
One important fact about organizing emerged during the question discussion, and that is that people do not observe the rules. The instructor told students it would be to their advantage to make sure their adversary is following the rules every step of the way.
On the back of the Ch. 5 questions were Ch. 6 questions which students should fill out as they do next week's reading.
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Next we started on the position paper. The instructor told students they had to organize the production of this paper themselves as a lesson in how to organize. She gave students tools, such as the structure of the paper, software (Blackboard shell, Google sites).
Researchers gave a report to the class on what they turned up so the class would have a general idea of the findings.
Then the researchers handed over their work to writers. The writers and researchers had time to talk while the rest of the class went to the computer lab to investigate the capabilities of the software.
While in the lab, students organized and the working thesis is keeping education affordable for NJ residents.
Students who were not at the previous class were given assignments:
Vincent and Jeffrey are floaters. They passed their contact information to class members. Their job is to fill in on assignments where there is no designated person to handle the need.
Vincent and Jeffrey are also preparing a presentation on how to use Microsoft Word's editorial capabilities in the production of the document.
Karly was given the position of an additional editor.
Pedro was in class but was unable to attend the fiilm. Since the film organizers have opened up the possibility of showing the film, he will be working with them to see if there is the possibility of showing the film on campus.
Robert was given the responsibility of analyzing the Google web site software to see how it can work for the needs of the group.
We decided on a deadline date of March 29 for the position paper.
To do for next week:
Writers should be writing their section.
Read Ch 6, Craigin, fill in questions
Read Action 6, Kush
Do individual assignments for the position paper as described above
