Participation

Participation

As you probably noted in the syllabus, there are a lot of participation points floating around this course in one form or another.  This reflects our expectation that most of your learning is this course will be by doing.  You participation as an individual in your class and your participation in your Illinois-UAB group is absolutely critical to your learning in this class.  Taken together, this participation accounts for 30% of your grade.  

Individual Participation

As mentioned in the description of this class, we will be examining a number of CMC tools over the course of the semester.  Some of this exploration will take place during our regular class time, and you'll be doing more exploring on your own.  In short, this is meant to be very much a hands-on course.

Be active in class.  Be willing to try out new things.  Be ready to have some technical glitches and be willing to work through them. Explore.  Help your classmates, both in Illinois and in Barcelona. Of course, also do the readings and be ready to talk about them! Remember, big electronic brother (professor) will be watching!  ;-)

What is is worth?
15% of your grade.

How will we know?
This form of participation will be judged primarily via attendance, class participation, and individual posts to discussions.  As mentioned earlier, I don't expect you to be tech experts.  Anyone who puts the effort into this course should easily get full points in this area.

UIUC/UAB Project Collaboration
Your participation in the Illinois/UAB collaboration is critical and it counts for an additional 15% of your grade.   Some of your collaboration will take place between members of your own class, but it will also include the work you will do with your partners in Barcelona, some of it synchronous, and some asynchronous  As most of the studies you will read in this course show, the success or failure of collaboration (whether face-to-face or online) strongly depends on how willing the participants are to put in sincere effort. 

Shortly after the beginning of the semester for Barcelona, we'll collect schedules via a Doodle and then form working groups that become your partners for the rest of the term.  

Your collaboration grade includes:

• A number of online assignments
• Time spent working with your partners (both Illinois and Barcelona)

What is it worth? 
15% of your grade.

How is it determined?
This portion of your grade will be determined by evaluation by:

• your professor
• your partners (via the Teammates peer review system)
• your self-evaluation 

When is it due?
Throughout the semester.