Topic 1: Virtual Introductions and Research Project Choice
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Instructions: As on online student, you construct knowledge not just by completing readings and assignments.
Instructions
Instructions: As on online student, you construct knowledge not just by completing readings and assignments.
An important part of the process is communicating with fellow learners and learning from what they have to say.
As such, this is the forum where we can learn a little bit about who we are and what we do.
Your first assignment in this course is to write a short biography about yourself.
This is a time to say our virtual hellos and to get to know each other.
This week's introduction forum will focus on the following objectives:
Part 1:
- Build peer-to-peer relationships by introducing ourselves and sharing our backgrounds with one another.
- Articulate your learning goals and expectations for this class.
Part 2:
- Choose the topic of your research paper.
- explain why you chose the topic you will be basing your research paper on.
Instructions
Part 1: INTRODUCE YOURSELF
You may want to include some of the following information in your posting, but please make sure that you both address the two objectives listed above in your post and that your post is 250 words:
• Name you prefer to be called
• Your picture (optional - see instructions below on how to upload your photo.)
• Your major and year in school
• Your branch of service and rank (if military)
• Your job title and a brief description of your job
• Where you live
• Why you are taking this class and what you hope to learn
• Your interests and hobbies
• Your future goals
• Anything else you would like us to know about yourself
• Just for fun, where would you like to go on a vacation if time and money were not a consideration, and why you would choose this vacation spot?
Part 2: GIVE A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO YOUR RESEARCH PAPER TOPIC
See the Research Project Guide.
The topic of the research paper will be any disease or condition of the body.
Choose one that interests you and explain why you chose this particular disease or medical condition, i.e.
what piqued your interest and why, if it is, relevant to you.
One of the drawbacks to online learning is that you miss out on the interactions from your classmates.
Therefore, please take this opportunity to interact with at least two of your classmates by responding to their entries.
Feel free to ask questions about each other and your course projects as you will be spending the next eight weeks together sharing in the experiences of this course.
On that note, classroom community is a huge part of the learning experience so in addition to your initial posts and reply posts, be sure to read the follow-up posts to your own posts and reply to any questions or requests for clarification.
The forums are a great way to build a classroom community, learn from one another, and connect with your peers so be sure to check the forums regularly in order to keep the dialogue moving!
Initial Post Due: Sunday, by 11:55 p.m., ET
Responses Due: Sunday, by 11:55 p.m., ET
Note: Should you choose to write your posts in MS Word first, opting to cut and paste into the Rich Text Editor (RTE) Box from Word, please review the attached document on RTE otherwise your post may end up containing an overwhelming and unnecessary amount of "html" coding.
If you type directly into the RTE box you will not run the chance of having this coding/clutter in your posts.
Please retain this information for future Forums.
Thank you!