Your grades are updated. You can check out your scores on Blackboard’s Gradecenter. Refer to the syllabus to see my grading scale.
Schedule a 15 minute conference with me for next week—the week of the 24th—or early the week after to talk about your Pop Cultural Analysis essay. To do this, click on the “schedule Furuness face time” thing to the right over there ——->
While I have you on the line here, let me talk about one pattern I saw in the contribution & learning logs. So many people said they “tried to contribute at least once per class.” Let’s do some math. If everyone merely “tried,” that means that about half would actually succeed on any given day. And if ten people spoke, and the average comment was thirty seconds, that would add up to about five minutes of conversation. Or, to put it another way: not nearly enough.
But the bigger issue here is the underlying mindset. Trying to speak once a class tells me that you’re going for the bare minimum. It tells me that you haven’t committed to real engagement through oral communication, which is the engine of a successful seminar.
It’s the mid-point of the semester. A quarter of the year is over. Stop holding yourself back. Stop “trying.” Take risks. Go all in.
