- I want you to edit your Utopia posts with this in mind.
- Revise your posts for spelling and grammar errors. Do you see any red lines under words? Fix these! When you read your posts, do they SOUND well?
- Re-read the reaction assignments and take our discussion points from today to craft a better post.
following prompt: "according to Jared Diamond, why is there inequality in the world?"
1. Reminder for Utopia Posts:
Reaction Part 1
Write 1-2 paragraphs (or so) about some aspect of the reading, video, map or other medium that grabs your attention and you would like to discuss. I am not looking for you to summarize the source. Instead, I would like you to identify some theme or issue raised in the reading and interpret its significance. You need not deal with the source as a whole; in fact, you may want to focus on a small part of the larger source. You may wish to draw comparisons between the source of the day, or between today's and previous readings, video and other. You may wish to discuss how the source relates to some larger issue in the project (e.g.sustainability, personal issues, government).
For Example you may have found the following interesting:
"female-only worlds have been imagined to come about by the action of disease that wipes out men"-Wikipedia/Utopia
Use the sections in orange above as a guide for writing about this quote.
Reaction Part 2
The second component of the reaction is the identification of some issue that can be suitable for discussion. This can be one or two sentences long, and it can be as simple as identifying a quote from one of the sources that you find illuminating (V) and interesting or questionable and briefly stating what important issue you see in the quote. You might also raise a point of comparison between readings, video or other media. The issue may be related to your topic discussion, though it need not be. Post these reactions after reading, viewing or experiencing the source.
Remember Media: Proper blog form is to have hyperlinks and pictures or
video in each blog post if possible. Please follow fair use policies or
Creative Commons. I suggest you seek your media here at
http://labs.creativecommons.org/demos/search/ for images.
2. This weeks media ("video") Why is the world the way it
is?
Watch:
Guns Germs and Steel
Write 1-2 paragraphs (or so) about some aspect of the reading, video, map or other medium that grabs your attention and you would like to discuss. I am not looking for you to summarize the source. Instead, I would like you to identify some theme or issue raised in the reading and interpret its significance. You need not deal with the source as a whole; in fact, you may want to focus on a small part of the larger source. You may wish to draw comparisons between the source of the day, or between today's and previous readings, video and other. You may wish to discuss how the source relates to some larger issue in the project (e.g.sustainability, personal issues, government).
Use the sections in orange above as a guide for writing.
Reaction Part 2
The second component of the reaction is the identification of some issue that can be suitable for discussion. This can be one or two sentences long, and it can be as simple as identifying a quote from one of the sources that you find illuminating (V) and interesting or questionable and briefly stating what important issue you see in the quote. You might also raise a point of comparison between readings, video or other media. The issue may be related to your topic discussion, though it need not be. Post these reactions after reading, viewing or experiencing the source.
Remember Media: Proper blog form is to have hyperlinks and pictures or
video in each blog post if possible. Please follow fair use policies or
Creative Commons. I suggest you seek your media here at
http://labs.creativecommons.org/demos/search/ for images.
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