Friday, January 2, 2008 - Module 6, Critiquing
student
proposals
Over the weekend, you'll be writing short
constructive critiques of two other students' proposals for scrapbooks
offering
suggestions for how the proposals could improve.
Assignment: Critiques posted no later than Friday, January 2 at 5 pm
using the
blackboard "Discussion Board".
Monday-Tuesday, January, 5 and 6, 2008 - Module 7, Background
research
You'll be writing a short, two page research paper citing at
least eight
sources and providing the factual background for the scrapbook you plan
to
prepare.
Assignment: Research papers posted no later than Tuesday, January, 6 at 5 pm
using the blackboard "Discussions" tool.
Wednesday-Thursday, January 7 and 8, 2008 - Module 8, Preparing your
draft scrapbook
You will be working on the web to find and download images and in
PowerPoint to
create a first draft of your scrapbook for sharing with others in the
class and
eventually the world through the Landscape Change Program web site.
Assignment: Draft scrapbook (PowerPoint) posted no later than Thursday, January 8
at 5 pm using the blackboard "Discussions" tool.
Friday, January 9, 2008 - Module 9, Critiquing
student scrapbooks
You will critique other students' scrapbooks offering each a series of
suggestions to improve their work.
Assignment: Critiques posted no later than Friday, January 9 at 5 pm using the
blackboard "Discussions" tool.
Monday, January 12, 2008 - Module 10, Final scrapbook
submission
Using all the critiques you have been given, improve your module
through careful
editing of both images and text.
Assignment: Final scrapbook (PowerPoint) submitted as a blackboard "Assignment
" no later than
Monday, January 12 at 5 pm.
Tuesday, January 13, 2008 - FACE to FACE meeting (7 pm)
We will meet as a group in the third floor computer lab in Delehanty
Hall (the Geology building on the Trinity Campus) to discuss the
remaining assignment for the course and for training in GPS use and
image uploading.
Assignment: Bring your own GPS if you
have one.
MEET AT 7 pm in the evening
Friday, January 16, 2008 - Module 11,
Reshot proposal due
You will write a short (paragraph-long)
proposal describing what type of images you will reshot and what types
of landscape change you expect to find. You will prepare and submit (in
excel) as list of the LS# for the 25 images you will try and reshot.
Assignment: Proposal posted using the blackboard "Discussions" tool. no later than 5 pm, Friday January 16,
2007
Wednesday, April 29, 2008 - Module 12, Reshots and summary due
Get into the field to observe and
document landscape change!
Assignment: Have reshot and uploaded to the Landscape
Change site (along with
correct GPS coordinates) at least 20 images that are related by topic
or geographic
area. Submit a one page discussion of the changes you observed in
the
landscape between then and now. Use the blackboard Assignment tool for your paper
submission and the landscape site for your image submission.