Solving Conflicts around
Technology in the Classroom
Julia Collins, Anna Sternberg,
Katherine Rowe
TAL 4/24/15
Course requirements:
• Written work: short assignments posted to Moodle in the form of weekly queries and responses; full
annotations (graded twice during the semester) in the margins of the main text of Paradise Lost; a
midterm exam; a short close-reading essays (5pp); a short class presentation on a Milton adaptation
(may be done in small groups); and a longer essay (8-10 pp) developed out of any of this prior work.
• Late work: You may take 1 free 24 hour extension this semester for written work, provided you notify
me at least a day in advance. Other late written work will have grades deducted unless accompanied
by a Dean’s excuse. As in all work environments these days, technology malfunctions or disasters are
not grounds for extensions of deadlines. BACK UP YOUR WORK.
• Class participation: This is a discussion-driven course. The success of the course will depend in large
part on your regular preparation, attendance, and participation both in class and on the Moodle
forum. Your contributions, in the form of questions, comments, disagreements and challenges, will
form a substantial part of your grade. You will be expected at different times in the course to
contribute discussion questions via Moodle and collaborate on assignments.
• Class technology ground rules. TBD by the class during the first two weeks.
Course requirements:
• Written work: short assignments posted to Moodle in the form of weekly queries and responses; full
annotations (graded twice during the semester) in the margins of the main text of Paradise Lost; a
midterm exam; a short close-reading essays (5pp); a short class presentation on a Milton adaptation
(may be done in small groups); and a longer essay (8-10 pp) developed out of any of this prior work.
• Late work: You may take 1 free 24 hour extension this semester for written work, provided you notify
me at least a day in advance. Other late written work will have grades deducted unless accompanied
by a Dean’s excuse. As in all work environments these days, technology malfunctions or disasters are
not grounds for extensions of deadlines. BACK UP YOUR WORK.
• Class participation: This is a discussion-driven course. The success of the course will depend in large
part on your regular preparation, attendance, and participation both in class and on the Moodle
forum. Your contributions, in the form of questions, comments, disagreements and challenges, will
form a substantial part of your grade. You will be expected at different times in the course to
contribute discussion questions via Moodle and collaborate on assignments.
• Class technology ground rules. All technology used during class in this course should be used for class
purposes. When in doubt, we ask. When in violation, we call ourselves back in. Sharing from this class
on social or other media is by express permission.