Homework Assignments:

1. Revisit all class notes

2. Take You Ought to Know by Now sample review quiz #10

3. Make an appointment to meet your group in your groups’ chat room to finish up the Group Discussion Project. Use the chat room to evaluate the solutions posted in the Week #14 Solutions discussion forum, along with any new solutions you’d like to offer, one at a time. Combine similar solutions. Reject solutions that don’t fit the step #3 criteria. Keep solutions that do achieve the step #3 criteria. When you’re done you’ll have your solution to the Group Discussion Project problem. This may also be done in your group’s private discussion forum but I think it will be faster to meet in the chat room.

4. Find some potential Final Exam Stump the Classroom questions. Final Exam STC questions must be on the areas of human communication, persuasion or group discussion. Post possible STC questions in your group’s private discussion forum and then decide as a group which two questions you would like to enter into the STC competition.

Graded Homework Assignments:
The following graded homework assignments must be submitted via email. The email address is srginley@yahoo.com. Submit only the number of the question and your answer in the body of your email message. ATTACHMENTS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

Before Sunday, May 9, at 6:30 p.m.:

After everyone in you group has offered their suggestions for possible Final Exam STC Questions, discuss them amongst yourselves, and appoint a member of your group to post the two STC questions your group wants to enter in your group’s private discussion forum.

Before Wednesday, May 12, at 6:30 p.m.:

1. Post your completed Group Discussion Project in your group’s private Group Discussion Project discussion forum. One person may post the entire project or various individuals may post different parts of the project. Please use bullet points and phrases. I’d rather not read paragraphs. Your final Group Discussion Project posting should include:

Step #2 You should answer the 4 questions:

• What’s causing the problem? (Also cite the specific survey evidence that led you to draw your conclusions.)
• How serious is the problem?
• What are the problem’s affects?
• Who’s being affected?

Step #3 Write any additional criteria you added beyond the five criteria I wrote.

Step #5 Post the various solutions your group has agreed upon in your chat room meeting. (See Homework Assignment #3 above.)

2. Email me your answers for Quiz #10.

Links to Additional Resources

CADRE, the National Center on Dispute Resolution and Special Education, offers a web site that has a wealth of information on issues related to resolving disagreements between family members and educators/service providers related to special education. Section Five: Collaborative Problem Solving Steps in the Process is one step of the 6-part Collaborative Problem Solving and Dispute Resolution in Special Education written by Rod Windle and Suzanne Warren. You’ll need to scroll down the page a bit to see all of the links. This one page contains all the information. The links just take you down the page more quickly. The entire page is interesting. For the purposes of completing the Group Discussion Project, I’d recommend beginning with the Brainstorming link and then working your way to the end of the page.

Charles Sturt University has campuses in Thurgoona, Albury-Wodonga, Bathurst, Wagga Wagga, Dubbo, Canberra, Goulburn, Manly and Broken Hill. They also have a well-developed Student Services program that offers advice about online learning among other topics. The first link tells you about how to successfully function in a synchronous chat room.

The second link discusses online etiquette, more commonly known as netiquette

P.S. If you’d like to see where Charles Sturt University is located click on this link to see their campus locations map. Click on the “red dots” for each campus location and you can learn more about the individual campuses. (There’s definitely a McDonalds in Wagga Wagga. I’ve seen it!)

Study Break:

Question: What do the following four statements have in common?

• “The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at zero, is a Yankee invention, which requires a Yankee poet to describe.”
• “I never saw this before. I didn’t write this and I don’t believe what I just read!”
• “Dear General, if you do not want to use the army I would like to borrow it for a few days.”
• “My dear, sir, if you are as happy on entering the White House as I on leaving, you are a very happy man indeed.”

Answer: Each of these statements was made by a President of the United States. Test your knowledge of America’s Chief Executives looking at the Amazing Presidential Quotes to see if you can match the President with his amazing quotation. If you find yourself stumped click on the Amazing Presidential Quotes Solution Link.