As noted in the Orientation, you will be using a discussion board application called Yellowdig. [1]For a review of these activities, see the syllabus [2]. You should start posting to the discussion board this week!
You will be making posts throughout the entire semester. I will periodically post prompts that you must follow, but you can make other comments, as long as they are relevant to the course content. The prompts will focus on the content for that week or lesson. This ongoing assignment (which is worth 25% of your grade!) serves a few purposes: First, thinking and writing about the content helps you internalize it better than reading about it. Second, it helps you learn to communicate these important sustainability issues to others. Third, it gives you an opportunity to have authentic interactions with fellow students.
Some of your posts will be graded using a specific rubric, but most of them are auto-graded by Yellowdig.
I hope you find this engaging, and who knows, maybe even fun! It's a great way to interact with your fellow students.
Please go to the Yellowdig discussion board link in the Lesson 1 Canvas module to read more details about how Yellowdig works.
All interactions on this discussion board and any other personal course interaction must follow the ESP Peer-to-Peer Participation Policy, which can be accessed Course Website [3]. I will be monitoring the board to make sure you adhere to these.