Welcome everyone!
There will be six articles posted to this blog. Participants will read each article and respond to each of the three "food for thought" questions posted about the article. In addition, each participant will comment on at least one other participant’s response to each question. In all, each participant will post AT LEAST SIX POSTS in response to each article (three questions answered and one comment to a response to each of the three questions.)
Full participation (six posts as described above) in each article discussion is worth one hour of PIR credit. If you need six hours, you will fully participate with six or more posts in all six article discussions. If you need a fewer PIR hours, you will fully participate in fewer discussions. Contact me at any time if you have questions! susan_quinn@gfps.k12.mt.us - 268-6104
No participant may post responses during the duty day. Any comment posted during the duty day needs to be disregarded. Each post is time-stamped, so there is no fudging this mandate.You may participate in the discussions in any order you wish and at any speed you wish (although going VERY fast will make it difficult to respond to the thoughts of others!). All discussions end at 5:00 PM on December 1. Credit will be granted for the number of article discussions in which you have fully participated at that time – partial participation in any article discussion will be disregarded (please see this example for an example of what constitutes full participation: http://www.cmrexcel.org/gfpsprg/responses_example.pdf). NOTE: It is my recommendation that you compose your responses in Word and paste them in once you are ready so as not to lose any work in case of a glitch!
Happy reading! :o)
NOTE: Don't let the dates of my posts confuse you... I "force" them to be certain dates to make them stay in the order I want them to be...
If you know other teachers who need PIR credit, they are welcome to join - just have them email me and I'll send them an invite!
~sq
