Early Celtic
Cultures, Spring 2002
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Early Celtic
Cultures, Spring 2002
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Electronic
Discussion
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In addition to participating actively in regular in-class discussion, you will dialogue with each other throughout the semester on an e-mail list. This electronic discussion called TUATH (meaning "the tribe or people" in Old Irish) will encourage all students to discuss topics in an informal, but highly public manner. In addition, it will broaden the scope of and provide more avenues for discussion than our in-class time allows. Through it, you will write postings on topics generated by yourself, me, and other students in our class. These topics, exercises, suggestions, and questions will be related to assigned materials, materials related to our topic but not on the syllabus, and larger concepts associated with the topic. Since your responses and discussion on this electronic forum may be used to stimulate or expand our in-class discussions, it is important that read your e-mail frequently throughout the week in order to keep up-to-date with material posted on TUATH. During the semester, you will be expected to make an average of 2 postings a week on topics pertinent to our course for a total of 30 or more postings by the end of the semester. Although individual postings will not earn points, your score for this portion of the course will be based on the quality and quantity of your total entries combined. For instance, a student who makes 30 entries during the semester, most of which contain thoughtful responses or questions on the course topic, will earn a higher score than either a student who makes 20 thoughtful entries or a student who makes 50 less thoughtful or off-the-topic postings. Postings to TUATH must be made consistently throughout the term to earn a high score. You will NOT earn full points for this requirement if you make many of your postings together in a short period of time (at the beginning or end of the term, for example). Those of you who have never worked on e-mail or a computer network will need no prior experience with computers to succeed in this portion of the class. If you do not have your own computer access, UNM has many computer resources free for students to use. The main CIRT lab, located on Las Lomas next to the underground parking structure, is open 23.5 hours a day (closed from 12 midnight to 12:30 a.m.), 7 days a week. Other labs, such as the Dane Smith lab, Engineering labs, Anderson School labs, have more limited hours. UHP has computer terminals with e-mail access available to you weekdays 8:00-5:00.
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