Hello everyone ~

Just wanted to let you know I'll be sending your grade to date on posts, quizzes, etc., along with your Project 1 grades, to each of you this evening via email.

Most of you who turned in the report did very well. If you didn't do as well as you expected, or if you have a question about where or how you missed points, I will ask you to go back and look at your report and posts yourself and to read the rubric by which they were graded, and see if you can answer your own question. Unfortunately, I don't have time to go back and recheck posts I've already read and graded, unless there is a compelling reason to do so.

If you can't find the answer and you honestly feel there's been an error made (I do make them now and again), you should email me with specifics about the post, and I will then go back and check it against the report and grade sheet I have. If I do find an error, I will make the needed corrections as time permits.(Along the same lines, any errors on Week 4 grade sheets have been corrected on this one.)

If you didn't make the deadline for turning in posts because you had trouble finding all your posts to put in the report, my best advice is this: forget about the first 8 weeks and start from now. Create your document report form and enter the information for each Reading Response, project research/work (b)log, and post as you go. Then you won't have to scramble around trying to find them at the end of Week 12, and you'll have a nice, clean, complete report to submit, and you won't feel rushed and frustrated. Instead you'll be able to relax and rest on your laurels.

I will attach some very good and/or excellent examples of post activity reports that were turned in this time, which you may use as examples to improve your own for the Week 12 and Week 16 reports. Keep in mind that the "perfect" report only rarely exists ~ but these are pretty close.

Congratulations to those of you who did very well on the project and/or the post reports, and those of you who didn't do as well as you would have liked: keep working on it. You can do it.