Please respond to the following prompts in the discussion section on the students wikispaces.  Please put the number of the question next to your answer.

On the three pieces of work

1. Does the student have three pieces of work and answers the following questions?

• A description of the activity
• A description of what you learned and how
• How did this activity help you develop as a learner?
• How could you improve your performance
• Three Approaches to Learning you used in this assessment.

2. I really liked your …….. piece of work because I felt ……….

3. I think you need to improve…………….because…………….

General Statement

4. Does the student answer the following questions?

• What assignment in your portfolio has been challenging for you? Why?
  • What have you learnt from any of your projects in your portfolio – consider knowledge & skills?
  • What type of projects do you like doing? Why?
  • From your portfolio what project have you enjoyed? Why

5. I really liked general statement because I felt ……….

6. I think you need to improve your general statement by……because…..

Pictures

7. Comment on the three pictures using the following prompts:

• I thought that your (description of picture) showed……….
• I did not understand how your (description of picture) showed something you learned in science.

Blogs

8. Did the author answer the following questions?

• Why it is your favorite?
• How it helped you learn?
• How other student comments helped you learn
• A link to your blog

9. I liked your ……… post because you did…………..

10.  I think you need to improve………..

11.  I liked your AOI related blog because………….

12.  I think you need to improve ……. by ………………….

Your Online Science Portfolio should contain the following:

1.  Reflections on three pieces of work.  One good, one bad and your favorite.

Your reflections can be in any format, but you need to include the following:

• A description of the activity
• A description of what you learned and how
• How did this activity help you develop as a learner?
• How could you improve your performance
• Three Approaches to Learning you used in this assessment.

2.  A statement that answers the following questions:

• What assignment in your portfolio has been challenging for you? Why?
• What have you learnt from any of your projects in your portfolio – consider knowledge & skills?
• What type of projects do you like doing? Why?
• From your portfolio what project have you enjoyed? Why?

The above question need to be answered in your wikispace.

3.  Three pictures that you feel describe things you learned in science.  This will include an explanation.

4.  Your favorite blog post.

• Why it is your favorite?
• How it helped you learn?
• How other student comments helped you learn
• A link to your blog

5.  One AOI related blog post.

• How does it relate to an AOI?
• How did this AOI help you learn more about this topic?

Your pages can be found here.

Due Wednesday:

1.  Lab Report Due

Due Thursday:

2.  Your blog post – details can be found here.

Due Friday:

3.  1st drafts – put into Studywiz gallery with your name as the file name and in PDF format.

Due Sunday Night:

4. Discussion Post – Details can be found here

• Group Barnard Members:  Taichi, Ji Young, Tae Hun, Jee Yeon, Yu Lynn
• Group Starzl Members: Hyo Ji, Sunny, Garrett, Laura
• Group Osler Members: Jo Yoon, Gergely, Astha, Simon, Maiko

Due Next Wednesday:

5.  Replies to blogs and discussion posts

Questions about 1^st draft- what went well, what did you struggle with?

In this week’s posting you will be discussing your 1^st draft.  In this discussion I would like you to discuss the following things:

-A description of what parts of the paper you struggled with.

-A description of what you think is the best part of your paper.

-How you plan to use the feedback you received.

Your Answer:

- A description of what parts of the paper you struggled with (3 marks)

-A description on what you think is the best part of their paper (3 marks)

-How you plan to use the feedback you received. (4 marks)

Your Reply:

In your reply, I would like you to respond with the following ideas:

-Did you also struggle with similar parts of the paper?  If so what did you do that helped? (2 marks)

-What advice would you give to help the author? (2 marks)

-What other improvements would you suggest? (1 mark)

Task

Your posting for this week is to find and summarize a media report about organ trafficking.  The summary should include:

-a summary of the media report.

- how the media source relates to a one-world issue.

- discusses specific examples of organ trafficking.

-how your opinion changed in response to this media source.

-a link to article (the article can be in any language)

Guidence

Your Post:

Did you include a summary of the article? (2 marks)

Did you include three facts or figures (for example 1200 kidneys are sold on the black market every year)?  (3 marks)

Did you link your article to a one-world issue? (1 mark)

Did you provide your opinion on the article? (2 marks)

Did you provide a link to the article? (1 mark)

Your Reply:

Did you state what you linked about the summary? (2 marks)

Did you state what you think needs improvement? (2 marks)

Did you provide write at least a paragraph? (1 mark)

Group Osler Members: Jo Yoon, Gergely, Astha, Simon, Maiko

Please have your discussion in the comments section.

Group Starzl Members: Hyo Ji, Sunny, Garrett, Laura

Please have your discussion in the comments section

Group Barnard Members:  Taichi, Ji Young, Tae Hun, Jee Yeon, Yu Lynn

Please have your discussion in the comments section

One World Issues – Face Transplants

Was a face transplant an ethical thing to do?  What are some of the one-world issues associated with a face transplant?

Guidance:

Your Post:

-Did you state if a face transplant was an ethical thing to do? (1 mark)

-Did you provide reasons to support your position? (2 marks)

-Did you talk about two, other one-world issues? (2 marks)

-Did you provide two pieces of evidence for your one-world issues (4 marks)

-Did you write at least a paragraph? (1 mark)

Your Response:

-Did you state if you agree with the ethical position the author took?  (1 mark)

-Did you provide reasons of your own? (1 mark)

-Did you provide another one-world issue with evidence or more evidence to support the author’s one-world issues? (2 marks)

-Did you write a least an paragraph? (1 mark)

Groups

Group Jenner: Taichi, Maiko, Tae Hun, Ji Yoon, Gergely, Garrett, Astha

Group Nightingale: Hyo Ji, Sunny, Simon, Yu Lynn, Jee Yeon, Laura

Links:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4484728.stm