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Writing Better Discussion Threads

This PDF is a great start to thinking about how to write about discussion messages and responses.

http://tinyurl.com/n8gv374

The Three Part Post according to Dr. Judith Boettcher (Executive Diretor of the Corporation for  Reasearch and Educational Networking) is a great way to construct your discussion thread process (University Writting Center, pg. 1).

When you are asked a question in the thread where you are responding to problem, a particular challenge or idea the three parts are good to incorporate in your response.

• "Part 1: State what your considered thought or recommendation might be. In otherwords, answer the question, 'What do you think?'

• Part 2: State why you think what you think. Examine your own experiences, beliefs, or knowledge. It is also good place to provide references, textual quotations, and/or links to materials that reinforce your opinion.

• Part 3: State what you wish you knew or directly solicit the opinion of classmates (in other words, ask a question!)"

Using these three part posting will help you get better grades, learn more and have better retention in the class, as well as, give people something to respond to from your posts.

http://tinyurl.com/jw3vqcy

Design for Learning article on good design posting.

http://www.designingforlearning.info/services/writing/ecoach/tips/tip33.html

Tips on how to write a great discussion board post in an online college course

http://rhonda-m.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-write-a-great-discussion-posting-in-an-online-college-course

Tutoring Assistance

Math Help

This is an excellent site to refresh your knowledge of everthing from basic math to calculus. These short videos are easy to follow, slow enough to learn but not so slow you are bored. Check out only the videos you need assistance on.

http://www.mathplayground.com/mathvideos.html

This website is not only great for math, but it also has Physics, Sciences, Humanities and Test Prep videos. There are over 4000 videos to assist students and teachers with academic challenges.

https://www.khanacademy.org/

English and Grammar Help

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

The Owl at Purdue

 

The Owl at Purdue is a great site for anything to do with writing or research. It has tutorials on MLA and APA citations, writing your thesis or doing research. Every college student should keep this site bookmarked as a favorite.

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/1/

 Citation Generators

  Using a citation generator is not to take away from knowing how to do it yourself. Every college student needs to know how to use a physical copy of some type of writers reference and or a citation generator to get things correct. Giving credit to an authors work is very important.

I have a few that I have used and these work very well. Some websites offer much more than just a quick fix of information. Make sure you know the type of format you should be doing (APA, MLA, and Chicago).



EasyBib

This site is extremely easy to use. You choose the type of format (APA, MLA or Chicago) that you want and just paste the website or search the book title. It has student resources as well as graphics to show you the process to cite properly.

http://www.easybib.com/

The link for Student Resources on EasyBib is:

 http://content.easybib.com/students/#.U1CLiVewWSo

Son of Citation

This is a very easy to use Citation Generator. It has all the various types of generators: APA, MLA, Chicago and more. It is Free and will help teach you the way to cite properly in what ever format you need to use.

The link for Student Resource "Son of Citation" is:

http://www.citationmachine.net/