Welcome to BA1002
This is our tutorial blog and it's where most of our interactions will take place during this course.The video below introduces you to the online "hubs" around which our virtual BA classroom is structured - LearnJCU, this blog, and the BA1002 facebook group. The video also introduces some of the staff that will be supporting you throughout the course.
Blogging & Participation
For the first two weeks I'll be creating blog posts (like this one) putting them on this blog and asking you to make comments below. Then from week three, until week 8, you'll be taking control of the blog. You'll be asked to use the lecture materials and readings to create your own blog posts and comment on other student's work. This is the "blog assessment" - worth 20%, (we'll talk about it some more in week 2).
In weeks 9, 10, 11 & 12 I will take over posting again and you'll be asked to make comments and discuss the lectures/posts/readings/assessments. Your comments, on my posts, constitute 10% of your "participation grade" (there are more details on participation grades in your subject outlines).
Week 1 tasks
- View the week 1 lecture (on LearnJCU) and complete the week 1 readings.
- If this is your first semester at uni, make sure you complete the ETC! orientation module
- If you are a continuing student leave three study/surviving university tips below (make sure you enter your name into the "comment as: ..." box).
- Then watch the documentary (linked below) and leave a comment introducing yourself to the class.
Documentary: Connected - How Kevin Bacon Cured Cancer
This film explains "6 degrees of separation" and small worlds theory,
as well as exploring some some of the reasons why we study networks.
Welcome to BA1002
-Rhian
Useful Links:
ETC! Orientation Module: http://libguides.jcu.edu.au/etc1
BA1002 Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BA1002EXT2013/
