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Page history last edited by Laura Gibbs 10 years, 7 months ago

 

Early Bird Extra Credit

 

The best way to manage your time in this class is to work a week or two ahead. If you can work a week or two ahead, that way you won't have to worry about specific deadlines, and you will have plenty of room to maneuver is something comes up unexpectedly in your life that takes up all your time for a few days (job interviews, trip out of town, etc.). I highly - HIGHLY - recommend that you work at least one full week ahead of schedule. That does not increase your work load in any way (after you get ahead, you just stay ahead)... but it sure will make the class easier to manage!

 

In addition, to making the class less stressful, you can also get extra credit for working ahead! Starting in Week 1 of the class, you can get extra points for finishing the next week's work ahead of schedule. There are up to 2 points available each week for working ahead:

 

  • Early Bird: Reading/Blogging. If you complete the next week's reading quizzes and writing assignments (the essay and the storytelling posts), you can take one point of extra credit.
  • Early Bird: Storybook. If you complete the next week's Storybook assignment, you can take one point of extra credit. (You do not have to wait for my comments back to you on the assignment; as soon as you turn in the next week's Storybook assignment, you can take the extra credit point).

 

So, for example, if you finish the Week 1 assignments and have time to start working ahead on your Week 2 assignments, you can get extra credit - either for doing the reading assignments early, or for doing the Storybook early, or both. Notice that this extra credit does not involve extra work of any kind - it is just a bonus for taking the initiative to create your own schedule and work ahead.

 

One or two points per week may not sound like much, but it adds up - if you do the 2 points of Early Bird extra credit each week, that adds up to 28 points, which means you can skip an entire week of regular assignments! That might mean taking a week off from this class around midterms, or it might mean finishing up a week early to have more time to prepare for finals. Either way, having extra credit is a good thing, and the "early bird" extra credit is the only extra credit you can get without any extra work... it just requires that you work ahead!

 

 

 

(Cartoon by Leigh Rubin.)

 

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