Discussion Topic:

This week, we are celebrating our accomplishment for this semester. I like to ask everyone to reflect on what we have learned during this term so that we can be more effective in dealing with technological issues in the future..

Questions:

1. What is the most important concept you have learned during this term?
   
   
2. What can we do or do we need in order to become a proficient developer for PHP/Oracle applications.
   
   

 

 

Online Discussion Policy:

1. Discussion Board is the main vehicle for the entire class to have close interactions.  Students are required to actively participate in all discussions.  The total weight of discussion accounts for 25% of the total grade (15% for Class Time Discussion and 10% for Weekly Geeks Corner).

2. Students are supposed to complete discussions by the due date.  Due date policy applies to both discussion, definitely.

3. There will be two major categories of questions to be discussed: instructor-posted, and student-posted.  Students are required to participate in BOTH discussions.

4. Weekly Discussion (Class Time): The instructor-posted questions are intended to facilitate and verify your understanding of the related subject.  The following guidelines will be followed for evaluation.  Each question will have a total of 100 achievable points for the week.

a. Responsiveness to the right question (hit the point). (15 points)

b. Clarity of response. (10 points)

c. Completeness of response. (15 points)

d. Support for response from reading or other resources. (15 points)

e. Correct sentence structure and spelling.  Please use complete sentences and correct English grammar/spelling. By the way, I do not like the language used in text message such as "how r u?"(10 points)

f. Professionalism or Netiquette (no bad languages).

g. Reply to at least one other students' discussions.  (10 points)

h. You have to read at least 50% of the messages posted. (10 points)

i. Do not use such expressions as "I do not know." Offer your insight or suggestions.

j. Have a sense of humor (5 points)

k. Timely bonus: The first 5 students responding to the posted question will receive bonus points in the scale of 10, 8, 6, 4, 2. The first one will receive 10, and the fifth one will have 2 points.