WHAT TO DO THE LAST FEW WEEKS - FALL 2003
11/03 & 04
Midterm exam results returned. View additional information at http://www.coedu.usf.edu/itphdsem/eme7938/midtermexam.html
11/10 Monday
No Class Meeting for on-campus group. Read Gay & Airasian. Use the guidelines in Gay & Airasian to help you write your Literature Review/Concept Paper. It is quite appropriate for this to be a refinement of your response to Midterm Item #4. (We did our best to provide direction for further development of that response.) Ed.S. students who wish to leverage this activity toward their actual theses are encouraged to think in terms of projects/developmental research. It might be helpful to review the first three sections of the outline at http://www.coedu.usf.edu/dochand/append3.htm
The example at the end of the Gay & Airasian reading is a good one in terms of format, but it is almost certainly shorter and less refined than yours should be. Also, it is an excellent COUNTER-EXAMPLE of what a good IT research question should be -- it proposes a very simple media comparison.
11/17 Monday
No Class Meeting for on-campus group. Email or otherwise deliver your Literature Review/Concept Paper to the instructor(s) and to your three assigned peer reviewers. Do this by midnight. You should also receive three papers to review from three other students. To find out who your reviewers are, you will need to look in the column titled "PEERS" in the class email address list at: http://www.coedu.usf.edu/itphdsem/eme7938/email.html . For each of the three papers that you are assigned, write two good critical questions.
11/24 Monday
ON-CAMPUS -- Come to class prepared to "defend" your Literature Review/Concept Paper for about 25 minutes. Half of the class will be chosen randomly to defend. You may have a few minutes (5 max) to communicate to the group what your proposal is about. (Classroom display projector will be made available for those who wish to use it.) The remaining bulk of the time (20 minutes) will be spent addressing the questions of your reviewers. Reviewers bring copies of questions (see 11/17 above) for authors & instructor(s). Email copies of questions for Distant Learner papers that you reviewed to the authors & instructor(s).
DISTANCE LEARNERS -- email copies of your questions (see 11/17 above) to the various authors of the papers that you reviewed. Send copies of all messages to instructor(s).
12/01 Monday
ON-CAMPUS -- Remaining defenses will be conducted. The course evaluation will also be conducted.
DISTANCE LEARNERS -- Instructions will be sent in near future for completing online course evaluation
form.