We are investigating 5 logical fallacies:
Ad Hominem (Personal Attack)
Appeal to Irrelevant Authority
Appeal to Pity
Hasty Generalisation
False Dilemma
Make copies of the following documents on the shared drive and annotate your copy with your answers to the problems:
Logical Fallacy Practice
Logical Fallacy Analysis
We will have a quiz about the 5 logical fallacies next class and spend some time coming up with our own.
The topics for your Logical Fallacy presentations are available on the shared drive along with the rubric. You will be presenting individually on October 13th.
Thursday, 25 September 2014
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Monday, 8 September 2014
Asian Women's Leadership University Survey
My name is Mila
Devenport and I am with the Asian
Women’s Leadership University (AWLU) Project. Together with our academic
partner Smith College (one of the
original women’s colleges of the U.S.), our organization is in the process of establishing an
international, liberal arts and sciences, women’s leadership university based
in Malaysia aimed at cultivating a cadre of women leaders from across
Asia, the Middle East, Africa and other emerging regions who can advance
social, political, and economic development in their home countries and
regions.
I am writing you
because we are currently conducting an online survey of students in this region
and would like to request International School of
Islamabad's participation. The survey is to compile information
on how students view this idea of AWLU and takes only 2 minutes to
complete online. We would greatly appreciate if you could distribute the survey
(using the link below here) to all
your female students ages 15-18 years
The survey is conducted online and can be accessed here:
Thursday, 4 September 2014
Tuesday, 2 September 2014
Task for Virtual School September 2nd 2014
It would appear from the grades earned for your homework task, that you lack understanding of the 5 big concepts of protecting intellectual property. Considering you will be assessed on your knowledge of this and be expected to use other people's intellectual property in your own work for this subject and others, this is a concern.
Today, investigate these resources to improve your understanding of these concepts:
How it works - a comic about Creative Commons
Creative Commons: Spectrum of Rights
Creative Commons video
This is a link to a video hosted on Moodle
Decide if your video is fair use
This resource gives advice to help people use other people's intellectual property in videos. You will be creating a video for you summative assessment of this unit. The section 'Deciding if you video is fair use' is particularly of interest.
A Fairy Use Tale
This video uses the fair use exception to explain the fair use exception. It's very clever, but it may take a few viewings to understand the message.
ON YOUR BLOG
When you have explored these resources, go to Search.CreativeCommons.org and find an image/media/sound file that says something about you as a person, that has an appropriate CC license and post it on your blog. Appropriately crediting the creator according to the CC rules. Write a short paragraph justifying your choice of license for the original work you choose to use for this task.
You will receive a formative grade for this task. You will be graded on the following:
Choice of appropriate license (10)
Credit given correctly according to CC rules (20)
You will notice that there are numbers after the grading criteria. I wonder if this is where some of you got lost in the last graded assignment. These numbers relate to the marks assigned to each part of the task. As you can see here, giving credit correctly is worth 2 times more marks than choosing the appropriate license.
FIRST HOMEWORK TASK - REVIEW
In the first graded homework task, the definition of each term was worth (2) but demonstrating understanding of who can use the material and the conditions under which it can be used was worth (6), because this is more important than being able to define the terms. Many of you lost crucial marks because you concentrated on a definition and not who can use it and how.
If you would like to improve your grade for the first task you may work on it for homework. If you send me an email by 3pm tomorrow (Wednesday September 3rd) letting me know you have made improvements, then I will regrade your work.
Today, investigate these resources to improve your understanding of these concepts:
How it works - a comic about Creative Commons
Creative Commons: Spectrum of Rights
Creative Commons video
This is a link to a video hosted on Moodle
Decide if your video is fair use
This resource gives advice to help people use other people's intellectual property in videos. You will be creating a video for you summative assessment of this unit. The section 'Deciding if you video is fair use' is particularly of interest.
A Fairy Use Tale
This video uses the fair use exception to explain the fair use exception. It's very clever, but it may take a few viewings to understand the message.
ON YOUR BLOG
When you have explored these resources, go to Search.CreativeCommons.org and find an image/media/sound file that says something about you as a person, that has an appropriate CC license and post it on your blog. Appropriately crediting the creator according to the CC rules. Write a short paragraph justifying your choice of license for the original work you choose to use for this task.
You will receive a formative grade for this task. You will be graded on the following:
Choice of appropriate license (10)
Credit given correctly according to CC rules (20)
You will notice that there are numbers after the grading criteria. I wonder if this is where some of you got lost in the last graded assignment. These numbers relate to the marks assigned to each part of the task. As you can see here, giving credit correctly is worth 2 times more marks than choosing the appropriate license.
FIRST HOMEWORK TASK - REVIEW
In the first graded homework task, the definition of each term was worth (2) but demonstrating understanding of who can use the material and the conditions under which it can be used was worth (6), because this is more important than being able to define the terms. Many of you lost crucial marks because you concentrated on a definition and not who can use it and how.
If you would like to improve your grade for the first task you may work on it for homework. If you send me an email by 3pm tomorrow (Wednesday September 3rd) letting me know you have made improvements, then I will regrade your work.
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