Sample Online/Blended Moodle Course
General forums
| Forum | Description | Discussions |
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| Course Announcements | General news and announcements |
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| Questions for the Instructor | This forum is not graded, but questions you post here will be immediately emailed to the instructor. This ensures you will receive the instructor's response to your question as soon as reasonably possible. Please understand that the instructor is not on-call 24 hours a day, but will respond to ... |
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| Classmates' Café | This discussion forum "café" is available for anyone in the class to ask questions or exchange resources with your classmates. The forum is not graded, and it is only monitored loosely by the instructor to ensure that expectations and guidelines of respect and courtesy are always being observed. |
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Learning forums
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| Week 1: 8/25-8/31 | Introduce Yourself | This forum “Introduce Yourself” is for you to introduce yourself to our class. Please consider following while you write on introduce yourself post.
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| Topic Discussion | Discussion Questions: Question 2: Read the provided resources, particularly, the class notes on the topics of Introduction of climate up to Think and Write section. The purpose of this section of the note is to provide you very basics of what drives Earth’s climate. First, find the definition of ... |
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| Week 2: 9/1-9/7 | Week_2 Discussion | Discussion Assignment Your initial post should be your original. All of you are answering the same questions does not mean there cannot be various different perspectives to look on a map or a problem. Please identify a different feature on map or provide different examples on other questions. ... |
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| Week 3: 9/8-9/14 | Discussion Week 3 | Discussion Assignment Read the Week 3 Resources. The discussion prompts below are mostly related to the chapter texts after section 10.3 “Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions”. The discussion forum is slightly different this week in terms of when you access your group members’ post. You can only see ... |
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| Week 4: 9/15-9/21 | UV_Index discussion | After reading section 2.3b, especially the “Focus on an Environmental Issue 2.3 Wave Energy, Sun Burning, and UV Rays” from your textbook, complete the following activity. The map provided on this link https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/uv_index/uv_current_map.shtml shows UV ... |
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| Week 5: 9/22-9/28 | Week-5 Discussion | This is a Q & A forum. You will only be able to see others' answers after you post yours. You will answer total three questions: by choosing any two from the question list: 1-7, and one required for all question. |
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| Week 6: 9/29-10/5 | Discussion Week 6 | Read pages from section 5-6a to 5-6e of your textbook and discuss on the following. Your answer must not be a single statement definition. It must elaborate providing enough details so that you, your peers, and your instructor can easily follow what you wanted to say. A. Two distinguishable ... |
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| Week 8: 10/13-10/19 | Week_8 Discussion | Discussion Questions: Possible Points (20) Initial post: 16 points, Feedback: 4 points Write your answers for the following questions.
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| Week 9: 10/20-10/26 | Discussion_Week 9 | This discussion activity is about identifying various fronts on a weather map and characterizing them. Initial Post Due on Wednesday and feedback on at least two post is due Saturday. Read the instructions for how to provide feedback. 1. Read all the posts posted in your group and identify two ... |
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| Week 10: 10/27-11/2 | Week 10-Discussion Activities | Due: Friday at 11:59 pmThis is Q-A type of forum again and has two parts: activity 1 and 2. Each activity is 15 points worth and both are due on Friday at 11:59 pm. Feedback to minimum of one classmate is due on Saturday (Nov. 2nd) |
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| Week 11: 11/3-11/9 | Discussion on Weather Forecast | Respond to all of the prompts/questions below. I encourage you prepare your draft responses on a word document, hit "Add new discussion topic", put "Weather Forecast_Your Name" in the subject line and copy the answers from your document and paste in the main body. Please label each question using... |
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| Week 12: 11/10-11/16 | Week 12_Discussion | In this week, every one of you is required to discuss on the following two prompts and provide feedback to at least one prompt from your classmates. Note that your initial post of prompt 1 (speculation and reasoning) is due on Monday night.
Prompt 1: Before reading the chapter, speculate on ... |
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| Week 13: 11/17-11/23 | Week_13 Discussions | Read the executive summary, Figure 1.2, and section of 1.5 °C pathways from the provided (link under resource section) IPCC special report: chapter 1: Global Warming of 1.5 °C. I. Discuss various aspects of the report with following points in focus. (write your discussion in structured paragraphs... |
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| Class Project | Class_Project Discussion Forum | Post your graph here. You can save your chart as an image and insert here. Then put your interpretation of the chart in this forum. I will follow project grading rubric in grading this discussion. |
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