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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Sorry, “… more important NOW
than ever before…” <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Point your students toward the “discussion”
tab of the wiki sites… the main tab is simply “consensus”
science, or the beliefs of whoever managed to start the discussion first. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>One thing I did try but was not really successful
with… partly because the class was too large… trying to use a Blackboard
Site as a collaboration tool… in one deviance class the “Term Paper”
part of the class was to produce a research proposal to investigate “plagiarism”…
the students were to formulate a proposal independently, publish it on the
Blackboard site for comment by their “colleagues”, but then
collaborate on the research method and questions. The Blackboard site allowed
them to post articles and references that might be of interest to their research
community and allowed them to comment on it. However, thirty-five
students taking a sociology course because they needed three credits of social
science at a convenient time may not be the best venue for this approach.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>R.E. Phelan<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
citasa-bounces@list.citasa.org [mailto:citasa-bounces@list.citasa.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Robert E. Phelan<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, August 30, 2009 4:11
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> 'George W. Dowdall, Ph.D.';
citasa@list.citasa.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [CITASA] Suggestions
for teaching introductory sociology</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Professor Dowdall:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>If you’ve got reliable, fast
internet access, introduce them to sites with data: the census bureau, CDC, FBI
uniform crime report, Labor Department… then ask them to resolve a
question during class: e.g. “Reverend Wright made the often reported
claim that there are more young black men in jail than in college. Is this
true?” Statistics at the Dept of Justice and Dept of Education will
begin to answer the question, but of course, there may be a discrepancy between
the ages of people in jail than people in college… and we have to let
them know that one year does not make a trend… but our courses
should be teaching empiricism and a critical attitude toward data. I used to
regard Michel Foucault as a French Flake… the ability to track down data,
critique it and use it to critique the existing order is more important know
than ever before.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>R.E. Phelan<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Itinerant Scholar<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
citasa-bounces@list.citasa.org [mailto:citasa-bounces@list.citasa.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>George W. Dowdall, Ph.D.<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, August 29, 2009
10:03 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> citasa@list.citasa.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [CITASA] Suggestions for
teaching introductory sociology</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>At the very last minute, I've been asked to teach a small
introductory sociology course in a well-stocked PC lab. Can anyone
point me to interesting ways of teaching this
course using Internet and PC resources in live time?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>George<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>George W. Dowdall, Ph.D.<br>
Professor of Sociology, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Saint Joseph</st1:City></st1:place>'s
University,<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Philadelphia</st1:City> <st1:State
w:st="on">PA</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">19131</st1:PostalCode></st1:place>.
610-660-1674. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>College Drinking: Reframing a Social Problem (2009)<br>
http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/C9981.aspx <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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