Update on making stenographs & getting participation points

The purpose of this post is to clarify aspects of making stenographs and getting participation points.

STENOGRAPH REQUIREMENTS/PARTICIPATION POINTS:  Students will get points for participating in each prototyping session.  Individual students are expected to contribute a minimum of 2 ideas per session. Each group is expected to collectively decide on 1 to 3 codes every session.  Students will earn participation points based on whether the stenographs indicate 1) that they made idea contributions and 2) that their group decided on some codes. So, for any given student to get full credit, a stenograph must contain at least 2 idea ("I.") contributions with their initials next to each of them and at least 1 code ("C.") underlined somewhere on the page. 

HOW TO CONTRIBUTE AN IDEA: 

1. Present your visual notes, 
2. Explain your idea, 
3. Give an example of your idea (e.g., the Holocaust is an example of genocide); if your idea is already an example, then explain how your example expresses, embodies, or makes clear or real concepts from your chapter (e.g., if your idea is the fact that Katherine Switzer was attacked for being a woman participating in the Boston Marathon, then you could say that this fact expresses the concept of discrimination because a woman was being treated as unequal to men), 
4. Don’t read from a script or from the book (an outline is okay) – i.e., you should have an understanding of the ideas that you present on; you should be able to speak confidently about the idea in a way that is accurate to the idea, as opposed to merely making the stuff up off the top of your head--contact me if you want help comprehending your idea(s).

HOW TO INDICATE IDEA CONTRIBUTIONS:  In order for a student to get their idea contribution points, and in order for a stenographer to indicate this contribution, the stenographer needs to write only 1) the contributing student's initials in the left-hand margin (e.g., MM), 2) the idea symbol “I.”, 3) the name of the idea (e.g., genocide), 4) the page number on which the idea is found (e.g., p.259 or ES, 259). It is not necessary to write out the full idea.

– A stenograph entry for an idea might look like this:  “MM    I. Genocide – ES, 259”

FOR ABSENT STUDENTS:  If you DON'T have a valid excuse, then you can get PARTIAL credit for submitting your visual notes and idea contributions (see above) to your group members prior to the session that you will be missing.  If you DO have a valid excuse, then you can get FULL credit for submitting the following items to your group members (preferably) prior to the session that you will be missing:  1) your visual notes along with, 2) the other idea contribution factors (see above), 3) one or several codes (i.e., game representations of your ideas) that your group can use for the game.