Academic Controversy – Is the war in Iraq legal?
Posted by Mark Winegar on August 25, 2008
The spirit of this exercise is to motivate students to participate in a discussion board forum. There are no incorrect entries into the forum as long as the students respect one another. The idea is to get students used to expressing themselves in an online environment.
Students will be asked to video the program before entering the forum. Once there they are presented with a question to respond to.
“Was the war wage against Iraq by the United States legal? If so, why? In not, who is guilty?”
The point of these forums is not to persuade students to any point of view. It is designed to get them engaging one another and with the faculty in intelligent discourse. By doing so online they can learn the unique skills required to communicate online.
