I have found the chat sessions to be intellectully stimulating and I hope students will try to arrange their life so that they can participate. However, I understand that one of the strengths of the "distance" model is that it opens the possibility to fully asynchronous participation. To keep this possibility open, I understand that students may not be able to participate in the chat sessions. In this case, of course, further work is expected. Specifically

1. It is expected that you read the transcript of the previous chat session and e-mail me a brief summary of the main themes addressed and of at least one theme that should have been developed further with a statement of how you would have addressed it.
2. It is expected that you will post responses to all the postings by the other students.