For all course topics, students are expected to participate in local course discussions (in class). Such discussions will be "live" and not online.

A certain amount of discussion on the internet is also expected.

• For daily notices of new materials just posted on the course web site or other information needing immediate attention, students should check their e-mail daily. E-mail can also be used for contacting all instructors and all students.
  
  
• For some course topics, the three instructors will present guidelines for peer-to-peer discussions, group discussions or other group work, and/or special exercises (simulations, shared reporting of readings, etc.).

The course web site provides two additional means of online communication.

• Students will be trained in the use of WebBoard and will find instructions about its use HERE. All students must participate at least two times per week on WebBoard, the ACS course discussion board. Student postings on WebBoard should include at least one more substantial (200 words minimum) contribution: a question or position statement, a personal observation, or an analysis of an issue. Student postings should also include at least one reaction to another student's posting (100 words minimum).
  
  
• Students will also use NetMeeting as an experimental technology to assist our classes in real-time communication by text, audio, and video. This is being provided by ACS and the three colleges involved in this online course. All three instructors will also utilize NetMeeting for a weekly online office hour. Students wishing to contact their local class professor should use e-mail or a visit to the instructor's office as the means of office hour contact.

For Professor Bolt's module on The War at Home: The Antiwar Movement , students should use both WebBoard and NetMeeting. All students are also expected to complete specific reading and writing assignments noted elsewhere in this module.

During Week 9 (25-29 October), students on each ACS campus should discuss the local campus scene for antiwar sentiment and activities during the Vietnam war. Some students may prefer to interview faculty members or others who were on campus in the sixties and early seventies. Others may know of research, done earlier by students, which may be a source of information. However students may obtain information, they should share it with two other students, one on your campus and another on one of the other two campus sites. Such sharing of information may be accomplished by e-mail or use of NetMeeting.

The focus of your investigation should be on your campus setting. Be able to record in writing your findings. What happened? What protest tactics were used? Name leading voices of protest. Was your campus part of a silent majority which supported the war effort rather than a site for antiwar protests? If the latter was the case, be able to offer some explanation for this.

Consider, also, the following question: To what extent would you have been involved in any local (campus or town) antiwar protest had you been living in the 1965 to 1973 period?

On each campus site, part of a class meeting will be used for broader sharing of findings concerning the local perspective on antiwar activities and for expression of opinions and reaction to the counterfactual question above.