Strategies for Effective Disaster Preparedness
- Consider a disaster within the last 20 years., Identify strengths and/or weaknesses in the response., What could have been done in advance to minimize or outright prevent the disaster?, What risk assessment could be performed to prevent or minimize the disaster from occurring again?
- Post your response to the forum site by Friday and peer responses by the following Tuesday at 1159 EST
As a class, you will benefit from the discussion boards only as much as you put into it. If someone replies to your post with a question, you owe him or her the courtesy of a response.
Each week, I will read all the posts and comments posted to the discussion board. I will comment, where appropriate, on those posts or discussion threads that contain inaccuracies or where there seems to be some confusion. I will also point out those posts/discussions that I thought were particularly thoughtful, insightful, or well written.
Strategies for Effective Disaster Preparedness
With regard to replies to other students, you can:
- Expand on or clarify a point made in the answer.
- Offer an additional argument to support a position taken in an answer.
- Suggest ways in which an idea could be more clearly expressed.
- Identify passages where you think the writer misunderstood a concept or applied it incorrectly.
- Disagree with a point or position made in an answer.
If you are disagreeing with the views of another student, please be constructive and respectful.
You may criticize a position but not the author. State precisely the point with which you disagree. Offer reasons why you think their view is incorrect and support your position by citing the text or other sources.
A good post/comment will have some or all of the following features:
- There are virtually no errors in punctuation, spelling, grammar or usage
- All parts of the question are completely answered.
- The answer avoids unsupported generalizations.
- Use of supporting information is superior.
- The ideas reflect critical thinking and insight.
- There is some originality in the writer’s response.
- The content has depth and substance.
- The post/comment holds the reader’s interest. APA