Listen to the following program from This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/204/81-Words. This radio program lasts approximately one hour.
Step 1: Summarize the radio program in your own words in no more than three paragraphs. (Suspicious summaries will be run through plagiarism detection
software.) I WANT TO HEAR YOUR VOICE!
Step 2: State the most surprising aspect of the program in one or two sentences.
Step 3: In no more than three paragraphs, explain how you feel about psychiatric diagnosis now that you have listened to this program.
Stop at this point and post your responses to steps 1, 2 and 3. Then wait until others have posted and go back in to Moodle and read their reactions to the program.
In a second posting, answer steps 4 and 5. Then go back in to Moodle and read your peers’ comments to see how many agreed with you.
Step 4: In three or four sentences, comment on at least one other student’s Step 3 posting.
Step 5: In three or four sentences, identify the best peer summary of 81 Words and explain why this student’s work stands out above the rest of the class.
