LDH2BM & AWOL - Classwork and HW Feb 10

Select the 10-15 most interesting questions from yesterday's work. Use your notes and the blogs of people in other groups to find the questions. Try to research 5 of your own group's questions and the rest from the other groups. (It can be helpful to have some degree of depth - why the 5 from one topic area helps). If you were absent, or you just feel like it, make up some new questions in addition to stealing other peoples'.

Quickly research the questions. Research this like you'd skim a book. You're finding quick answers, not really looking for complexities, confirmations, or contradictions.

Please use the following three websites the most: Google, Wikipedia, and Google Scholar. If you are using Firefox you can usually search directly in the top right search bar and click to search directly in Wikipedia.

List the 10-12 questions and answers you unite into a blog post. Copy and paste the source website URL behind the answer (or just link it to make it prettier). Write a brief paragraph interpreting these results for significance in terms of the general topic (American Way of Birth or Old Folks and the G&ML).

The sequence I would suggest is:
1. Take 5 questions from your own blog post from last night. Cut and paste them into a new blog post.
2. Look at other peoples' blogs from your section and cut and paste questions into your new blog post.
3. When you get 15 questions start looking for answers.
4. Take the first question and google it. Find the answer, type it in, cut and paste the URL.
5. Save as draft. Repeat for 10-12 answers.
6. Write an interpretative paragraph.
7. Clean up your answers so they read easier.
8. Edit your paragraph.
9. Add to your paragraph.
10. Edit your paragraph again.
11. Publish post.

For instance - I took this question from Lauren's website - "What happens to the mother if she can’t afford the medical bill?" I decided to change it into an even more basic question - "How much does a regular birth cost - with no important complications?" I googled, - cost birth -, and found this website which gave a range of costs. I took the high estimates, since we live in NYC, and found out that a vaginal birth costs around $10,200 but that a C-Section costs around $15,200. So I would then write this as item 1 on my list and move on to question 2.

1. "How much does a regular birth cost - with no important complications?"
A vaginal birth costs around $10,200 but a C-Section costs around $15,200. website
2.