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You initially have 3 philosopher’s stones to use during this course. You may also earn even more philosopher’s stones through class participation and by keeping up with your social annotations. You may then exchange your philosopher’s stones to unleash phenomenal philosophic powers!
Earning Philosopher’s Stones
There are a couple ways in which you may earn additional philosopher’s stones:
- You will earn 1 philosopher’s stone for every 500 negotiation experience points you earn from social annotations. Please note that any experience points you gain through Decipher Script do not count towards earning new stones.
- You will earn 1 philosopher’s stone for every 400 negotiation experience points you earn from class participation.
You use your philosopher’s stones by emailing me. In your email, please be specific about what philosophical power you are using. Also don’t forget to specify the “area of effect”, that is, what exactly you are using that power on. For instance, your email might say that you are using 2 philosopher’s stones for Decipher Script on Social Annotation Activity 4. Once I know all that, I will make it happen!
Using Philosopher’s Stones
There are several superpowers that your philosopher’s stones may unleash.
Time Stop (SA)
Cost: 1 philosopher’s stone.Area of Effect: 1 social annotation activity.
Duration: Up to 24 hours.
You select 1 social annotation activity and give up 1 philosopher’s stone. You then gain a 24-hour extension for completing that activity.
Time Stop (SR)
Cost: 1 philosopher’s stone.Area of Effect: 1 self-reflection activity.
Duration: Up to 48 hours.
You select 1 self-reflection activity and give up 1 philosopher’s stone. You then gain a 48-hour extension for completing that activity
If you have enough stones, you may use this power multiple times for additional 48-hour extensions on the same self-reflection activity.
Decipher Script
Cost: 2 philosopher’s stones.Area of Effect: 1 social annotation activity.
Duration: Instantaneous.
You select 1 social annotation activity and give up 2 philosopher’s stones. You then gain the full 100 negotiation experience points for that activity.
You may do Decipher Script at any time during the semester. For example, in week 10 you may use your stones on one of the social annotation activities from week 3. For that reason, I encourage you to save your philosopher’s stones until the end of the semester. At that point, you may then decide whether to use them on any social annotation activities.
Gift of Gab
Cost: 3 philosopher’s stones.Area of Effect: 1 negotiation activity.
Duration: Instantaneous.
You select 1 negotiation activity and give up 3 philosopher’s stones. You then gain the full 200 negotiation experience points for that activity.
You may do Gift of Gab at any time during the semester. For example, in week 12 you may use your stones on one of the negotiation activities from week 7. For that reason, I encourage you to save your philosopher’s stones until the end of the semester. At that point, you may then decide whether to use them on any negotiation activities.
Guidance
Cost: 4 philosopher’s stones.Area of Effect: 1 negotiation preparation activity.
Duration: Instantaneous.
You select 1 negotiation preparation activity and give up 4 philosopher’s stones. You then gain the full 300 negotiation experience points for that activity.
You may do Guidance at any time during the semester. For example, in week 14 you may use your stones on a negotiation preparation activity from week 2. For that reason, I encourage you to save your philosopher’s stones until the end of the semester. At that point, you may then decide whether to use them on any negotiation preparation activities.
Borrowed Knowledge
Cost: 6 philosopher’s stones.Area of Effect: 1 self-reflection activity.
Duration: Instantaneous.
You select 1 self-reflection activity and give up 6 philosopher’s stones. You then gain the full 450 negotiation experience points for that activity.
You may do Borrowed Knowledge at any time during the semester. For example, in week 7 you may use your stones on a self-reflection activity from week 2. For that reason, I encourage you to save your philosopher’s stones until the end of the semester. At that point, you may then decide whether to use them on any self-reflection activities.
Finally, for each philosopher’s stone that you do not use by the end of the course, you will earn 20 negotiation experience points.
So use your philosopher’s stones wisely!