4 APRIL

 

Course Introduction and Syllabus

 

 

For tomorrow, please consider Why are you here?  What are your expectations and hopes?

5 Introduction to the Web

 

Reading Baseline Exercise

 

For tomorrow, please think of something that would surprise us if we knew it about you.

6 Introduction to Effective Reading,

 

Please have read pp. 7-10 in the first-day handout

 

A pop quiz?

 

Introductions

(Something that would surprise us if we knew it about you)

7 Continue Introduction to Effective Reading,

 

Please have read pp. 7-10 in the first-day handout

 

Assign 20-minutes-a-day reading project

8 Today, please meet me in the classroom right at 9:30 or in Computer Lab 1220-G for a brief orientation.

Computer Lab Objectives

 

Login Instructions for Angel, school network, and e-mail

 

11 Peach Book Day—please bring your Peach Book and your Course Packet to class.

 

Assign the Scavenger Hunt, pp. 102-103 in the Course Packet

 

 

Begin your 20-minutes-a-day reading practice.

 

 

Assign the Learning Styles Questionnaire, pp. 84-92 in our Course Packet

 

 

 

12 Goal Setting

 

Bring your completed Learning Styles Questionnaire, (pp. 84-92 in our Course Packet) to the beginning of class

To-Do List of assignments

 

13 Health and Environmental Science Career Fair—10 am to 3 pm in the Lair.

 

Please attend at least the last half hour of our class time.

 

 

14 Please have read The Curve of Forgetting, pp. 15-18 in the Course Packet

 

Please expect a Pop Quiz on pp. 15-18

 

 

Assign Learning Styles Writing Assignment, p. 99 in the Course Packet

 

Announce Optional Learning Styles Bonus Assignment for bonus points

 

Brain Work—Neural Wiring

Memory Schematic 1

 

15 Computer Lab 1220-G open for your use—work on

Learning Styles Writing Assignment, p. 99 in the Course Packet

 

Learning Styles Bonus Assignment

 

Online Classroom Etiquette Assignment

 

18 Peach Book Day—please bring your Peach Book and your Course Packet to class.

 

To-Do List

 

Goals 4/19

 

Learning Styles Writing Assignment 4/21

Learning Styles Bonus Assignment 4/21

OL Classroom Etiquette Assignment 4/28

Scavenger Hunt 4/29

Please remember make-up guidelines

 

Fill in your 20-minutes-a-day reading log

 

19 Goals due at the beginning of class. (P. 101 in our course packet)

 

More on the The Curve of Forgetting, pp. 15-18 in the Course Packet

 

Short In-class Writing

 

 

20 Begin How to Take Lecture Notes unit. 

 

Please have read pp. 19-23 in the Course Packet, particularly p. 19.

 

Assign Course Chart activity, p. 100 in the Course Packet

Surprises and Frustrations

21 Continue How to Take Lecture Notes unit.  Please have read pp. 19-23 in the Course Packet

“Crunching Notes” Practice

 

Learning Styles Writing Assignment, due at the beginning of class. (P. 99 in our Course Packet)

 

Optional online-only Learning Styles Bonus Assignment

 due at the beginning of class

22 Scavenger Hunt, pp. 102-103.  Quiz deadline is one week from today.

 

Computer Lab 1220-G open for your use

 

Time to work on Online Classroom Etiquette Assignment

 

 

25 Peach Book Day—please bring your Peach Book and your Course Packet to class.

 

Fill in your 20-minutes-a-day reading log

26 practice note-taking

Rocks

Plate Tectonics

Continue How to Take Lecture Notes Unit. Please have read pp. 23-25 in the Course Packet

27 Course Chart due

 

practice note-taking

28 How Knowledge Grows

 

Research Paper Resources Page

 

Online Classroom Etiquette Assignment due

29 Scavenger Hunt Time and Individual Help

 

Computer Lab 1220-G

2 May Our class will meet in the SCC Library classroom

 

 

3 Plan to attend the Spring Communications Conference in the Lair

4 Our class will meet in the SCC Library classroom

5 Last day to take the Scavenger Hunt quiz.

 

The Research Summary assignment

6  Research Summary Help

Computer Lab 1220-G