Today's meetings
8am - 8.30am: grace period; read daily post, watch videos, and generally prepare for day
8.30am - 9am: all students attendance and announcements meeting
~9am - noon: independant and small group learning time: course-specific study group links
Professional Skills (PSK)
Microsoft Word (MSW)
9am - 10: office hour - optional, drop-ins
10am: CES peer review workshop
10am: ITC Quizzes 3&4 Review
10.30am: OSK Final Exam Review
11am: PSK group 1 check-in
~11.15am: PSK group 2 check-in
~11.30: PSK group 3 check-in
noon - end of class - send daily progress email
Progress email answers etc:
If you don't have the desktop software for Office 2019, please reach out right away. Here are my resources to help you download, install, and activate. If you are still struggling, please join office hour today. Beforehand, make sure you know how to share your screen (click here for a demo).
If you would like to view the lab youtube channel, click here.
MSW: You have five uploads for your Graders and Finals, and Pearson provides detailed results (see this video). Submit your drafts; if there were errors, we can look at them together. If you accidentally upload them same file twice or have another issue, let me know and I can open more attempts or delete drafts.
KBD: I have entered your Keyboarding grades as per the course outline, calculated as follows: Speed - Errors = Score. Some of you submitted marks where you had recorded the final score as given by Typing Test based on the percentage of errors instead of number of errors. I corrected this when entering the grades into ECampus. If you believe I have made a mistake, please join me in office hour and we can look into it together.
PSK: I will drop into your meetings today to check-in, answer questions, and offer advice. I have moved office hour so that I can do these check-ins towards the end of class to allow time for you to organize, research, etc. I suggest that you have a basic outline to show me which includes your main sources and major proposed arguments. If you need assistance earlier, please chat me or join office hour. Make sure you review the rubric as a team. Remember, you are being evaluated on sharing the work; you each need to speak for 3-5 minutes and should be comfortable with the information you are verbalizing, so it's important that each teammate also shares the research workload.
It is possible to create independent PowerPoint projects and then combine them into one for smooth presenting. If you are interested in doing this, here are written instructions with screenshots (from the menu, select Windows or Mac then "2016, 2019, or 365"). If you would like assistance, please join me in office hour or I can show you during the group check-ins.
Reminders:
I have added a short survey to my Feedback tab asking for input on how easily you could access and utilize resources on the lab site. Please take a few minutes to fill it out - it's anonymous. I really appreciate your detailed responses.
If you would like a Keyboarding account to improve your speed and accuracy, let me know so I can create an account for you. The links etc are on the Keyboarding Courses page. Click "Typing Club" to get started - sign in with your personal email; leave the password space blank. If you requested an account in your progress email, your account is ready.
Reminder: send me daily progress emails. Click here for details.
Course-specific instructions:
B1075R
Continue with Daily Schedule.
CES
Please submit your cover letter and resume drafts if you have not already. Remember this course is pass/fail and based on participation/completion - if you have not sent your drafts, they are overdue. Everything I've received is in the DropBox for you. At 10am, you will be working with your peers to edit your work. Read through each cover letter and resume. Use the examples in the DropBox and resources on the Courses page to guide your feedback.
Read this post about how to workshop and watch the video. I will join you at 10 to help set you up and provide my own feedback.
If needed, watch the video on digital editing in Word and the video on resume formatting in Word.
With your classmates, if you haven't already, please watch the video Cover Letter Guide (on your Courses page) and read its corresponding document in the DropBox. Also read through the tips in this post and this post. Further resources are available in the DropBox and on your Courses page in both written and video formats; see the Suggested Daily Resource Schedule. Watching the videos will give you some perspectives from professionals on what to do or avoid. In particular, I like the advice from Dr Amina Yonis (at the very bottom of your Courses page).
ITC week 1
Today we will review for tomorrow's quizzes. Check the daily schedule for links.
As per the daily schedule, continue using the chapters (1-5: Windows and Office) linked on your Courses page to fill in your week 1 study guide.
If you haven't yet, download the Assignment instructions from ECampus. Remember you can complete the three assignments in any order; they are due the final day of the course at 4pm. Use the walkthrough demo videos on your Courses page to complete the assignments.
ITC week 2
Continue with study guide 2 and your assignments. Check the blog for the bonus quiz study guide; the answers are embedded in the Talkthrough 6+7 and 8+9 videos. Remember there is a Review video on the Lectures tab which I will assign tomorrow.
KBD
Continue with Typing Club and other practice. You do not need to complete all activities in Typing Club - start with the placement exam and then complete as many as you can - prioritize accuracy and the speed will come. Take the tests tomorrow to check your scores. Please include your average speed and accuracy results in today's progress email so I have an idea of what's needed to help you achieve your goal. (Minimum passing is 30WPM without errors; MLA is aiming for 50WPM.)
MSE, MSW, MSP, BCA
Continue with Pearson. Please join me in office hour if you have any activities for which you'd like to discuss the template grade so I can pull up your account and we can go through your file together. Remember the simulations are not for marks and are often fussy. If you are having trouble accessing Pearson, please send me a screenshot. I will be updating your settings today if they are not yet set - you will have unlimited attempts for the simulations, five for graders, and three for grader "exams."
OSK week 1
Continue with your assignment booklet, downloadable from your Courses page. These are in-class exercises, and do not need to be as perfect as a project for which you are given more time. I suggest you begin filling in your study guide as you progress through the material, making notes of any questions or confusion. You can send these queries as emails, chat with me during office hours, and/or wait as we will discuss everything the Thursday before your exam.
Remember you take the exam in your second week of OSK. It's your choice whether you present in your first or second week, but typically students choose the penultimate day of class.
OSK week 2
If you are presenting tomorrow, use today to finish your slides and practice. If you haven't already, check out some of the resources on the PowerPoint Courses page - particularly, there's a video called "How to avoid death by PowerPoint" which I strongly suggest. Remember the grading rubric is on your Courses page to download as is a video demo and example slides.
If you have already presented, focus on the study guides for Friday's exam. To fill them in, read through the PPT files on the OSK Courses page. If you need more information on a subject, refer to your textbook (upper right corner of your Course page on ECampus). Today and tomorrow, use the Practice Midterm and Practice Final to see what sort of mark you'll get on the exam; check your answers with the Review videos on the Lectures tab.
PSK
Continue with the Daily Schedule. You should be working with your teammate(s) on your presentation. Make sure to check out the presentation rubric. I will drop into each group's meeting today to check in.
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