Today's meetings
8.30am - morning meeting - all students
10am - CES peer workshop - breakout room
10am - all courses study groups - breakout rooms
11am - office hour - main room - drop ins until noon
Everybody:
Midweek is a good time to check your schedules (and the Monday post) to confirm if your course lasts one or two weeks. As per the Lab Policies document, all of your assignments are due the final Friday of your course at 4pm. Refer to the Policies document and the welcome video for my policies regarding late submissions, extensions, and academic integrity. I have resources for writing, citing, etc which do not violate integrity - these are linked at the bottom of the Citations tab.
If you are experiencing any issues with accounts, software, etc, please let me know with screenshots. See this post if you need further instruction: https://caitlinbaird1.wixsite.com/thelab/post/technical-difficulties-what-to-do
Please watch the Wednesday video and come prepared with your questions to the morning meeting at 8.30.
Read this post if you haven't before: https://caitlinbaird1.wixsite.com/thelab/post/how-do-i-know-what-to-do-today
I strongly encourage you to connect with your classmates, be it those in your program cohort or simply in your course this week. If you request membership to this site, you can use the Forums for this purpose. Otherwise I suggest exchanging emails or handles for whichever apps you like - Whatsapp is popular for study groups, as are Facebook Groups.
Course-specific instructions:
SSS, BC-PRD - free work: citation assignment; Enriched Academy. Remember this is a one week,
pass/fail course, with both the certificate from Enriched Academy and your citation assignment due at 4pm Friday.
Yesterday you were assigned the three lecture videos. A recap of your citation assignment:
- one topic of your choice
- must involve research, of course
- can be persuasive (with a thesis) or can be purely informative (report style)
- approx 500 words, not including quotations
- minimum five sources, any type of media (books, websites, videos...)
- an APA citations page (bibliography*) which includes all five sources
- minimum of two quotations incorporated into your own writing
- minimum of one clearly attributed paraphrase
- APA in-text citations for all quotations and paraphrased information
- no block quotes (unintegrated quotes; three lines or longer)
- does not need to use or include APA style for other formatting elements
*Note that a bibliography, a citations page, and a references page are all the same thing, just different names.
B1075R - continue with your responses, Mystery Shopper assignment, and study guide. Remember the responses are meant to be reflections, not formal essays. I'm interested in your thoughts and connections. Join the 10am Zoom to study with your classmates.
CES - today is the peer workshop. Make sure you email your master ad, cover letter, and resume before the 10am meeting. You need to connect with your peers today. Your job today is to read your peers' work and provide thoughtful feedback. Compare the resume and cover letter to the master ad. Is there anything important missing? Is it easy to read and understand? Are the experiences listed appropriate for the field? Watch the various videos on resumes and cover letters on the lab site; you can apply these tips to your edits. All the resources on your Courses page are clearly labeled. Also, this post: https://caitlinbaird1.wixsite.com/thelab/post/ces-how-to-pitch-unrelated-experience
In the DropBox, check out the document "resume example 1" which has the green text box at the bottom. The comments in the green text box are examples of pros, cons, and suggestions. Use this as a guide for the type of feedback you are to provide for your classmates. Write out your feedback in a separate document and email it to me by the end of class. You should have comments prepared for 11am. At 10am, join me on Zoom. I'll put you in a breakout room to discuss your work with each other. I will give you my feedback either during this meeting or at the beginning of tomorrow's class.
To recap: email your master ad, cover letter, and resume if you haven't yet. Read through your peers' work and write down your feedback. After the workshop, email your written feedback for your peers. See the "Notes on CES" video and document for submission guidelines.
ITC week 1 - As per the suggested daily schedule, continue using the chapters (1-5) linked on your Courses page to fill in your week 1 study guide. Use the talkthrough videos to help focus your attention, as the PDF chapters are quite long. At 10, I am going to put you all in a breakout room so you can check each other's work. When you've found the answers, watch the ITC Review 1 video on the Lectures tab. Towards the end of tomorrow's class, we will have a meeting to discuss the material during which I will answer any questions you had, so please write down your questions as you progress through the material.
If you haven't yet, download the Assignment instructions from ECampus. Remember you can complete the three assignments in any order. Use the walkthrough demo video on your Courses page to complete the Excel assignment.
For SSW students only: Because you usually do not have a class on Friday, I have made your first two bonus quizzes available today on ECampus. These cover modules 1-5 with "surprise" questions (aka different from the study guide). Remember you can retake the quizzes 24 hours after initially completing them.
Tomorrow, you will take your first exam. Immediately after tomorrow's attendance meeting, we will have time for a review Q&A to make sure you feel prepared. Your exams are worth 30% each. You may only take the exams once each - see the VaCC Policies document or email me for details.
Before the 10am study group, please watch the ITC Review 1 video on the Lectures tab of this site and finish filling in your study guide.
ITC week 2 - continue with study guide 2 and your assignments. Join the 10am Zoom for study group.
KBD - continue with Paradigm if that's working for you; continue in Typing Club. I will update you with new tests today (see yesterday's post).
MSE, MSW, MSP - continue with Pearson. If you are having trouble accessing Pearson, please send me a screenshot.
OSK week 1 - continue with your assignment booklet, downloadable from your Courses page. Remember there is a video on the Lectures tab which gives an overview of the expectations from the booklet. 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 guides (downloadable from your Courses page, labeled "Practice Midterm" and "Practice Final." As you progress through the material, make 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.
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. 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 Review videos on the Lectures tab - in these, I go through the study guides and the answers. 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.
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