This week is week 1 of the spring semester. You should submit your weekly update for the short time since the orientation meeting by the end of the day today. (The subject line should read: Your last name, Update 1.)
Complete the following reading this week:
1. The first section of the Thinking Workshop, Thinking About Being a Student. I will start a discussion thread in Blackboard today, so please complete it today or tomorrow. Please make your initial response by no later than Wednesday. You may, of course, continue to carry on the discussion, and you may post follow-up questions and new issues, as will I.
2. Light 1, 2, 3, & 4. We will be reading the entire book. Read chapters 1, 2, and 3 by Friday. I will post discussion questions in Blackboard by Friday. Please make your initial response no later than Saturday. I will post discussion question by the following dates this week.
1, 2, and 3
by Friday,
4 by
Sunday,
5 & 6 by Monday.
Please make your first response within two days in each case. Keep reading the new postings in all of the threads, and respond whenever you see something interesting.
Complete the following writing this week:
Discussion board postings as indicated above.
You should have completed the following reading by today:
1. Brief Overview of the Course
2. Introduction to All the Rest
3. The Rest of the Introduction
7. Books
9. DIH: 1.1 What Is an Essay?
10. DIH: 1.2 How to Get Started
11. DIH: 1.3 Choosing a Topic
You should have completed the following writing by today:
1. The Student Questionnaire and the Learning Inventory. You should have submitted these forms by today's meeting. If you have not completed them by the end of the day today, you will be dropped from the class.
2. E-mail response to the question at the end of Introduction to All the Rest. You should have submitted this before today's meeting. If you have not submitted it by the end of the day today, you will be dropped from the class.
3. Your personal introduction. Write your brief introduction and save it in Blackboard by the end of the day today.
Feel free to send me e-mail with your questions about this material.
You should have completed the following reading
since Saturday:
Thinking About Being a Student.
Looking Ahead:
The subject area for your first essay will be Learning. You have already written something about your experience of learning, in the Learning Inventory. The book we will read is specifically about college, and how to be a successful student. But the subject area for your essay is not limited to college or even to school. You may write about anything that falls under the large umbrella subject of Learning. So begin to think about potential topics as we read and discuss the book, and get started with outside research that relates to the topic you plan to write about. Please keep in mind that you must do outside reading on the topic of your choice and use outside sources in every essay you write. So please read the brief Research Tools page.
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