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Hello everyone.
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Um, I hope you and your family
are doing well,
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uh, your loved ones are doing fine.
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Um, wow, we've come to this right?
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We're transitioning to online.
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And, uh, most of your classes, I believe
at ACC they sent out an email
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that all the classes will be transitioning
to online, even those, the ones
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that they thought where you might
have to go in person and do,
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like, those hands-on kinda classes like
auto mechanics or welding.
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Uh, I think they have decided that they're
gonna go ahead and
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just bring them on to an online setting.
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So, with that being said, there's a couple
of reasons that I'm doing this video.
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Uh, and I want to first begin with
some disclaimers, if you would allow me.
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The first disclaimer is, uh, unfortunately
my air conditioner broke in my home.
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So, uh, I am sweaty, sorry,
it's just super hot in here.
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Uh, you know, so I'm also going to be
drinking a lot of water.
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I gotta stay hydrated.
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Unfortunately I have underlying
health conditions
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that I have to make sure I drink
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a lot of water and not get overheated.
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So, uh, bear with me when I'm talking
and I'm gulping down my water.
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Excuse that, I don't mean
to be rude or anything.
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Uh, also to, I'm sorry for my distraction
of pictures in the background.
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It's because I'm actually
filming in my bedroom.
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I do not have office space in my home.
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When I finished my Ph.D.,
I did away with office space.
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That was just not something that I'm real
too crazy about, because every time, for me,
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an office space, it meant school.
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So, you know, anyway, I kinda
regret that now because
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I sure could use office space.
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But anyway, uh, I don't
have an office space,
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so the best place in my home is my bedroom.
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The most, quietest place because all
my family is in the other room over there.
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And, uh, I want to try to have,
minimal distractions.
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Another disclaimer is I live
close to a military base,
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so this means I may have
airplanes flying overhead.
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So if that happens when I'm talking
I'll just turn silent,
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I'll wait for it to pass,
and then I'll continue to talk.
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Again apologies if this is not
a clear, wonderful video.
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I'm not a YouTuber.
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I am not digital anything.
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I'm just, I'm on here just for
the purpose of, um, giving
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y'all some course updates.
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And again, apologies for the distraction.
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Apologies for the lighting.
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Again, I'm just working with what I have.
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Um, a lot of you, have been emailing
and texting me and calling me
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very, very concerned.
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And I totally get that, a lot of you
are really, have anxiety, really nervous
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about going into an online setting.
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What I want to say to you is:
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You know me.
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You know what I expect from you.
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You know the assignments.
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So, the class is not a brand
new class, thank goodness.
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We've had a while together.
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So we're now in the last 7 weeks
of our course.
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So let that be a source of comfort for you.
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Uh, also too, I am always available
for you the best way I can be
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text, call me, uh, we can video chat,
whatever you're comfortable with.
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Definitely find me, look for me,
hunt me down.
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I will respond back to you.
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Give me 24 hours at least.
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I'm, I'm usually quicker at responding,
but if you can, give me 24 hours.
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Uh, and also too, I will be having
surgery this Friday but, you know,
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I will be able to get out of it
and you know,
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if you need to get in contact with me,
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I will try my best to call
you back on Friday.
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Okay?
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So, uh, I, I made this video
and I quickly learned,
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we just got a software, the faculty did,
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uh, it's called Collaborate Ultra.
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And, uh, we're having to learn it, uh,
very quickly, so I am not a guru at this
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particular software, but I at least
tried to learn how to record.
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So that's a start.
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And I wanted to give you a tour of our
course room and be able to give you some
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type of face-to-face interaction
in terms of explaining updates and
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modifications to assignments and etc.
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Okay?
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Uh, please, if you're taking other classes,
make sure you get in touch with
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your professors, read their emails,
be reading their announcements if they
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do that in Blackboard, their texts,
however they communicate with you,
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make sure that you are up on that.
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Because every professor will set up
their course room differently.
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There will be different expectations,
different modifications to assignments,
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maybe some professors will not do
any kind of modifications, that would
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depend upon the professor, okay?
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So, I tried, during this whole last week—
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I didn't have Spring Break, 'cause
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I started working on this right away.
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I really wanted to just make things very
simple for y'all, and, uh, doable.
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I didn't change the assignments, per se,
but I just wanted something that you
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could follow along without me
seeing my face and reminding you.
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So, um, I wanna begin also too with, uh,
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I can understand the anxiety
of what you're feeling.
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Um, my concerns are a couple of areas.
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One, are students who continue
battling procrastination,
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that are putting things off
to the last minute.
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Students who fail to turn in assignments.
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Students who fail to reach out to me.
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Um, they're coming to class, but they're
not turning anything in.
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If you fall into any one
of those categories,
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this is the time for you to step up.
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And really, um, dig in, and try to finish
the last 7 weeks of the course
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And so, uh, again, this means
sticking to deadlines.
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This means working ahead of time.
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I know our situations have changed for a
lot of us, especially in the job arena.
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We may have to take another job.
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Maybe our job has ended, etc.
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But please know the expectations
in terms of completing assignments
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and completing them complete complete,
not halfway, and on time,
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is still expected from you.
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And the only reason for that is I want
you all to move on forward from this class.
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Don't make this drag out longer than
you have to is what I'm saying.
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The other, the other concern
that I have are
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students that do not have
access to technology.
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So, if you're just relying on your
cell phone, I'm gonna tell you right now,
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you may have some challenges because
Blackboard sometimes has glitches
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and technical issues, especially with
the display or video such as this.
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On Blackboard, when you use, sorry,
when you use a cell phone or tablet.
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So just kind of keep that in mind.
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It's not that you can't do it, it's just
that you're going to have to allow
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yourself more time for those kinds
of weird things to happen.
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Okay?
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So make sure you keep that in mind.
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I would really, strongly recommend
a laptop or a desktop.
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Uh, Apple works pretty good.
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If you're not an Apple fan, you're
a PC fan, it's probably even better.
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I'm actually using, I'm an Apple person,
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but I'm actually using
my husband's PC laptop
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because I couldn't do Collaborate on Apple.
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So, my, point 1 for my husband
because he's always ragging on me
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to get a, uh, PC.
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So anyway, so um, so If you see me
kinda like getting frustrated
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because I'm not used to
his computer, his laptop.
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So anyway, sorry about that.
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So I'm not used to his laptop,
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so if you see me kind of
stumbling, it means that I,
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I know what I'm doing I just don't
know how to work his laptop.
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So anyway, um, just be aware
of that if you're counting.
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The other thing too is if any
of your classes, such as this one—
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I'm not gonna do a lot of videos of this
class in terms of me sharing a video
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uh, with y'all like I'm doing right now.
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This will be probably the longest video
for the rest of the semester.
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I may do a couple more,
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if I need to send you an urgent message
or something to that extent.
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But most of the time time,
I think this will be
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the longest one I ever send to y'all.
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Um, uh, be aware that other
professors may use it a lot, the video.
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It will eat your battery.
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So, uh, on your laptops, cell phones.
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I tried watching a one-hour training
online using Collaborate,
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uh, what we're using right now,
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what you're looking at right now, and
my Apple was at 100% and then by one hour
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it was down to like 20%.
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And, I did it purposely,
I didn't hook it up,
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because I wanted to see.
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So, yeah, it, it does eat up your battery,
so be very aware of that.
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Um, so make sure you are using those
things or cell phone to watch videos
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of your professors on
this Collaborate Ultra,
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that you are plugged in somewhere,
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because it will kill your battery.
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Again, like I mentioned I'm very concerned
about students that don't have access
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to internet or WiFi.
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This is gonna be the
biggest challenge for you.
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Before when I taught online I
could always tell my students cafes,
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go to the library, go to ACC campus.
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We can't do that right now,
at least for a while.
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Uh, all of us, as you know, are
under lockdown, so I want to stress,
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that I do not want this to discourage you,
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but I do need for you to reach out to me
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as all your professors are gonna want
the same thing from you.
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Please, let us know, what is going on
with you technology-wise.
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What issues are you having?
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I am not a technical guru;
that is not my area of expertise.
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However we do have the ACC Help Desk and,
uh, they will probably be backed up,
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but they will get to you if you
have some kind of question.
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But let your professor know if you can't
upload, download, reload, whatever.
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Any weirdness is happening with Blackboard,
uh, let us know, so that that way we
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know, we know something's going on.
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Uh, and you will need to contact the
Help Desk to solve it quickly.
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Do not let it drag on.
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I will, for me, I have an
alternate way for you all
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to submit things in worst-case scenario.
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But we will deal with that if
you should have trouble.
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But for me I've done this
with my students in the past.
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Those who've had issues with Wi-Fi
that failed at their home or whatever,
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internet, um, they, I, I, we,
we could still get your assignment in,
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let me put it that way.
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But anyway, for your other professors,
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they might be a little bit
more of a challenge.
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With me, I can, I can work around that.
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But let me know, okay?
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And in advance too, don't wait,
don't wait til the day it's due,
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the assignment and I
had a technical glitch.
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Let me know ahead of time, you know.
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So, um, those are the ones that
I'm kind of worried about,
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is those students that really don't
have that technology and also too,
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I will work with you, I'm gonna show you,
we're gonna do a little tour
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of our updated course room and how
you could submit assignments and
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what you see when you
open up your Blackboard.
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Okay.
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But, again, uh, I'm concerned
about my procrastinators, my,
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uh, not submitting anything.
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Uh, you guys are at a high risk and
you've gotta, uh, please know that,
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and really step up if you are
wanting to pass the course.
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Okay?
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Um, also too, the ones that have
technology issues are my concern as well.
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And again, I'll work with
you on that as well.
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So again, this, this, chat, this video,
uh, sorry it's gonna be kinda long,
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I apologize for that in advance.
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But I really, I know we haven't talked
for almost two weeks and I want
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to try to give you as much information
as I can tonight before
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I go into surgery on Friday.
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So, uh, the first thing that I
want to do is, I want to, uh,
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show you our Blackboard course room.
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If you hear that noise,
I have my fan on because,
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like I said it's super, super, um, hot.
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And, uh, I can't get anybody to come out
and check my air conditioner because
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of what's going on, so, yeah.
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That's, it's something else.
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So let me just kind of figure
out where I'm at here.
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Okay.
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So I want to show you this screen.
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I'm gonna take you to this screen and,
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and this, I'm just kinda
learning this myself.
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Bear with me.
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So let me see if I can find that.
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That location we built.
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Let me see here my entire screen
will that be it maybe?
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I want to show you this screen
but let me see if I can get it.
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I think that's what I need to do.
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Bear with me.
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Yay, I found it!
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Okay.
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So I'm gonna kinda shrink down here.
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Yes.
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You should be able to now
see what I'm looking at.
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You're more than welcome to
log in to your, um,
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you know into, your, uh,
into your own Blackboard.
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and follow along.
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Because you can rewatch
this video, uh, if you need to.
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But I first want to walk you through.
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So, you will see that again, you know
how to get into your Blackboard.
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We've done that this semester.
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So, no big deal.
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I want to show you, there's
some announcements here.
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Now again, just keep
reading those announcements.
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I will, uh, every once in a while
put up some announcements
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as I did when we were,
uh, face-to-face, right?
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So I did put up a couple of
announcements, and some of you,
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most of you, already read those.
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Uh, technical support.
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Now this, so you click on here.
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I hope.
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Sorry, my light went out on me.
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I told you.
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Let's see here.
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Okay, let me try that here.
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If you look at this right here, yeah.
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I hope I can show y'all.
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Technical questions, technical support.
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I really want you all to take time
to look through this particular, uh,
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some of you may have already done it,
and that's wonderful for those of you
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that are quick to go.
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I really want you to go through these
technical questions and determine
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if there're issues that you may have
with the technology that you have.
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Uh, if you do, here is the, ACC Help Desk.
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And you're gonna click on there
and it will take you directly
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over to their website.
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And you can definitely contact them
and work with them.
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So if you have trouble,
you don't have Java,
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or any of those kind of um, of,
what do you call them,
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software or whatever you call them,
to work with their, they work with you.
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And again, I'm not going to have a
whole lot of heavy things in this
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particular course, but Blackboard
does require some support.
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And so again, depending on your other
classes you may, make sure you have
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Adobe for instance, etc.
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Okay, so, my professor contact
information is right in here.
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It is still the same.
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You know how to text me,
how to get ahold of me,
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except I don't have office hours anymore.
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I don't have an office, obviously,
we're not on campus.
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So, um, just be aware about that.
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That I do not have office,
or office hours,
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but I am at the same number.
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You can call me, let me know
who you are, that kind of thing.
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You also have the syllabus.
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The same thing again.
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And here is, you're not going to see it,
but I'm gonna open it up,
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so that ya'll can see it in case you
go back and review this video.
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Here's Collaborate Ultra.
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Now, here's what you're gonna click on
when you're gonna watch a video.
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And I, I'm gonna stop it right here,
because I don't want it to go any further.
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But you will click on here and
you will log in to see this video, okay?
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And I'll talk a little bit
more about that because
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there's a code I gotta send you all
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and you will be able to access that video.
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The next thing, student tools.
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And I'm gonna show that link because
you're not going to see it right now
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because I have it hidden.
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Now, student tools, what I have
done with student tools, sorry,
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what I have done with student tools,
uh, again let me go
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into the view of the student.
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I'm looking at it from the
view of the professor.
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This is what you're seeing right now.
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Student tools.
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So again you have your announcements,
your calendar, your, your,
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I guess the main thing I want to look at
is your grades and your attendance.
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It's right in here in your tools, okay?
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We're gonna talk a little bit more
about grades in just a second.
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So let me exit out of here.
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Let me, [indistinct] out.
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And again it's going to go back to my view.
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OER textbooks, same place, same area,
don't have to worry about that.
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However, if you look at this OER textbook
link, for those of you or most of you,
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when you went to Blackboard
and you're trying
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to access, you know, the OER textbook,
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a lot of times, you may find that,
um, gotta open up in here,
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you may find that, um, sorry, you may
find that you get thrown out
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or that there's a glitch.
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So there is a way for you to click on
here, and you can go out of Blackboard
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and still access your OER textbook.
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So if you ever have any weirdness
that happens, while you're reading
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your OER textbook while you're inside
Blackboard, you can go back over here
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and pull up that link right here and it
will take you to outside of Blackboard.
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Okay?
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And it saves everything.
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So.
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Okay, so, I'm gonna scroll down here.
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The next thing, you're not gonna see this
because I'm gonna open it now.
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Here's the, the meat of this video, right?
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The most information.
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We're gonna click on here.
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Um, this one we're gonna
start with chapter 15.
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We only have 15-16-17 and 18, okay, to go.
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That's we've got four chapters left
aside from the other assignments.
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And I'm gonna get more into that
in a little while, okay?
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I am really wanting to give
you the grand tour.
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And so we're gonna look at chapter 15,
planning for your activities.
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You will see the deadline.
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So everything, all the activities and the
assignments associated with Chapter 15
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will be due April 14th.
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Okay?
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That is your next big date.
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Now, can I just say that every, you have
until midnight on the 14th, 11:59 pm
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to be precise, to turn everything in.
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Make sure you do not, I repeat,
wait to the last minute.
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The thing with Blackboard, folks, most,
most schools in the United States
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are going to Blackboard.
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Okay?
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Most schools K-12 and higher, we have
Canvas, it's like a Blackboard, but most
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are using Blackboard.
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So if you've got students who are like
yourself procrastinators and want to
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submit an assignment at 11:59, imagine
millions of students at the same time
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trying to submit, you run the
risk of it crashing on you.
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That, what, you know technology, right?
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It's convenient and it's great
but it, it's not,
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it's not 100% foolproof, so just make sure
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that you're not pushing your luck by
waiting to 11:59, because you run a
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real good risk of it not going through,
crashing, acting weird, etc, okay?
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There is a chance that Blackboard can
crash, but we professors get notified
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and our Blackboard will crash.
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So, uh, just know that we will let you
know if there's something going on
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in regards to that.
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So, if you look on here, it, it
tells you about Activity 1.
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You're gonna read your
OER chapter in textbook.
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So you're gonna read your chapter,
you're gonna read chapters now,
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I've taken out the power points
because that's for lecture and
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I'm not gonna be lecturing.
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So, um, you can
read the chapter.
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And then you're going to
review the presentation
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on FOCUS 2 and you're gonna find that.
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So you kinda scroll down.
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I'll let you in your own time
read all of that stuff.
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But let's just go down here and it kind
of tells you what you're going to get
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out of chapter 15.
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And then as you keep going down it tells
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you the first activity
you're gonna read.
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Second activity you're gonna, uh, get the
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Career Exploration Presentation
and Directions.
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You're gonna click on here, okay?
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And it's going to download.
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Now if you have any issues where you can't
download it or something, let me know,
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I can try and do a PDF file
of this to send to you.
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And I may, I may just go ahead
and do that with a PDF file.
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But, we'll, I'll see in just a second.
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But anyway, you click on that, and
it'll open up to a Power Point.
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Okay?
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And that will give you the
presentation on FOCUS 2.
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Now, um, I want to say something
before I forget,
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and I know it's a lot of information
that I'm talking about.
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So again I'm recording this video
and you can more than welcome to
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go back and listen to it again and again.
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With FOCUS 2, if for some of you
who have taken EDUC1300 before,
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and you failed it, and this is your
second or third time taking the class,
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not with me, but with any
of the other professors,
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you might have already
done a FOCUS 2 assignment
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and you may run into problems,
with, um, setting up your user name,
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or you forgotten your
user name or password.
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There is a way to reset that,
but if you're still having problems,
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I want to suggest you go talk to a,
uh, your AOS adviser and let them
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know you're having trouble logging in
and, uh, they will reset it for you.
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But that requires you to get
working on this ahead of time,
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because you don't know.
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Okay, so then the next activity
is FOCUS 2 the actual assignment.
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You're gonna download it right in
here and you'll start working on it.
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I don't mind if you write out this
assignment, just as long as you've
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got very nice handwriting.
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You can print.
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But if you have handwriting issues,
may I suggest you type out your answers.
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You don't have to type it on the form,
you can type it in a Word document
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and just submit that.
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Like number 1, type out the
question and then the answer.
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Okay?
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And then you can watch some
YouTube videos when you click on here.
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Again, you're gonna be sent
directly to the YouTube video.
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Activity 5, ah,
Journal Assignments, right?
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So, on here, the journal assignments—
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I made some modifications to that and
I'll talk about that in just a little bit.
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But we will not do 7 entries for
the second round of journals.
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We're only gonna do 2 and
each one will be worth 25 points.
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So they don't lose the value.
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Remember round 1 the journal
was worth 50 points.
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Round 2 will be worth 50 points
as well, except in Round 2, you're
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only gonna have two journal entries.
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For those of you who are working ahead
and you've already done your journals,
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please submit 'em.
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I do not do this, okay?
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But for those of you that have not,
then follow directions here on Blackboard.
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I want to click on one of these links
because I kind of want to show you, uh,
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let me click on the journal assignment.
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Anything that has an underline,
you're gonna click on.
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Okay?
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So, you will see the due date
and you will see the points.
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Remember this
is just one journal.
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Twenty-five points.
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You're gonna have another journal
and it'll be worth 25 points
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for a total of 50 points, okay?
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And that's gonna be Round 2.
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So, you will see here where it says
write submission, this does give you
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the option you want for those of you
who do not have a clue about online,
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have never taken an online course.
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You can write out your journal
and submit it that way.
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But, especially those that don't
have Word at home, but let me suggest,
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let me tell you this,
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the problem with that is,
if you get up or get distracted,
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it may log you out and you've lost it.
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So if you know you're gonna sit down and
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you're gonna finish it and
make sure you save it,
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you may wanna copy and paste
it to some kind of a,
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you know a, some kind of a,
not if you don't
-
have Word, but maybe some kind of other,
uh, software where you wanna
-
you know, spellcheck and a
ll that kinda good stuff.
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But I would be saving this.
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I would not be leaving it open and walking
away because it can close down on you
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and you lost it, so, uh,
be aware about that.
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Again, this is for students that really,
are gonna sit down and they're gonna,
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they're gonna spell, copy and paste it,
and they're gonna spellcheck and wrote
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within 30 minutes or an hour kinda thing.
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Uh, I would write it.
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But if you don't like that, then I would
just go ahead and type it in a Word
-
document like you've been doing, or
any other kind of software that you use
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for writing out documents.
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And I would just go browsing
through my computer and upload it.
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And once you browse through your computer,
you, you can look to see where, um,
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you know, you're you're document is.
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You can, you don't, like what you do.
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You click on it, you attach it.
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All that kinda good stuff.
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And then you're gonna hit submit.
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Okay?
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Alrighty.
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And if you're ever unsure, you're
like, did it got through?
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Text me, call me.
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I'll look it up.
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You know, don't just assume because,
you know, technology is one of the great
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um, can be a headache, right?
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Okay.
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So I'm just gonna back
over here and cancel this
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and jump back over here.
-
Okay, so, um, each of your chapters
are going to be called like
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"Chapter 16: Planning," you
know, that kind of thing.
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You get activities and I'll
show you the next module.
-
Let me just stress this.
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So, the first one is due April 14th
with all its little activities.
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Make sure that you do
adhere to the deadline.
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This is gonna be part of your
attendance and participation grade.
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I'm not gonna have you posting to
discussion boards or anything like that.
-
But, uh, because some professors
do that to count that as your attendance.
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I'm going to look at you
completing your activities, okay?
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And your participation grade.
-
Remember we had the
library assignment, okay?
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These activities are gonna not
replace the library assignment,
-
but they're gonna replace
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the career portfolio because
we're not gonna do that.
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And some other assignment I had
for you all, I forgot what it was,
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but it's gonna replace that.
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So, make sure you do
these activities because
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it will count toward your attendance
and participation grade.
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And make sure you do it on time.
-
The next thing I want to say,
make sure you do it on time, because
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if, when this deadline passes,
this module has closed.
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You cannot get back to it.
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It's finished.
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And, uh, whatever you
didn't turn in, it's a zero, okay?
-
So be very, very careful of that.
-
So I'm gonna take you to the next,
uh, little module here.
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I'm gonna show the link because
you're not going to see it right now.
-
Let me just kinda scroll down again.
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Now you see, I, I, skipped chapter 16.
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I'm gonna, It's gonna come after 17.
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And it was because, that's the
way it was in the syllabus
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and i didn't want ya'll to, um,
I didn't want to change
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a whole lot of things because
I know it's overwhelming,
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the transition in itself.
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So we're gonna jump to chapter 17,
diversity and cultural competencen—
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competency, uh, unit lesson plan.
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And you click on there
the same thing, like chapter 15.
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You're gonna have, uh, you know,
your activities listed.
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This deadline for everything is April 21st.
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So, every week, if you notice the
date if you look at a calendar,
-
every week something is going
to be due from here on out, okay?
-
until we finish the semester.
-
So, um, you will see that and again, uh,
you're going to click on these
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that have lines, you're
gonna click because
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it's gonna take you to somewhere.
-
And there is activity 3.
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Your journal assignment again.
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Same thing like chapter 15.
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And this will be your last
journal entry, worth 25 points.
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Together number 15 and 17
will be 50 points.
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And that's the end of that.
-
Again, that's for those students
that have not begun their journals.
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Those who have already
done them, submit those.
-
So then the next thing I'm
gonna show this link, 'cause there,
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these are hidden links here.
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This, the next one your gonna have after
chapter 17, is managing your mental
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and physical health.
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All the activities are gonna be listed.
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It, it, it's the same thing.
-
There's, there's nothing that I changed
or made too different.
-
And so again, you've got April 28th.
-
If you notice, the last, uh, unit activity,
everything's due on the 21st.
-
You've got 7 days to turn
everything for chapter 16.
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And the activities are light,
they're not heavy.
-
So it just means you just, maybe,
maybe two hours tops.
-
depending how much
interruptions you have, uh.
-
It shouldn't take you very long
to do those activities.
-
Okay?
-
And again, the next and
final chapter for the course,
-
is going to be chapter 18, oh, sorry,
-
chapter 18, which is managing
your money, and same thing, guys,
-
next due date May 5th before midnight.
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And this one has a self-change
project to that.
-
Okay?
-
So, don't worry.
-
Like, for example, chapter 17, uh,
I think that, chapter 16, sorry,
-
there's your learning profile in there.
-
So all of the major assignments,
they're gonna be, they're
-
they're gonna, they're gonna
fit into each unit plan.
-
So that's the next major assignment,
the learning profile paper.
-
Uh, that's like worth
100 points and all that.
-
That's gonna be in chapter 16.
-
And, in, uh, chapter 18, will be
the self-change project.
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And then, uh, chapter, uh, 15
will be the FOCUS 2.
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So all activities counting towards
attendance and, and presen,
-
uh, attendance and, uh, participation
-
and, uh, any major assignments they're
all gonna be inside one of those chapters.
-
Okay, so, once you read it, you go through
it, you know, you complete everything,
-
you not only completed toward
your attendance and participation,
-
you've already completed towards
the major assignments, okay?
-
So, I didn't want to separate a lot of
that out, I just wanted to
-
build it into each of these units.
-
Okay?
-
So again, you will no longer see this once
the date has passed, it will close off.
-
Close off.
-
Close off.
-
Each time the date passes.
-
Okay?
-
Now, the next thing that I,
because I'm still working on this,
-
by the time you see this video,
they'll be ready to go.
-
Um, you see your co-curricular assignment,
a lot of you have
-
been really, um, calling me and
saying "I'm worried about this,"
-
you know, "what happened?"
-
Of course, the campus closed, and
now we are on complete lockdown
-
from the campus until the 13th of April.
-
So, everything has been cancelled,
even then, even if it were to reopen
-
uh, we wouldn't go back to the classroom,
we're gonna continue the rest
-
of the semester uh, online.
-
So, you know, we're not going to see each
other anymore in the class, okay?
-
Uh, and, in terms of the campuses
being open, it will be til April 13th and
-
that might still be limited.
-
And it may not open on the 13th, depending
on all this, uh, stuff that's going on.
-
Okay, so, all what ACC, ACC, excuse me,
has done is cancelled everything
-
for the rest of the semester.
-
So, for those of you who did have a chance
but you just haven't written it out
-
write it and submit it.
-
You have, you know, get that over with.
-
And remember you've got until May 5th.
-
But, I would just go ahead and knock it
out if you can, get credit for that.
-
For the rest of you that
didn't get a chance,
-
and I get it because you've gotta work
-
and you just didn't have the time, etc.,
-
you can choose one of these, uh,
one of these things here,
-
choices here, click on the website,
I've got the questions,
-
everything, the assignment
is still the same.
-
You're gonna answer the same question,
-
everything on the test or
the assignment by the way.
-
So, um, again, some of you have it,
some of you don't.
-
It's, it's here.
-
So, again, if you decided to go
to the website for academic coaches,
-
or experiential learning, or, uh,
career services, or money management,
-
whatever you choose, you're just
gonna do the assignment for one of those.
-
You're gonna explore the website, okay?
-
In an ideal situation, you would be
attending those events because
-
all of these offices sponsor
on campus events.
-
But unfortunately, uh, you know, the situation.
-
So, the next thing that I'm here,
I'm gonna open up again,
-
you're gonna see is, extra credit.
-
My computer is getting super hot.
-
Whenever your video is,
uh, it gets super hot.
-
So be careful on that too.
-
Make sure that your laptop is kept cool
because that fan will just
-
working overtime.
-
So, you have extra credit.
-
Some of you have been asking about that.
-
Again, all extra credit, just like
in the syllabus, is due May 5th.
-
I did not change the due dates
on assignments.
-
If you kind of look at it closely, you'll
see they still follow the syllabus, okay?
-
So extra credit and the uh,
co-curricular, they're due on the 5th.
-
So extra credit, I gave you some choices,
some little activities to do.
-
Just choose one, um,
and it's worth 10 points.
-
Okay?
-
And so, again, again
you've got your choices.
-
And if you click, let's say you want to
do how to get the most out of studying,
-
you may click on here.
-
You see the due date, the points.
-
You can write the submission,
or you can attach it.
-
And again, sorry, I'm gonna cancel this.
-
The assignment is still the same.
-
Write in here, how to get the
most out of studying.
-
You can download that and
read it, but the questions are,
-
are pretty much the same
-
And the questions are going
to be right up in here.
-
So, right in here, and you can see,
-
choose one of the videos to briefly
summarize, a half-page reflection
-
that includes the main points
in the video and etc., etc.
-
So, you know, again, read through all
of this choose the one that you,
-
you find most interesting.
-
We will have a final exam.
-
Uh, that will be down in here.
-
But I haven't, I've gotta work on that one.
-
And uh, it's gonna be, of course,
something you submit online, okay?
-
It's not gonna be, it's gonna be
different from the midterm.
-
So, uh, don't worry too much about that.
-
Be more concerned about
meeting the deadlines
-
and turning everything in.
-
Again, if you know you're, uh, running
the risk of failing the course,
-
you might have the opportunity
to turn things around.
-
But, the last day to drop I believe
is April 27th; I'm not too sure.
-
But anyway, you want to check
with your adviser on that.
-
Okay folks, that looks, that is our
tour of our Blackboard course room.
-
So let me bring myself back up here.
-
So let's see if you see me now.
-
And if not, I'm still in the corner here.
-
Let me see if I can.
-
Okay, yay!
-
I'm back.
-
So, again, if you don't understand
how to submit, or you got,
-
please rewatch that video because
I did go through that, but if you still
-
have questions or concerns,
reach out to me.
-
Do not wait til the last minute.
-
I think that's my biggest thing
that I can tell ya'll is:
-
Really get on the ball.
-
Every week some, each unit will be due
each week, is what I'm saying.
-
So, uh, just know you have something due.
-
And so, uh, make sure, uh, that you get
on the ball and wrap those things up.
-
Okay, so, woo, it is hot in here.
-
So, let's see here.
-
I think the next thing that I want to
talk about, goodness, goodness, goodness.
-
I think that's it.
-
So, um, course updates.
-
I wonder if I should do a
separate video for that,
-
because I know this one is pretty long.
-
Okay, let me, go ahead and do that here.
-
Again, I hate making.
-
I don't like to make long videos,
but sometimes you do have to do that,
-
so let me see if I can get you
back up to sharing this.
-
I hope I can do that.
-
But I don't know.
-
Let's see.
-
Oops.
-
Maybe I'll just cover my face,
will that work.
-
Can you see?
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No.
-
Ah, there it is.
-
Okay, so I'm gonna share that.
-
I'm still seeing myself, I'm still seeing
myself, that's not good.
-
Hmm, hmm...
-
Okay so you're looking at my, you
should be, you should be seeing my screen.
-
Let me see if I can get to that.
-
Apologies, apologies.
-
Okay.
-
Okay, so, when you go
down to student tools,
-
when you want to look at your grades,
-
I don't, uh...
-
This may be a little confusing and
I don't want y'all to get too confused,
-
I think what you really need to look
at are things that are
-
being graded or rather, even submitted.
-
You can look at upcoming but that's
gonna be a little weird because
-
that's gonna seem like there's a lot,
there's gonna be a repeat of assignments,
-
because I set up Blackboard, so for
example, you're gonna see, see like, that,
-
this is the original up here.
-
This stuff is original.
-
But if you scroll down,
you're gonna see it again.
-
And this is not, meant to freak you
out or confuse you by any means,
-
What I want to point out is this
shows you the value of each,
-
now, when, I'm not counting this,
so please uh, I don't really want,
-
you to get too confused on this,
-
But you probably have an
idea what I'm talking about.
-
This is the original up
here, so simple
-
when we were face-to-face, right?
-
But, now that I've added
this to a course room, um,
-
I've had to re-put the assign—
-
like, I had to put it again.
-
So, just know that we are still operating
on the same grading system and so forth.
-
Uh, let me just mention real
quick, and I may make a, I think I'm
-
gonna stop right here and make a
separate video on the grading system.
-
In terms of, of, the dashes
that you see here.
-
I think you're going
to see some dashes
-
if I can stop this, yeah, like right here,
-
don't think it's not worth anything,
again you need to do that activity
-
to count towards your attendance
and participation grade.
-
Just know that if you do
everything, you will get
-
the full credit for attendance
and participation.
-
Okay?
-
So, I, I didn't want to add
values to that because,
-
if I did, it would throw everything off
-
and make you extra confused.
-
So, everything's still the same.
-
So let me, let me get out of here.
-
Let me make a separate video on,
uh, uh, grading and everything.
-
So I'm going to go ahead and close this.
-
Okay I'm back again.
-
I'm gonna stop recording.
-
Uh, I will make, I will upload another
video just talking about the modifications
-
to the assignments, the grading
system, and all that.
-
Okay?
-
So thanks for your patience.