| Week 2: Mission |
| Our mission this week is
to continue to develop our abilities to interact in a virtual environment,
experiment with the options for managing and using email, explore some
Internet tools that relate to electronic mail use, and to begin to think
about the process of preparing for research by thinking more about who
we are. |
| Class Meeting: January
24, 2001 |
| This week we will meet online
at DU (from wherever you want to connect from - home, lab - I'll be in
my office). If you plan to connect to the MOO from home, make sure
you can connect before class next week since class will start promptly
at 4:00 pm. Plan to stay for the full class time. Review the
document below before class time:
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| Assignment 1.2.1:
Reading -
Email |
Everyone has different experiences
and expertise with email. Below are some sites you can check out
to increase your knowledge and understanding of email.
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read A
Beginner's Guide to Effective Email (make sure that you choose
each of the links across the top of this page to read all of the information
available - the links are: Introduction, What Makes Email Different?,
Context, Format, Page Layout, Intonation, Gestures, Status, Formality,
Greetings and Signatures, Summary)
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read The
Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette, by Arlene Rinaldi
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read The
Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette, by Arlene Rinaldi
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readLEARN
THE NET: How E-mail Works
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read LEARN
THE NET: Step by Step: Sending an E-mail Message
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read LEARN
THE NET: Understanding E-mail Addresses
Pay particular attention
to these!!!!
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| Assignment 1.2.2:
Online Journal |
| Continue your online journal.
Sometime between Monday and Wednesday of next week, send your weekly observation
to the personal online archive/journal. Information about the address
for your online journal can be found in Assignment
1.1.6.
Due: January 22, 2001-
January 24, 2001 |
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| Assignment 1.2.3: MOO
Reflection |
| Read the transcript (from
our January 17 MOO class) and the transcript that came from your small
group (these were mailed to the class list). Consider your
reaction to the MOOing experience as it happened and your reaction after
the experience (and after reading the transcript). Write a reflection
about what happened during our MOO class. Pay particular attention
to the differences you perceived before and after reading the transcript
and to communicative exchanges/strategies that took place during the session.
Send to:cd315-spr01-list@marshall.edu
Subject line:
Assignment 1.2.3: MOO Reflection |
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| Assignment 1.2.4: World
Wide Web - Finding People |
| There are a number of resources
available on the web to help you locate both the physical locations of
individuals and their email addresses. Visit the sites given below.
Try to locate an individual (perhaps someone that you went to school with,
your first grade teacher, the author of one of your textbooks, etc.). Write
to the class list and describe your searching experience.
Send to: cd315-spr01-list@marshall.edu
Subject line: Assignment
1.2.4: Finding People
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| Assignment 1.2.5: Personal
History |
Read the document listed
below.
http://www.marshall.edu/commdis/courses/315/personalhx.htm
Respond to the following prompt
by sending email to the class list (include the prompt in your message):
Why do you want
to become a speech-language pathologist? What was it about being
a speech-language pathologist drew you to this profession?
Send to: cd315-spr01-list@marshall.edu
Subject line: Assignment
1.2.5: Personal History |
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| Assignment 1.2.6: Personal Values |
Read the document listed
below.
http://www.marshall.edu/commdis/courses/315/personalhx.htm
Respond to the following prompt
by sending email to the class list (include the prompt in your message):
What were some
of the values and attitudes toward education expressed in your family?
How have these influenced your thinking and your practice (as a student)?
Send to: cd315-spr01-list@marshall.edu
Subject line: Assignment
1.2.6: Personal Values |
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| Assignment 1.2.7: Read and Reflect
(think) |
| Interview at least two people
(family members, old schoolmates, or former teachers). Ask them what
they remember about you as a student. Encourage them to recall specific
events or stories that stand out in their minds about you.
In an email message to the
class, tell us who you interviewed and their relationship to you.
Include a summary of the results of your interview and a conclusion about
what you learned about yourself as a student/learner from your interviews.
Send to: cd315-spr01-list@marshall.edu
Subject line: Assignment
1.2.7: Interviews
[NOTE: Due to
the nature of this particular assignment, you will have 3 weeks to complete
this assignment, making it due on February 7, 2001.] |
