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"Dr. Paul A. French" <[log in to unmask]>
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Teaching Breakfast List <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 5 Jun 2006 10:46:27 -0400
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Jim:

Here're a few ideas:

Email:
1) How and why to check it, and how often. (Daily, or set up an
auto-response indicating when a person will be back.)
2) Email do's and don't's, including etiquette. (This could be a 1 page
list?)

Would MS Word and Excel introductions be too much?

I wonder whether there should be a technology placement test (and
associated required mini-courses for students who don't test out) for
incoming students. Before they get too far into my courses, some of
which are offered to first-year students, I would like them all to be
fairly competent at using a computer keyboard, web searching, email,
Blackboard, MSWord (including equations), and Excel (and maybe
PowerPoint). In addition, I would like students to be more aware of the
huge disparity in technological background/abilities among students,
faculty, and staff.

(Btw, I still haven't been able to bring myself to require that students
use Blackboard and/or email for communication, since I always have some
very good students who strongly resist these technologies.)

Getting students to know when, where, and how to ask for help, and to
actually do it is a great goal.

Thanks,
Paul

Paul A. French
Associate Professor and Chair, Physics and Astronomy Department
SUNY College at Oneonta
Room 120 E, Physical Science Building
Oneonta, NY 13820

607-436-3358
607-436-2654 (fax)
917-797-9755 (cell)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Teaching Breakfast List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf
> Of Jim Greenberg
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 9:04 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Freshman Orientation to Technology
> 
> Tbers,
> 
> I was recently asked to do a technology orientation for our incoming
EOP
> students.  This got me to thinking about what our incoming students
need
> to
> know.  Here is my list.  Comments?
> 
> Orientation to Blackboard
> Where the computer labs for students are located and their hours
> What is Print Quota and how much do they have (how to get more)
> The student Computer Help Desk... where it is and what they do
> Turnitin authentication paper checking service
> 
> What else do you think they should know about?
> 
> 
> Mr. James B. Greenberg
> Director Teaching, Learning and Technology Center
> Milne Library
> SUNY College at Oneonta
> Oneonta, New York 13820
> 
> email: [log in to unmask]
> phone: 607-436-2701
> fax:   607-436-3081
> IM:  oneontatltc
> 
> "Ignorance is curable, stupidity lasts forever"

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