Hello and welcome to Geography 310: introduction to human geography!
Once the semester has begun you'll use Canvas, but for now here's some information about the class.
You can find the syllabus at Geog 310 syllabus
Here's the course textbook.
The entire class is online. Each week you'll have reading assignments, videos to watch, discussion posts, and quizzes to take. Exams will be online as well.
Your first assignment will be posted to on Canvas Saturday January 14th. Your first assignment is due Wednesday January 19th.
If you have not used Canvas, the district's learning management software, I highly recommend signing up for the tutorial self-paced class. While you won't be able to access THIS class in Canvas until Saturday January 14th, you can get started on the tutorial class NOW: https://lrccd.instructure.com/enroll/LY89B6
Here are some cool geography links in case you can't wait for the semester to start:
Here's a playlist of some introductory videos about geography: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLksMcZdaPcZ352Pj8oQiVzbxsaYbW4ekV
https://earth.nullschool.net/ Animated real-time map of wind/temperature/clouds. Go play around with it.
https://www.google.com/earth/ Click on the button that says "Launch Earth" in the lower left. It will open a new tab and you can use Google Earth without installing anything.
https://maps.nwcg.gov/sa/#/%3F/%3F/38.4843/-121.48/10 Real-time fire map. Legend button is in the lower left, options are upper left.