Course Introduction
In class:
This week serves as an introductory session to the course and the hybrid format for instruction. It presents “standard content” for a first meeting for a college course and prepares the student for academic success.
- Welcome
- Student attendance sheet verification
- Student introductions (name, employment, and hobby)
- Syllabus review (updates via Google Docs)
- Available online (print if you would like a hardcopy)
- The after game highlights:
- Office hours: by appointment
- Textbook: None
- Supplies: USB Drive and/or Dropbox account
- Grading: 1000 points possible, standard grading scale applies
- Late assignments are not accepted
- No additional credit
- Attend class regularly
- No cheating or plagiarism
- Mobile phone off
- Computers off
- No children in the classroom
- Students will contact the instructor using the Blackboard Messages system
- Select a course from the Blackboard main page
- Click Tools | Communications from the left-hand menu
- Select Messages on the Communications page
- Course schedule review (updates via Google Docs)
- Available online (print if you would like a hardcopy)
- Highlights:
- 16-week course with some in class and some online
- Breakdown of in class and online sessions
- Assignments listed with points possible
- Safety discussion
- Using Blackboard (the college’s course management system)
- Faculty information
- Syllabus and course schedule
- Discussion boards
- Assessments
- Closed assignments
- Gradebook
- Using http://www.stevencombs.com (the instructor’s personal web page)
- Faculty information
- Faculty information
- Syllabus and course schedule
- Lecture notes
- Lecture presentations
- Open assignments
- Supplemental resources
- Discussion: Why do we need to learn about information technology as it relates to agricultural data management?
Online:
The online portion of this hybrid course will familiarize students with the college’s course management system and allow the instructor to determine the level of student information technology knowledge.
- Discussion: Our First Discussion (10 Points)
- Log-in to Blackboard
- Select the appropriate course
- Select the Discussion button on the course left-hand menu
- Read the instructions/rubric
- Select the Our First Discussion link
- Select the +Thread button to begin
- Information technology proficiency survey (20 Points)
- Log-in to Blackboard
- Select the appropriate course
- Select the Assessments button on the course left-hand menu
- Select the Information Technology Pre-Test link
- Read the instructions
- Begin the survey