Week 1

Agenda Learning community building Course overview

Know you, know me

Shufang Shi

Developing a Goose Sense of Community The Goose Story

This springwhen you see geese

heading north for the summerflying along in a "V" formation, you

might be interested in knowing what sciencehas discovered about why they fly that way. It

has been learned that as each bird flaps itswings, it creates an uplift for the bird immediately

following. By flying in a "V" formation, the whole flock adds at least 71%

greater flying range than if each bird flew on

its own.

People who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they are going quicker and easier, because they are traveling on the thrust of one another.

Whenevera goose falls out

of formation, it suddenlyfeels the drag and resistance

of trying to go it alone, and quicklygets into formation to take advantage of the

lifting power of the bird immediately in front. (Ifwe have as much sense as a goose, we will stay

in formation with those who are headed thesame way we are going.) When the lead goose

gets tired, she rotates back in the wing andanother goose flies point. (It pays to take turns

doing hard jobs - with people or with geeseflying north.) The geese honk from behind to

encourage those up front to keep up theirspeed. (What do we say when we honk from

behind?)

Finally(Now I want

you to get this),when a goose gets sick,

or is wounded by gun shotsand falls out, two geese fall out of

formation and follow him down to help andprotect him. They stay with him until he is

eitherable to fly or until he is dead, and then they

launch out on their own or with anotherformation to catch up with the group.

(If we have the sense of a goose, we will stand by each other like that.)

Class NormsA Goose Sense of Community

Sharing Supportive Positive

Class Norms: sharing

What to share: any technical skills you recently discovered

A cool website: http://www.bitbetter.com/samples/animations.htm

A cool web design detail/trickA small trick: right clickA big trick: screen shot

Become Sharing and Supportive Tell each other how proficient you are at

using computers and programs. Learn a computer trick/tip from your

partner.

EDU314 Course Website http://web.cortland.edu/shis/314

Required

Classroom Guidelines and Expectations Bring with you a positive attitude to this

classroom; Be punctual; No email or IM on class; Refrain from side-conversation during

demonstration time; Never feel ashamed of not knowing a

thing, always feel free to ask for help from both peers and the instructor.

Teaching Assistants 3-4 TAs

Qualifications Empathy Patience Knowledgeable ??? (brainstorm from class)

Responsibilities Help the class during class time demonstration; Provide out of class help to classmates in the format of an informal study group; Inform the instructor about project progress and provide suggestions at the beginning of each

class? Write weekly/biweekly reflective journals (reports)

Who you helped with what What are the challenges for both you and the peers that you helped with

??? (brainstorm from class)

Rewards An official letter certifying your service as a teaching assistant in this computer technology

class. Appended to the letter will be a list of the abilities, skills, and attributes you developed during

your assistantship. Bonus credits for the journals Appreciation/recognition from the class ??? ??? (brainstorm from class)

The Letter for Your Teaching Assistantship

Next Class Course Overview Windows basics

Desk Top Magics

Desk Top Magics – Properties

Title Bar Menu Bar Tool Bar Main Window

Task Bar

Practice – save, save as, document and program

1. make a folder on the desktop. Create a .txt document and name it joke.txt and save it in the folder you just created.

2. Revise the document and save it again.3. Rename that file into jokerevised.txt and

save that document on your flash drive.4. Delete the jokerevised.txt.5. Get the deleted jokerevised.txt back to

your flash drive

Practice – explorer and desktop icon Create a windows explorer icon on the

task bar Create a desktop icon on the task bar

File management Files and Folders

Basic Desktop Operations

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