Week 1: Jan 31 – Feb 4

 

January 31

HW Assignment #1 “Venting”: Post on OpenLab under “Discussions/Intro” by Friday, February 4th by 11:59 p.m.

WRITE Being a student in 2022 can be intimidating, confusing, and just plain difficult!  So for these first few days, you get to vent about it! No kidding. Share your concerns with each other. Maybe give each other some advice or just a good old bit of support.  I also promise not to hijack the conversations, either! 🙂  Please post a response to at least one other student.

PLAY with the website. You can’t break it. Honestly. I’ve tried. Click around on all the tabs. See what’s there! We’ll be doing a great deal of work here this semester, so make yourself familiar with the room. 

 

February 2

HW Assignment #2 “One Word”: Post on OpenLab under “Discussions/Intro” by Friday, February 4th by 11:59 p.m.

WRITE: 

  • Start with one word that describes how you’re feeling about this course as we get started. No need to explain, but you can if you want to. 
  • Talk about your worries, concerns, reactions to the readings and/or to being an in-person student again … whatever you want to. No censoring… except keep it kind of clean, please ;-). And
  • Add a picture that means something to you, and explain why you chose it — why does it mean something to you? Check back in and see what other people are saying, and reply  to a couple of people. It’s nice to know we’re not alone!

 

HW Assignment #3 “Core Values”:  Post on OpenLab under “Discussions/Intro” by Friday, February 4th by 11:59 p.m. 

WRITE and post a response to the writing prompt below:

 

CORE VALUES: being creative / artistic • family •  friendships • political engagement • independence • learning and gaining knowledge • athletic ability • community • culture • music • spiritual or religious values • sense of humor

 

 Write for at least one paragraph about one of your core values (some examples are given in the box above.) What does the importance of this value in your life say about you?

 Write for at least one paragraph about how this value relates to your goals for the future.

 Write for at least one more paragraph about how improving your writing and communication skills will help you achieve these goals. 

So, you must have a total of three paragraphs.