Hi Students. Here is what we discussed about the Helen Keller assignment. I put it in your folder and you can also find the direct link here.

By next week, you will also be finished with your “How I…” Literacy Narrative drafts. Please read aloud some or any of what you are writing in class.

Have a great week-end.

Hi Class — First, many thanks to our two Point Guards — Malayial and Ronnie.

As I mentioned in class, our new Weekly Assignment Folder is Live. Please look there for your current assignments. Please do the “Name Name” assignment first! (You already got a head start on thinking about it during class.)

Name Names will give you a good basis for approaching the “How I” Draft assignment. And that assignment, in turn, will be an excellent basis for your first Capstone Assignment.

All the assignments in this Unit build upon each other.

I will also give you some readings soon.

See you Thursday.

Hi Class,

As we go into the first week of September, I want to reach out and go over some of the ideas we are engaging with right now. One is the “what kind of learner are you” concept; the other is note-taking.

As you now know from class today, this is the VARK system:

Are you a “visual” or “auditory” or “read/write” or “kinesthetic” learner — or a mix of two or three or all? Hopefully, today you took the test in class. And you also know that you need to tell me that in writing, as per our WEEK 1 assignment.

The VARK system is far from perfect, but I chose it because it does start good discussions and it does foster self awareness. And you will need self awareness to work on your first Capstone Assignment for UNIT 1, which is coming up next week. So please, do explore VARK, and as I mentioned before, please don’t spend any money on the website. This is just for the purposes of exploration.

On to Notes.

I can’t really say enough about how cool and important — and individual — note taking is. Each person has to figure out their own method of taking notes for themselves. It’s almost like an autograph, or a fingerprint. And what’s more, you probably need more than 2 ways of taking notes, since you have so many different things going on in your life.

Next class, please remind me to show you some samples from my previous 1121 class. I had the students share their styles with me, visually. I also do want to show you a classic note-taking method called “Cornell Notes.” Meantime, here is a really good video, also from Cornell. Please take a look in your spare time:

One more thing: This Thursday (next class) we will meet in the classroom as per usual, but at some point we will walk over the the Computer Lab on the 6th floor of the General Building and will work together there. I want us to share all the information we can. Many of you are not: getting my emails, are not members of this OpenLab site, and in fact some of you may not even have active CityTech emails. Let’s try to rectify that on Thursday. After next week, “I didn’t see the email” or “I didn’t see the Weekly Assignment Folder” won’t be accepted as an answer for why you don’t keep up with work!

Speaking of work, have you explored this OpenLab site? Have you checked out our Major Capstone Assignments for the semester? Do you have any questions about the Syllabus or grades– or anything?

I look forward to hearing your questions, along with your notes from our last class, on Thursday!