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Task: `q001. You have completed the Introductory QA. Please explain the question-answer-self critique process as you understand it at this point.**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
It is my understanding that this was to review what we know.
Task: `q002. Any question you pose in your responses should be preceded and followed by a series of at least three question marks. This is so the instructor can quickly identify your questions, and also so the instructor doesn't inadvertently overlook your question.
If you have a question about anything you see in the Orientation, please mark in in the indicated manner and include it in your response.
Please describe how you should annotate questions in your responses, and why it is important to do so:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blankd and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
It is important to put ??? at the end of questions so the instructor can identify the questions easily
Task: `q003. If at any point of the Orientation you have trouble following instructions, let your instructor know the specifics:
Submit a copy of every instruction related to your question.
Describe what you do at each step, and what happens as a result. Include a copy of the Address box of your Internet
browser, as it appears at every step.
If you are going astray in the process, this will give your instructor the information necessary to quickly get you back on track.
You should send this information using the Submit Question Form (this is the best form to use because it helps you structure your question and prompts you to provide important information), or the Submit Work Form. Having submitted the form it's also acceptable to send an additional note using email.
The URL's for these forms are respectively http://vhcc2.vhcc.edu/dsmith/forms/question_form.htm andhttp://vhcc2.vhcc.edu/dsmith/submit_work.htm .
Please describe what to do if you have trouble following any of the instructions:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
Submit a copy of every instruction related to your question.
Describe what you do at each step, and what happens as a result. Include a copy of the Address box of your Internet
browser, as it appears at every step.
Task: `q004. Go to the home page for your course, at Precalculus I Homepage (the URL ishttp://vhcc2.vhcc.edu/pc1fall9/homepage_163_menu_driven.htm)
Bookmark this page (i.e., add it to Favorites on your Internet browser).
Describe what you see at this page.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line):
I see the explanatory note, purple homepage menu, useful links and initial activities.
Task: `q005. On the homepage for your course, click Brief Assignments Page for an overview of your assignments. You can scroll down the page and see your assignments, numbered 1 - 28.
You will also see the Due Dates link.
Depending on when you are completing this document the Due Dates might be for the preceding semester. Due dates for a term are updated prior to the first day of classes for that term.
Please respond with a statement detailing your understanding of the Due Dates page:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I have reviewed the assignments list and due dates. I will be printing this and keeping it in my binder so I can mark off completed assignments.
Task: `q006. Return to the Brief Assignments Page, take a quick look down the page, and describe what you see. It is recommended that you bookmark this page in your browser (e.g., add it to Favorites) so you can access it easily and quickly.
Be sure you locate and take a quick look at the instructions for completing assignments. You won't fully understand the instructions at this point, but be sure you see where they are.
There are probably additional things you don't understand right now about the Assignments page. You will get more specific and detailed information in subsequent Orientation assignments, and once you start actually using the page you will easily become accustomed to the routine.
Now return to the Precalculus homepage (which you bookmarked according to an instruction earlier in this document), and click on the link entitled 'Table of Assignments, Topics and Specific Objectives'. This page is a greatly expanded version of the Brief Assignments Page which includes a great deal of detail on topics and specific objectives. For everyday use the Brief Assignments Page will suffice, but you may also find it useful to review content and objectives on the expanded version provided on the Precalculus homepage.
Briefly describe what you have seen:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I have looked over the assignments table as well as the bookmarked homepage.
Task: `q007. From the Precalculus I homepage click on Course of Study. Read it and acknowledge below that you have been able to find the syllabus and know how to locate it: Note that you should re-read the syllabus or course of study on or shortly after the first day of class, to be sure you have read the document that will apply to the term in which you are taking the course.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I have looked at the syllabus as well as printed a copy for mu binder.
Task: `q008. Return to the your Precalculus I homepage and once more click on link to the Brief Assignments Pages. Add this page to your bookmarks (e.g., in Internet Explorer, add to Favorites), and acknowledge in your response that you have done so.
Also click on the 'Course Materials' link and acknowledge that you know what materials are required for the course and where to find this information.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I have added brief assignments to my favorites. I have reviewed the course materials.
Task: `q009. On the Precalculus homepage, click on Link to Blackboard, and sign in using the same username and password you use to access the registration system. When the Blackboard screen comes up you should find at least one 'course' entitled 'Supervised Study ... ', where ... stands for the term (Fall, Spring or Summer) and year (e.g., 2012), as well as your Precalculus I course.
Click on the Supervised Study ... site and give a brief description of what you see. You need not read all the information that appears, just take a quick look and give a line or two of description. (It is possible that you will be doing the Orientation prior to the beginning of the term, or shortly after registration; if so this Blackboard 'course' might not yet be available. You might also be doing this before your Blackboard enrollment is run. If either is the case, be sure to make a note to yourself to do check this page out on the first actual day of classes. You won't need it before then.).
Note that enrollment in Blackboard and enrollment in your course at VHCC are two separate things. Blackboard is 'unofficial' and always needs to be regarded as such.
Please respond with a statement detailing your understanding of the Blackboard Supervised Study 'course', and the unofficial nature of Blackboard.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I see the announcements as well as links on the left side. I understand how this site is used.
Task: `q010. We might use various features of this Blackboard page, but the course is not delivered using Blackboard. Blackboard has a number of very good features, but it is of necessity a 'closed' system and not sufficiently flexible or efficient to be the primary vehicle. The one feature we are sure to be using is the Grade Center, where you can check your grades on tests and my comments.
At the Supervised Study ... site note the 'Check Grades' link. Your grades will be posted at the Supervised Study... site, not at the Precalculus I site.
As explained in the opening message on both the Supervised Study ... and Precalculus I sites, Blackboard is not likely to be used extensively in this course, except for posting grades.
Describe what you see at the Grade Center.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I see a chart labeled My Grades. I understand this is where my grades will appear once graded.
Task: `q011. You need not look at any more of the Blackboard page, but you are welcome to do so if you choose, and you may ask any questions you wish in your response. If you have no questions, or do not feel the need to further explore this page, just respond with 'ok' or something of that nature.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
ok
"
Self-critique (if necessary):
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Self-critique rating:
#$&*
course MTH163
Task: `q001. You have completed the Introductory QA. Please explain the question-answer-self critique process as you understand it at this point.**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
It is my understanding that this was to review what we know.
Task: `q002. Any question you pose in your responses should be preceded and followed by a series of at least three question marks. This is so the instructor can quickly identify your questions, and also so the instructor doesn't inadvertently overlook your question.
If you have a question about anything you see in the Orientation, please mark in in the indicated manner and include it in your response.
Please describe how you should annotate questions in your responses, and why it is important to do so:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blankd and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
It is important to put ??? at the end of questions so the instructor can identify the questions easily
Task: `q003. If at any point of the Orientation you have trouble following instructions, let your instructor know the specifics:
Submit a copy of every instruction related to your question.
Describe what you do at each step, and what happens as a result. Include a copy of the Address box of your Internet
browser, as it appears at every step.
If you are going astray in the process, this will give your instructor the information necessary to quickly get you back on track.
You should send this information using the Submit Question Form (this is the best form to use because it helps you structure your question and prompts you to provide important information), or the Submit Work Form. Having submitted the form it's also acceptable to send an additional note using email.
The URL's for these forms are respectively http://vhcc2.vhcc.edu/dsmith/forms/question_form.htm andhttp://vhcc2.vhcc.edu/dsmith/submit_work.htm .
Please describe what to do if you have trouble following any of the instructions:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
Submit a copy of every instruction related to your question.
Describe what you do at each step, and what happens as a result. Include a copy of the Address box of your Internet
browser, as it appears at every step.
Task: `q004. Go to the home page for your course, at Precalculus I Homepage (the URL ishttp://vhcc2.vhcc.edu/pc1fall9/homepage_163_menu_driven.htm)
Bookmark this page (i.e., add it to Favorites on your Internet browser).
Describe what you see at this page.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line):
I see the explanatory note, purple homepage menu, useful links and initial activities.
Task: `q005. On the homepage for your course, click Brief Assignments Page for an overview of your assignments. You can scroll down the page and see your assignments, numbered 1 - 28.
You will also see the Due Dates link.
Depending on when you are completing this document the Due Dates might be for the preceding semester. Due dates for a term are updated prior to the first day of classes for that term.
Please respond with a statement detailing your understanding of the Due Dates page:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I have reviewed the assignments list and due dates. I will be printing this and keeping it in my binder so I can mark off completed assignments.
Task: `q006. Return to the Brief Assignments Page, take a quick look down the page, and describe what you see. It is recommended that you bookmark this page in your browser (e.g., add it to Favorites) so you can access it easily and quickly.
Be sure you locate and take a quick look at the instructions for completing assignments. You won't fully understand the instructions at this point, but be sure you see where they are.
There are probably additional things you don't understand right now about the Assignments page. You will get more specific and detailed information in subsequent Orientation assignments, and once you start actually using the page you will easily become accustomed to the routine.
Now return to the Precalculus homepage (which you bookmarked according to an instruction earlier in this document), and click on the link entitled 'Table of Assignments, Topics and Specific Objectives'. This page is a greatly expanded version of the Brief Assignments Page which includes a great deal of detail on topics and specific objectives. For everyday use the Brief Assignments Page will suffice, but you may also find it useful to review content and objectives on the expanded version provided on the Precalculus homepage.
Briefly describe what you have seen:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I have looked over the assignments table as well as the bookmarked homepage.
Task: `q007. From the Precalculus I homepage click on Course of Study. Read it and acknowledge below that you have been able to find the syllabus and know how to locate it: Note that you should re-read the syllabus or course of study on or shortly after the first day of class, to be sure you have read the document that will apply to the term in which you are taking the course.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I have looked at the syllabus as well as printed a copy for mu binder.
Task: `q008. Return to the your Precalculus I homepage and once more click on link to the Brief Assignments Pages. Add this page to your bookmarks (e.g., in Internet Explorer, add to Favorites), and acknowledge in your response that you have done so.
Also click on the 'Course Materials' link and acknowledge that you know what materials are required for the course and where to find this information.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I have added brief assignments to my favorites. I have reviewed the course materials.
Task: `q009. On the Precalculus homepage, click on Link to Blackboard, and sign in using the same username and password you use to access the registration system. When the Blackboard screen comes up you should find at least one 'course' entitled 'Supervised Study ... ', where ... stands for the term (Fall, Spring or Summer) and year (e.g., 2012), as well as your Precalculus I course.
Click on the Supervised Study ... site and give a brief description of what you see. You need not read all the information that appears, just take a quick look and give a line or two of description. (It is possible that you will be doing the Orientation prior to the beginning of the term, or shortly after registration; if so this Blackboard 'course' might not yet be available. You might also be doing this before your Blackboard enrollment is run. If either is the case, be sure to make a note to yourself to do check this page out on the first actual day of classes. You won't need it before then.).
Note that enrollment in Blackboard and enrollment in your course at VHCC are two separate things. Blackboard is 'unofficial' and always needs to be regarded as such.
Please respond with a statement detailing your understanding of the Blackboard Supervised Study 'course', and the unofficial nature of Blackboard.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I see the announcements as well as links on the left side. I understand how this site is used.
Task: `q010. We might use various features of this Blackboard page, but the course is not delivered using Blackboard. Blackboard has a number of very good features, but it is of necessity a 'closed' system and not sufficiently flexible or efficient to be the primary vehicle. The one feature we are sure to be using is the Grade Center, where you can check your grades on tests and my comments.
At the Supervised Study ... site note the 'Check Grades' link. Your grades will be posted at the Supervised Study... site, not at the Precalculus I site.
As explained in the opening message on both the Supervised Study ... and Precalculus I sites, Blackboard is not likely to be used extensively in this course, except for posting grades.
Describe what you see at the Grade Center.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I see a chart labeled My Grades. I understand this is where my grades will appear once graded.
Task: `q011. You need not look at any more of the Blackboard page, but you are welcome to do so if you choose, and you may ask any questions you wish in your response. If you have no questions, or do not feel the need to further explore this page, just respond with 'ok' or something of that nature.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
ok
"
Self-critique (if necessary):
------------------------------------------------
Self-critique rating:
#*&!
#$&*
course MTH163
Task: `q001. You have completed the Introductory QA. Please explain the question-answer-self critique process as you understand it at this point.**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
It is my understanding that this was to review what we know.
Task: `q002. Any question you pose in your responses should be preceded and followed by a series of at least three question marks. This is so the instructor can quickly identify your questions, and also so the instructor doesn't inadvertently overlook your question.
If you have a question about anything you see in the Orientation, please mark in in the indicated manner and include it in your response.
Please describe how you should annotate questions in your responses, and why it is important to do so:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blankd and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
It is important to put ??? at the end of questions so the instructor can identify the questions easily
Task: `q003. If at any point of the Orientation you have trouble following instructions, let your instructor know the specifics:
Submit a copy of every instruction related to your question.
Describe what you do at each step, and what happens as a result. Include a copy of the Address box of your Internet
browser, as it appears at every step.
If you are going astray in the process, this will give your instructor the information necessary to quickly get you back on track.
You should send this information using the Submit Question Form (this is the best form to use because it helps you structure your question and prompts you to provide important information), or the Submit Work Form. Having submitted the form it's also acceptable to send an additional note using email.
The URL's for these forms are respectively http://vhcc2.vhcc.edu/dsmith/forms/question_form.htm andhttp://vhcc2.vhcc.edu/dsmith/submit_work.htm .
Please describe what to do if you have trouble following any of the instructions:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
Submit a copy of every instruction related to your question.
Describe what you do at each step, and what happens as a result. Include a copy of the Address box of your Internet
browser, as it appears at every step.
Task: `q004. Go to the home page for your course, at Precalculus I Homepage (the URL ishttp://vhcc2.vhcc.edu/pc1fall9/homepage_163_menu_driven.htm)
Bookmark this page (i.e., add it to Favorites on your Internet browser).
Describe what you see at this page.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line):
I see the explanatory note, purple homepage menu, useful links and initial activities.
Task: `q005. On the homepage for your course, click Brief Assignments Page for an overview of your assignments. You can scroll down the page and see your assignments, numbered 1 - 28.
You will also see the Due Dates link.
Depending on when you are completing this document the Due Dates might be for the preceding semester. Due dates for a term are updated prior to the first day of classes for that term.
Please respond with a statement detailing your understanding of the Due Dates page:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I have reviewed the assignments list and due dates. I will be printing this and keeping it in my binder so I can mark off completed assignments.
Task: `q006. Return to the Brief Assignments Page, take a quick look down the page, and describe what you see. It is recommended that you bookmark this page in your browser (e.g., add it to Favorites) so you can access it easily and quickly.
Be sure you locate and take a quick look at the instructions for completing assignments. You won't fully understand the instructions at this point, but be sure you see where they are.
There are probably additional things you don't understand right now about the Assignments page. You will get more specific and detailed information in subsequent Orientation assignments, and once you start actually using the page you will easily become accustomed to the routine.
Now return to the Precalculus homepage (which you bookmarked according to an instruction earlier in this document), and click on the link entitled 'Table of Assignments, Topics and Specific Objectives'. This page is a greatly expanded version of the Brief Assignments Page which includes a great deal of detail on topics and specific objectives. For everyday use the Brief Assignments Page will suffice, but you may also find it useful to review content and objectives on the expanded version provided on the Precalculus homepage.
Briefly describe what you have seen:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I have looked over the assignments table as well as the bookmarked homepage.
Task: `q007. From the Precalculus I homepage click on Course of Study. Read it and acknowledge below that you have been able to find the syllabus and know how to locate it: Note that you should re-read the syllabus or course of study on or shortly after the first day of class, to be sure you have read the document that will apply to the term in which you are taking the course.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I have looked at the syllabus as well as printed a copy for mu binder.
Task: `q008. Return to the your Precalculus I homepage and once more click on link to the Brief Assignments Pages. Add this page to your bookmarks (e.g., in Internet Explorer, add to Favorites), and acknowledge in your response that you have done so.
Also click on the 'Course Materials' link and acknowledge that you know what materials are required for the course and where to find this information.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I have added brief assignments to my favorites. I have reviewed the course materials.
Task: `q009. On the Precalculus homepage, click on Link to Blackboard, and sign in using the same username and password you use to access the registration system. When the Blackboard screen comes up you should find at least one 'course' entitled 'Supervised Study ... ', where ... stands for the term (Fall, Spring or Summer) and year (e.g., 2012), as well as your Precalculus I course.
Click on the Supervised Study ... site and give a brief description of what you see. You need not read all the information that appears, just take a quick look and give a line or two of description. (It is possible that you will be doing the Orientation prior to the beginning of the term, or shortly after registration; if so this Blackboard 'course' might not yet be available. You might also be doing this before your Blackboard enrollment is run. If either is the case, be sure to make a note to yourself to do check this page out on the first actual day of classes. You won't need it before then.).
Note that enrollment in Blackboard and enrollment in your course at VHCC are two separate things. Blackboard is 'unofficial' and always needs to be regarded as such.
Please respond with a statement detailing your understanding of the Blackboard Supervised Study 'course', and the unofficial nature of Blackboard.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I see the announcements as well as links on the left side. I understand how this site is used.
Task: `q010. We might use various features of this Blackboard page, but the course is not delivered using Blackboard. Blackboard has a number of very good features, but it is of necessity a 'closed' system and not sufficiently flexible or efficient to be the primary vehicle. The one feature we are sure to be using is the Grade Center, where you can check your grades on tests and my comments.
At the Supervised Study ... site note the 'Check Grades' link. Your grades will be posted at the Supervised Study... site, not at the Precalculus I site.
As explained in the opening message on both the Supervised Study ... and Precalculus I sites, Blackboard is not likely to be used extensively in this course, except for posting grades.
Describe what you see at the Grade Center.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I see a chart labeled My Grades. I understand this is where my grades will appear once graded.
Task: `q011. You need not look at any more of the Blackboard page, but you are welcome to do so if you choose, and you may ask any questions you wish in your response. If you have no questions, or do not feel the need to further explore this page, just respond with 'ok' or something of that nature.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
ok
"
Self-critique (if necessary):
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Self-critique rating:
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Orientation Part II_b: Understanding Learning ObjectivesTask: `q001. Return to the homepage for your course, as you bookmarked it in the first document for Step 4 of the Orientation.
Your homepage includes a Table of Assignments, Topics and Specific Objectives. The link to this table is listed along with other links near the top of your homepage. Click this link and scroll down through this Table.
The first thing you will see is the heading Module 1.
Below the heading for the Module you will see a note indicating when the first test, for Module 1, is to be completed. (The first test might be referred to as the 'Major Quiz', as 'Test 1', as 'Chapter 2 Test', as 'Chapter R test', or by some similar name, depending on your specific course).
The course is divided into Modules. Scroll down the page and locate the headings for subsequent Modules.
Briefly state how many modules you find, and also when the first test is to be completed.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I see 4 modules. The 1st test is to be completed within a week of completing assignment 6.
Task: `q002. Now scroll down and locate your numbered Assignments. The number of an Assignment is in the first column of the table.
You don't yet need to know how the Assignments work. You will learn that by working through the first couple of Assignments. At this stage we want to focus on where to find information.
Just below each Assignment is a list of Objectives relevant to that assignment. You won't really know what the Objectives mean until you have worked through the Assignment, and even then your understanding will develop over a period of days or weeks as your brain gradually rewires itself and you apply the necessary ideas to subsequent assignments.
Right now we just want to focus on where the Objectives are and how they are listed.
Note that a typical list of Objectives is followed by a set of Technical Statements. The Objectives are intended for you to read. The Technical Statements often use notations and terminologies with which you might not be familiar, and when first working through an Assignment you can focus on the first statement of the Objectives, safely ignoring the Technical Statements.
Note also that the word Relate is included with many objectives, in the form of a link. You don't need to click on that link every time it appears. The link takes you to a discussion of what it means to 'Relate' a set or list of things.
Basically 'Relate' as used here just means that you need to know how those things are all related to one another, and be able to apply those relationships to solving problems.
This is all you really need to know right now.
The link gives a more extensive explanation in terms of a number of examples, and you might find it useful later.
Describe in your response:
where the Objectives are and how they are listed
what you should do when you see the link Relate
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
The objectives are listed after the assignments. We dont need to click the relate link everytime.
Task: `q003. You won't fully understand the sequencing of topics and activities, or the reasons for the sequencing, until you have worked through a number of assignments.
Assumptions:
It is unrealistic to suppose that the majority of students in a course are capable, without prior preparation, of reading, extracting meaning from and solving problems in a text written at a level appropriate to the course.
having the topic talked to a class in a lecture is generally ineffective for the majority of the class
students sharing ideas with and solving problems in conjunction with other students can be very helpful, given a group of students who have already engaged and experienced the topic (... toolkits ...)
it takes time for stuff to sink in, an idea the instructor believes to have for centuries been obvious to individuals with rigorous content knowledge, to now be increasingly supported by the rapidly advancing field of neurobiology, but not to have filtered down to the 'field' of education
if the goal of the course is integrated understanding and mastery, it is not possible to break the learning of this subject into a linear series of topics, with one topic mastered before moving on to the next
Typically you will be introduced to a topic through a sequenced set of questions (the 'qa'), in which you will
Answer a series of questions, based on knowledge from prerequisite courses or from earlier in this course, without having been first 'taught' how to answer the questions. The purpose is to 'engage your brain' on the topic and provide you with a context for later activities.
Solve, take notes on and generally understand a sequenced series of worked-out problems (the Introductory Problem Sets) illustrating the application of the topic, along with others.
Apply the ideas to one or more actual, hands-on physical systems, typically setting the system up, taking data, analyzing results and answering questions.
Read Class Notes documents which may address any combination of selected previous, current and future topics, and/or view video-linked versions of the same.
Read the associated 'material' in the text and solve text problems. The text is the 'last word' on a topic, not the first. By the time you read about the topic in the text, you will already know quite a bit about it through having engaged and experienced it. The text is intended as the final document for the topic, presenting it in clear relation to others.
These activities can span a number of assignments, so that by end of the process the topic will have had time to percolate and sink in.
The main thing you need to understand about this is that there are dozens of topics in your course, each of which can require days or weeks to develop. The result is that at any time you will simultaneously be developing and working on a number of topics.
Again you aren't expected to completely understand the assumptions and the sequencing. However give a short synopsis of what you do understand.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I understand there are questions (qa_2) that are used to engage our brains. The Text is the last word.
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Task: `q001. You have completed the Introductory QA. Please explain the question-answer-self critique process as you understand it at this point.**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
It is my understanding that this was to review what we know.
Task: `q002. Any question you pose in your responses should be preceded and followed by a series of at least three question marks. This is so the instructor can quickly identify your questions, and also so the instructor doesn't inadvertently overlook your question.
If you have a question about anything you see in the Orientation, please mark in in the indicated manner and include it in your response.
Please describe how you should annotate questions in your responses, and why it is important to do so:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blankd and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
It is important to put ??? at the end of questions so the instructor can identify the questions easily
Task: `q003. If at any point of the Orientation you have trouble following instructions, let your instructor know the specifics:
Submit a copy of every instruction related to your question.
Describe what you do at each step, and what happens as a result. Include a copy of the Address box of your Internet
browser, as it appears at every step.
If you are going astray in the process, this will give your instructor the information necessary to quickly get you back on track.
You should send this information using the Submit Question Form (this is the best form to use because it helps you structure your question and prompts you to provide important information), or the Submit Work Form. Having submitted the form it's also acceptable to send an additional note using email.
The URL's for these forms are respectively http://vhcc2.vhcc.edu/dsmith/forms/question_form.htm andhttp://vhcc2.vhcc.edu/dsmith/submit_work.htm .
Please describe what to do if you have trouble following any of the instructions:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
Submit a copy of every instruction related to your question.
Describe what you do at each step, and what happens as a result. Include a copy of the Address box of your Internet
browser, as it appears at every step.
Task: `q004. Go to the home page for your course, at Precalculus I Homepage (the URL ishttp://vhcc2.vhcc.edu/pc1fall9/homepage_163_menu_driven.htm)
Bookmark this page (i.e., add it to Favorites on your Internet browser).
Describe what you see at this page.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line):
I see the explanatory note, purple homepage menu, useful links and initial activities.
Task: `q005. On the homepage for your course, click Brief Assignments Page for an overview of your assignments. You can scroll down the page and see your assignments, numbered 1 - 28.
You will also see the Due Dates link.
Depending on when you are completing this document the Due Dates might be for the preceding semester. Due dates for a term are updated prior to the first day of classes for that term.
Please respond with a statement detailing your understanding of the Due Dates page:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I have reviewed the assignments list and due dates. I will be printing this and keeping it in my binder so I can mark off completed assignments.
Task: `q006. Return to the Brief Assignments Page, take a quick look down the page, and describe what you see. It is recommended that you bookmark this page in your browser (e.g., add it to Favorites) so you can access it easily and quickly.
Be sure you locate and take a quick look at the instructions for completing assignments. You won't fully understand the instructions at this point, but be sure you see where they are.
There are probably additional things you don't understand right now about the Assignments page. You will get more specific and detailed information in subsequent Orientation assignments, and once you start actually using the page you will easily become accustomed to the routine.
Now return to the Precalculus homepage (which you bookmarked according to an instruction earlier in this document), and click on the link entitled 'Table of Assignments, Topics and Specific Objectives'. This page is a greatly expanded version of the Brief Assignments Page which includes a great deal of detail on topics and specific objectives. For everyday use the Brief Assignments Page will suffice, but you may also find it useful to review content and objectives on the expanded version provided on the Precalculus homepage.
Briefly describe what you have seen:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I have looked over the assignments table as well as the bookmarked homepage.
Task: `q007. From the Precalculus I homepage click on Course of Study. Read it and acknowledge below that you have been able to find the syllabus and know how to locate it: Note that you should re-read the syllabus or course of study on or shortly after the first day of class, to be sure you have read the document that will apply to the term in which you are taking the course.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I have looked at the syllabus as well as printed a copy for mu binder.
Task: `q008. Return to the your Precalculus I homepage and once more click on link to the Brief Assignments Pages. Add this page to your bookmarks (e.g., in Internet Explorer, add to Favorites), and acknowledge in your response that you have done so.
Also click on the 'Course Materials' link and acknowledge that you know what materials are required for the course and where to find this information.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I have added brief assignments to my favorites. I have reviewed the course materials.
Task: `q009. On the Precalculus homepage, click on Link to Blackboard, and sign in using the same username and password you use to access the registration system. When the Blackboard screen comes up you should find at least one 'course' entitled 'Supervised Study ... ', where ... stands for the term (Fall, Spring or Summer) and year (e.g., 2012), as well as your Precalculus I course.
Click on the Supervised Study ... site and give a brief description of what you see. You need not read all the information that appears, just take a quick look and give a line or two of description. (It is possible that you will be doing the Orientation prior to the beginning of the term, or shortly after registration; if so this Blackboard 'course' might not yet be available. You might also be doing this before your Blackboard enrollment is run. If either is the case, be sure to make a note to yourself to do check this page out on the first actual day of classes. You won't need it before then.).
Note that enrollment in Blackboard and enrollment in your course at VHCC are two separate things. Blackboard is 'unofficial' and always needs to be regarded as such.
Please respond with a statement detailing your understanding of the Blackboard Supervised Study 'course', and the unofficial nature of Blackboard.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I see the announcements as well as links on the left side. I understand how this site is used.
Task: `q010. We might use various features of this Blackboard page, but the course is not delivered using Blackboard. Blackboard has a number of very good features, but it is of necessity a 'closed' system and not sufficiently flexible or efficient to be the primary vehicle. The one feature we are sure to be using is the Grade Center, where you can check your grades on tests and my comments.
At the Supervised Study ... site note the 'Check Grades' link. Your grades will be posted at the Supervised Study... site, not at the Precalculus I site.
As explained in the opening message on both the Supervised Study ... and Precalculus I sites, Blackboard is not likely to be used extensively in this course, except for posting grades.
Describe what you see at the Grade Center.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I see a chart labeled My Grades. I understand this is where my grades will appear once graded.
Task: `q011. You need not look at any more of the Blackboard page, but you are welcome to do so if you choose, and you may ask any questions you wish in your response. If you have no questions, or do not feel the need to further explore this page, just respond with 'ok' or something of that nature.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
ok
"
Self-critique (if necessary):
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Self-critique rating:
#$&*
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Task: `q001. You have completed the Introductory QA. Please explain the question-answer-self critique process as you understand it at this point.**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
It is my understanding that this was to review what we know.
Task: `q002. Any question you pose in your responses should be preceded and followed by a series of at least three question marks. This is so the instructor can quickly identify your questions, and also so the instructor doesn't inadvertently overlook your question.
If you have a question about anything you see in the Orientation, please mark in in the indicated manner and include it in your response.
Please describe how you should annotate questions in your responses, and why it is important to do so:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blankd and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
It is important to put ??? at the end of questions so the instructor can identify the questions easily
Task: `q003. If at any point of the Orientation you have trouble following instructions, let your instructor know the specifics:
Submit a copy of every instruction related to your question.
Describe what you do at each step, and what happens as a result. Include a copy of the Address box of your Internet
browser, as it appears at every step.
If you are going astray in the process, this will give your instructor the information necessary to quickly get you back on track.
You should send this information using the Submit Question Form (this is the best form to use because it helps you structure your question and prompts you to provide important information), or the Submit Work Form. Having submitted the form it's also acceptable to send an additional note using email.
The URL's for these forms are respectively http://vhcc2.vhcc.edu/dsmith/forms/question_form.htm andhttp://vhcc2.vhcc.edu/dsmith/submit_work.htm .
Please describe what to do if you have trouble following any of the instructions:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
Submit a copy of every instruction related to your question.
Describe what you do at each step, and what happens as a result. Include a copy of the Address box of your Internet
browser, as it appears at every step.
Task: `q004. Go to the home page for your course, at Precalculus I Homepage (the URL ishttp://vhcc2.vhcc.edu/pc1fall9/homepage_163_menu_driven.htm)
Bookmark this page (i.e., add it to Favorites on your Internet browser).
Describe what you see at this page.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line):
I see the explanatory note, purple homepage menu, useful links and initial activities.
Task: `q005. On the homepage for your course, click Brief Assignments Page for an overview of your assignments. You can scroll down the page and see your assignments, numbered 1 - 28.
You will also see the Due Dates link.
Depending on when you are completing this document the Due Dates might be for the preceding semester. Due dates for a term are updated prior to the first day of classes for that term.
Please respond with a statement detailing your understanding of the Due Dates page:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I have reviewed the assignments list and due dates. I will be printing this and keeping it in my binder so I can mark off completed assignments.
Task: `q006. Return to the Brief Assignments Page, take a quick look down the page, and describe what you see. It is recommended that you bookmark this page in your browser (e.g., add it to Favorites) so you can access it easily and quickly.
Be sure you locate and take a quick look at the instructions for completing assignments. You won't fully understand the instructions at this point, but be sure you see where they are.
There are probably additional things you don't understand right now about the Assignments page. You will get more specific and detailed information in subsequent Orientation assignments, and once you start actually using the page you will easily become accustomed to the routine.
Now return to the Precalculus homepage (which you bookmarked according to an instruction earlier in this document), and click on the link entitled 'Table of Assignments, Topics and Specific Objectives'. This page is a greatly expanded version of the Brief Assignments Page which includes a great deal of detail on topics and specific objectives. For everyday use the Brief Assignments Page will suffice, but you may also find it useful to review content and objectives on the expanded version provided on the Precalculus homepage.
Briefly describe what you have seen:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I have looked over the assignments table as well as the bookmarked homepage.
Task: `q007. From the Precalculus I homepage click on Course of Study. Read it and acknowledge below that you have been able to find the syllabus and know how to locate it: Note that you should re-read the syllabus or course of study on or shortly after the first day of class, to be sure you have read the document that will apply to the term in which you are taking the course.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I have looked at the syllabus as well as printed a copy for mu binder.
Task: `q008. Return to the your Precalculus I homepage and once more click on link to the Brief Assignments Pages. Add this page to your bookmarks (e.g., in Internet Explorer, add to Favorites), and acknowledge in your response that you have done so.
Also click on the 'Course Materials' link and acknowledge that you know what materials are required for the course and where to find this information.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I have added brief assignments to my favorites. I have reviewed the course materials.
Task: `q009. On the Precalculus homepage, click on Link to Blackboard, and sign in using the same username and password you use to access the registration system. When the Blackboard screen comes up you should find at least one 'course' entitled 'Supervised Study ... ', where ... stands for the term (Fall, Spring or Summer) and year (e.g., 2012), as well as your Precalculus I course.
Click on the Supervised Study ... site and give a brief description of what you see. You need not read all the information that appears, just take a quick look and give a line or two of description. (It is possible that you will be doing the Orientation prior to the beginning of the term, or shortly after registration; if so this Blackboard 'course' might not yet be available. You might also be doing this before your Blackboard enrollment is run. If either is the case, be sure to make a note to yourself to do check this page out on the first actual day of classes. You won't need it before then.).
Note that enrollment in Blackboard and enrollment in your course at VHCC are two separate things. Blackboard is 'unofficial' and always needs to be regarded as such.
Please respond with a statement detailing your understanding of the Blackboard Supervised Study 'course', and the unofficial nature of Blackboard.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I see the announcements as well as links on the left side. I understand how this site is used.
Task: `q010. We might use various features of this Blackboard page, but the course is not delivered using Blackboard. Blackboard has a number of very good features, but it is of necessity a 'closed' system and not sufficiently flexible or efficient to be the primary vehicle. The one feature we are sure to be using is the Grade Center, where you can check your grades on tests and my comments.
At the Supervised Study ... site note the 'Check Grades' link. Your grades will be posted at the Supervised Study... site, not at the Precalculus I site.
As explained in the opening message on both the Supervised Study ... and Precalculus I sites, Blackboard is not likely to be used extensively in this course, except for posting grades.
Describe what you see at the Grade Center.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I see a chart labeled My Grades. I understand this is where my grades will appear once graded.
Task: `q011. You need not look at any more of the Blackboard page, but you are welcome to do so if you choose, and you may ask any questions you wish in your response. If you have no questions, or do not feel the need to further explore this page, just respond with 'ok' or something of that nature.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
ok
"
Self-critique (if necessary):
------------------------------------------------
Self-critique rating:
#*&!
#$&*
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Task: `q001. You have completed the Introductory QA. Please explain the question-answer-self critique process as you understand it at this point.**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
It is my understanding that this was to review what we know.
Task: `q002. Any question you pose in your responses should be preceded and followed by a series of at least three question marks. This is so the instructor can quickly identify your questions, and also so the instructor doesn't inadvertently overlook your question.
If you have a question about anything you see in the Orientation, please mark in in the indicated manner and include it in your response.
Please describe how you should annotate questions in your responses, and why it is important to do so:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blankd and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
It is important to put ??? at the end of questions so the instructor can identify the questions easily
Task: `q003. If at any point of the Orientation you have trouble following instructions, let your instructor know the specifics:
Submit a copy of every instruction related to your question.
Describe what you do at each step, and what happens as a result. Include a copy of the Address box of your Internet
browser, as it appears at every step.
If you are going astray in the process, this will give your instructor the information necessary to quickly get you back on track.
You should send this information using the Submit Question Form (this is the best form to use because it helps you structure your question and prompts you to provide important information), or the Submit Work Form. Having submitted the form it's also acceptable to send an additional note using email.
The URL's for these forms are respectively http://vhcc2.vhcc.edu/dsmith/forms/question_form.htm andhttp://vhcc2.vhcc.edu/dsmith/submit_work.htm .
Please describe what to do if you have trouble following any of the instructions:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
Submit a copy of every instruction related to your question.
Describe what you do at each step, and what happens as a result. Include a copy of the Address box of your Internet
browser, as it appears at every step.
Task: `q004. Go to the home page for your course, at Precalculus I Homepage (the URL ishttp://vhcc2.vhcc.edu/pc1fall9/homepage_163_menu_driven.htm)
Bookmark this page (i.e., add it to Favorites on your Internet browser).
Describe what you see at this page.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line):
I see the explanatory note, purple homepage menu, useful links and initial activities.
Task: `q005. On the homepage for your course, click Brief Assignments Page for an overview of your assignments. You can scroll down the page and see your assignments, numbered 1 - 28.
You will also see the Due Dates link.
Depending on when you are completing this document the Due Dates might be for the preceding semester. Due dates for a term are updated prior to the first day of classes for that term.
Please respond with a statement detailing your understanding of the Due Dates page:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I have reviewed the assignments list and due dates. I will be printing this and keeping it in my binder so I can mark off completed assignments.
Task: `q006. Return to the Brief Assignments Page, take a quick look down the page, and describe what you see. It is recommended that you bookmark this page in your browser (e.g., add it to Favorites) so you can access it easily and quickly.
Be sure you locate and take a quick look at the instructions for completing assignments. You won't fully understand the instructions at this point, but be sure you see where they are.
There are probably additional things you don't understand right now about the Assignments page. You will get more specific and detailed information in subsequent Orientation assignments, and once you start actually using the page you will easily become accustomed to the routine.
Now return to the Precalculus homepage (which you bookmarked according to an instruction earlier in this document), and click on the link entitled 'Table of Assignments, Topics and Specific Objectives'. This page is a greatly expanded version of the Brief Assignments Page which includes a great deal of detail on topics and specific objectives. For everyday use the Brief Assignments Page will suffice, but you may also find it useful to review content and objectives on the expanded version provided on the Precalculus homepage.
Briefly describe what you have seen:
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I have looked over the assignments table as well as the bookmarked homepage.
Task: `q007. From the Precalculus I homepage click on Course of Study. Read it and acknowledge below that you have been able to find the syllabus and know how to locate it: Note that you should re-read the syllabus or course of study on or shortly after the first day of class, to be sure you have read the document that will apply to the term in which you are taking the course.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I have looked at the syllabus as well as printed a copy for mu binder.
Task: `q008. Return to the your Precalculus I homepage and once more click on link to the Brief Assignments Pages. Add this page to your bookmarks (e.g., in Internet Explorer, add to Favorites), and acknowledge in your response that you have done so.
Also click on the 'Course Materials' link and acknowledge that you know what materials are required for the course and where to find this information.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I have added brief assignments to my favorites. I have reviewed the course materials.
Task: `q009. On the Precalculus homepage, click on Link to Blackboard, and sign in using the same username and password you use to access the registration system. When the Blackboard screen comes up you should find at least one 'course' entitled 'Supervised Study ... ', where ... stands for the term (Fall, Spring or Summer) and year (e.g., 2012), as well as your Precalculus I course.
Click on the Supervised Study ... site and give a brief description of what you see. You need not read all the information that appears, just take a quick look and give a line or two of description. (It is possible that you will be doing the Orientation prior to the beginning of the term, or shortly after registration; if so this Blackboard 'course' might not yet be available. You might also be doing this before your Blackboard enrollment is run. If either is the case, be sure to make a note to yourself to do check this page out on the first actual day of classes. You won't need it before then.).
Note that enrollment in Blackboard and enrollment in your course at VHCC are two separate things. Blackboard is 'unofficial' and always needs to be regarded as such.
Please respond with a statement detailing your understanding of the Blackboard Supervised Study 'course', and the unofficial nature of Blackboard.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I see the announcements as well as links on the left side. I understand how this site is used.
Task: `q010. We might use various features of this Blackboard page, but the course is not delivered using Blackboard. Blackboard has a number of very good features, but it is of necessity a 'closed' system and not sufficiently flexible or efficient to be the primary vehicle. The one feature we are sure to be using is the Grade Center, where you can check your grades on tests and my comments.
At the Supervised Study ... site note the 'Check Grades' link. Your grades will be posted at the Supervised Study... site, not at the Precalculus I site.
As explained in the opening message on both the Supervised Study ... and Precalculus I sites, Blackboard is not likely to be used extensively in this course, except for posting grades.
Describe what you see at the Grade Center.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I see a chart labeled My Grades. I understand this is where my grades will appear once graded.
Task: `q011. You need not look at any more of the Blackboard page, but you are welcome to do so if you choose, and you may ask any questions you wish in your response. If you have no questions, or do not feel the need to further explore this page, just respond with 'ok' or something of that nature.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
ok
"
Self-critique (if necessary):
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Self-critique rating:
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Orientation Part II_b: Understanding Learning ObjectivesTask: `q001. Return to the homepage for your course, as you bookmarked it in the first document for Step 4 of the Orientation.
Your homepage includes a Table of Assignments, Topics and Specific Objectives. The link to this table is listed along with other links near the top of your homepage. Click this link and scroll down through this Table.
The first thing you will see is the heading Module 1.
Below the heading for the Module you will see a note indicating when the first test, for Module 1, is to be completed. (The first test might be referred to as the 'Major Quiz', as 'Test 1', as 'Chapter 2 Test', as 'Chapter R test', or by some similar name, depending on your specific course).
The course is divided into Modules. Scroll down the page and locate the headings for subsequent Modules.
Briefly state how many modules you find, and also when the first test is to be completed.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I see 4 modules. The 1st test is to be completed within a week of completing assignment 6.
Task: `q002. Now scroll down and locate your numbered Assignments. The number of an Assignment is in the first column of the table.
You don't yet need to know how the Assignments work. You will learn that by working through the first couple of Assignments. At this stage we want to focus on where to find information.
Just below each Assignment is a list of Objectives relevant to that assignment. You won't really know what the Objectives mean until you have worked through the Assignment, and even then your understanding will develop over a period of days or weeks as your brain gradually rewires itself and you apply the necessary ideas to subsequent assignments.
Right now we just want to focus on where the Objectives are and how they are listed.
Note that a typical list of Objectives is followed by a set of Technical Statements. The Objectives are intended for you to read. The Technical Statements often use notations and terminologies with which you might not be familiar, and when first working through an Assignment you can focus on the first statement of the Objectives, safely ignoring the Technical Statements.
Note also that the word Relate is included with many objectives, in the form of a link. You don't need to click on that link every time it appears. The link takes you to a discussion of what it means to 'Relate' a set or list of things.
Basically 'Relate' as used here just means that you need to know how those things are all related to one another, and be able to apply those relationships to solving problems.
This is all you really need to know right now.
The link gives a more extensive explanation in terms of a number of examples, and you might find it useful later.
Describe in your response:
where the Objectives are and how they are listed
what you should do when you see the link Relate
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
The objectives are listed after the assignments. We dont need to click the relate link everytime.
Task: `q003. You won't fully understand the sequencing of topics and activities, or the reasons for the sequencing, until you have worked through a number of assignments.
Assumptions:
It is unrealistic to suppose that the majority of students in a course are capable, without prior preparation, of reading, extracting meaning from and solving problems in a text written at a level appropriate to the course.
having the topic talked to a class in a lecture is generally ineffective for the majority of the class
students sharing ideas with and solving problems in conjunction with other students can be very helpful, given a group of students who have already engaged and experienced the topic (... toolkits ...)
it takes time for stuff to sink in, an idea the instructor believes to have for centuries been obvious to individuals with rigorous content knowledge, to now be increasingly supported by the rapidly advancing field of neurobiology, but not to have filtered down to the 'field' of education
if the goal of the course is integrated understanding and mastery, it is not possible to break the learning of this subject into a linear series of topics, with one topic mastered before moving on to the next
Typically you will be introduced to a topic through a sequenced set of questions (the 'qa'), in which you will
Answer a series of questions, based on knowledge from prerequisite courses or from earlier in this course, without having been first 'taught' how to answer the questions. The purpose is to 'engage your brain' on the topic and provide you with a context for later activities.
Solve, take notes on and generally understand a sequenced series of worked-out problems (the Introductory Problem Sets) illustrating the application of the topic, along with others.
Apply the ideas to one or more actual, hands-on physical systems, typically setting the system up, taking data, analyzing results and answering questions.
Read Class Notes documents which may address any combination of selected previous, current and future topics, and/or view video-linked versions of the same.
Read the associated 'material' in the text and solve text problems. The text is the 'last word' on a topic, not the first. By the time you read about the topic in the text, you will already know quite a bit about it through having engaged and experienced it. The text is intended as the final document for the topic, presenting it in clear relation to others.
These activities can span a number of assignments, so that by end of the process the topic will have had time to percolate and sink in.
The main thing you need to understand about this is that there are dozens of topics in your course, each of which can require days or weeks to develop. The result is that at any time you will simultaneously be developing and working on a number of topics.
Again you aren't expected to completely understand the assumptions and the sequencing. However give a short synopsis of what you do understand.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I understand there are questions (qa_2) that are used to engage our brains. The Text is the last word.
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