Week 1

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Week 1

• Agenda
• Learning community building
• Course overview

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Know you, know me
Shufang Shi
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Developing a Goose Sense of Community

• The Goose Story

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• This springwhen you see geeseheading north for
  the summerflying along in a "V" formation,
  youmight be interested in knowing what
  sciencehas discovered about why they fly that
  way. Ithas been learned that as each bird flaps
  itswings, it creates an uplift for the bird
  immediatelyfollowing. By flying in a "V"
  formation,
• the whole flock adds at least 71
• greater flying range
• than if each bird flew on
• its own.

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• 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.

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• Whenevera goose falls outof formation, it
  suddenlyfeels the drag and resistanceof trying
  to go it alone, and quicklygets into formation
  to take advantage of thelifting power of the
  bird immediately in front. (Ifwe have as much
  sense as a goose, we will stayin formation with
  those who are headed thesame way we are going.)
  When the lead goosegets tired, she rotates back
  in the wing andanother goose flies point. (It
  pays to take turnsdoing hard jobs - with people
  or with geeseflying north.) The geese honk from
  behind toencourage those up front to keep up
  theirspeed. (What do we say when we honk
  frombehind?)

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• Finally(Now I wantyou to get this),when a
  goose gets sick,or is wounded by gun shotsand
  falls out, two geese fall out offormation 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 theylaunch 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.)

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Class Norms

• A Goose Sense of Community
• Sharing
• Supportive
• Positive

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Class Norms sharing

• What to share any technical skills you recently
  discovered
• A cool website http//www.bitbetter.com/samples/a
  nimations.htm
• A cool web design detail/trick
• A small trick right click
• A big trick screen shot

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Become Sharing and Supportive

• Tell each other how proficient you are at using
  computers and programs.
• Learn a computer trick/tip from your partner.

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Required

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

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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.

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Teaching Assistants

• 4-6 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

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The Letter for Your Teaching Assistantship
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Next Class

• Course Overview
• Windows basics

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Desk Top Magics
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Desk Top Magics Properties
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Title Bar Menu Bar Tool Bar Main Window
Task Bar
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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

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Practice explorer and desktop icon

• Create a windows explorer icon on the task bar
• Create a desktop icon on the task bar

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File management

• Files and Folders
• Basic Desktop Operations

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