I'll do the traditional first day things. I'll introduce myself and the course, start to familiarize myself with your names (I apologize in advance if I pronounce them badly--it will take awhile before I get them right). I have old ears, and the air circulation system in the building is mighty loud, so if you speak up, that will help. I'm e-mailing the link to this weeks work so you can get a head start reading the material on the HOME PAGE
You'll notice, from the top of this page, that I have two very special sections. Section 5 is a LCC section--standing for living-learning community. Section 2, which occurs an hour and a half later, is an ELI section--standing for English Language Institute. They are in rooms next door to each other,, and not because I'm lazy. It is my hope to bring my two sections to know each other. How lucky that makes us. It means we'll have the opportunity to learn more about more places, customs, and people than students in other sections will have. I'll be talking more about that later
Above are two views of the Disney song, "It's a Small World After All". At the left is the version from the 1964 World's Fair.. At the right a more recent version, from half way around the world, though still Walt Disney. Note the stereotypes in 1964. In 1964, most visitors to the fair probably wouldn't have thought about the problem of stereotyping people from different places. Hopefully, we're becoming better at looking beyond the stereotypes and really trying to get to know each other, As Julie Andrews sang in the musical "The King and I" a half century and more ago.
Besides getting to know each other, I hope to spend some time getting to help you know one of our important electronic tools: Bridges. I'm hoping that those of you who have used it before will be tutors for those who have less familiarity with it. You'll be using Bridges to turn in your written work. I'm hoping to use the Drop Box feature on Bridges as a method for you to turn in your reactions to your readings, which are in P.D.F. File format. If you don't have ADOBE Acrobat Reader. You can download either the MAC or Windows Version by clicking on the image below.
When you open Bridges, you'll find your section number at the top. Click on it, and you'll find the opening page for our bridges Section.
The Fourth from the top links to the Drop Box. If you click on it, you'll see something like this:
When you click on it, this is what you will see. Click on "browse" whicih will open your browser. Select the file you want to upload and click add file. Don't forget to click the upload files now button. You will get a confirmation that I've received your file.
I will give a demonstration in class, if all goes well. I will also give you a demonstration on how to annotate files using the free adobe reader.
