Barry+McCarthy

=Critique of Barry's Checklist for using the SOCCCD MySite student email portal by Don Baxter= The step by step instructions are used it providing technical instructions, Helpdesk instructions to end users. The Information Technology industry uses this form of instructions when providing Helpdesk support, installation instructions when installing a new computer. All Information Technology projects and day to day tasks use this form of communication to make sure all steps are completed. Authors Conrad and Smith talk about how important it is to make sure the students are familiar with the technology they will be using in your course prior to beginning course content.It like hiring a employee that has not computer experience using the mouse or keyboard and have then do billing or track parts in a database. They will spend the first couple months learning to use the computer before they can understand where to input data in the software program. =Barry McCarthy= Course : Bus 1 Task : Checklist to Forward College Email Objective : Familiarize Student with Available Tools and Facilitate Ongoing Communication Author : Tailored Plagiarism Method : Asynchronously

Instructions : 1. Log into the Saddleback MySite ([|http://saddleback.edu] 2. Click the MySite button to go to the MySite Login Page (you might want to bookmark this page). 3. Enter your Student ID number. 4. Enter your PIN number. Either this number was assigned to you or you picked the number when you registered. If the number was assigned, it will be the last four digits of your social security number. If you picked the number, only you will know it. If you have forgotten your number, you will have to personally contact Admissions and Registration to get your PIN, which may require going to the campus with picture identification. Once you enter MySite, you should be directed to take a tour. If you miss the tour for some reason, there is a tour button at the bottom of the main page. After you take the tour complete the following: Forward your college email to the email account you check daily. Follow these steps. 1. Click the E-mail button 2. Click the Web E-mail button - You will be prompted for your user name (jsmith2) and your e-mail password. Your e-mail password is your PIN number plus two zero’s. Example 123400. Previous students may have already logged in and also changed their e-mail address password, in which case, it is set to that password. 3. Click the Options button 4. Click the Settings button 5. Under Mail Forwarding: Forward copies of new messages to (one address per line): Enter the e-mail address you want course e-mails and materials sent. Use either your home or business e-mail account. 6. By using the forwarding option, you will always receive the e-mails at your selected site. You can forward mail to more than one address. 7. IMPORTANT: Once you have finished entering the information, you must click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the page. 8. Use the Inbox button to check your e-mail messages or any other button to continue using MySite. 9. Test your e-mail forwarding! Make sure it works! 10. Repeat. Test your e-mail forwarding! Make sure it works!
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Dear Tailored Plagiarism Can you do all of this on your iPhone? mm

=Critique of Barry's Checklist for using the South Orange County Community College District MySpace student and staff email portal by Marcia Milchiker= This was an excellent way to assist students to become comfortable using the SOCCCD District IT staff designed and created incredible MySite portal for their student email. It is important because it instructs students how to forward all the email that comes into their student account to their home email adresses. This insures that students will receive the emails from the college and from their professor sent to their student email. Authors Smith and Conrad empasize how important it is to familiarized your students with the technology they will be using in your course prior to beginning course content. I was the famous mm who asked if you could do this on your iPhone. The slightly offbeat humor is helpful to lure bright creative students into having a positive attitude while beginning the dry cookbook steps they have to learn to use the technology. It invites these students to join in the fun and not be afraid to jump into the discussions they can be a part of once they master the new technology. It sets a tone for class participation and interaction between the students. These interactions are an important component in retention of the isolated online student. This is a much needed technical activity which is expressed clearly and sequentially. The web email issue is an important problem to solve since students generally resist accessing their college email. I enjoyed the blend of contemporary humor within the activity which demonstrates to the students an acceptance of their worldview and of culturally accepted multitasking practices. The activity accomplishes its purpose of providing valuable instruction and facilitating ongoing class communication. In addition, it affords students an opportunity to know their instructor better which often creates a friendly and positive class climate.
 * Critique of Barry's Checklist to Forward College Email by Linda Morris Freshwater **

Critique of Barry's Checklist to Forward College Email by Maryam Afshari ** Barry,this is a good start to guide the students how to use the tools and methods to participate, not to miss any class e-mail and use of blackboard. I would think that information could be in the syllabus. I believe exchanging information, not just between students and teacher but among the students, as if we were in the classroom would create a welcoming start for the class. Amy McWhorter’s critique of Barry McCarthy’s activity: I love this activity! It’s very clearly written out step-by-step and I know how important this can be. I think that since this is something you would want students to accomplish at the start of a class, you might give them a deadline of 48 hours to accomplish the task. I thought of two ways an instructor might build on this activity: 1) to promote student interaction you can ask them to partner up to test the email forwarding feature with one another. You can also let them know that they can help each other by posting questions to a discussion board dedicated to the task. OR 2) as a way of checking to be sure all students have successfully accomplished the task, the instructor can let students know that they will receive instructions for a discussion board topic at their college email addresses.

Barry,

First—you certainly provided the most yucks! Second- thanks for these instructions; I had been too lazy to look them up myself. Third- these are important steps for students to familiarize themselves with at the beginning of any course. I hope your classmates make use of at least some of this as they develop their syllabus for their final project next week.

These are not, however, particularly “engaging” activities. These would be among the “independent work” activities that you will include in your final (annotated syllabus) project next week.

LeeAnn