Week 1: Orientation

Orientation Activities - Instructor: laura-gibbs@ou.edu

Orientation Week: Monday August 25 - Monday September 1

Welcome! For many of you, this may be the first time you have taken a fully online course, but don't worry: we will spend the first week of classes doing Orientation Activities to help prepare you for your online activities this semester. You have due dates starting on Monday, with specific assignments due every day.

Ready to get started? Classes begin officially on Monday, August 25 - and you have work that is due on that Monday. The best strategy is to get started early, if possible.The course assignments will be available starting on Monday, August 18 so that you can get started one week early. Getting started early is a great way to make sure that you get the first week's work completed on time.

Below you will find a list of the REQUIRED activities for Week One. The total time required to complete these tasks is approximately 7-8 hours, which is the amount of time you can expect to be spending on this class every week. You may find it useful to print this page so that you can check off the items one by one as you finish them.

Due dates and deadlines: As you will see, there are items due on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. You really need to do the assignments on the day that they are due. The actual deadline is the following day at noon - an assignment that is due on Monday has a Tuesday noon deadline. In other words, Tuesday morning is a kind of emergency "grace period" in case you did not finish the work as required on Monday. The best strategy is to complete the work before the due date... you can put off the work until the due date if you have to - but please do not put off the work until the actual deadline! You are going to run into a lot of trouble if you do that. If an assignment is due on Monday, you should complete that assignment ON MONDAY. If you can make sure to do that, the assignments should go very smoothly for you!

DEADLINE Points Activity Estimated Time
Do not wait: please do this NOW.  

You should immediately take steps to acquire the four required books for this course. Your first reading quiz covers Narayan's version of the Ramayana, and it is due September 2. So, do not delay in getting the books, especially if you are going to order used or discounted copies online.

 
Due Monday Aug. 25 (deadline: noon Tuesday) 1 Technology Overview and Declaration Assignment (with Gradebook Declaration) 15 min.
Due Monday Aug. 25 (deadline: noon Tuesday) 1 Email and Course Communications Assignment (with Gradebook Declaration) 15 min.
Due Monday Aug. 25 (deadline: noon Tuesday) 1 Deadlines and Grading Assignment (with Gradebook Declaration) 15 min.
Due Monday Aug. 25 (deadline: noon Tuesday) 1 Ning Account Creation (with Gradebook Declaration) 15 min.
Due Monday Aug. 25 (deadline: noon Tuesday) 1 Web Activation (with Gradebook Declaration) 15 min.
Due Monday Aug. 25 (deadline: noon Tuesday) 1 Screenshot Assignment (with Gradebook Declaration) 15 min.
Due Tuesday Aug. 26 (deadline: noon Wednesday) 1 Getting Reading to Write (with Gradebook Declaration) 15 min.
Due Tuesday Aug. 26 (deadline: noon Wednesday) 2 Image Information Quiz (no Gradebook Declaration) 30 min.
Due Tuesday Aug. 26 (deadline: noon Wednesday) 3 Ning Introduction Post (with Gradebook Declaration). 30-45 min.
Due Wednesday Aug. 27 (deadline: noon Thursday) 3 Plagiarism and Honor Code (with Plagiarism Quiz) 30-45 min.
Due Wednesday Aug. 27 (deadline: noon Thursday) 3 Ning Story Retelling (with Gradebook Declaration) 30-45 min.
Due Thursday Aug. 28 (deadline: noon Friday) 3 Storybook Favorites (with Gradebook Declaration) 30-45 min.
Due Thursday Aug. 28 (deadline: noon Friday) 1 Course Strategies and Contract (with Gradebook Declaration) 15 min.
Due Thursday Aug. 28 (deadline: noon Friday) 1 Composer Program Installation (with Gradebook Declaration) 15 min.
Due Friday Aug. 29 or Saturday Aug. 30 or Sunday Aug. 31 (deadline: noon Monday) 5 Course Content Quiz: Ramayana and Mahabharata (no Gradebook Declaration) 1 hour
Due Friday Aug. 29 or Saturday Aug. 30 or Sunday Aug. 31 (deadline: noon Monday) 2 Read and Respond: Blog Comments (with Gradebook Declaration)
** This is the only assignment this week which you cannot complete early. You must WAIT until Friday, August 29, before you can do this assignment. The assignment can be completed on Friday, Saturday or Sunday, with a final deadline of noon on Monday. 		30 min.
(deadline: noon Monday) 1 Extra Credit: Technology Tip (with Gradebook Declaration)  
    Ready for more? You can go head and get started now on Week 2. You can even work on Week 3. The materials for this course are available two weeks in advance, and I strongly recommend that you take advantage of this and work a few days or even a full week or two in advance. You can get extra credit for working ahead - it's called "Early Bird" extra credit.  
(deadline: noon Monday) 1 Early Bird Reading Extra Credit: Take a point of extra credit if you finish the Week 2 Tuesday and Thursday assignments this week (with Gradebook Declaration)  
(deadline: noon Monday) 1 Early Bird Storybook Extra Credit: Take a point of extra credit if you turn in the Week 2 Storybook assignment this week. You don't need to wait for comments back from me; turning in the assignment is enough for extra credit. (with Gradebook Declaration)  

 

 

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