Tuesday, August 28th (.941)

Hello, all. Welcome to your second day of classes. My name is Amanda Hartman, and I will be your seminar instructor. If you are a student taking courses with Study Group, I will also be your academic advisor. Today I will provide an overview of the Learning Community, and you will introduce yourselves to me.

Reminders

• This is UCCP 1101.941 are you in the right place?

Today

• What is a Learning Community?

• Seminar: You are here!

• Writing and Rhetoric: You will be here.

• 0039: *Some* of you will be here.

• Using Blackboard and Google Drive

• Professor Mascorro will use Google for a variety of things. Her class plans and the majority of her 1302 and 0399 content will be accessible through Google.

• If you have questions about accessing these materials or plans, please reach out and ask questions. Both she and I are happy to assist you in making sense of this structure.

• Content for my course will be available primarily through Blackboard.

• You can access my syllabus, class plans, and your grade book through BB.

• Let's take a look...

• Breakout Session: Q&A

• Spend some time in your group creating a list of questions that you have for me. These questions can be about the class, the university, the city...whatever.

• Each group should have at least five questions on their list.

• Let's discuss.

Homework

• First-Year Selfie

• Take a selfie of yourself and insert it into a Word document. You should then answer the following questions on the same document. Your responses to questions 2 and 3 should be a bit more substantive than the first question. Remember, you are trying to provide me with valuable information about you, so this means evidence and explanations are expected.

• Q1: What is your preferred name? If you have a nickname or like to go by your middle name...whatever...just make a note of it.

• Q2: What skills are you most confident about as a student? Are you a great writer or public speaker? Can you note-take with the best of them #colorcodeordie? What are you bringing to the table?

• Q3: What are you most concerned about as your transition into your first semester? This could be something academic or a bit more personal. How do you plan to conquer those fears?

• For submission purposes, you can do this on a standard Word doc. and submit it to BB, or you can create this in Google Drive and submit a shared link to BB.

• I don't really care which method you choose, but understand that you will need to work with Google docs eventually.