Week 1 (Jan.23rd, 07)

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Week 1 (Jan.23rd, 07)

• Agenda for today
• Learning community building
• Course overview

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• Shufang Shi

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Know you, know me

• Name
• Where are you from?
• What other obligations do you have in addition to
  taking this course?
• Find out five things you share in common. One
  person reports for the group to the class.

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Know me more

• In 10 words or less, tell us something about
  yourself that no one could guess by looking at
  you.

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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 Sharing Tricks

• 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
• How to reward for sharing?
• Suggestions?

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

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My Teaching Philosophy

• http//web.cortland.edu/shis/
• Tell a piece that you like, or a piece that you
  do not like. Give reasons.

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Classroom Guidelines and Expectations

• Bring with you a positive attitude and enthusiasm
  to the class every Tuesday evening
• Be punctual
• No email or IM on class
• Refrain from side-conversation
• 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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