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Thursday, January 18

What Are We Doing Today?

  • Today's Goal

  • Dr. Billeaux's Course Guide

  • Syllabus and Class Webpage discussion

  • Time Management Unit

  • Reminders

Today's Goal

  • Reflect and integrate learning from learning community courses, including development of critical thinking skills, social and/or personal responsibility.

Syllabus and Web Page Discussion

  • What is our attendance policy?

  • What is our electronic device policy?

  • What assignments do we have?

  • What are my office hours?

  • Where can you find our daily class plans?

  • How much is our integrated assignment worth?

  • What are Learning Community Points?

Reminders...

A​) Political Science 

  • Reading: Barbour and Wright Chapter 1

  • Quiz: Syllabus Quiz (due Jan. 25) and Chapter 1 Quiz (Jan. 25)

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B) Composition

1. Read threshold 1.0 and 1.1 in Naming What We Know, and Read Information Literacy Concept "Research as Inquiry" (reading at the bottom of the Habits and Terms page.)

 

2. Write and Respond to the following: 

 

How do you think Threshold Concept 1.0 and 1.1 will apply to your writing and research once you graduate (In your Daily communication, future career, etc.)?  How do you think Threshold Concept 1.0, 1.1 applies to your past writing and research experiences? Give examples that you think demonstrate Threshold Concept 1.0  and 1.1 (Any writing, school and non-school related writing). 

 

Furthermore,  how do you think your writing may have been different if you had been introduced to this concept earlier in your writing life?

 

How does this concept change / transform / expand your knowledge about writing, and the ways you think about using writing? Offer one or more "before" and "after" examples.

 

3. Come prepared with questions concerning ACRL Concept "Research as Inquiry". We will write about this concept in class first thing Thursday. 

 

4. Begin thinking about your passions, interests, and goals. You will use these as a source of inspiration for your semester research projects. Come prepared Thursday to discuss these research interests. 

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C) Learning Community Points

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Time Management Unit

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  • Inbox

    • Take time to find out what you have to do. Write down everything you need to get done that you can remember. Don't worry about the order it comes out, if things are related, or when they are due. Just write down what needs to get done. 

 

  • Create Actionable Tasks

    • Look at your list of things to do. Are they vague or are they clearcut actionable items. For example, if you have "study" as a to-do, then that is very vague. Study what? If you have study for Poli-sci, then that too is still vague, though less vague thane merely study. Change it to something very specific like, "study from topic review. questions 1-5" etc. Break down every to do into small, simpler, actionable tasks. 

 

  • Sort and Prioritize

    • Now that everything is written out. Start to sort out what you needs to be done now, and what needs to be done later. Now is when you can start setting dates and time lines. Often once you have set dates and timelines it is good to set a time to complete each task. Though this might not work for every task, and may change over the course of the semester. (See review section)

 

  • Do 

    • Last, begin doing what you need to do as each item becomes actionable. Get Things Done! It helps if you keep a list and you can physically scratch off these items as you complete them. It offers you a sense of accomplishment. 

 

  • Review

    • Pay attention to when you are getting things done and when you are deviating from your plan. If you are deviating from your plan, that's okay. Perhaps it was a bad idea to plan to study immediately after lunch, and you're ready for your afternoon nap. Essentially, take the time, regularly, to ask your self "What about my plan works, and what doesn't? What can I do to make things work again." This may require changing when you do things throughout the day, this may require breaking things down into smaller chunks - maybe your world or environment has just changed and your previous plan is no longer a real option. Then it's time to make some changes. Reviewing and adapting is one of the most important parts of time management. 

 

Create and use a Calendar based on your time management process.

Dr. Billeaux's Course Guide and Class Structure

 

The great thing about being a part of Professor Billeaux's is that he gives you all a "Course Guide," which is designed to inform you of how to be a successful student in his class and how to make full use of the resources he provides you. 

 

Let's work together and get into groups. Each group will read a section of the course guide and summarize it into three to four sentences in a google doc. Therefore, Each group will need to read the text then choose:

  • a researcher (in charge of working closely with the text of the guide to help out the Note-Taker in summarizing the text),

  • a Note-taker who will be in charge of writing the summary,

  • a speaker who will be in charge of presenting their summary and findings to the classroom. 

 

We will then put all of our "spark-notes" together to create a mini course guide, and begin devising a plan of attack for the rest of the semester based on what we have learned from the course guide. 

 

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One section per group:

  • Following Lectures and Taking Notes

  • Doing Your Reading

  • Preparing for Exams

  • In-Class Discussion Questions

  • Identification Questions

  • Final Caveat

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