Following our committment to ‘Learning Community’,
we partner together in education. That means that
we talk, share ideas, concerns, and work together
for Continuous Quality Improvement and Innovation (CQII).
Since the enrollment in CIS 701 has grown this semester
(Spring 2001) to 40+ students, and since some of you
are working full time, and can not check-in with me weekly,
here are the rules we will follow, so that you will not
get ‘lost in cyberspace’, and will gain full benefit from
the course:
Attendance. Two ways:
1. Once per week come to K-307 from 7-11 am, Tues and Thurs,
and sign in on the attendance form posted on the wall.
Add your name if necessary.
2. email me -- cyberprof@hotmail.com
Write the following in the subject window:
701.lastname.firstname.2001.02.02 -- about 200 points total.
So Tanya Cooke who has about 300 points and checks in
for the week ending Feb.9.2001 writes:
701.cooke.tanya.2001.02.09 -- 300 points
I, or my cyber tutor Teresa Tonjes -- you can email her at my
email address -- please go ahead and get her help -- she is a
treasure -- will sort these and as you possibly can see that
I will get at list like the following:
701.cooke.tanya.2001.02.09 -- 300 points
701.cooke.tanya.2001.02.16 -- 400 points
701.cooke.tanya.2001.02.23 -- 500 points
How cool is that? Both Tanya and I can track her progress.
No more getting 'lost in cyberspace'!
Projects:
As you know, passing the class is based on points earned.
3000 for an "A", 2700 for "B",
2400 for "C", 2100 for "D".
You earn points (3) ways:
1, Each project (listed under CIS 701 Projects is 100 Points).
2, Each 'Auciello Reading Comprehension Quiz' that is passed = 20 points
to a maximum of 1600 points.
You must pick up your "Start" disk in K-307 and prove
to me that you can run it. (Easy. Just go to MS-DOS,
type A:\, then type ‘START’
Your screen will look like this:
A:\START
Press <Enter> and follow the prompts. The quizzes are
timed and require college level reading comprehension and
they take concentration and speed to pass! (I have ‘flunked’
some of my own quizzes.) Do all the quizzes on Windows,
Win 98 and Microcomputers. Don’t worry if you flunk, because
you retake them over until you pass, and the top scores replace
the low scores.
Study them. They contain a lot of information!
Your scores are recorded on the "Start" Disk.
When you bring it to class, (or arrange with Teresa for
drop off and pick up at the college), we grade the
quizzes using a special database program that gives
you a printout that looks like this:
micro-00 Jan.01.2001 90
micro-01 Jan.01.2001 70 (must have 80 to pass)
Hold on to that printout. Put it in the plastic ViewBinder
along with your completed projects that you will turn in at the
semester’s end.
3. Extra Credit (300 max). Awarded for helping others.
Fixing the printer, ‘above and beyond’ type achievement.
You record these on the Extra Credit form (on the web),
and put in your notebook.
On this page, projects are listed under CIS 701. Also, because I want
you to know about it, you can get 100 points each for downloading, analyzing,
writing your reaction (agree or disagree) and initialing each of the topics
in Deming’s 14 Principles, Total Quality Managment, Zero Quality Management,
and Principles of Total Communication! (How about that?)
Also there is a "HELP’ file for most assignments. Since there are about 50 projects,
you can select the ones that you do.
Furthermore, there are about 5 ‘Check-Ins for 701’ that you can do.
They ‘nag’ you a bit to do your work. They can be submitted also for
credit.
Summary: To be in the class, you have to show me that you can
access the information from this page, and run the quizzes on the
"Start" disk.
If you need to, I can ‘burn’ a CD with the projects on it.
Usually, I can do this in 5 mins if not too busy.
Also, optionally, we can take your picture with a digital camera,
or scan in any photos that you bring in and save your pictures as
a .JPG file on your disk.
The whole idea is to work hard, constantly, kick it up several notches
to the ‘excellence’ level, and cross the ‘digital divide’ by becoming a
competent PC user! The course is about your demonstrating your set of
information technology skills.
Contact me 7-11 Mon-Wed (K304) or T-T (K307) or by email
Talk to me, and show me what you know!
Making it happen.
Prof. Auciello. Out.
(as you help me by contributing to the class, possibly I
can get to the goal of putting all your work, your resume, and pictures on a CD.
So you carry your own bio in a CD folder!
How cool is that?)
If we do the "Learning Community" stuff, we can all get ahead!