Watson School of Education
Department of Specialty Studies
EDN 200 Teacher, School and
Society John Fischetti
Welcome to EDNL 200 Section 440! To begin
the course you’ll need to go to this web address starting on January 8th:
http://uncw.eduprise.com/webct/public/home.pl
Once there, log on with your initials and
the last four digits of your social security number for your user name, for
example, ABC1234. You must
capitalize your three initials. Your password will be the last five digits
of your social security number. If
another login screen comes up, press cancel and you should be directed to our
homepage.
Once you’re in the course, notice the links
on the green navigational side bar. Take some time and explore each link. The Calendar
will be the place you will read your specific assignments. Simply click on
the link for the day, and you’ll be taken to the assignment explanation. All
assignments are due by midnight every Wednesday night of class. There will
be a 20% penalty for each day you submit late. A nice feature of the
calendar is the Compile button. Click there and you can see the entire
semester’s assignments on one page.
You will post your first assignment by going
to the Discussion Forum found in the green side bar on the homepage. Once
you're in the Discussion Forum, click on the topic "Getting to Know
You.” You may either submit by typing directly into the text box, or
you may word process it and submit this as an attachment. To submit as an
attachment, simply hit the BROWSE box, select the name of the file, and
be sure and click on ATTACH FILE. Finally, you must click on POST. You
make preview your work before posting or cancel if you choose not to submit.
Remember that all your classmates will be able to read what you've written here.
You should see a paper clip when you submit if you've attached the file
correctly.
This method of submitting is the same method
you'll use to submit your graded assignments. The advantage of saving your work
as a WORD file and then submitting it is that you can utilize the spell check
feature and have all your work saved on your disk or hard drive. Typing
directly into the text box will work as well, but you always run the risk of
having a computer glitch and losing your work. For long assignments, I'd
definitely suggest using the attachment method.
You
will use the Internal Mail tool to send me an email during the
class. Don’t send an email to me at my
UNCW address. Stay inside our on-line
homepage for all of our assignments.
Please send your on-line assignments to me this way. Use my regular email address to contact me
otherwise. You should log on to the
course at least every other day to check your email. To send a message, click on Compose Message, Browse, then
highlight the name of the person to whom you wish to send an email.
For EDN 200, the Chapter Notes are
very important to your understanding of the course. I have outlined the
important points in the text and have added additional information not included
in the text. You must read these carefully in order to complete your
assignments.
For EDN 200 Field Studies, there will be no
Chapter Notes. The Calendar will be your main resource.
The
Glossary is simply an online
dictionary containing words used in our course.
The
Chat feature works just like any chat room with one exception. Within
the four numbered Chat rooms, I’ll be able to record your interactions with your
peers. The general chat room is not recorded. You will be asked to use this
feature as you work on team projects.
BECAUSE
IT WOULD BE HARD FOR YOU TO LOG ON AND COMPLETE OUR FIRST ASSIGNMENT ON JANUARY
8TH, “GETTING TO KNOW YOU,” IS DUE BY FRIDAY, JANUARY 10TH AT
MIDNIGHT. ALL OTHER ASSIGNMENTS OF THE
CLASS WILL BE DUE ON THE WEDNESDAY OF CLASS BY MIDNIGHT.
Other
information related to UNCW’s on-line courses is available at http://www.uncw.edu/online/