Module 1 - Introductions (Due Sun, 5/15)

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Welcome to the opening module of our Seminar: Writing a Graduate Paper. We will begin by having you create your own introductory discussion postings on eLearning.

Who Am I Blog: Make your eLearning Discussion posting on the Who Am I blog which is on our eLearning website. Remember that we threw out the challenge for you to introduce yourself through a vlog (video log). It would be appreciated (but not required) if you could keep this below 5 minutes. This is just a challenge so you can post to this blog using only text (and/or images) if you wish.

You will answer these questions:
1. Tell us who you are, where you work and what makes you special.
2. What is your area of interest for study? You don't have to have a topic of review yet, but where is your passion? You don't have a passion? Get one and share it.
3. Explain what effects you would like your research/review to have on learning in your specific institution, subject area or education as a whole.

Once you have completed your posting, provide meaningful responses to at least two of your colleagues. Remember that this is presented in a Blog fashion so you will be replying using a comment format.

Discovering Your Learning Styles: Complete the Felding Index of Learning Styles. Yes, I know that you have probably already completed this last year, but wouldn't it be interesting to see if things have changed. Don't try to remember how you answered it last time, answer what is true today.  Copy or Print the results so that you can add them to the database in the next step.

Entering Your Learning Styles: Enter your Learning Styles results into our Seminar database. After you get this all done, I will make the results from last year's and this year's available online so you can compare them if you wish.

What Do You Know?: Complete the Technical Skills Survey. I will make this information (Sans ages) available online as well so that you can make comparisons to measure your growth as well.

Read the Course Materials: I want you to know what is expected in this course. Therefore, you will have the opportunity to read all of these materials.  There are some tricky requirements in this class so you need to know what they are. 

Read Chapters 1 & 2 of the book.

Looks to be a wonderful semester of exploration and creation.  I look forward to enjoying your work.

Z