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Click on the questions or scroll down.
See also the English Dept. Web site's "FAQs"
page at http://depts.inverhills.edu/English/engFAQs.htm.
Click on the questions or scroll down.
See also the English Dept. Web site's "FAQs"
page at http://depts.inverhills.edu/English/engFAQs.htm.
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ONLINE SECTION: Go to the Web site each week or two and check the “Records.” To do this, go to the course home page, find "FOL Records" (under "Homework" or in one of the the two long, thin brown rectangles), and click on it. Then simply choose the weekly-papers records or the attendance records. You should do this every week or two to make sure everything seems right to you. If something seems to be missing or you seem to have only have half credit, see the questions below labeled "I have questions about virtual bulletin-board classes."
FACE-TO-FACE SECTION: Simply look at the "Attendance" or "Weekly Papers" credit sheet when it is passed around in class. I don't pass the "Weekly Papers" sheet around every time, so if you want to see it, just ask that it be passed around, and I'll be glad to do so. You also can come up before or after class to see either or both sheets.
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Yes. I always try to return your homework to you with credit marked on it.
FULLY-ONLINE SECTION: If you’ve emailed the homework, I’ll return it by email. If you’ve dropped it off or mailed it, I’ll stick it in the workroom across from my office, B136, in a black metal-mesh file holder that says in big words on the front, “Pick up from Richard” and sits beside the big paper cutter on the counter. If you’ve mailed it to me with a self-addressed, stamped envelope, I’ll return it in the envelope. You need to pick up your papers once a week or so to see if you got credit for them (and if not, why not). If you have homework with X's for credit on it, but you don’t have the credit on your record of weekly papers, then show me your homework again with the credit marked on it, and I’ll be more than happy to give you the credit due.
FACE-TO-FACE SECTION: I usually return your homework during class. If I don't, usually that means I don't have it done, yet. If you come late and want to know whether I returned homework, just ask me after class so that you can collect it then.
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3a. MOST BB QUESTIONS are on the BB in "FAQs": Please go to this Web site's "Bull. Board" page and, in there, click on the link to the class BB (the link that starts with "http://groups.msn.com/..."). Once you're on the BB, look in its "FAQs" section (for the link, look in the left-hand column, near the top). However, immediately below are some basic, starting FAQs about BB class.
3b. HOW DO I GET TO THE CLASS BULLETIN BOARD AND START?
Simply go back to the home page of this Web site. Then look at the colored box in the lower-right corner that says "Bull. Boards." Click on it. If you are just starting, then please read the page. Then, to get the bulletin board itself, simply click on the link near the beginning of the page.
3c. HOW COME I CAN SEE THE BULLETIN BOARDS BUT I CAN'T WRITE A MESSAGE? HOW DO I JOIN THE CLASS BB?
See the starting directions both in this Web site's "Bull. Board" page and on the bulletin board itself (see the top of the left-hand column for the directions on the BB). Read those. You'll find out that you can see the BB without being a member, but to write on the BB, you have to go through two joining processes. The first is to join MSN and get an MSN "Passport Account." (If you already have a hotmail or MSN.com account, then that is your "Passport Account.") The second joining process is to become a member of the class bulletin board itself. The directions on the "Bull. Board" page will tell you how. Usually this information is covered during the first class of the semester.
3d. ARE BULLETIN BOARDS REQUIRED?
Yes. They are part of your attendance grade. To see more details about how bulletin-board classes fit into your attendance grade, go back to the home page of this Web site and click on the colored box that says "Attendance."
3e. HOW CAN I MAKE UP MISSED BULLETIN BOARDS?
You can still do them. To find out how, go to your class bulletin board, find the left-hand column of links and weeks, and look for "FAQs" at the top of that column. Then click on it, and look there. You also can make up missed bulletin boards just as you could any missed class on campus--by doing attendance make ups. To find out how to do attendance make ups, go back to the home page of this Web site, click on the "Attendance" colored box, and then click on "Make Ups."
3f. OTHER QUESTIONS are on the BB in "FAQs": As "3a." above says, for most questions about the BB, please go to this Web site's "Bull. Board" page and, in there, click on the link to the class BB (the link that starts with "http://groups.msn.com/..."). Once you're on the BB, look in its "FAQs" section (for the link, look in the left-hand column, near the top).
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Certainly! You can call me at home 9 am to 9 pm (612-870-7024) or drop by my office at school during my office hours. You also can drop off homework at my home, if necessary, or even meet me at a coffeehouse in my home area of Minneapolis (Loring Park/Uptown) when I won't be at school for several days. For fuller information, go to www.richard.jewell.net and click on "Contact Richard.".
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Yes and no. Here's how:
The Photo & Info Sheet and the "Class Journals" in both face-to-face and online courses: I'd like these as soon as possible, but I'm easy on this one--I'll take them any time and still give you credit.
Face-to-Face Classes and Online Classes: A class miss is a class miss. However, there are multiple ways to make up class attendance misses: see "Makeup & Extra Credit." In addition, concerning bulletin-board classes, I do allow people to do them late. For directions on how to do this, see the "FAQs" page right on the bulletin board.
Wed. Homework, FACE-TO-FACE COURSE only: It's due by Wednesday with almost no exception, unless you tell me ahead of time of an emergency. This means you can turn it in to me in class on/by Wed., or you can leave it my office mailbox before I leave school on Wednesday. (If I've already left, you can ask my secretary to initial it and put a time on it on Wednesday. She leaves around 4:30 p.m.) You also can email it to me before midnight.
In addition, you can leave it at my condo (see "Contact Richard"). You're welcome to drop it off by 9 p.m. directly to me (in 410 Groveland), or see the 24-hour security guard in the next door building (400 Groveland) and ask him to write the time and remind him to give me a message that your work is in the front office.
I'll allow a little more latitude in accepting homework the first few weeks if you honestly are confused about what is due when, explain why to me, and get it to me as quickly as possible. [I also allow exceptions for an immediate emergency, like a car wreck driving to my house (which actually happened to one of my students once!).] Otherwise, once the Wed. homework is past these deadlines, it cannot be made up. (However, as I discuss in class, you can keep taking a zero--"0"--for attendance and still show up, and your homework will not be due until the next time you come. If you do this, I'll let you add a "\" to it so that you get a little bit of credit just for showing up.)
Face-to-Face Comp. Courses--Drafts 1, 2, 3, & 4: In the past, I've been allowing these to be turned in when you get to them, except for the Draft 4's, for which there are final deadlines shown in the "Schedule" and the Course Packet's "Table of Assignments."
Wed./Thurs. Homework, ONLINE COURSE only:
It's due by Wed. afternoon before I leave school if you are turning it in on regular paper at school. Otherwise, it is due by Thursday midnight. I'll take it up to a week late, but no later! (I'll allow even more latitude in the first few weeks if you honestly are confused about what is due when, explain why to me, and get it to me as quickly as possible.) Once the Wed./Thurs. homework assignment is past these deadlines (and past the time I decide to look at it and record it every weekend), it cannot be made up.
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You bet. Here's how:
ONLINE SECTION: Homework assignments are due on Wednesdays. Homework is entirely different from bulletin board (discussion board) postings. Bulletin board postings are class attendance with classroom activities, not homework. Homework assignments are explained in the "Homework" Web page and listed in the Schedule, and they are due each Wednesday by email, mail, or drop off.
FACE-TO-FACE SECTION: Homework is always due at the beginning of class on Wednesdays (for Mon.-Wed. day classes or Wed.night classes) or Thursdays (for Tues.-Thurs. day classes or Thurs. night classes). Homework is entirely different from bulletin board (discussion board) postings. Bulletin board postings are class attendance with classroom activities, not homework. Homework assignments are explained in the "Homework" Web page and listed in the Schedule.
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Yes, probably. If you mean that you want to do your term paper on something you've read already as an assignment during our course (like, for example, a fairy tale from Week 1), then definitely, go ahead. Just read something new to take care of independent assignments around the time of the term paper.
If you are referring to something you've read on your own before this semester, then yes, you may use it for a term paper and/or for independent homework if you do some rereading--reread as much as you would be expected to do for the regular homework reading assignments. If you already have all your homework reading assignments filled with something, then you still can use a reading you have done before the semester--just be sure to write a Draft I for it, along with your Draft II. So, for example, if you've read all three of the Lord of the Rings books, be sure to write a Draft I about whatever you will write for your term paper. If you still have some independent homework weeks to fill in, and you want to do them with Lord of the Rings, you'll have to actually reread them (unless you read them in this same semester).
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ONLINE SECTION: Yes, you should be worried! That is, you should be worried if you are in the totally online section. I usually send out at least one email a week, sometimes more. Be sure that you have given me a good mail address, that you check it each week, and that your email box isn’t getting so full that no new emails can come into it. I send you email every week, normally, and some of it is vital information--absolutely necessary for the class. If you are not getting email every week, check your account, and contact me quickly.
FACE-TO-FACE SECTION: Nope, not much--not if your coming to class regularly each week and you see me there. I announce things of importance in class. However, I do occasionally email important or helpful information, so if you're not getting any emails at all from me, you better ask whether I have made a class email list (a list with everyone's email address on it, used for emailing the whole class at the same time) and, if so, whether you are on it.
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| 9. HOW SHOULD I ORGANIZE THE SUBTITLES WHEN WRITING MY WEEKLY HOMEWORK? |
For reading ColleWriting.info's chapters about how to write about literature, please use two Underlined Subtitles if there are two chapters, Three if there are three, and Four Subtitles if there are four chapters. Do the same, please, when you read the Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Write on each one in proportion to the length of the chapter as compared to the other chapters: in other words, if you have four chapters, one is short, two are medium, and one is long, then your notes or comments should be correspondingly short, medium, and long.
In writing Reading Analyses of each of the stories or poems assigned, simply list each of the elements in each story or poem, no matter the length of the story or poem. Aside from the improved recall and meditation upon the readings that I hope you will experience, I also want to see whether you've read each reading. So, be sure to write enough—and in a specific enough way—on each so that I can tell you read it.
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This only happens maybe once a year, but if it happens when you are trying to reach the course web site, here is what to do ahead of time to avoid this problem.
It is better to go directly to whichever web site you need, if possible. You can do this most easily by bookmarking. This means you create a "shortcut" on your computer to two different sites: www.richardjewell.net and www.umn.edu/home/jewel001/literature/2235/home.htm. If you have your own computer, start each bookmark by first going on the Web to the website above that you want to bookmark. Then click on "Favorites" (sometimes called "Bookmarks"); then add the site. (If you want more directions on bookmarking, go to the course Web site: on the home page, click on "How To Use This Web Site."
However, if you use school computers, they won't keep bookmarks. So, instead, for school use, you can copy the two web addresses just above to a Word file, and then save this word file on your flash drive. Then, if you need to, you can go to the flash drive and click on the Web addresses to go to them. Or you can simply write down the Web addresses as given just above, stick them in your billfold for emergencies.
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D2L--or Desire To Learn--is a Web system used by Inver Hills Community College and some other state colleges and universities. Other colleges, universities, or teachers use other systems such as WebCT, Blackboard, et al. The simple answer to why we are not using D2L is that accessing a standard Web site like our course Web site allows more flexibility for me to a great extent, and to you to some extent as you do not have to worry about the system being down or unavailable quite as often.
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