ELH 540: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What do you mean by "exceeding the criteria" of the assignment with regard to the letter grade of A?

• If you link your reflection to the Text, the Case Scenario, and your Reflective Experience, you have met the minimal requirements of the assignment.  To exceed this, you must support your Reflective Learning Task with additional resources (i.e. journal articles, books, tapes, interviews, etc.) that adds to both the depth and breadth of your reflection.  These Reflections are due weekly and need to be emailed to me (aviles@bradley.edu) no later than Monday, 12:00 p.m.

• Like other group projects in traditional classroom settings, it will be important to meet and share ideas as a team.  Unlike other classes, you may wish to do this in a variety of ways in addition to meeting over a cup of coffee, such as: arranging times to meet in one of the Virtual Chat rooms, email, or communicating through Discussion Board.  Remember that your team project will be posted with encouragement for class member feedback.

•  It is encouraged that you compose this in HTML (both Netscape and Explorer have user-friendly composers) that will allow for increased flexibility for your project (i.e. images, graphs, colors, animation, etc.).  NOTE:  The composer in Netscape "writes" in HTML and is much like a word processor for the internet.  Its written script  can be read by any web browser.  Here's a start:  open Netscape and click on "File" in the top left corner.  A menu willl drop down and you can click on "New", then "Blank Page".  A blank page will open on your browser and you can begin to type, just as if you were using a word processor.  Similarly, to save you just click on the disc icon in the upper-left of the page and the program will save the file in the directory or folder of your choice.  You can then email the saved document to me and I will post it on this website.  I encourage you to experiment with the menu options after "File".  You can try using one of Netscape's templates, just follow the directions at the top of the template page.  Another option is to use your word processor to create a document, then save it in "HTML".

• The course has a link to assist in monitoring your progress in the class.  This will be done by a confidential "pin code" that will be emailed to you early in the class.  Click Here if you would like to go there now.

• There is usually a high learning curve early in the course.  Getting comfortable with the internet, your computer, and the flow of the web course takes time at the computer.  I have provided a substantial amount of information in the "Orientation" section to assist in this learning curve.  Also, this web class will be changing and evolving throughout the summer session.  It will be important to check often for messages on Hypernews, Announcements, class roster,  and posting of team projects.  The final and summative assessment for the course will also be posted on the web page.  As you get more confident with your computer and web skills, your efficiency will decrease the amount of time you will need to spend in the course.  Most stuents find, however, that this just allows more time to explore and broaden their understanding of worldwide web.  Since this is where future counseling services is expanding to, it my hope that you will grasp this opportunity.