S21CEC21- Part 1

Hi Everyone.

Welcome to Week 11.

This week we're getting along, as you see, we're into

lessons or classes 21 22 we're going to be talking

about presentations first in this week's during this week's lessons,

Uh and we're going to get to Article eight, which

is our last article for the semester.

Yeah, can you believe that were already this far along?

We're going to be talking about the schedule at the

beginning just so we can really realize where we are

and where you know what we need to do to

get to the finish line, so to speak.

Um But during this week we I really want to

talk about presentations first just to get your you guys

going on the idea and to get you going well

in advance because presentations are the last thing that we're

going to do in the course this semester.

Okay. And as I as you may remember, you know,

during the first week, I talked about all, you know,

all the things that we would do in the class

and I mentioned that we would finish this way that

we would have.

We go through our articles, we go through four articles

in the first half and then have a midterm exam

and then we do the same thing in the second

half, we go through the four articles and then have

our final exam.

And unlike, um unlike maybe some other classes, I don't

like to finish the, the semester, you know, our time

together. I don't like to finish that with you, kind

of taking an exam and then turning it in.

That's a that's a very kind of lonely in some

ways. A lonely way to finish the, you know what?

I hope it has been a good semester with you

chatting and you know, and and working together on lessons

with your group members.

And so at the end of our semester we're going

to do it and kind of reverse order a little

bit, we're going to finish our last article this week,

article AIDS.

And then we're going to start thinking about presentations and

start kind of working together with our group to to

figure that, you know, what we're going to focus on

what you want to do.

And and so that's the idea is that at the

end of the semester we will have already finished the

kind of work part, so to speak of, of the

semester. We will we will have finished the writings.

By then Writing number two, you're already well into and

you're going to need to turn that in by the

deadline. I've already given you feedback for that and I've

talked with students about this uh you know, to help

if you need help, you can come during my office

hours and ask for help.

Um But but writing number two, we're going to be

done with writing to and we're going to finish the

final exam about the final four articles in our course,

or articles 567 and eight.

And then we have the exam and then we'll have

a presentation right?

We'll be able to make presentations with our groups and

you guys will have a lot of options about how

to do that, and I'll talk about that in the

first part of this lesson when I get into that.

Um But but the last thing we're going to do

as part of that presentation also is we're going to

have a chance for you to give feedback to other

groups about how they did with their presentations.

Okay, So the so in this course, you know, we

have three writings, right?

And we we finished writing one in the first half,

we're we're working on writing to now, which is the

longer writing the essay, as you know, and then when

we get to the end of the semester, we're going

to, you know, have the mid to have the final

exam. And then after the final exam we're going to

have um our presentations, we're going to watch other groups

presentations and then we're going to respond in writing The

third. Writing.

Writing# three for our course is going to be

just a brief response to the presentation.

Okay, So we're very much finishing the semester on kind

of letting students, letting you guys give your opinions and

give your perspective about, you know, what we've talked about

this semester, and uh and allowing you to do that

in writing individually um as well.

Okay, so it's a pretty good, I hope you like

it. I think it's a it's a pretty good way

to finish this semester and and again hopefully it'll be

enjoyable. Not not not quite as tense as some of

the other things we've done, maybe like exams, you know?

Uh Okay so presentations, again, we're finishing up here, we

still have about a month, you know, of classes left

or so you know, we have we have about four

weeks left.

Um but it's time for us to look ahead because

again, as I said, my my class, I structured maybe

a little differently than some of the other classes that

you might might be having this semester.

So schedule, let's take a look.

Oh, I should mention here, as I mentioned in the

top there, that there's no warm up video for this

week's article.

You know, we We normally begin with a warm up

for the article of the week and we have Article

eight this week, but I'm not going to give you

a warm up video for two reasons.

Number one is that I did, you know that I

need to and I would rather talk about the presentation,

you know, to get you started, get you, your group's

thinking about your presentations and to uh you know, that

we actually have three articles for this week that your

group is able to choose from.

So I didn't want to overwhelm you with three warmups,

you know, one for each of the three articles, but

also I think it's unnecessary because as I've noted before,

the three articles that we have as a choice for

you this week are all kind of related to the

articles that we've already studied in this in this semester.

Right? And we'll talk about that more, but we don't

need to warm up on the context.

We very much know those from having looked at other

other articles early in the semester, even just last week.

Mm Okay, so let's look at our schedule just briefly,

I've already mentioned most of what we need to know

about the schedule.

But again, you can see we've gone through a lot

of, you know, things in the course.

We've We've gone past the midterm exam, we studied article

567 and now this week you can see we're into

week 11 here And you can see that I'm talking

about presentations and article eight and And then we're going

to, you know, talk about Article eight a little bit

as well, that's what we're doing this week.

And so next week, Which is only week 12.

Again, we we we go all the way to end

of to the end of week 15 here, You know,

to get our 30 classes, which all classes that he

will have 30 at least in this format.

All classes that have Uh this kind of to to

meeting twice a week for a 75 minutes each.

That would be the offline equivalent that we normally would

have, but we've been doing it online.

But The point is, is that next week you can

see in week 12 that we're going to be getting

right into the final exam review.

Next week, I'm going to talk about the final exam,

you know, the format because the format is going to

be a little bit different and I'll tell you more

about that later, but but but generally it's going to

be very similar, very similar, but a little bit different.

And so I need to tell you about that in

the review and then we're going to have a chance

to go over your article questions.

So once again, I'll emphasis to to you and your

group members, just like in the first half for the

review, I would like you to have your questions ready

for all four articles before This.

This week begins on the 17th because I'm going to

record ahead of time and I'm probably going to need

just like the midterm, I'll probably have to add, you

know, I'll record most of my Most of the questions

for the first three articles and then for the 4th

1, Well maybe need to add one more short video,

15 minute video, just to discuss the questions that you

have about Article eight.

I don't know, it depends on what you guys give

me. Okay, so I'll be looking but again, generally I

remember that I allow you to I allow you to

form the questions that you have for the first three

readings really for all four readings.

I let you form those questions ah mm You know

any time that you guys wanted to do it?

You could you could have already been doing it after

each reading or maybe right now you need to go

very quickly uh and finish up all the questions that

you're going to have for each of the four readings.

Okay? But however your group did it, you guys do

need to finish those questions and and turn them in

Again before the the week 12 lessons began on the

17th. Okay.

So again um week 17 is when we're going to

be just focusing on the final exam, we're going to

be reviewing and talking about questions that you have and

you can see you're also going to be finishing up

writing# two.

Okay. If you haven't already, again during this week you

probably have time, you should be working already on writing

number two on revising it.

But you have a fool.

I'm giving you a really long kind of period to

work on this on the writing number two.

The reason I'm giving you so much time on writing

to is is to give you time to again too,

in case you're busy with other classes.

I know that happens at the end of the semester,

you get busier but also to give students a chance

to come and talk to me in my office time

if you need personal help because sometimes it's it's well

I wouldn't say sometimes I would say almost always it's

better it's better for you to talk to me if

you don't understand, if you can't understand my kind of

my rubric and my table that I have.

Um then then it's good to come and talk to

me and I can make that clear to you.

I can explain to you what exactly what I meant

by all those exes and the comments that I wrote.

But I think most students seem to understand my system

and what I mean by the comments that I give

and we've had practice in writing one and now writing

to so hopefully um you should have a pretty good

grasp of that because again, I worked, I developed that

that style of using that rubric with the pointing out

what where you lost points and why and how to

fix them.

I developed that after getting a lot of feedback from

students. So, so hopefully I you find it useful and

especially um hopefully, you know what to do.

You know you're able to address the points that you

know where you lost points.

You're able to do something about that and increase your

score. Okay?

So oh and I should make a quick note is

that when you evaluate my course at the end of

the semester, I definitely would appreciate any comments that you

have about that, about my rubric or about anything else

that in the course to how to you know, for

me for how to make the course better for future

students. Because that's how I've developed my course through the

years. As I look at the feedback that you guys

give me, I look at how you do, I look

at your the quality of your work and to see

if I've helped you and where maybe I haven't helped

you as much as you know are in a way

that you need and so you can help me with

that by giving me comments in the evaluation at the

end of the semester.

Okay. Okay.

So Again, you can see getting back to our schedule

here. You can see that we're going to um we're

going to review for the final exam next week, week

12 and then that following week we're going to have

the final exam.

And I can tell you that unlike, I can tell

you one basic point about the final exam, is that

it is going to be different than the midterm exam,

I'm not going to.

Um I'm not going to kind of need for students

to, you know, to to work their schedule to to

do the to meet that the timing for the exam

as much.

I'll tell you more about it, but hopefully I'll make

it smoother than the midterm exam.

Most students took the exam during the two hour period

and they were fine and it was no problem.

Uh Some students needed to readjust their schedules or and

I needed to work with them to get the exam

done, but hopefully the final exam will work out more

smoothly than the midterm, you know, for those students who

had to readjust with me uh to take it.

Okay? But in week 13 you will take the exam

and then you can see, I'm going to have what's

called a presentation workshop that day presentation workshop you can

see is just before the next week where we actually

give the presentations, so that presentation workshop is coming very

late. Okay, I'm giving you information about the presentations today

to get you started because by the time in two

weeks later, two weeks from from today.

Two weeks, well a little bit more than two weeks

from today is when you'll be kind of at the

end before you need to turn in your presentations and

then give them Okay?

So this presentation workshop that comes after the final exam,

that presentation workshop will be alive through zoom class where

students are able to talk to me and get any

last minute help that you need for your presentations.

Okay? And so that will be done during our class

period for the second class.

That week, I'll tell you more in the next part

of this lesson.

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