Week 1 (Jan.23rd, 07)

Agenda for today Learning community building Course overview

Shufang Shi

Know you, know me Name Where are you from? What other obligations do you have in

addition to taking this course? Find out five things you share in common.

One person reports for the group to the class.

Know me more

In 10 words or less, tell us something about yourself that no one could guess by looking at you.

Developing a Goose Sense of Community The Goose Story

This springwhen you see geese

heading north for the summerflying along in a "V" formation, you

might be interested in knowing what sciencehas discovered about why they fly that way. It

has been learned that as each bird flaps itswings, it creates an uplift for the bird immediately

following. By flying in a "V" formation, the whole flock adds at least 71%

greater flying range than if each bird flew on

its own.

People who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they are going quicker and easier, because they are traveling on the thrust of one another.

Whenevera goose falls out

of formation, it suddenlyfeels the drag and resistance

of trying to go it alone, and quicklygets into formation to take advantage of the

lifting power of the bird immediately in front. (Ifwe have as much sense as a goose, we will stay

in formation with those who are headed thesame way we are going.) When the lead goose

gets tired, she rotates back in the wing andanother goose flies point. (It pays to take turns

doing hard jobs - with people or with geeseflying north.) The geese honk from behind to

encourage those up front to keep up theirspeed. (What do we say when we honk from

behind?)

Finally(Now I want

you to get this),when a goose gets sick,

or is wounded by gun shotsand falls out, two geese fall out of

formation and follow him down to help andprotect him. They stay with him until he is

eitherable to fly or until he is dead, and then they

launch out on their own or with anotherformation to catch up with the group.

(If we have the sense of a goose, we will stand by each other like that.)

Class Norms: Sharing Tricks

What to share: any technical skills you recently discovered

A cool website: http://www.bitbetter.com/samples/animations.htm

A cool web design detail/trickA small trick: right clickA big trick: screen shot

How to reward for sharing?Suggestions?

Shufang Shi

Homepagehttp://web.cortland.edu/shis

EDU314 Course Website http://web.cortland.edu/shis/314

My Teaching Philosophy

http://web.cortland.edu/shis/

Tell a piece that you like, or a piece that you do not like. Give reasons.

Classroom Guidelines and Expectations Bring with you a positive attitude and

enthusiasm to the class every Tuesday evening

Be punctual No email or IM on class Refrain from side-conversation Never feel ashamed of not knowing a

thing, always feel free to ask for help from both peers and the instructor

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