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MIST 7810: Advanced Business Applications
Software (Excel)
JE Aronson
Day 1 Activities
View from the Summit of
Montserrate,
Bogotá, Colombia,
Summer 2007
Today
Overview and Structure of the Course
- Instructor
Contact Information
- eLC Courseware
(www.elc.uga.edu)
- Course Policies
- Course FAQs
- Exams are Open
Book, Open Notes, Open Files, and Open Help System
In Class Activities
Active Learning
In
Class Activities
(Turn in D1 - D2)
D1: Introductions
Purpose: Let's get to know each other.
Introduce
yourself to the class. Tell us your (this questionaire is included in
the personal information form mist7810personalinformationform.html)
- Name
- Email Address
- Phone Number
- Hometown
- Major(s)
- What year you are in
- When you plan to graduate
- What you plan to do when you finish
- Something interesting or unusual about yourself (do you have a
hobby, play a sport, went or did something interesting once (or more)?)
- Or: what is the most surprising thing that ever happened to you?
D2: Brainstorming: How do you feel about
the course? How do you think I feel about the course? What have you
heard about the course from other students/people?
Purpose: Let's get a sense about
how we feel about the course and compare notes. Let's also find out
what everyone has heard about the course.
Take out a piece of paper
and answer:
- On the front, write down a phrase or word about how you feel,
right
now, about the course. I'm going to call on you and we will discuss
these in this brainstorming exercise.
- Below, write down a phrase or word about how you think I
feel,
right now, about the course. I'm going to call on you again.
- Let's compare the answers to these two.
- Let's find out about
rumors and stories and put them all out on the table. Below,
write down a few sentences about what you have heard about this course
from other students/people? I'm going to call on you again.
D3: True Colors:
Personality/Temperament Types and Learning Styles.
Purpose:
To illustrate
the different personality types and to
identify the strengths and weaknesses of each one. These can help you
understand to some degree how you learn and relate to other people. It may also be used in
forming groups for teamwork and to explain how each team member relates
to each other.
In-class learning style exercise for the
first
class (you may be doing this on your own)
- see the separate write-up on the Web [color.html
(description), and colorform.html
(just the answer sheet for the questions)]. There are many more details
about the True Colors concepts and theory available in the Birkman True Colors book, which is
summarized in
the
PowerPoint Presentation TrueColors.ppt.
D4: Active Learning
Get two or more course buddies.
Active learning involves taking responsibility for your learning. This
is pretty much a given in a graduate course. A lot of details and
rationale on active learning appears in the Course Policies and other
document.
Instructors are
responsible for structuring a learning environment. In a nutshell,
active learning involves the following success factors:
- Come to every class (even if you are late).
- Pay attention in class. Stay focused.
- Read the material (do the tutorials) before you come to class.
- Try stuff out on your own. Experiment! See what works, what
doesn't and try to figure out why or why not!
- Take notes (on paper is the best way). This is a form of active
listening.
- Just because something is not to be turned in does not mean it is
not important. Treat the Suggested Exercises as assignments and do them
in a timely way. Experience shows that students who do not generally do
not perform well on exams.
- Practice peer learning - get together with fellow students to
work together on understanding new material and have course buddies.
- If you are ill, do not come to class.
- Plan
on being involved in class.
And, there is
much more.
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Last Modified: August 12, 2009