All Final Grades in Banner Today

Congratulations! The Fall 2013 semester is officially over!

A few notes for you as you plan for Spring:

1. Rest well over the break, and check email in January for syllabi and messages from instructors.

2. If you did not pass INQ or your Critical Thinking course, you will not be able to take Tier 2 courses next semester. You will need to go onto Banner and adjust your schedule as soon as Add/Drop opens or call the Registrar's Office or Academic Advising to see of they can help you adjust your schedule. If you didn't pass a Math, English, or Language prerequisite, same thing: you cannot move on to the next level and instead need to retake the current level. If you want to retake a course for grade replacement, you need to fill out the proper paperwork to do so in January. Again, call the Registrar to find out how to do that.

3. There will be another Club Fair in January or early February for those of you who want to get involved at SCSU but were not able to do so in your first semester.

4. I will have office hours on Tues/Thurs again in Spring. Email me if you have problems I can help you with. I will send you an email in February or March to make advising appointments for Fall Registration.

5. Learn from your mistakes and successes this semester and build upon them next semester. The first semester is the hardest in terms of adjustment; it gets easier in that way from here on. You can shape your future by reflecting on your experience now and choosing to stay the same or grow. Take advantage of the resources Southern offers to help you in your path ahead!

6. Thank you for a lively and productive semester! I enjoyed it and learned a lot.

SNOW! (Not the plan)

Section 40 had planned to have their final today at their regularly scheduled class time. However, due to snow and unsafe travel conditions, I need to postpone it until Thursday 9:15-10:15. Section 42 will then have their final 10:15-11:15.

Stay warm and safe and see everyone Thursday!

Week 16: “We do not learn from experience…we learn from reflecting on experience” -- John Dewey

Final Week of Blogging: Self-Assessment Assignment

This week, Blogs A, B, and I are all combined into one longer post: the final self-assessment.

Write a 600-word blog post (with at least 2 images) that functions as a final self-assessment for your first semester of college.

Use the following questions as a starting point for organizing your ideas. Your answers should reflect an honest evaluation of yourself and should not be an evaluation of SCSU, me, the class, or the FYE program. Also, you do not have to answer all of the questions in your post; instead choose some that you have something worthwhile to say in response!

1. What have you learned about yourself as a college student so far? Where are
you in your learning process?

2. What have been your biggest challenges so far?

3. How did you react to and/or meet or mishandle those challenges?

4. What have been your biggest achievements so far?

5. What habits or processes made certain that you were able to earn success
in those areas? How have you used the resources available to you in order
to ensure your own success? How can you do more of this in the upcoming
semester?

6. How successful have you been with time management and workload in your
courses? What have you put the majority of your time and energy into this
semester? What is the result of that?

7. What have your grades been like this semester? More importantly perhaps,
what are you learning? Are there classes where you are learning a lot or only
a little? Why? What can you do to maximize your learning?

8. How are you doing in meeting the personal goals you set for yourself at the
beginning of the semester? Are you where you had hoped you would be by
this point in your college career?

9. Where do you want to go from here and what do you think you need to do in
order to get there? Is there anything you need to change? Is there anything
you can improve upon in the upcoming semesters?

10. What specific goals would you like to set for yourself next semester and how
do you plan to meet those goals?

Be sure that your post is clear, detailed, shows in-depth thinking, makes specific points, and supports those points with specific evidence. In addition to rich content,your post should have a clear beginning, middle, and end, and unifying transitions. Please do not simply answer the questions, but create a meaningful narrative.

Note: This assignment is due (posted on your blog) by Tuesday, December 17th by midnight (a few extra days beyond the usual Saturday due date).

Welcome back for the last two weeks of the semester

This week's blogging assignments:

Blog A: What have you learned from watching the drafts of videos in class? What will you apply to your own revision process? Be specific.

Blog B: How are you preparing for finals? What is your study plan/schedule? How will you ensure success in wrapping up this semester?

Last week of classes here we come!