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Getting Started ❖ Please sign in. ❖ Please make a placard for information for the instructor:
➢ On one side, fold it in half and write your name on one half. ➢ You can place this on your desk for today. ➢ On the other side, write a paragraph about you:
■ Where you are from. ■ What brought you here. ■ Your college major or interests. ■ What ESL classes you have had before. ■ Your language strengths and weaknesses. ■ Anything else I should know about you.
Welcome to ESL-097 Professor J.M. Davis
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❖ Syllabus Activity
❖ Blackboard Information
❖ Your RCBC Google Account
❖ Computer Lab Schedule
❖ Homework for Class 2
What is ESL-097?
Syllabus/ Ice-Breaker Activity
What is the professor’s email?
How do I meet with her?
If you could live anywhere on the planet and take everything you love with you, where would you live?
What books / materials are needed
for this class? When must you have
them?
If you could only wear one color, what would it be?
What is the Attendance Policy?
How important is it in this class?
In your family, name a tradition you practice.
How many essays will we write? What
percentage of the grade are the
essays?
What type of music or band or singer is your favorite?
How should assignments be
submitted? What is the format?
What’s an activity or goal you want to accomplish in your lifetime?
Can work be submitted late? What if
I’m absent?
What show do you binge watch?
What is the academic etiquette for
cellphone and computer use?
What’s something about you that people would be surprised to know?
What is plagiarism? What happens if
you plagiarize?
What food could you NOT live without?
What is the grading scale for this
class?
What’s your funniest memory with your best friend?
How many grading categories are
there in this course? Name them.
If you were famous, what would you be famous for?
Do you have any assignments due
for class 2?
When is your first essay due?
What kind of essay is it?
If you could eat at only ONE more restaurant , which would it be?
What does the syllabus say about
participation?
If you could switch places with anyone in your family for a day, who?
Using RCBC’s Blackboard System ❏ Go to:
http://rcbc.edu/blackboard.
❏ Click on the English for Academic Purposes under “My Courses.”
❏ Click on Week 1 to see the class materials.
❏ Click on My Grades and
Essays.
RCBC’s Google Mail and Google Docs 1. Log in to your RCBC Google Mail account. You can do this by going to http://www.rcbc.edu/email. A student e-mail would look like this: michelle_davis@mymail.rcbc.edu (first_last@mymail.rcbc.edu.)
2. Click on the the “box of boxes” in the upper right corner of your email.
3. To create a document, click on the blue page icon.
4. In the document options at the top of the screen, click on “Blank.”
How to Use Your RCBC Google/ Email Account: ❖ Login to your rcbc google mail at this link: http://www.rcbc.edu/email
❖ Your email will be formatted as follows: first_last@mymail.rcbc.edu.
Example: davis_michelle@mymail.rcbc.edu
❖ In your email account (which you should use for all college correspondence and check daily), click on the “box of boxes” in the upper right hand corner.
❖ Click on the Google Docs icon.
❖ Click on “New” to create a new document.
❖ Use the MLA format- Your name / Prof’s Name / ENG-101-Practice Doc / Date -as the heading in the upper-left corner.
❖ Follow my lead to format your paper correctly.
❖ Under the “File” tab, download your practice paper as a Microsoft Word .docx. This is what you will upload into your assignment area in Blackboard.
Computer Lab Hours and Use Mt. Laurel Campus
Laurel Hall, Room 133
Monday: 8 am - 8:30 pm
Tuesday: 8 am - 8:30 pm
Wednesday: 8 am - 8:30 pm
Thursday: 8 am - 8:30 pm
Friday: 8 am - 7 pm
Saturday: 9 am - 2 pm
Sunday: Closed
The RCBC Mt. Laurel computer lab is available for the
convenience of RCBC students. Please note hours are subject
to change each term and during final exam week. Reminders:
● Students must bring their student ID cards and sign in to access the computer labs
● Users must follow posted lab guidelines ● Printers are to be used for class assignments only ● You may only print one copy of a document, and no
more than ten pages per day
Homework for Class 2 ❖ Buy the textbook for ESL-097 ❖ Be sure you can use your
Blackboard account and the RCBC Google drive.
❖ In Final Draft 4, read “Buy Nothing Day” on pp. 18-19 and write answers for the reading questions on p. 19.
❖ Reading / Listening Quiz 1 about reading homework on Thursday!