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Getting Started in Bio50 Nutrition & Wellness for Fall 2008

Dr.Dyer — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:42:21 +0000

Tomorrow is the start of a new semester.

Online students look for an email message sent to your email of record with the college. If you are stuck logging onto the Blackboard Course System, see the Blog Page on Blackboard.

Face to Face students I will see you on Monday or Tuesday.

Tips for Success in this Course

Dr.Dyer — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:04:37 +0000

The most important thing for you to do during the first week is to take some time and determine a study plan.

Figure out when your exams and assignments are due, mark them on a calendar or day planner.

Decide how you are going to budget your time to learn the material and complete the assignments. The “Course” Page of this blog includes many helpful resources and assessments to help you figure out how to assess your study skills and manage your time.

Also included are suggestions and tips that I have compiled for the Nutrition students including Tips for Success in Nutrition & Wellness, Tips for Learning the Lecture Material and General Study Tips.

Taking a look at these resources early in the class, getting yourself organized for the semester will help you to succeed in the Nutrition and Wellness Course.

Jenny W. Get Organized. Royalty Free Use.

Tips for Online Success

Dr.Dyer — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:45:30 +0000

The “Online” Page of this blog includes a variety of Tips for students to improve their success in distance education.

This page includes “Are You Ready to Learn Online?” a great introduction from Cerro Coso College, on to determining if you are ready to take an online course. I highly recommend that all online students take some kind of self-assessment to determine if their learning styles, study and computer skills are in line with taking an online course.

There are also some Suggestions for Being a Successful Online Student, part of the Online Orientation for Columbia College Students along with links to Other Online Self Assessments.

For students who are near Columbia College, the College offers “How to Succeed as an Online Student” or CMPSC101 is offered both Fall and Spring semesters and is designed as an orientation to online learning and our current online course management system, Blackboard Learning System.

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Steve Woods. Surfing 2. Royalty Free Use.

Meet ProfessorDoc the Nutrition Course Voki

Dr.Dyer — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:10:30 +0000

I am pleased to introduce My Voki,* or a talking voice character, a computer-generated version of myself, Dr. Kirsti A. Dyer a.k.a ProfessorDoc. She will give you a brief introduction to the Nutrition and Wellness Blog.

I’ll probably use the Voki for other brief explanations in the course, especially for the Online Section of the course. To hear the message, simply click on the arrow in the frame below.

* Voki comes from Vox + Loki = Voki. “Vox” is Latin for voice and “Loki” is a prankster character in Norse Mythology.

More about Vokis
You can see the another Voki that I created at the Ruminations of an Online Instructor / MD blog .