Topic:  

Course Overview and technical orientation

From the instructor: 

Welcome!  This assignment is intended to ensure that off-campus students have the technology skills for a web-based course.

Assignments: 

Orientation Excercises

Are you ready? 

Have you completed the orientation exercises?

Do you have any questions? 

For questions about syllabus, the content of the course, please call Dr. Sharon Bevins (941) 590-7533; email sbevins@fgcu.edu, or Professor Thomas Bevins (941) 590-7534; email tbevins@fgcu.edu 

For further technical assistance/questions, please call 590-7100. If you need to take a workshop to learn Microsoft Word, Power Point, Netscape Navigator, WebBoard, and the FGCU Student E-Mail System, check out the workshop schedule. You may also register for a workshop by phoning 590-7100 or stopping in the Griffin Hall Computer Lab (Room 208) M-F between 8:30-4:30. Be sure to show up five minutes before the class is scheduled to be held. Times and rooms are subject to change.

1. Create a Word document
2. Find a web site about research and health care
3. Send an email with/without an attachment to the instructor
4. Post a message to the class distribution list
5. Reply to the message from the instructor
6. Finish Tech. Skills online survey
7. Send a paragraph stating the reasons for taking this course to the instructor from the class Web site
8. Post a message on the bulletin board
9. Reply to a posting on the bulletin board
10. Use a chat room
11. Use on-line library catalogue and search other on-line databases for publications
12. Retrieve electronic class reserves
13. Based on the online skill self-assessment result, make a learning plan if necessary