Sunday, July 20, 2008

Good morning folks! I hope everyone is having a great weekend! It's cool and rainy out here which provides an excellent opportunity for me to sit on my rear all day, watch some movies, and wait for your blog links to come in! :)


1. What's due today? The links to your third Adopt-a-Species assignments are due tonight by 8:00 p.m. As always, stick close to your email: after you send me the link, I'll send you an email either confirming that the link worked or letting you know that you sent the wrong one.


2. What's due tomorrow? The responses to your classmates' A-a-S assignments are due tomorrow by noon. Chapter 11 Final Thoughts are due by 11, Chapter 13 (yes, Chapter 13--we did Chapter 12 the week of your first A-a-S assignment) Starting Assumptions are due by 8 with responses by 11, AND your Chapter 13 Reading Quiz is due by 11. That's it. No more crazy Monday's like this ever again!


3. CAS course evaluations: In this course, you will complete 2 different course evaluations. The first is the College of Arts and Sciences course evaluation. You should have received an email from the CAS about this, but if not, you can access the evaluation at http://eval.ou.edu/. The evaluations are available starting TODAY and will be open until Monday, July 28, at 11:59 p.m.

4. Extra credit course evaluation! We also have composed a course evaluation that is more tailored to questions we have about this class. If you complete it, you can declare an additional 5 extra credit points. All you have to do is answer 10 of the questions we ask and either post your answers to these questions in the "Course Evaluation" discussion forum in D2L, or email them privately to me if you prefer not to make your evaluation public. YOUR OPINIONS ON THIS COURSE WILL HAVE NO BEARING ON THE GRADE YOU RECEIVE IN THE COURSE, so don't worry about being honest. That's what we want! We can't make the class better if we don't know what problems you have with it!

5. D2L problems/course website problems? For some reason I (and several of you) have had issues accessing D2L and even the course website throughout the weekend. Don't panic if this happens to you. Fortunately tonight's assignment isn't done in D2L anyway. If for some reason you can't access the assignment instructions, let me know and I'll email them to you.

Ok, I'll be here if you need me!

Heather