Please complete the following tasks to set yourself up for the course. Due by 9 AM on January 22.
You’ll be submitting some of your assignments through the NowComment system, which will facilitate peer review and feedback. Your first assignment is to set up your blog with the following steps:
Psyc 2210 Animal Minds (Spring
2016)
. You should see a number of documents and blogs, including one from
your instructor.Upload Document
in the top toolbar.Text I'll Write Now
, but in the future you can upload Word documents
and PDF files.Create a Personal Blog
. Give it a title as follows: Lastname,
Firstname's Blog
and select Only people and groups I invite to it
when
asked who will be allowed to see the blog.Invite
. In the right pane, select
the Groups
tab and then select Psyc 2210 Animal Minds (Spring 2016)
.
Click the orange button that says Invite
. NB: please only invite the
group to your blog, not to individual documents — these will create a lot
of clutter on the main page.Add a Document
, select the
document you just wrote, and click Add
. Your post should now show up in
your blog. Note that if you don’t add a document to a blog, it won’t be
visible to me or the rest of the class.To edit a blog post: Click on My Library & Groups
(to the far left of the dark
blue navigation strip at the top of page) to go your My Library list, and then
click on your blog title, which will take you to your blog with all of your
posts in chronological order. Scroll down to the post you want to edit and click
the blue “Edit” button, to the lower left below your post. You will be taken to
a text editor page where you can edit your post and upload an image (for
additional editing tools, click the small down-arrow on the upper right-hand
corner of the editing box). To save changes, click the blue Update
button
(lower right).
Several of the learning exercises in this course will be conducted in groups. To help me place you in a team that’s more likely to work well together, please complete a brief pre-course survey on CATME as follows:
Animal
Minds
and a survey called Pre-Course Survey
. You also should have received
an email from CATME about the survey with a link. If you are on the waiting
list or joined the course after I set up the survey, you may not see the
class or the survey. Please contact me by email ASAP so I can add you to the list.Pre-Course Survey
and answer the questions to the best of your
ability. If there is a question that you prefer not to answer, or where none
of the options is applicable, you may leave the answer blank. All answers
will be treated with strictest confidence.Go to Collab and select Tests and Quizzes
in the left-side toolbar. Select
the assessment called Reading Response 1/22
. Answer the questions as you
complete the required reading for Friday’s class, Chapter 1 in Fundamentals
in Comparative Cognition. If you have not yet purchased the texts for the
course, you can access the first chapter as a PDF here.