Due March 5. Late deadline March 12.
This Week's Reading:
Next, do the assignment. If you don't have the textbook yet, you can still complete the assignment by searching the Internet. In this assignment you will use Etudes to:
Part 1: Etudes and Private Messages (5 points)
1. Start Internet Explorer or Firefox.
2. Go to my web site at www.loralane.com.
3. Click the link for Online classroom
4. You will see an Etudes page with a User id and password box at the top.
Your User ID: The first 2 letters of your first name + the first 2 letters of your last name + the last 5 numbers of your student id number. Please be sure to use lower case. John Lennon's User ID would be jole45678 (if he had a student ID of 123-45-678)
Your Password: month and day of birth It must be 4 digits, so add zeros if necessary. For John Lennon, it would be 1009—he was born on October 9th. When you successfully login, you should see a screen with tabs at the top for My Workspace and each of your online classes.
5. Change the default password upon login. Once you log on, click on Account (under My Workspace on the left menu), scroll down a bit, and click on "Modify Settings." Set the password to something you can remember. PLEASE WRITE IT DOWN! This account will give you access to all your ETUDES-NG courses forever, whether you take them from Harbor or another college that uses this course management system. If you forget your password, go back to the login page and click the Reset Password button on the left side of the page. I cannot change or check your password.
6. After that, click the LAHC COS 058 0943 LLANE S10 tab and go to the class Home page.
7. Look at the list on the left side, starting with Home. You use these buttons to move through the course. The assignments and participation credits are turned in through Assignments, Tests and Surveys. Click Discussion and Private Messages.
8. Click the Private Messages link at the top. A Private Message can only be read by the person you send it to.
9. Click the Newpm button.
10. Make sure the To user box has my name selected.
11. Type Assignment 1 in the Subject box.
12. In the Message body, give me an email address and phone number to use to contact you outside the classroom.
13. Submit the message. I will reply to your message within a few days. Look for the reply to make sure you know how to receive messages.
Part 2: Issue and Conclusion Study Questions (17 points)
You will read three editorials and answer questions about the issue and conclusion. Type your answers in the answer box in Etudes Assignment 1. Number each answer. Instead of typing in the box, you may type your answers in a Word or Wordpad document and upload the document. Your answers should be in complete sentences.
Click the link to open the editorial in PDF format "While You Tried to Sleep" Read the editorial carefully and answer questions 1 through 3:
1. What is the issue? The issue must be
written as a question.
2. What is the author's conclusion? Make sure your conclusion answers
the question from #1.
3. Describe how you located the conclusion. In your answer, refer to the
six clues in the Asking the Right Questions textbook section titled "Clues to
Discovery: How to Find the Conclusion." If you do not have the textbook yet, you
can find the information in the Module for this lesson.
Click the link to open the editorial in PDF format "Brats protesting at the UC gates need to buck up" Read the editorial carefully and answer questions 4 through 6:
4. What is the issue? The issue must be
written as a question.
5. What is the author's conclusion? Make sure your conclusion answers
the issue question.
6 Describe how you located the conclusion.
Click the link to open the editorial in PDF format "Carbon Pawprints" Read the editorial carefully and answer questions 7 through 9:
7. What is the issue? The issue must be
written as a question.
8. What is the author's conclusion? Make sure your conclusion answers
the question from #1.
9. Describe how you located the conclusion.
13. (2 points) Which article did you have the most difficulty locating the issue and conclusion in? Explain why in a few sentences.
Part 3: Windows Quiz (8 points)
You will be presented with multiple choice questions in Etudes covering the information in Windows Projects 1 and 2 in Dozer's Quintessential Guide to Computer Literacy. If you don't have the textbook yet, you can find the answers to the questions by searching the Internet and using the information in Modules. You may already know many of the answers from your experience using Windows already. The questions are very basic.