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• Fall 2011 • • Sections 2,3,6, 13 •

Greetings and WelcomeI want to take a moment to welcome you to a unique course option here at NTC! We are very excited to offer our Learning Your Way method of course delivery for this class and hope that you will find it to be beneficial!

A Learning Your Way class allows you to choose how you wish to attend class each week.

You have a lot of options. Do you wish

to come and be in a classroom with the instructor? Great, see you on Tuesdays between 1 and 3:50 PM in A232 or Wednesdays between 8 and 10:50 AM on the Wausau Campus. Do you have internet at home and wish to learn the material for the week entirely online? Great, we have some learning activities on our Blackboard learning system for you to do just that! Would you like to stay at home and attend class via a web conference that allows you to see, hear and chat with the instructor? Great, have your speakers ready…and visit the Adobe Meeting Room the conference begins at 1:00 on Tuesdays or 8 on Wednesdays Do you have a high speed internet connection at home and wish to watch the conference in your home? Great. We’ll post the recording on blackboard each week to do this. You can choose different things each week. So if you want to be face to face for 3 weeks and then do online for the next 3, no problem! Finally the

lectures will be available via podcast through Camtasia Relay. The lectures can be accessed through this Camtasia Relay link. Snowstorm just hit? Stay home and attend via the web! It’s your choice and learning your way!

Blackboard Blackboard is the program that we use for taking courses online. It’s a website that you’ll visit to complete this course online and our on-line hub for this class. Blackboard will be the host to our on-line discussions, grade book, message board, and is the site you can access past lectures, and breezo presentations.

Please feel free to contact me as soon as possible with any questions...

Mike

klemp-north@ntc.edu

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