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= Welcome to the Wiki Everyone - Learning Task for New New Online Teacher Group May, 2011 = This site is designed to provide you with a collaborate experience through a Wiki, and to encourage you to reflect on the experience in terms of its potential use value with your own students. Your task is to select one social media site/tool of interest to you. Do a google search for the site. Explore the site in terms of your students' context, and what learning potential/and or limitations it offers. Post your thoughts to the Page on the left menu called **Social Media Resources 2011** by Tuesday, Week 3.

=Letter to New Online Student for Week 2 Learning Task for New Online Teacher Group Nov/10 =

Your task will be to compose a welcome letter to your new online students that contains 1 key idea/piece of advice etc. from each of you, related to their learning in this environment. This single letter will require a beginning, middle and end. Work together to fashion the wording. This may require some editing and additions to each other's work. Just click the edit button on the top right of the page, and you will see the editing tool bar at the top of the page. When you have finished, be sure to save your work. Please include your name at the end of your work. Hopefully, this activity will assist you in composing a welcome letter when you do work with online students.

This letter was started by my previous students, but it is far from complete. Please make your own additions to it. Cheers, Shirley =Letter to New Online Student =

Words of Welcome

Welcome to our course. I would like to congratulate you on embarking on your studies through George Brown College Online. I believe you made a practical choice and I am excited about the opportunity I have been given to work with you. I will do everything that I can do to ensure that the next 14 weeks will be a stimulating learning experience for all of us. If you ever have questions or need coaching, please feel free to e-mail me. Together, I trust that we will have an exciting, stimulating and rewarding class journey. I am posting my Online biography in a separate note to give you more information about me. I look forward to reading your biographies and getting to know you. ( Analyn Patag, edited by Bryan Bessner) For my online introduction I have used Animoto and I encourage you to use it as well because, since we don't meet face to face, at least we can see our pictures. I am sending you an attachment regarding the use of Animoto and, if you have any questions, you can join me on Elluminate on ..... at .... (Marzena). My role is to support you in your learning by:
 * Answering your questions about Course Content, Activities and Assignments.
 * Sharing my experiences in the field.
 * Imparting tips and tricks that I have learned, sometimes the hard way!
 * Providing real-life examples and case studies.
 * Encouraging you to interact with your classmates.
 * Returning your assignments within one week of the posted due date (Naghmeh)

My goal is ensure that you are successful in your online class(es) during your academic studies. To ease your transition to online learning, I have prepared a list of recommendations and information, which will help answer some of the questions you may have regarding your upcoming online studies. (Deryn Rizzi)

1. This course requires frequent online participation in order for you to be successful. First, make sure that you become familiar with the course outline, outcomes, on line assignments and methods of evaluations that have been posted. I will have an Elluminate introductory meeting on... at ... Please join and have your questions ready. (Marzena) 2. Our group communication will take place in Discussions (Marzena). Feel free to post comments in any discussions that occur. Your own thoughts are important, and so are your reactions to the thoughts of others. ( Haec Bryan fecit.) However, remember to be respectful of others when you post your comments. Please refer to the Discussion Group Guidelines in the Course Notes. (Geri) Please use the Discussions tool in this site to ask content related questions. This way, your classmates have an opportunity to answer your question and to see the answers that are posted. At anytime you may send me a Blackboard Mail message with comments, questions, and concerns. I will do my best to get back to you as soon as possible. (Naghmeh)

3. Be sure to keep up with all the learning tasks that will be expected of you each week. I am (Paula) ready to be of assistance, should you need it, and I cannot emphasize enough (Paula) how important it is to stay on top of the material. If anything happens to interrupt your work on this course, please let me know immediately. (Bryan) The best way to contact me is to write me an e-mail to my blackboard adress which is. I will answer within 24 hours (Marzena).

Take the time to fully navigate through the pages on Blackboard, so that as the course progresses you will know where to go in order to find information,directions and assignments quickly. (Paula) If you aren't sure how to use Blackboard, I suggest you go through the tutorials that are found on the opening page (the one where you sign in) of Blackboard. (Geri) If you have questions or problems that are not sufficiently addressed in the information you find on these pages, please don't hesitate to contact me by email. Identify yourself by full name and Student ID in the body of your message and briefly state your questions or concerns. I'll normally reply within one business day. (Martin)

Once again welcome, and now be ready to follow the three Ps: Prepare, Participate and Perform. (Paula, slightly modified by Bryan)

3. I have join finally..... WOW - Jeannine

4. Our Learning Community needs your input.

I would like to share two quotes that may inspire you to achieve your goals. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. " ~ Mark Twain "Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will." ~ W. Clement Stone Let’s work together as a : **T** ogether **E** veryone **A** chieves **M** ore I am look forward to sharing the next fifteen weeks with you. (Doris)

5. To get started, please review the colour-coded "Roadmap," found on the WebCT (Blackboard) home page. This document is your pathway to success, as it provides you with a multitude of helpful devices, including: //signposts//--to let you know that a pending project is due; //mileage marker//s--to help gauge your progress; and //billboards//--to let you know that you have reached certain milestones. (Nick)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">6. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">We are a few days away from the beginning of our work together Over the course of the program, your input and feedback is very important to our shared learning experience. I have on the Blackboard site included a "Before we Begin" questionnaire that I think will be helpful to you. Please return this information as soon as possible via email and I look forward to understanding your background and addressing your needs as much as possible while embarking on an exciting learning journey! (Paula)

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Welcome to Accounting Information Systems course(code) which is delivered via the internet. I am pleased that you are chosen this on-line course. My goal is ensuring your success in this on-line class. ======

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">If this is the first time that you have ever taken the online course, I strongly suggest you to participate our on campus orientation at 11 pm on 4th March,2011 Room A325. It helps you to be familiar with procedure.======

To get some information about course outline, course requirements, textbooks and some more please click the link below:

Follow the steps below to start : 1- Computer set up prior to the start of class by:A- B- C- 2-Log in information(which website or websites,user name and password) 3-Class schedule 4-Teacher expectations 5-Activities

If there is any question you can contact me via e-mail or by phone ....... (parisa)