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GEG 100
ONLINE!
Cultural
Geography
ORIENTATION - Fall
2009
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ORIENTATION
- GEG 100-W01 has an optional on-campus orientation on
Wednesday, 8/26, 5:00-6:15 p.m. in room J-1 3.
BLACKBOARD
- All students should automatically be enrolled in our
Blackboard website
- Go to http://harper.blackboard.com
- Follow the instructions to "log-in",
- If you need help see the following on the Blackboard
opening page:
- "Getting Started with Blackboard"
- "Student Blackboard Technical Support"
- You should see "GEG100 W01 - CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY (Healy Fall,
2009)"
- If you do not please e-mail the instructor:
mhealy@harpercollege.edu
E-MAIL
Option to Forward New Harper Email Account
If you are not planning on using your new Harper email account,
please view the instructions on how to forward that account to one
you check frequently. Visit http://harper.blackboard.com
and check out "How do I forward my Harper email?" in the "Getting
Started with Blackboard" area.
OTHER
- BEFORE you begin studying FIRST go to the "ASSIGNMENTS:
BEGIN HERE" link on Blackboard. This is very important since
we may not read all sections of a chapter and you will be assigned
and graded on extra activities that are not in the textbook.
- Always put "GEG 100" and a message in the
subject lines of e-mail messages sent to the me. To avoid viruses,
I delete messages prior to reading them if I don't know who they
are from.
- We do NOT meet at Harper once a week and there is NO
certain time that you must be online.
- Always put "GEG 100" and a message in the
subject lines of e-mail messages sent to the me. To avoid viruses,
I delete messages prior to reading them if I don't know who they
are from.
- You are NOT on your own. Your instructor is available to
provide assistance and answer questions:
- Blackboard Discussion
Board for any question which might be of use to other
students
- E-mail for personal questions:
mhealy@harpercollege.edu
- Office
Hours
- Call me
- Harper: 847-925-6352 (call my home numbers first in the
summer)
- Home: 815-728-1571
- Cell: 815-861-7265
SYLLABUS
EXAMS AND MAP QUIZZES:
- All exams and map quizzes will be taken on the Harper
campus in the Assessment Center, Student and Administration
Center, room A-148, phone 847-925-6541 [see: Assessment
Center hours]
- Exams and map quizzes will be taken at the Harper Testing
Center on, or before, the day it is scheduled (see SCHEDULE).
- You must have a picture ID and you must finish by closing
time.
MANY OF YOU WILL NOT COMPLETE THIS COURSE
- Distance learning courses tend to have a high drop rate. Many
of you will not complete this course. If you cannot devote at
least as much time to this course than you do to regular
face-to-face college courses, drop now
- College Counselors suggest that you should spend 2 hours
studying EACH WEEK for each course credit-hour. Since this is a 3
credit-hour online course you should spend around 9 hours EACH
WEEK preparing (3 hours that you would normally be in class and 6
additional hours).
DISCUSSION BOARD
- Use the Discussion Forum any question which might be of use to
other students - like asking a question in class. Do not ask such
questions via e-mail. If you use teh Discussion Board everyone can
"hear" the answer.
- It is strongly suggested that you SUBSCRIBE to the discussion
board thread so that you get an e-mail whenever a new message is
posted.
ORIENTATION REVIEW
- Review the ORIENTATION web page
- Read the SYLLABUS,
pay close attention to the SCHEDULE
- Log in to Blackboard
- Always BEGIN studying by clicking on the "ASSIGNMENTS:
BEGIN HERE" link on Blackboard.
- Before taking the exams be sure to see the Exam Study
Guide and do the REVIEW activities and ask for HELP if
you don't understand something.
- Use the Discussion
Board if you have questions on the material
- Always put "GEG 100" and a message in the
subject lines of e-mail messages sent to the me. To avoid viruses,
I delete messages prior to reading them if I don't know who they
are from.
WHAT IS GEOGRAPHY?
[For more see the "ASSIGNMENTS: BEGIN HERE" link on
blackboard and then click on "Orientation and "What is Geography"
Notes"
- Two Broad Fields:
- Human (Cultural) Geography
- Physical Geography
- Human Geography is often studied from two different
Perspectives:
- Regional Geography (GEG 101)
- Systematic (Topical) Perspective (GEG 100)
- We can study the geography of almost anything - as long as it
has a "spatial " component.
- Three Broad Questions
- WHERE?
- WHY THERE?
- WHY DO WE CARE? / WHAT CAN WE LEARN?
- We will focus on the WHERE and WHY THERE
questions.
- Examples:
REMEMBER: The place to begin is the Blackboard
"Assignments-Begin Here" link.
INSTRUCTOR: Mark Healy
E-Mail instructor: mhealy@harpercollege.edu
Office: J-262
Phone: 847-925-6352
Home: 815-728-1571
Cell: 815-861-7265