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  1. Sep 2016
    1. Although police officers can be very annoying

      I am not sure if that is funny...or...hmmm....

    1. service

      I don't think this is a service. It's a skill. A service would be something like "helps students find internships." Skills would be something like "helps students learn to work with outside stakeholders" or "helps students learn to work on teams."

    1. Source: http://s3.amazonaws.com/libapps/accounts/1440/images/5081494374_452b1e1ab3_o.jpg

      Is this a cc-licensed image? If not, remove the picture! If it is, make sure you include the license. See me for help/explanation if you are confused!

    2. Research Source

      Can you give a short summary of this research, so we have a reason to click the link, and a small idea of it's all about even if we choose not to click?

    3. Near the end of the semester the place usually gets swamped by students because of end of semester papers being due.

      Good tip!

    1. I think a more innovative attendance policy would demonstrate a punishment that makes a student recognize missing too many classes is not a healthy way to strive in education.

      Love this idea-- and don't understand why policies fail to innovate at all. Seems like so many good possible options...

    2. I believe that there are ample occasions where a student being absent to class can be beneficial to his/her mental health, physical health, or academic success.

      Agreed-- good point.

    1. In the same way that you were a plumber you could talk to an electrician about all kinds of things that you share that aren’t necessarily just about you two getting together and building a house. That might be the metaphor of the day.”

      Love this!

    1. schools to pass on her knowledge to our future.

      This seems to end a bit abruptly. I'd love to hear more about what you took from the interview, and how it will shape your thinking.

    2. She is extremely proud of him so she displays his artwork all throughout her office!

      A nice detail to help pull your readers into the scene!

    1. Im not going to be a athletic trainer

      Maybe it would help your readers to know more about you-- in an intro or conclusion or here at this point-- so we understand what you are taking from the interview?

    1. She even described an interdisciplinary project that we will do as students working with artists, computer scientists, philosophers, and social scientists we will focus on a common theme resilience. We will learn how to work together despite our differences and we will learn how we can learn from each other which i expect to be an exciting project.

      Sounds great!

    2. Amy was never outdoorsy when she was younger she had a lot of fears when it came to the outdoorsy stuff.

      Interesting!

    3. Assistant Professor in the Environmental Science and Policy

      You can add the link to your text instead of hanging it there afterwards. See me if you want help doing this! Much better way to link...

    4. The lab was in Fox park so it was nice to walk through the park while doing our interview.

      Nice!

    5. The

      Add a caption for the image explaining who took it. If Any provided it, say "Courtesy of Amy Villamagna."

    6. She is the professor of my Introduction to Environmental Science and Policy I class. The reason I chose Amy for the interview is because I know she is very experienced and involved in not only the field of environmental sciences but also biology and fields relative to what I would like to do. I didn’t know it before the interview but I found Amy to be quite interdisciplinary individual hearing about her studies, job experiences, and research projects.

      Nice intro!

    1. This helped me to widen my knowledge to see things from a different perspective while adding my business operations perspective to the conversations.”

      Well said...

    2. I would also suggest a class in public speaking and leadership skills.  These are skills that are transferable between fields and can make or break your career professionally.”

      Nice idea!

    3. I have remained in majors that tie to business ever since.”

      What an eclectic path! Very interesting!

    1. “We talk to students to show them and teach them how to integrate math and integrate movement into math and math into movement. Language arts reading being able to use your body to write letters to help kids reinforce what they learned in the classroom, in the gymnasium and for some kids they learn better that way. Some kids are kinesthetic learners than others. Science, art, music has a real big part.”

      Nice!

    2. Her

      Maybe change to "Dr. Bates?" "Her" sounds kind of gruff. Also, it's a little weird that you set it up like this, but those aren't her words...

    3. With me trying to explore different areas of my Interdisplinary studies, I decide to interview Professor Lynn Johnson from Plymouth State University in the study of health and coaching. It was a nice lovely Thursday afternoon that I met her inside of her office. When I got into the office, I was looking around her room and I was fascinated with all the old things she had in her room.

      Super nice introduction!!

    1. Me: “Exactly, I think everyone should know that.”

      I love to see the rapport here. Your writing makes me feel like I am in the room with you two!

    2. I think a general biology course is important and definitely a course on how to write and how to communicate, definitely as much computer applications that you can get your hands on, and an art course too.”

      Such eclectic and unexpected recommendations-- but they make sense to me!

    3. When you go out in the real world, most people don’t just work within their field of study. You have to work with other people who weren’t in your direct field of study so knowing something about them and what they do is so important.”

      Great point....

    4. “do physicians prescribe exercise for their patients who are obese as a means of treating the weight related illnesses?” This really interested me because it shows the importance of interdisciplinarity when working in a health related field – researchers, nurses, physicians, dietitians, social workers, and all other patient care staff must be aware of one another to give patient’s the best care possible.

      Love this!

    1. It is important to understand that things are challenging, but it’s okay, you can make it through. Social work is a lot about helping others, and in order to help others, you first have to have an understanding of how people work, what they’re going to be feelings during this challenging time, and how you can utilize your resources to help them to the best of your abilities.

      Awesome conclusion...

    2. Which we’re not taught how to do.”

      Great point, and so important for IDS students to build this development into our work...

    3. I wasn’t surprised at her answer of yes!

      You have such a lively and engaging personality in your writing! Makes me want to keep reading!

    1. But something like a medical illustrator.

      Cool!Love to see all of these intersections!

    2. That last little touch made me laugh.  I was happy she mentioned that though.   I am awful at poetry.

      :)

    3. Business people ask for biologists to create an ecosystem  pattern that the businesses can run from.  They put symbiosis to economic  models, the become entrepreneurs and they  try their hardest  to go eco-friendly.  Aside from business, mathematicians help out with the numbers side of phylogeny.  Geographers help out map out climates for these plants ecologists are studying.

      Interesting!

    4. It is a little spike that reaches for the sun so the animal can follow

      Cool!

    5. As someone who has never conducted an interview, I quickly jumped into the first string of questions in order to avoid any awkward  silence.

      I love the way you set the stage for us. You really draw us in as readers and make us root for you!

    1. and communication skills.

      A helpful interview, perfectly honed to your interests. BUT this is a PAGE not a POST, so I can't comment on it. Come see me so I can help you fix this! Other than that and wishing there were some kind of image here, this is a solid post...

    2. I have to say that a student centered environmentally stable learning community

      I don't know what that means...but I would like to!

    3. Well, I actually had a hard time finding that balance between school and a social life. I actually ended up failing out of college my first time around. Eventually, I found something that I was emotionally connected to and school became much more enjoyable.

      I never knew this about Brian! But I love the idea that being emotionally connected leads to academic success...

    1. with me throughout my career.

      So this is PAGE, not a POST, which means there is no place for me to comment... Come see me and I can help you fix this up! Check grammarcheck for more input...

    2. authors

      check

    3. I think just connect

      Read all of this out loud slowly and see if you can find the spots that need editing...

    4. I met with “SFC A”

      Again, I think it would really help to explain why you use the anonymity here... (and then why link to UNH site with info??)...

    1. The student will have one to two more years of student loans, but come out earning the same salary.  The idea is that it will help athletic trainers know more so they can be better in the clinic.  In the practical world I am not seeing it so I am having a hard time agreeing with it. 

      This seems fairly controversial (especially as Dr. Levy outlines it), and also like something that you might have particular input on given your pathway so far. A conclusion on this where you share what you are taking from the conversation as a whole would help bring the threads together...

    1. I believe a lot depends on the interest and direction a student wants to take. Anyone should take music or dance since it benefits someone physically, mentally and emotionally. It also helps give people the ability to think. I believe also that students should get a liberal arts and science education.

      Lots of good advice here!

    2. I am into the music department here at PSU, I also sing as well. I believe that music can help and enhance our health

      Nice.

    3. My undergraduate degree was psychology and after I graduated, I did a program which gave me a certificate to teach elementary up to 8th grade students. For graduate school I studied Health Education.

      What an interesting background!

    4. Janis Bass

      Maybe link to her faculty page?

    1. Wow! So you have some talents up your sleeve?

      Very cute. :)

    2. I even switched majors a couple times in college because the first year of pre-requisites were so hard

      So great to hear about this from someone who ended up so successful as an academic in the field!

    1. major.

      Ok, something about your theme is making it impossible for me to see my comments when I type. It has to do with the black background maybe? Not sure. I can show you what I mean. We may need to change the theme if it's a bug... But on another note...

      Great post! I especially love the personal touch here that lets me get a good sense of you as a student and a writer, in addition to getting to know your professor. Great read!

    2. I see everyone as an opportunity to learn more about myself, my practice, my clients and the people in my life and around me. I utilize all interactions as a means of gathering more information.

      Seems like a classic researcher, a true scholar! I love this!

    1. conventional image of pipe-smoking professors in book-lined studies

      So dead, so gone, so out of touch. I don't miss that image with all of its inherent racial, gender, and class bias. But I do feel surprised that anyone in the profession-- especially those who teach at public or resource-scare institutions-- is still able to label that image "conventional."

    1. I think students in the nursing industry should take an Ethics course as well as a Philosophy course, just because we deal with so many different types of people it is very important to have an open mind when it comes to caring for people and I believe these courses play a large role in nursing

      I think this is really helpful, and not overly obvious--

    2. We all try to plan and escape together to relax because we understand the importance of taking a break and leaving work, well at work.”

      Good advice for us all!

    1. were sociology and anthropology. She stresses the importance of understanding the different cultures around us.

      Good point!

    2. Well…as cliche as it sounds I really wanted to help people but I wanted to make change as well.. So that’s why I chose a program that would let me be a researcher.. So I could produce research that influenced policy as well as be a clinician and be a therapist and help individual people”

      Great quote!

    1. not on a highly genuine learning instructor

      This sounds like you are saying she is not a genuine teacher, and I am not sure what that means. It sounds very critical.

    2. Interview for Interviewing a Professor

      Maybe just change it to: "Interviewing a Professor?"

    3. Interview for Interviewing a Professor

      That title leaves a lot to be desired... Can you fix it?

    1. For my interview

      This seems to be a PAGE, not a POST which means I can't comment on it. Come see me and I can assist you getting this fixed!

    2. 1) What was your path of education you took to get  to where you are now?

      Can you fix the formatting errors with the numbering? See me for help!

    1. believed that students should take classes that trigger creativity and truly prepare you for your career.

      I love this idea!

  2. thebeginningisnow.org thebeginningisnow.org
    1. engaged members of society

      I love this idea, and wonder how we could really figure out what we mean by this, and then build course modules to work on it....

    2. so many connections for you to find everything you need.

      Sometimes I wonder if the challenge is not so much finding information, but sorting it and deciding what information is actually worthwhile...

    1. Public speaking is  the process or act of performing a presentation (a speech) focused around an individual direct speech to a live audience in a structured, deliberate manner in order to inform, influence, or entertain them.

      Does this come from an external source? It kind of sounds like it. Make sure that if it does, you LINK to that source so that you give credit where credit is due...

    1. work fro

      Oooo can we fix this formatting problem??

    2. Should inspire students: Seminars should inspire students to be more responsible for their education and their lives.

      LOVE THIS LOVE THIS LOVE THIS! Did I tell you that I love this??

    3. Utilizing the library: Everyone student should come down to meet the local librarians because they are great resources for help when you need it.

      Love that you are already tapping Christin for help! Awesome!

    4. the public

      Do you think "the public" can be defined as "other professors and students?" Seems like maybe it could be broader?

    1. FYS teach students how to access the internet and use it to their advantage of their profession. For example in this class we learned how to use our own website/blog, communicate through twitter and reach many different types of people through twitter by hashtags. This will help in the long run because students will know different variations of reaching out and communicating with their colleagues.

      Love this one.

    2. By learning these skills one is able to read passages and interpret them into their own thoughts and write or talk about them. FYS allow you to use many variations of digesting information and resources to help students do so.

      Nice job explaining "critical thinking," which is a phrase lots of people use, but not a lot of people can explain!

    3. Plymouth State and many other institutions have much to offer their students. These include writing centers, libraries, math help and many other academic centers included in the students tuition. FYS tell you about these things and encourage you to use them for all your academic help.

      Good point and not one we talked about that much in class...

    1. Learning is about making a mistake, so why should the grading system counteract that?

      BRILLIANT. BRILLIANT!!! YES! Agreed.

    2. I am dyslexic

      My husband is a professor here and is highly dyslexic. I know what a struggle it can be, but also how it can sometimes mean you see the world in unique ways. Make sure you let me know how I can assist, and come to me any time for writing support. The PASS office is also a huge help if you haven't used them yet. Let me know if you want more info!

    1. Overall, those 5 objectives might not be mastered, but will be improved upon once the first year seminar is over.

      Excellent point-- not so much mastery as improvement for a goal...

    2. I can put my writing online all I want, but it won’t be seen if nobody follows me or knows where to look for it. I want to know how to look for others, reach out, so they can find me easily and see my work

      Brilliantly put.

    3. In college I want all my work to have a purpose. That means getting it out to the public to read. This would make me feel like my work means something.

      I love everything about this (no surprise).

    4. knew what model

      Need to explain this a bit more...not sure what that means...

    1. Also, an objective the class should be geared toward is to make the students do something they aren’t really comfortable doing with their past educational experiences.

      I absolutely love this.

    1. five most important learning objectives for a FYS

      So again, this is a PAGE which means I can't comment. Great ideas here, and you just need a bit of grammar and mechanics polished up. Look at grammarcheck and go from there. Make sure when you revise you deal with the photo issue and you convert this to a post. See me for help if it feels overwhelming. It's all quite easy to fix, so don't hesitate to get some help!

    1. Being in a class where the students are actually asked how they want to be graded or how they want their attendance policy to be formed was like finding a diamond in the rough.

      Glad it is going ok! What a wild experiment we are involved in! :)

    1. If students work

      is your image there openly licensed? If so, add the license to the caption. If not, don't use it!

    1. SOURCE ARTICLE

      Instead of hanging this here at the end, incorporate it into the post and say something about it so the reader can understand how it adds to your work.

    2. torture is a way to motivate speech. So really anything CAN be a motivator

      Great point!

    3. Well then you know what you introduce to the scenario, stress.

      Agreed.

    1. I would made the course so the students would grade their own papers first

      I absolutely LOVE this idea!

    1. only one attendance policy for the whole institution.

      I can imagine why, but maybe say more about that?

    2. So that’s why Griffin believes professors should have obligatory classes with few absences allowed.

      Seems like a balanced approach....

    3. 2 exempt classes is not enough.

      Remind me to show you how to format your images so the text wraps around them. Looks WAY better and is SO easy (just click on the picture when you are editing, and select one of the options for the wrapping layout). I can help you if you need it!

    1. These tweets that I have chosen

      Come see me and let's work together to figure out how to do a better screen shot of the individual tweets you want to include.

    1. small prizes

      Did I tell you my saki story? Remind me...

    2. If you have already paid for the class it should be your choice to make.

      That really does make good sense on one level...

    3. Some people also believe the professor should not have to go over the lesson again just for one kid.

      I really don't mind doing this when a student misses a class for a good reason, but it's tough to have to keep up with this when a student is regularly slacking and then expecting me to step in with a lot of extra time...

    1. David Romer writes, “A student who attends only a quarter of the classes averages a 1.79 (C-) in the course while a student who attends all lectures on average earns a 3.44 (B+)” (Romer 171).

      WOW!!!!!! That is an amazing statistic!!!

    2. The professor should allow students to come in late to class as well because they are the ones paying for their education

      Yes, it always seems so awful to me to lock a student out of class for being late. I mean, being late is not ideal, but why would you block their learning even more?

    1. Missing

      Good use of the tweets! We can work on the screenshot process so you can just take an image of the part of the screen you want to show...

    2. A lot of this information can be supported by this article.

      Can you say more instead of just kind of dumping this here?

    3. Enforcing attendance policies in college treats students more like adults because once you get a job you are only allowed a few days off without getting fired. But in my opinion professors should understand that students do sometimes have to miss class for serious reasons.

      Both good points.

    4. Giving extra credits to students with perfect attendance will give motivation to want to go to every class.

      And perfect attendance really is an amazing achievement!

    5. Attendance in college

      The image isn't showing up... Come see me for help!

    1. I would make the students first complete a project about the topic of the test which would count for 50% of the test.

      LOVE THIS!! LOVE IT!

    2. Sometimes after trying to had to reach perfection results in people giving up

      Yes, that seems like a risk. Always makes me sad...

    1. All of the tweets presented were a part of an open discussion about attendance and grading.

      Not sure you really need this tacked on the end...

    2. tudents often get sick or are sometimes too flooded in work from other classes and have to prioritize their time for something else.

      Good point.

    3. Not all our brains work the same way and some people take longer to process or retain information.

      So true...

    4. If you want to get good grades, it is mathematically proven that you are at a higher chance of excelling if you attend class rather than skip. Although, it does say that a mandatory attendance policy only shows a slight positive correlation so in reality it is okay to skip a few classes but not getting too carried away with skipping.

      This was helpful info! I always knew this from watching my own students, but it's great to see the study.

    1. Again, we have to get these into POSTS, not PAGES, since there is no place to comment on these. This post is very solid-- just needs some better paragraphing so that it doesn't skip from one idea to the next so much. Come see me for help getting the POST/PAGE thing sorted out and for some assistance with reorganizing the post. It's not a major revision process, but it will help a lot. I can also show you how to screenshot a tweet so you don't end up with a full screen like this...

    1. I feel like these kind of policies definitely give me a lot of responsibility but it also gives me the motivation

      Nice idea-- responsibility is linked to motivation!

    2. Once the student becomes comfortable with missing class, they probably won’t keep up not on the syllabus, therefore resulting in last minute scrambling or just simply failing the course. Getting yourself into a routine will save your life, and will keep you comfortable with going to class and getting yourself acquainted with the new found freedom.

      Seems like good advice!

    1. For professors, I think it’s reasonable to be strict on attendance. It shows you care

      Interesting way to think of it!

    2. It is your responsibility now, you are on your own and no one here to tell you what to do

      Not totally sure who the "you" is here, since you were just referring to profs...

    3. https://www.math.uh.edu/~tomforde/AttendingClass.html

      try to incorporate this into the post instead of letting it hang like this...

    1. http://collegian.tccd.edu/?p=5579

      Hyperlink this where it goes instead of letting it hang in the surf down here. :) See me for help if you need it!

    2. A study done by Bryan Stewart showed that students who missed classes regularly tended to have a higher probability to drop or fail the class.

      I always assumed this and saw it with my own students, but it's nice to see the actual study cited.

    1. Attendance Policies

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    2. Add a caption to the image

    3. Should class attendance be mandatory? Students, professors say no

      If you include a link, try to incorporate it into the post at least a little bit, instead of letting it hang kind of disconnected...

    4. baby sit

      Yes-- I think a lot of attendance policies are really infantilizing...

    5. Especially since I am paying it would feel stupid to skip a class and throw away my money.

      If college were free, do you think students would end up learning less?

    6. Students although they pay for these classes would rather not attend if they can still get a good grade.

      So interesting. It really makes me wonder if the credential is seen as more important as the learning. And is that right? Or does it sabotage student success in career and such? Really curious...

    1. No one goes to college for free so why are you just giving your money away?

      I always think about this. I wonder if learning were free as I wish it were, if students would be less motivated? I'd hope not, but I see your point here...

    1. its just weird to be referred to as “they”.

      Excellent point. I wonder why students are expected to be readers for articles like this? Why they are not expected to be involved in the conversation about FYS...

    2. Students will succeed in a place where they feel valued. If a student is feeling like they don’t matter then that student will not want to be there. That student will not care and either drop the problem classes of drop the school. If you put students in an environment in which they are appreciated then they are much more likely to succeed, mainly because the student will feel free to express himself and participate actively in class.

      Very nice.

    3. This is a very interesting concept

      Yes! Really interesting!

    4. If you have collaboration on a subject then you and all of those around can see the issue from different perspectives, enriching understanding.

      Love this idea.

    5. For

      This post really needs a title, otherwise it's hard to find and click on.

    1. increasing student-to-student interaction, increasing faculty-to-student interaction especially out of class, increasing student involvement and time on campus, linking the curriculum and co-curriculum, increasing academic expectations and levels of academic engagement and assisting students who have insufficient academic preparation for college.

      Helpful list!

    1. Students also need high expectations to be more successful. 

      Ok, so unfortunately, you created this as a PAGE, not a POST, so I don't have the ability to comment on the work. You need to change this to a POST, and make sure you do future assignments as POSTS. I can help you figure this out anytime, so just ask! This doesn't particularly follow the parameters set by the assignment: "Write a summary of the FYS article that you read. Make sure that you introduce the article first, and include a link. Cover the main idea of the article, and then make sure you go into some detail about the key five or six (or four or seven…you decide…whatever it is) points that the article makes. Add a final paragraph where you give your student perspective on the article; what is your opinion of the article, and how does it relate to what you believe, from a student point of view?" This will need a bunch more development, so seek out assistance from me or from the Writing Center as you need it! ePort looking good, but need more meat in the writing and more attention to the actual requirements as they were laid out...

    2. The article that I read

      Add a title and a link.

    1. This BORING article talks about a study of students taking first year seminars during 1998-1999.

      Link the article up here instead of at the end, and add the title (and maybe authors if you think that is helpful).

    2. However, all these benefits seem to fall off once when we look at second year.

      Got it. Helpful info!

    3. It improves their overall satisfaction for first year, but not second.

      Does that mean they are more likely to stay on until sophomore year, but that there is less effect on retention after that?

    4. It’s shown that participants are less likely to remember what they were taught going into second year.

      This needs a bit more explanation. Did FYS students remember less of their first year academics than non-sem students? Hard to understand this...

    5. Hate brings people together.

      So did they report bonding over a miserable experience?

    6. BORING

      Is there any reason you chose something boring instead of looking further until there was something more engaging?

    7. Before you even jump in

      I find this super distracting. I was listening, trying to figure out how it was connected to what you were writing about. I love personality in writing, but this basically sets me up to dread reading the rest of the work, since you signal that we need something to distract us from it so we aren't bored.

    1. It comes as a surprise that SAT scores doesn’t correlate with a students rank or even a persons GPA in college.

      Yes! That is surprising to me, too! And sort of refreshing, actually...

    1. How do these changes sound to you?

      So nice to end this way!

    2. Your first year seminar can really help you establish that base

      Love this, too.

    3. Using each other when a professor is unavailable helps everyone out. With smaller learning communities, it’s more beneficial when students have multiple classes together so they can get to know each other better.

      LOVE these ideas!

    4. stop retention

      Maybe you mean "increase" rather than "stop?"

    1. collegedegrees360Schoolgirl with books on head

      Is this an openly licensed image? If so, make sure you put the open license! If not, don't use it! See me if you need help!

    2. This makes the students further engage in research of their own instead of taking notes on the results of previous research done.

      Great point!

    1. First Year Seminar had an affect on satisfaction for first year students, but also had no affect with satisfaction and retention for second year students

      So interesting!

    1. Its not something id be interested.

      Not sure what this refers to. Are you saying that the article is not interesting to you? If so, how does that relate to the first sentence of the post?

    2. My opinion on this article is well writen

      This says that your opinion is well written, but I think you mean that your opinion is that the ARTICLE is well written.

    3. It showed that the college careers those of students who didn’t take the course also.

      Not following you here...

    4. multiple measures helped progress the eight cohorts in the first year if the student encounters with a fisrt year seminar

      This sentence is a bit hard to follow. Can you break it up into a few sentences, and more slowly explain what the measures are and how they helped the cohorts to succeed?

    5. the satisfaction of colleges

      This phrase is a bit unclear. Wonder if you can rewrite the sentence so it's a bit easier to understand?

    6. The article I read tonight was very interesting

      Great job linking, but you should also supply the title (and maybe the author(s)?) of the article as well.

    1. there is a direct correlation to the students that were working with a librarian and having more highly developed skills.

      Wow-- interesting!

    2. like what the heck even is information literacy,

      ha ha that made me laugh!

    1. when students were able to personally connect to the classwork they were subsequently more motivated to do work in the class

      Surprise!!! ha ha... I can't believe we don't all understand this already, right?!

    2. a pass/fail class led to kids waiting until the last minute do to the work and and not putting much time or effort in the assignments

      Ok, though I also think P/F can be highly motivating if students are highly engaged and working less for grades than for the meaning of the work... Though that is, for sure, hard to engender...

    3. Students can attend the most prestigious school available but if they aren’t motivated to do work they will fail 100% of the time.

      Such an awesome point. More about the students and what they put in, and less about prestige factor...

    1. People who do well in their first year seminars usually do well in their college careers according to studies done by top professionals. Each group for different seminar courses focus on an individualized subject. The subject is broad but is a correlated to student success in school. First year seminar courses usually have around 20 people. The goal of this class is to make the student more prepared for the future college life. The class brings the community together with discussion and strategy. Everyone works on the same page to resolve the area of study. The classes help tremendously with incoming freshman at Plymouth State University.

      This doesn't seem to meet many of the requirements for the assignment as outlined in the syllabus: "Make sure that you introduce the article first, and include a link. Cover the main idea of the article, and then make sure you go into some detail about the key five or six (or four or seven…you decide…whatever it is) points that the article makes. Add a final paragraph where you give your student perspective on the article; what is your opinion of the article, and how does it relate to what you believe, from a student point of view?" Come see me if you need help, but this post will need significant development if you want to have it count for this assignment! I am happy to assist, so please use me as a resource!

    2. FYS Overview

      Comments are not enabled here, which makes me think this is a page, not a post. See me for help fixing that. You can't pass the competencies without having a comment space on each post.

    3. People who do well in their first year seminars

      You need to introduce the article!

    1. but this was the generation we were brought up in. Times are changing, and students are evolving with it.

      Nice. Maybe expand by a sentence or two? How does your connectedness, your use of technology, have the potential to enhance your learning? not just detract from it?

    2. Coming from the student perspective, this sentence seems too general.

      Amen! Way to get in there and critique this!

    3. O’Barefoot

      O is her middle initial, not like "O'Barefoot." :)

    4. who is “we”

      Oh my gosh, awesome question!

    1. (Photo: Arne Hoel)

      Is this an openly licensed image? Make sure you note that, otherwise don't use it!

    2. Retention, Bonding, and Academic Achievement: Success of a First-Year Seminar

      Link this to the article

    3. and this gives them a chance to shine and be excited about their future education career.

      Love this ending!

    4. The article proves using specific numbers and showing percentage fluctuation.

      This sounds interesting, but it's hard to know what the point of the article is when you don't offer much discussion or detail here. Can you expand this into a fuller paragraph, exploring 4-5 main points that the article makes?

    1. colleges no longer were holding a class for first year seminars as the students were not getting the sufficient help they needed from their peers and other informal networks.

      Not sure I understand. Sounds like you're saying they cancelled FYS, but students weren't getting the content from their informal networks either... hmmm... Can you make this less confusing?

    2. late 1880’s

      WOW! I had no idea!

    3. from this informational article,

      Introduce the title (and maybe author(s)?) here as well.

    1. Whats wrong with the first year students

      Or could there be something wrong with the way we structure the education? Any blame for the colleges, faculty, courses? Or just on students?

    2. I read an article by Betsy O. Barefoot

      Can you introduce it a bit more? Title and a sentence about what it's about right here in the intro?

    3. CCBY ThoseGuys119https://flic.kr/p/o322t8

      If you go into the edit page for this post and then click on the picture, you can choose some different configurations that will allow you to layout the picture in the midst of your text, which will look a lot nicer. Ask me about it and I can show you-- very easy!

    1. I believe that every first year class can provide this and it is not very different from every other class.

      This sounds intriguing. Can you say more about why and what you mean here?

    2. According to this article a first year seminar class is a better predictor of success than SAT’s and high school grades. 

      Wow-- that's an amazing statistic!

    1. I think that my success in our seminar class that we are building on our own will show more about the student I am because I get to structure what we are learning and how we go about spending class time. If I had been put in a first year seminar based on a topic I had little to no interest in, I think it would give a misread on my success in classes that I enjoy.

      Such a good point! And so many students seem to end up in topics they didn't actually pick...

    2. Meaning you can tell more about a student from how they  engage and perform in a first year seminar class rather than from the tests that schools hold us accountable for from high school.

      Very compelling!

    3. “The First Year Seminar as a Predictor of Academic Achievement and Persistence”

      Hyperlink this to the article!

    1. It is safe to say freshman seminars provide a benefit to the student population

      Nice conclusion!

    2. The article can be found here, http://csr.sagepub.com/content/16/4/593.full.pdf+html .

      This is good, but would be better as a hyperlink on the title of the article above.

    3. It was shown that after the course they had better study habits.

      But did the students with jam-packed schedules have a harder time than less-busy students? I feel like maybe that thread got dropped here?

    4. some of their schedules were more jam packed than others with things like jobs, and sports.

      Good point. I would imagine that makes a significant difference in how students do in classes...

    5. “Quantitative Evaluation of a First Year Seminar Program: Relationships to Persistence and Academic Success”

      Can you add a link to the article?

    1. First Year Seminars do this perfectly by allowing the class to talk out loud and let everyone get involved on the activity.

      Nice!

    2. using upperclassmen to offer more resources to first year

      Love this idea.

    3. Ever since the start of First Year Seminars, the return rate of students has gone up over five percent.

      Wow-- interesting and impressive stat!

    4. The article I read

      The link is great, but you should also name the title (and maybe author(s)).

    1. pursing

      IS THAT A TYPO? OR NOT?

    2. Sustaining the mission of a public university these days requires acting like a private enterprise.

      Or, put differently, "Acting like a private enterprise slowly turns a public university into a private one." Not sure though. At the rate this is all going, I may want to revise the "slowly" part.

    1. The problems to which the university is a response are hard problems, and there is no free lunch. Institutional solutions are generally second-best in the sense that they constitute the best solution that is feasible in the light of environmental constraints (in which case they are a defense), or they are less than second-best (in which case they are defective). As a necessary by-product of fulfilling their productive functions, the structures of the university have a tendency to ossify. It is precisely because the powerful incentives and protections afforded by these structures are intertwined with their potential for ossification that it is hard to disentangle where the defects of the university end and its defenses begin.

      Excited to read this. It's what I have been thinking a lot about in my digped work. I was trying to figure out what the long game is for Open Ped, for digped. Is it ultimately extra-institutional? For me, I think the current answer is no. My long game is a public game, and I think publics need institutions. But institutions can't really ever embody fully the principles of open that intrigue and attract me. Look forward to reading more of Lohmann....

    2. wanting to be therapists

      Aaaaghhh! Run away!

    3. I smile whenever I see one of those stickers

      It's funny that I love those stickers and think they work, even though they are also both fraudulent and problematic.

      By the way, everything you write is basically a paradox in operation, yes? No?

    4. The 7 Humanities Professors go on to worry that the use of trigger warnings will lead to an expectation among students of such things for any material that is even remotely potentially offensive or disturbing, and a backlash against any professor who does not provide such a warning.

      I kind of thought we figured this out in the 80's with those porn debates, but ok. I mean, I am all rehearsed with my rebuttals-to-Dworkin so I am ready.

    5. I think students should propose whatever they want.  Proposals are good. They get us talking about what we value and why.

      THIS. And let anyone collaboratively participating in learning be a student, maybe, as an addendum. Maybe.

    6. solidarity

      I think maybe you need to say more about what this means, and what it looks like.

      When I say YOU, I mean Matthew Cheney because I am so lucky to know and love him, but now I remember that other people are reading this too and it's not just a private chat with my beloved. So then I guess, HEY ANYONE!!?? Help me understand what we mean by "solidarity" in this context!

    7. Public education should be free and open to the public. Society at large benefits significantly from open access to education. If we can fund trillion-dollar wars, we can fund public education. We simply choose not to. One of the engines driving the neoliberalization of higher ed is the lack of funding from the public. When there isn't enough money to go around, everything gets assessed first by cost. That will destroy all the best aspects of our universities.

      THANK YOU.

    8. require that teachers be thoughtful about their pedagogy and that they enter the classroom from a basic standpoint of respect for their students as human beings and as people capable of thought.

      Sign me up. I am good with this.

    9. coalition

      I think my uni is struggling to understand what we are aligned for. I think this is about mission, this coalition that you speak of, but with so many uni missions being so watered down and incoherent and universally disconnected from the actual processes of the institutions, I wonder if our coalitions are doomed?