Feminists, Concepts, Reconceptualizations (Fall 13): HOW TO GET TO ELECTRONIC RESERVES FOR TUESDAY!

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When you are preparing for class for the week, perhaps over the weekend, while you have the syllabus available for download at all times on the class website, you may also notice it is on the <Schedule> tab too! So you always have a way of knowing what is coming up next, even if I have not yet posted for the week. You can see the Schedule tab on both computers on the internet and also on your phone!

You will notice that two readings for next week are on electronic reserve! What does that mean!

RESERVES INFO: http://www.lib.umd.edu/access/reserves-students

Well, this is the ONE TIME you need to use Canvas for our class. It means that you can login to Canvas and download an electronic version of the reading yourself.

IF FOR ANY REASON YOU EXPERIENCE DIFFICULTY DOING THIS, EMAIL KATIE FOR AN EMAIL VERSION OF THE READINGS! Please do this SEVERAL DAYS AHEAD OF TIME! not the night before.

If you experience difficulties with electronic reserves this time around, talk to me and let's set up another way for you to access these materials. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO KNOW YOU ARE HAVING DIFFICULTIES AHEAD OF TIME! not the night before.

No matter what we will get these materials to you! But YOU HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU NEED YOURSELF!

So this is your first chance to figure all that out. What is on electronic reserve for Tuesday? Go to Schedule:

http://femconre.blogspot.com/p/dailyweekly-outline-of-class.html

and it says:

Tuesday 17 September, Intensity and Fiero! What to do with frustration & confusion

· McGonigal, everyone reads selections: Chs4 & 14 (electronic reserves)

· Zandt people: all of it; McGonigal people: Parts 1&2 & Conclusion

If you have chosen to read McGonigal and have bought a copy say, you won't "need" the reserves this time. But try to get them anyway, just so we all try and find out how it works!

Everyone else should download them this time!

Zandt people should all of their book PLUS the two McGonigal chapters!

All books can be checked out for 24 hrs on course reserves at McKeldin: go to the circulation desk!

HOW TO GET TO THE ELECTRONIC RESERVES:

Go to > https://myelms.umd.edu/login

to log into Canvas. You will need your university ID and password.

(You will notice an announcement for our class 300. It is a link to the course website on blogger.)

Move your mouse over Courses at the top, and choose our course.

Look on the left and see Modules. Click that.

See Course Reserves. Click that.

Note item 43544: McGonigal. Click the PDF icon.

Click View this item.

You can view it online, or you can download it. Mouse around the bottom of the screen until several icons come into view.

Click the SAVE icon which looks like a old fashioned floppy disk.

You will be instructed to save it somewhere. YOu can save it to a desktop or to a flash drive.

You can do it on a phone, but you will have to email it to yourself. You may be able to view on the phone depending on how good your eyes are!

THESE ARE REQUIRED READINGS!

Please prepare for Tuesday! we will discuss BOTH the readings themselves, and how to access them!

These are fun books to read and enjoy them!

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Tuesday 17 September, Intensity and Fiero! What to do with frustration & confusion

· McGonigal, everyone reads selections: Chs 4 & 14 (electronic reserves)

· Zandt people: all of it; McGonigal people: Parts 1 & 2 & Conclusion

· MORE BUDDIES, READING SIMULTANEOUSLY AND READING AHEAD

MORE ABOUT MANY OF THE GAMES MCGONIGAL DISCUSSES HERE ON HER SITE

This portal course will be intense! We will start off with lots of “how to do” important things. But as we get closer to each workshop date, the readings and the projects will start to pile up. So planning ahead will be crucial! And you will need to be reading, reReading, and reading ahead, all at the same time! Keeping records of what needs to be done, and what you have done, and where you got what sort of information, all these are part of good scholarly practice. Fie on cutting and pasting last minute off the Web! Let’s learn to DO IT RIGHT! and enjoy it! Helping each other will make it a lot more fun.

Thursday 19 September, Prototyping: a Timelines poster, subjects in history

· BRING IN NOTES AND PRINTOUT IMAGES FROM THE WEB with an eye to your parents’ timelines & stories, your own, what you know about the histories of women’s studies in timelines (look on the web), and find out what was happening in the world on the day of your birth, and the major world events that had an impact on you. We need all this for our prototyping today!

Our second “flipping the classroom” Thursday! You MUST BE PREPARED so we can spend our time MAKING THINGS! GOOGLE "personal timeline" to see pics and ideas for what you might do!