PORTFOLIO ASSIGNMENTS
1. Journal Entry #1: Access computer-based Home Page and Syllabus. Word-process response to specific questions and print results. WEBSITES: Student Success Homepage (http://valencia.cc.fl.us/student success/) AND Professor's Homepage (http://faculty.valencia.cc.fl.us/jscolaro/); Professor's E-mail address: jscolaro@valencia.cc.fl.us; Professor's office telephone number (includes voice mail): (407) 299-5000/extension 1468. Class schedule AND office hours are also posted on the door of my office in Building 5-120. YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO CALL OR CONTACT ME ANYTIME!
2. Journal Entry #2 (Two Parts): "What Do I Want?" and "Who Moved My Cheese?". View videos ("What Do I Want?" and "Who Moved My Cheese?"). Word-process response to specific questions and print results.
3. Journal Entry #3: Complete Discovery Wheel on-line and print results.
4. Journal Entry #4: Complete Reconnaissance of Course Text. Word-process response to specific questions and print results.
5. Journal Entry #5: Complete Personal Profile (see Notebook) and Part I of Choosing Your Major (see Notebook).
6. Important dates to Remember: (1) Monday, July 8, Student Success Center, SSB-142, Advising Presentation and Cyber Advisor, 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.; (2) Wednesday, July 10, Student Success Center, SSB-142, Orientation and Follow-up, 6:00 p.m.-9:10 p.m.; (3) Complete Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory, Monday, July 22, in-class; (4) Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory Interpretation, Madelyn Young, Career Center, SSB-206, Wednesday, July 24, 6 p.m.; (5) Career Center Orientation, SSB-206, Wednesday, July 17, 6 p.m.-7 p.m., Madelyn Young; (6) Victor Collazo, Coordinator of Student Development (West Campus), Student Government and Activities, TBA.
7. Journal Entry #6: Aphorism #1: "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." (Eleanor Roosevelt); word-process your response and print results.
8. Journal Entry #7: "The 'BUT' Principle": Select ONE of the weaknesses disclosed on your Discovery Wheel and explain the following: (1) the factor(s) which you think may have created or contributed to the weakness you selected; (2) why do you think it is so hard for us to face the truth about ourselves; and (3) what specific course of action may actually help you convert the weakness you selected into a strength?. Word-process your response and print results.
9. Journal Entry# 8: Print and complete the following: Scavenger Hunt: West Campus Resources (see Giovanni Scolaro's Homepage on-line).
10. Journal Entry# 9: View Les Brown's "You Deserve" video on "Motivation". Select ONE of the ideas presented by Brown and explain how the idea you selected may actually increase your level of motivation. Word-process your response and print results.
11. Journal Entry #10: Aphorism #2: "Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." (Will Rogers). Word-process your response and print results.
12. Journal Entry #11: Select ONE of the distinctions between High School and College and explain how your selection can help you succeed academically. Word-process your response and print results.
13. Journal Entry #12: Select ONE of the Classical Values and ONE of the Modern Values of a Higher Education and explain how the results you selected can help you succeed in your academic, personal, and career life. Word-process your response and print results.
14. Journal Entry #13: Write a personal letter to someone in the future (unknown to you) in which you "argue" why the person you selected should give more serious consideration to the quest for a higher education (i.e., college or university). Example: 1 Aimless Circle; Nogoals, Florida 00000; Dear Ima Phailyore, etc. Word-process your response and print results.
15. Journal Entry #14: Select ONE of Valencia's West Campus resources which you recently visited and explain how use of the resource you selected can help you succeed academically. Word-process your response and print results.
16. GOALS PAPER DUE (SEE ON LINE FORMAT) AND FIRST STUDENT LIFE SKILLS NOTEBOOK CHECK (INCLUDE ON LINE COPY OF CRITERIA IN FRONT POCKET OF NOTEBOOK), See Syllabus.
17. Complete the following Learning Style Inventory on-line as specified by the professor: the BARSCH Learning Style Inventory. Print and/or provide results of same.
18. Journal Entry #15: Based on your BARSCH results, explain the conditions under which you learn best. Support your statements with an example.
19. Journal Entry #16: Based on your BARSCH results, explain the characteristics of your learning style. Also, select a learning style different than your own and explain how you could possibly benefit as a learner by embracing some of the characteristics of another learning style different than your own.
20. Complete the on-line Interactive Time Chart and print results. Also, read the section of the course text on "Time Management".
21. Journal Entry #17: Based on the results of your Interactive Time Chart, explain what it discloses about your use of time and what you can do to improve.
22. Journal Entry #18: Aphorism #3: "Reading furnishes our mind with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours." (John Locke); word-process your response and print results.
23. Journal Entry #19: Complete the "Three Minute Test"; word-process your response and print results to the following questions: What did this test disclose about you and your reading skills? What can you actually do to prevent falling into a similar "trap" in the future?
24. Journal Entry #20: Access the on-line reading component of Giovanni's Picks (A Conductor's Dream). Select ONE of the Six Reading Myths and explain how your selection can actually help you improve your level of comprehension. Word-process your response and print results.
25. Journal Entry#21: Based on ONE of the 3 Models of Note Taking discussed in class, convert your "lecture" notes on Salvador Dali by employing the Note Taking Model you selected. Word-process your reconstruction and print results.
26. Journal Entry #22: Aphorism #4: "The art of memory is the art of attention." (Samuel Johnson); word-process your response and print results.
27. Journal Entry #23: Based on the video on "Verbal Learning" by Dr. Ivan Applebaum, explain ONE of the effective methods you could actually employ in order to enhance the reception, storage, and retrieval of information. Word-process your response and print results.
28. Journal Entry#24: Aphorism #5: "The important thing is never to stop questioning." (Albert Einstein); word-process your response and print results.
29. Journal Entry #25: Select ONE of the Critical Thinking statements on the handout OR locate your own statement and apply the components of Critical Thinking to your statement. Word-process your response and print results.
30. SECOND STUDENT LIFE SKILLS NOTEBOOK CHECK ( INCLUDE ON-LINE COPY OF CRITERIA IN FRONT POCKET OF NOTEBOOK), See Syllabus.
31. Journal Entry #26: Aphorism #6: "You do not know what is in you-an inexhaustible fountain of ideas." (Brenda Ueland); word-process your response and print results.
32. Journal Entry #27: Rewrite the Editing Exercise (handout) according to the criteria of effective writing. Word-process your "rewrite" and print results. Also, complete computer-based assignment and print results (TBA).
33. Journal Entry #28: Aphorism #7: "The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow men is that I do not say what I mean, and that I do not do what I say." (Martin Buber); Word-process your response and print results.
34. Journal Entry #29: Based on the insights related to effective encoding, decoding, and listening, select ONE of the weaknesses you possess in each of the above areas and explain the strategies you could actually employ in order to maintain a good relationship with another person. Word-process your response and print results. GROUP PRESENTATIONS ON DIFFERENT COMPONENTS OF THE ABOVE PRINCIPLES, See Syllabus.
35. Journal Entry #30: Complete bottom section of "Choosing Your Own Major" (see NOTEBOOK), TBA.
36. FINAL STUDENT LIFE SKILLS NOTEBOOK CHECK (INCLUDE ON-LINE COPY OF CRITERIA IN FRONT POCKET OF NOTEBOOK). YOUR NOTEBOOK MUST INCLUDE YOUR CAREER EXPLORATION PAPER, See Syllabus.
37. FINAL ESSAY EXAMINATION, See Syllabus.