Hi Joe,
Sorry to hear this. Our world is full of changes and shocks, with emphasis on the latter particularly lately.
I see you identify yourself as a veteran.
The Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America like to refer persons to the National Veterans Foundation, where you can call and speak with a counselor 1-888-777- 4443 http://www.nvf.org/?sm=1
I do not know what city you are in, but encourage you to find some source to shadow you through these things, they are quite common and as long as people do not talk about them or seek guidance, they fester and grow and become something they need not be.
Another thing to do is to find a bookstore in which there are 'readers' - who knows what means they use but there are book stores in at least in some cities where you can come in, and speak to someone usually for a modest fee in return for a meaningful counseling session.
OF course, various religions offer various support as well.
We have entire publications and 'healing fairs' out here on the west coast where you can search thru individuals trained in 'coaching' and or various forms of therapeutic benefits for which will. You can also search for 'professional coaches' for example....
The founder of Phoenix University wrote a book called Rebel with a Cause http://www.play.com/Books/Books/4-/2005091/Product.html?source=9593 in which he details the hurdles he underwent during his many tranformations into whom he is now...the person who made all this life long learning available to us.
It is healthy to reach out for help. At all the universities I have been to we were always encouraged to seek out either individual or group therapy of some kind, even if its just to go bowling :)
As for divorce, I often tell students to check out this now 'old' movie Educating Rita - a story about how college changes the sphere of awareness in individuals and causes breaks in relationships as the other person is not keeping pace with you. It is common at on ground universities to offer group support regarding relationships. This is very common, but does not certainly make it less painful.
You will get through this. Keep things in perspective the best you can.
National Veterans Foundation Speak with a counselor 1-888-777- 4443 http://www.nvf.org/?sm=1
VA WatchDog.org http://www.vawatchdog.org/ Larry Scott, founder at larrys@vawatchdog.org.
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America Can join Social Network with submission of certain information p: 202-544-7692 http://iava.org/membership
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Refuse to use template
To document our phone call today.
Hello Gary,
Thank you for calling back so promptly. As I said on the phone, I have made the small amount of APA required for this course as easy as brushing your teeth. I am required to grade anything you turn in but if you are going to take yourself seriously at any professional place of work or university, respect for specialized proper protocol will always need to be met although varying in form from institution to institution.
My offer is for you to either nudge me thru direct email to see if I am available or to make an appointment so that both of us are on the computer or both on the computer and the phone at the same time to work on this.
All you will do is download the template. Quit the application. Find the document. Open both that template and your work so far and then copy and paste the content over from your paper onto the template and attach into a post into your IF.
This simple step will begin the world of possibilities for you. You will see your work in a different light. You will begin to take your own work more seriously. These are lessons for which apply to higher levels of sophistication from which will benefit no matter what you do.
You did nothing you have learned so far at the University is applicable to Criminal Justice and that you just learned how to use a computer last year.
These are issues for which can be easily refuted as reasons for not doing your best and continuing on to greater and greater challenges for a better life and a better world. The world is complex.
Certainly, whomever your subjects will be in your future work in Criminal Justice will be looking towards your leadership as an adult for whom life long learning is valued.
In summary, direct email me to see if I am online so we can work together, or leave me an appointment time in which we can work together.
Hello Gary,
Thank you for calling back so promptly. As I said on the phone, I have made the small amount of APA required for this course as easy as brushing your teeth. I am required to grade anything you turn in but if you are going to take yourself seriously at any professional place of work or university, respect for specialized proper protocol will always need to be met although varying in form from institution to institution.
My offer is for you to either nudge me thru direct email to see if I am available or to make an appointment so that both of us are on the computer or both on the computer and the phone at the same time to work on this.
All you will do is download the template. Quit the application. Find the document. Open both that template and your work so far and then copy and paste the content over from your paper onto the template and attach into a post into your IF.
This simple step will begin the world of possibilities for you. You will see your work in a different light. You will begin to take your own work more seriously. These are lessons for which apply to higher levels of sophistication from which will benefit no matter what you do.
You did nothing you have learned so far at the University is applicable to Criminal Justice and that you just learned how to use a computer last year.
These are issues for which can be easily refuted as reasons for not doing your best and continuing on to greater and greater challenges for a better life and a better world. The world is complex.
Certainly, whomever your subjects will be in your future work in Criminal Justice will be looking towards your leadership as an adult for whom life long learning is valued.
In summary, direct email me to see if I am online so we can work together, or leave me an appointment time in which we can work together.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Grading Rubric Answers vs Hints
Hi Sheena,
It does not say to list the four steps, it says consider what the four steps are so you are able to answer the question, therefore I did not list those steps.
Well...we are getting to the point where an hint actually becomes me giving you the answers and doing your work for you. Instinctively the typical 'A' student will think that 'consider' does mean in writing a response that your wording would reflect as evidence that you did indeed consider the information. Certainly, I cannot give you points for thinking that maybe you considered the steps. Had you considered the steps in your answer, they would have been in the paper since this is the only way we communicate - in writing.
The grading rubrics are big hints as to what the best student work has reflected in the past and this is the challenge I have on this end of the computer, getting you to value and appreciate to greater depths an innate curiosity from you in this case, how Darwin's theory works. I literally tip toe a fine line when I offer these 'hints' as at some point, I would simply be giving you the answers to what ideally you will be reading in your assigned reading and making the connection between your work and what you were to have read.
It does not say to list the four steps, it says consider what the four steps are so you are able to answer the question, therefore I did not list those steps.
Well...we are getting to the point where an hint actually becomes me giving you the answers and doing your work for you. Instinctively the typical 'A' student will think that 'consider' does mean in writing a response that your wording would reflect as evidence that you did indeed consider the information. Certainly, I cannot give you points for thinking that maybe you considered the steps. Had you considered the steps in your answer, they would have been in the paper since this is the only way we communicate - in writing.
The grading rubrics are big hints as to what the best student work has reflected in the past and this is the challenge I have on this end of the computer, getting you to value and appreciate to greater depths an innate curiosity from you in this case, how Darwin's theory works. I literally tip toe a fine line when I offer these 'hints' as at some point, I would simply be giving you the answers to what ideally you will be reading in your assigned reading and making the connection between your work and what you were to have read.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Too stupid to use a template APA
Okay Tomas,
Much nicer, though we still have to label the 4 steps of the risk analysis that we read about in our assigned reading and for which the instructions in the Syllabus say to work through and how they are broken down on the grading rubric and template, which is attached.
See the attached. Imagine that the xxxxxxxx's beneath the mini headings in the template are sentences. Well you need to replace those x's with the matching content from your paper that should go beneath that heading. The reason there are mini headings is because the assignment was about using a 4 step method to help you reach a decision.
So for each heading, you were to research information and studies found on Malathion and then at the end of doing all these 4 steps of research, the correct answer regarding whether to apply it or not will be clear.
I always say it is easier to download the template to your desktop than to re format your paper each time and in this class, I have even put in the subtitles into the templates to help you keep your content on track.
How to work with a template:
Open the template attached and do a 'file save as'. Save the file as 'SCI 275 Week 2 Assignment.'
Then close out of the post you downloaded the template from and close out of Word.
Now, find the file that you downloaded and saved as 'SCI 275 Week 2 Assignment' and open it.
Type over 'Example Student' to change the wording to your name.
Then, take the content from the document you have already typed, and copy and paste those paragraphs over the xxxxxxxxxx's beneath the same subtitles in the template under where it would make sense. For example. if each subtitle in the template were the colors blue black red and green, which content from what you have already typed would match each of those four colors.
Now you have both a generic desktop APA formatted document that you can use for the rest of your years at AXIA; as well as a well formatted Assignment Two that I can read easily and find what I am looking for.
In my classes, I supply you with a template for each APA assignment and encourage you to use those. It only takes 5 minutes to match your content with the four subheadings...unless of course you did not research your content using the 4 step risk analysis, which means you either did not read your assigned reading or need help understanding it. IF so, ask for help and or just try your best on this paper and get it in and look forward to another opportunity in next week's work.
Much nicer, though we still have to label the 4 steps of the risk analysis that we read about in our assigned reading and for which the instructions in the Syllabus say to work through and how they are broken down on the grading rubric and template, which is attached.
See the attached. Imagine that the xxxxxxxx's beneath the mini headings in the template are sentences. Well you need to replace those x's with the matching content from your paper that should go beneath that heading. The reason there are mini headings is because the assignment was about using a 4 step method to help you reach a decision.
So for each heading, you were to research information and studies found on Malathion and then at the end of doing all these 4 steps of research, the correct answer regarding whether to apply it or not will be clear.
I always say it is easier to download the template to your desktop than to re format your paper each time and in this class, I have even put in the subtitles into the templates to help you keep your content on track.
How to work with a template:
Open the template attached and do a 'file save as'. Save the file as 'SCI 275 Week 2 Assignment.'
Then close out of the post you downloaded the template from and close out of Word.
Now, find the file that you downloaded and saved as 'SCI 275 Week 2 Assignment' and open it.
Type over 'Example Student' to change the wording to your name.
Then, take the content from the document you have already typed, and copy and paste those paragraphs over the xxxxxxxxxx's beneath the same subtitles in the template under where it would make sense. For example. if each subtitle in the template were the colors blue black red and green, which content from what you have already typed would match each of those four colors.
Now you have both a generic desktop APA formatted document that you can use for the rest of your years at AXIA; as well as a well formatted Assignment Two that I can read easily and find what I am looking for.
In my classes, I supply you with a template for each APA assignment and encourage you to use those. It only takes 5 minutes to match your content with the four subheadings...unless of course you did not research your content using the 4 step risk analysis, which means you either did not read your assigned reading or need help understanding it. IF so, ask for help and or just try your best on this paper and get it in and look forward to another opportunity in next week's work.
APA Reference Recipe
2. Format the references using this simple recipe
a. author (year of published), title, place of publishing, and the publisher.
b. If an electronic source, the same as above except that in lieu of place of publisher and publisher, you type in a new sentence> Retrieved month, day, year from http:www.dajfkdjfljf.html
If you cannot find the author, you can write N.A. for 'No author'.
If you cannot find the date, you can write N.D. for 'No date'.
a. author (year of published), title, place of publishing, and the publisher.
b. If an electronic source, the same as above except that in lieu of place of publisher and publisher, you type in a new sentence> Retrieved month, day, year from http:www.dajfkdjfljf.html
If you cannot find the author, you can write N.A. for 'No author'.
If you cannot find the date, you can write N.D. for 'No date'.
Friday, September 18, 2009
APA formatting templates
Hello,
A number of you have been experiencing trouble learning how to use the templates in order to get your papers in proper APA formatting.
Formatting papers is far more than a cosmetic issue, it can mean the difference of me being able to read your paper in a few minutes or- an hour! to get thru your paper. It can mean the difference of you keeping your content on track and not going what we call going too far down 'the rabbit hole.'
Putting your paper in APA format need only take a few minutes once you are familiar with using them.
Attached you will find a template and also an example of a finished paper from a nutrition class that uses the same formatting. I will not ask you to know anymore about APA formatting other than what is on the template for the basic paper and just the two basic recipes for references at this stage of your college journey.
You are not alone, believe me and this is exactly why it is taking me so long to get your papers back to you. I have put this thread together here in the main so that perhaps everyone can commiserate and help each other out. If you have a tip for your class mates, do post it! That same person or someone else may help you out down the road.
In Environmental Studies and Paleo-ecology, we find species survive longer when they help each other out rather than compete. This is known as Commensalism. -Or sometimes as Environmentalists get jeered by the cable networks for being Socialists Communists- but do not add Fascism to that because it means the opposite of Communism :) lol
Many of you are hanging in there and your formatting is looking more and more beautiful and professional with each time you resubmit. You will get this down and a year from now you will say - I can't believe I couldn't do that then!
So be sure to respond to this post with either a tip or a question, or maybe just an emotion as to how rough it can be to make more room in your professional career for APA formatting.
A number of you have been experiencing trouble learning how to use the templates in order to get your papers in proper APA formatting.
Formatting papers is far more than a cosmetic issue, it can mean the difference of me being able to read your paper in a few minutes or- an hour! to get thru your paper. It can mean the difference of you keeping your content on track and not going what we call going too far down 'the rabbit hole.'
Putting your paper in APA format need only take a few minutes once you are familiar with using them.
Attached you will find a template and also an example of a finished paper from a nutrition class that uses the same formatting. I will not ask you to know anymore about APA formatting other than what is on the template for the basic paper and just the two basic recipes for references at this stage of your college journey.
You are not alone, believe me and this is exactly why it is taking me so long to get your papers back to you. I have put this thread together here in the main so that perhaps everyone can commiserate and help each other out. If you have a tip for your class mates, do post it! That same person or someone else may help you out down the road.
In Environmental Studies and Paleo-ecology, we find species survive longer when they help each other out rather than compete. This is known as Commensalism. -Or sometimes as Environmentalists get jeered by the cable networks for being Socialists Communists- but do not add Fascism to that because it means the opposite of Communism :) lol
Many of you are hanging in there and your formatting is looking more and more beautiful and professional with each time you resubmit. You will get this down and a year from now you will say - I can't believe I couldn't do that then!
So be sure to respond to this post with either a tip or a question, or maybe just an emotion as to how rough it can be to make more room in your professional career for APA formatting.
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