Chinese IAB, IB and IIAB
How to start your work?如何开始学习你的功课
Complete email signature
Please sign out your personal gmail account if you have, then sign in with school email. Please click on right top under your name to find the settings. Then, please enter your full name, class name with week schedule and contact phone number (cell phone). Please only use school email to communicate with your teacher per school policy.
For example:
Michael Marra
Chinese IAB 16 week schedule
Cell: 404 678-0929
Print out your course schedule
Do you know where to find your course schedule? You will find your course schedule in right panel of course homepage under Course Information. Please scroll it down to find it. Please print out and post on your desk. I suggest you to turn your assignments by the description date of course schedule or complete them every Friday.
Late Policy
All incomplete assignments will be entered as "Zero" after midnight due day every other Friday. You can still turn your assignments after due day. However, there is 10% deducted one day late (turn on Saturday/Sunday/Monday), 20% deducted on Tuesday... 50% deducted on Friday. After Friday, there is no more chance to turn your work to get some credits back.
Introduce yourself to classmates
Complete Chinese simplified character (PRC) installation
Students will need facilitators’ support at school Chinese hour, please set up specific computers with installing Chinese Simplified Characters (PRC) program at school computers to allow these students to complete their assignments. However, I also ask students to install Chinese simplified characters (PRC) at their home computers in case students cannot complete at school hour or students would like to review text at home. Students will only work on Chinese assignment at school hour.
You will test if it working after your installation. Please type "ni hao" in your keyboard then it will come up with a list of many characters to let you select. Please select the correct one as "你好“. If you can find these two characters then you succeed your installation. If not, then you need to re-do it until you have done correctly. You will need to ask your facilitator to help or find in Google searching.
Where are etextbooks?
Assignments in each module
Normally, there are 4 assignments, 2 quizzes and 1 test in each module. There are 2 lessons in each module. There is one quiz for each lesson. The questions of test will include questions in 2 quizzes and additional new questions. Please always study well from text area and review sheets of quiz/test before taking them.
For example in Chinese IAB course.
Discussion assignment - find the topic of module - Click on Assessments - Discussions.
Culture reflection assignment - page 3 or 4 - Click on Course Materials - Content - find the module. You will write what you have learned from the video by clicking on the link. Please follow the instruction there to turn your work. You will type your reflection in English not Chinese characters which will be easy for you.
Listening/speaking assignment - page 3 or 4 - Click on Course Materials - Content - find the module. Please scroll it down and follow the instruction to turn your work. However, the questions are too difficult for you. You can select any 4 sentences which are useful for you to record these 4 sentences to replace this assignment. I suggest you to select 2 sentences from each lesson. Please make sure that you play back to listen to yourself before submitting to dropbox.
Character writing assignment - find character camp on page 4 or 5 - Click on Course Materials - Content - find the module. You can also select any 20 Chinese characters to type in your computer with English translation in it for your submission.
2 quizzes and 1 test - click on Assessments - Quizzes - Please study well from the text and review sheets of quiz/test before taking them.
Please find the helpful study guide to learn how to well in assignments by clicking on Assessments - Discussions - Help - How to well in assignments. There are 2 topics ( one is How to do your recording work for listening/speaking assignments? and another one is example of module assignments. Please find the example attachments there.
Come to weekly synchronous hour at Monday 8pm-9pm by click on https://gavirtualschool.adobeconnect.com/_a1009797041/llingchinese1a/. See you there.
Where to find review sheets of quiz/test?
16 week course scheudle students will have the access today.
Dear 16 week course schedule students,
You will have the course access today if you complete student orientation 24 hours prior to today. Ms. Ling encourage you to start your work today. There are many materials to learn. I would encourage you to start early and read all emails and announcements of course homepage and follow the instructions to study well in Chinese course. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Thank you.