>> Hi, everybody!
Welcome to your Nutrition 300 online completely
video orientation.
I'm Jessica Coppola, and I'll be your professor this semester.
This is your orientation.
It's meant to be just a brief overview
of how the class is going to work,
where to get your book, all that good stuff.
You will be asked to do three tasks during this orientation.
You need to do them to prove
that you've completed the mandatory orientation.
If you're watching this before you have been allowed into D2L,
typically students are added
about a week before classes start.
If it's prior to that, then be patient and go ahead and know
that you won't be required to do it until the week before.
The Wednesday, Wednesday the 24th is the day I really would
like you to complete these orientation tasks.
The truth is I'll give you a little bit of flexibility,
but do your best to do it by then, ok?
Alright, so let's get started.
First of all, when you signed up in the Schedule of Classes,
there was a link to my website.
If you will please hit pause on this video
and make sure you are looking at the syllabus and calendar
for this class before you view this orientation.
That's really important.
If you don't have the schedule of classes handy,
you can just Google Jessica Coppola,
Sacramento City College, and that's another way to get it,
but please pause the video
and make sure you have that in front of you.
Next.
Oops. Hit next like four times.
There we go.
So if you're hoping to add this class,
be sure to email me right away,
and I will do my best to add you.
The truth is I add from the wait list first,
and typically this class has a lot of wait listed students,
so if you're on my wait list, email me.
Tell me your full name and that you have watched this video,
and chances are very good that I will add you.
Please also note the section number that you wish to add.
Sometimes there's more than one online section number,
and it's like a five-digit code, and let me know
which section number you would like to add, and again,
make sure you mention that you've watched this video
because that will put you a step ahead.
So welcome!
This is an absolutely amazing college.
If any of you are new to Sacramento City College,
please be sure to ask if anything gets
in your way this semester
or if you're anticipating something getting in your way.
We are a very old college.
We've got child care and all kinds of resources
to help you be successful, so know that, and if you are new
to Sacramento City, welcome!
You also have an absolutely amazing instructor!
And you may think I'm joking, but I'm completely serious.
I've been teaching online for a really long time
and I've figured out ways to make it more fun
and engaging and, and more personal
so that you leave the class not just having memorized
information but having realized, oh my gosh!
This, this impacts me and my loved ones, and my children
or future children, and, and so on and so forth.
So please, I'll have to prove this one throughout the
semester, but please make it personal.
Connect with me.
Ask me questions.
If you want to talk about your grandfather's gout,
please, by all means.
That's why this class, to me,
is the most important class you'll take in college.
A little biased, but --
Nutrition is challenging.
I don't know if you've heard this from Rate my Professor
or other classmates, but it, it has some science.
It really does.
If you're going to talk about carbohydrates,
you have to know what they are and where they're stored
in your body and how they're used by your muscles,
and so that being said, there are no prerequisites
for this course, so I don't expect you
to have already mastered biochemistry.
I work you from the ground up, and I try
and give you all the tools you need, but at the same time,
you have to be willing to put in the work.
You have to read about a chapter a week.
You have to really be participating,
and you can't procrastinate and get behind
because typically getting behind in an online class spells doom.
So know that up front this is going to take some work,
but it's going to give a lot of reward, and you're going
to learn some amazing things about how to care for yourself
and those who you love.
Everybody in this class comes
in with some knowledge about nutrition.
You already have beliefs and practices and, and,
and things that you feel strongly about,
so at this point I want you to raise your right hand with me,
and I want you to swear.
I do solemnly swear, I do solemnly swear,
to respects the thoughts, feelings, and opinions,
of my teacher and my classmates.
There! You've sworn.
Everyone saw you.
It's really important.
I'm making a joke of it a bit, but when we're talking
about vegetarianism versus meat eating, when we're talking
about artificial sweeteners, when we're talking about,
you know, genetically modified foods, these are hot topics,
and people get offended, and you have to be sure,
it's fine to have differences of opinion, but you have to be sure
to respect each other and know that not everyone is going
to agree in this class, and that's ok.
The whole point is to expose us to different thoughts
about nutrition, so there you go.
You swore!
As you can probably see, it's really important
to me to get to know you.
Every semester I teach this class,
and it would be very boring
if it was the same information over and over for me.
But it's not!
It changes because you're asking me different questions
about gluten intolerance and, and diabetes,
and all the things going on in your life,
so never think you're bothering me.
I've found that to be a theme in my online classes.
People think oh gosh, I don't want to bug the teacher.
That's what makes it rich and exciting
for me, so please contact me.
It is not a bother, and if there's a way
that you can contact me that's easier for you, then ask me.
I've Skyped with students.
I've done Google Hangouts.
I've, I've had phone appointments,
in-person appointments, so pretty much whatever works
for you I'll figure out a way to make it work, so there we go.
Everything for this course can be done from home,
and that's really important.
So all your exams will be done online.
All your homework will be done online.
Because of that, you are required to log
into our class webpage in D2L, which I'll show you
in just a moment if you haven't used that before,
at least twice a week.
The truth is most online students are on D2L every day,
but at least a minimum of two times per week,
and in the calendar I'm about to show you,
a week will begin Monday at 5 a.m. and will end Sunday
at 11:55 p.m. or close to midnight.
That way whatever work I'm assigning for you for Week 1,
you can do it any time between Monday and Sunday of that week,
but once Sunday at midnight or 11:55 p.m. ends,
I do not accept late work,
and this is really, really important.
What I've done instead is I know life is going
to happen sometimes.
I've built in some bonus point opportunities,
so let's say your kid is sick
and you know you're just not going to get this assignment in
and it's worth 25 points, just make a mental note
to yourself I'm going to need to do 25 points
of bonus point activities.
You don't even need to email me and tell me.
You can if you want to, but you don't even have to say hey,
my kid was sick, I'm really sorry.
I understand.
I have a kid too, and I, I get it, but at the same time,
I can't manage a bunch of late assignments,
so I've built in some back-ups.
Just plan to do those back-ups if you miss something.
I'll even tell you about a back-up for one exam.
Now keep in mind, if you miss too many things,
there's about 70 bonus point opportunities,
so you can miss two assignments or one exam, or, you know,
you can miss some things, but you can't miss everything.
I don't have enough bonus points to make up for everything.
That wouldn't make much sense, right?
You are required to do some Learn Smart Study Modules,
and post tests using a publisher thing called McGraw-Hill Campus,
and I'll be showing you these.
These are very important to your learning.
They are a way of practicing while you're reading,
and I've found that they're very beneficial
for students getting better grades,
so just keep that in mind.
This is part of why you cannot pass the class without the book
and digital resources.
This is because these are required each and every week.
So let's take a look at the class calendar,
and this is the one I asked you to have in front
of you before you started this orientation video,
and the beginning has some pertinent information
like my office hours, and this little scroll isn't working
very quickly.
My office hours, my phone number, and then a link
to our course in D2L, and I'll be showing you
that in just a second, too.
If you scroll down toward the bottom --
Let's see if I can go a little more quickly here,
you will see the class calendar, and the calendar is organized
by weeks, so Week #1, Week #2, etc.,
and pretty much every week should look basically the same
with the exception of this orientation week.
So you're watching your orientation right now,
so you can check that box as soon as you finish this video.
There is an optional Meet and Greet,
and what that means is you've already finished your
orientation, but if you want to meet with me, meet with some
of your classmates, and, I don't know, get a little encouragement
of meeting face to face, we have a Meet and Greet, but you have
to have completed the orientation prior
to that Meet and Greet.
The Meet and Greet is not just a repeat of this video.
It's just a chance to meet in person.
And so the date and the time
for this semester's orientation is listed
at the top of your calendar.
There is a practice assignment that will be required to prove
that you watched this video.
I'll show you where that is.
There's a required orientation discussion board to show me hey,
I know how to do a discussion board.
There's also a required orientation quiz.
So remember the three things I said you had to do
to prove you finished this video?
Those are the three.
The practice assignment,
practice orientation discussion board, and practice quiz.
Now if we go down to the real Week 1, Chapter 1 work,
you'll see just like I said,
Monday at 5 a.m., the material is open.
Sunday at 11:55 it closed.
You'll be reading Chapter 1, working on an assignment,
doing a discussion board, and then working
on those McGraw-Hill Learn Smart Modules and post tests,
and I'll show you those, too.
So let's jump to D2L next.
This is where all courses in the Los Rios District hold their,
all their information, so this is where I post things
for you, news every week.
And right here is a button called Content,
and if I click on Content --
The first thing I want you to notice is Textbook
and Digital Resources McGraw-Hill Campus.
As soon as you click on this button, it will walk you
through the steps to buy your textbook,
register your textbook, and from then on, any time you click
on this link, you're good to go.
You're, you'll be in, and you'll be able
to do your weekly Learn Smart Modules.
Here's what it will look like once you've paid
for your book and logged in.
You'll see that each week has a Learn Smart Module
and a post test.
The Learn Smart is an amazing tool.
It is adaptive quizzing.
Why can I not click on you?
Maybe because I'm in student mode.
Here, let me go to instructor view.
If I click on this Learn Smart Module, your book will load up.
Your little SmartBook, and instead of just reading
and not really understanding what you're reading,
you will be asked questions throughout your reading,
so you're reading a section and it will say hey,
did you understand this?
How confident are you in your understanding of this?
And I find it helps students to really deeply understand rather
than just trying to memorize the material.
>> Reading with SmartBook --
>> There will be little --
>> -- helps you put emphasis on the critical --
>> -- little animations in here --
>> -- paragraphs first.
>> -- activities.
>> These critical paragraphs --
>> And this little menu on the left --
>> -- are highlighted in yellow.
>> -- with three lines is where you will --
>> When you read --
>> -- practice --
>> SmartBook --
>> -- as you read.
>> -- we monitor your --
>> So I, can I show you just one --
>> The practice phase will --
>> [Inaudible]
>> -- help you reinforce your comprehension --
>> As you're reading your chapter, if you're ready
to practice what you've read --
>> -- questions [Inaudible] --
>> You can go, you can answer the question.
>> -- collected for you so far answered correctly --
>> Choose factors that are most likely to influence --
>> You will be prompted to read more --
>> -- food choices.
My peers might influence it.
My religious beliefs.
My mood. I don't think my height has much to do with it.
And then I have to rate how confident I am in my answer,
and I'm going to say I know it, and it will say you're right.
If you were wrong, you'll notice you can read about this,
and it will take you directly to the portion of the chapter
that discusses this topic, and that way
if you didn't understand it, you can go back and re-read it
and understand it better the next time, and it will give you
as many questions as you need to master the chapter.
If you get up to 100% mastery, which you can tell by going
to My Reports, then you will get the full 20 points
for this Learn Smart Module every, every chapter.
So I'm going to leave this SmartBook.
Go ahead and leave the page.
After you have completed the reading in the chapter,
you'll give yourself a post test,
and this post test will assess did you really understand what
you read or did you just think you understood what you read?
And so for each chapter in your calendar,
that's why it says there will be both a Learn Smart Module
and a post test.
Now the exception is on an exam week, so let's go forward
to Exam 2 for example.
You'll notice that there are no Learn Smart Modules
or post tests on exam week.
Let's see.
I'm jumping back into D2L now.
So the second button down here are the Weekly Tasks,
and you'll see I've organized the course.
Here's the orientation, all the things required
for your orientation, including the video you're watching right
now, and then once you're done with your orientation tasks,
you'll begin your real Week 1 Chapter 1 work, and each
and every week you know what's expected of you,
both by what's asked of you on the calendar as well
as what's listed in these week modules, Week 1, Week 2, Week 3,
and that corresponds exactly to what's present in your calendar.
So I'm hoping that by having this lined out for you exactly
like this, you know exactly what's expected of you,
what to do, and when it's due.
So, let's see.
We looked at week, let's go back to the orientation for a moment.
So you have to watch the orientation video.
You're doing that now.
Here is the Orientation Discussion Board you're required
to post, and so it says this is one
of your three mandatory tasks.
Please introduce yourself to the class.
Tell us why are you taking nutrition
and what do you hope to get out of it.
Please compose your own post and reply to two classmates,
and that's true of each and every week's discussion board.
You will click on the discussion board.
You will compose your own post.
It's currently not open, but when it is, you will be able
to click Compose My Own Post,
and you'll type your own introduction,
and then you'll reply to two of your classmates.
And every single week when you see a discussion board is due,
the same directions will be in order.
You'll still need to post your own answer, but I want you
to reply to two classmates
so you can see what their opinion is on a given topic
and see, you know, opinions other than just your own.
So let's see, what else was in the required orientation tasks.
Here I am back on Content.
There was an orientation assignment.
This assignment is literally just uploading some Word
document to me, so you can just type up the ABC's if you want
and click on the orientation assignment.
You will be able to attach your file and hit Submit.
This is really just to make sure you know how
to upload an assignment and that I can receive it from you.
I don't have a Macintosh computer at this time,
so I can't open dot pages.
I can't open dot numbers, so if, if you would like,
you can convert your files into .pdf's, but I do need it to be
in a format that I can read, so all those directions are here
when you click on the orientation assignment.
So orientation assignment, discussion board,
and an orientation quiz, and the orientation quiz is also
in that list under Content,
and it will literally be what's your teacher's name,
how many tests are there in this class, is your final cumulative,
and all of those questions could be answered by reading
through your syllabus, so it really just forces you
to read your syllabus.
That's really all that is.
And so those are your orientation tasks.
Let's go back to my PowerPoint here.
And we looked at your practice exam, your practice assignment,
your practice discussion board with one post and two replies.
All the pertinent information about where to find me is
on the top of your syllabus.
I do teach at both the Davis Campus for Sacramento City
and the Main Campus, so if it's easier to reach me there,
we certainly can meet there.
Email is always good.
Here's just a little note that I only check email Monday
through Friday about 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. My weekends are filled
with 6-year-old fun activities and a husband I really enjoy,
so I try not to check email on weekends.
That doesn't mean you can't email me.
You're welcome to email me.
I just won't get it until Monday morning.
So just heads up about that.
Remember if you're ever forgetting
where to find something on D2L, just click on Content.
Oh, it just occurred to me some
of you might not know where to find D2L.
Is that still a problem?
I don't know.
Let me just show you.
So if you're at the Sacramento City home page --
At the very top, it says eLearning D2L.
It also has it over here, eLearning D2L,
and once you click there you just log in with your W number
and your password, and about a week prior
to classes beginning you will see any courses
that have D2L will be listed in there under that semester,
so if you didn't know where to find it, now you do.
Let's see.
What else did I need to tell you?
Well, obviously for an online class you need to have access,
regular access to a computer.
This may sound like a no-brainer,
but I recommend you have some backups.
If your computer gets a virus and you're down and out
for a week, that's a lot
of material you could miss, so plan a backup.
Have a public library.
Have a computer lab on campus.
Have a friend or family member.
Have a backup plan.
Make sure that you can get in
and get your homework done every week because getting behind
for an entire week is actually quite a lot of points,
so be sure you have a backup plan.
Also, there's student Gmail, and when I send out a group email,
which I do a lot actually, and I say hey you guys,
here's a bonus point opportunity,
the campus is having a cholesterol testing opportunity
on campus.
If I say that to you and offer you extra credit,
you won't get it unless you've activated your Los Rios
student Gmail.
I'll be posting directions on how to do
that if you're interested on D2L at, if not,
when you go to eServices, you just click on your Gmail,
and it is different from your personal Gmail by the way,
so it is your Los Rios Gmail account,
and you can always have it forward to your personal email,
and I can tell you how to do that if you just ask me.
As far as accommodations, some of you have permission
to have extra test-taking time or whatever the case may be,
be sure to A) Give me that paperwork as soon as possible,
and B) if there is something that isn't accessible to you
for some reason, ask me.
Everything that I post is closed captioned.
I really make an effort to make sure that things are
as accessible as possible, but if I've made a mistake or,
or something isn't accessible to you, just let me know
and I'll be sure to accommodate you.
So we looked at D2L.
There are some bonus point opportunities there,
so please consider clicking on Drop Box at the top of the page.
There's a D2L sample class that sort of walks you
through the use of D2L and how to use some of the tools.
You're welcome to do that for up to 10 bonus points.
It really might serve you well if you've never used D2L
as a learning management system,
so consider clicking on Drop Box in D2L.
If there are things that get in your way, pop-up blockers,
virus protection, things like that, don't get discouraged.
Know that sometimes the first week or two are a little clunky,
and we have to work out the bugs.
We will. Don't panic.
I'm here with you.
I'm a real person, so connect with me.
There are often little wizards you can run on your computer
to turn off pop-up blockers, so don't give up.
Don't panic and say oh my gosh, there's not a real teacher here.
Yes, there is!
There really is, and I'm here for you, so don't give up.
Also, quiz questions and exam questions.
If you find that, darn it,
she wrote this terrible exam question, I like for you
to challenge questions, so if you're taking your exam
and you don't like something, email me and say question #5
on my exam said blah, blah, blah, and, respectfully,
I disagree, you know, because of whatever,
and let's have a dialogue.
I find that sometimes that's how you learn the most is you
realize either you were right and that reinforces it
or you weren't right and here's why, and it opens
up an opportunity for some great discussions,
and very often I end up giving you your points back
if I can see the way, the logic that you were thinking about.
So feel free to always challenge questions.
Don't hesitate there.
So the format is the same every week.
I want you to check your calendar.
I want you to read your chapter
and practice using those Learn Smart Modules.
Once you're done with the chapter, I'd like you
to do your post test to see did I really understand what I read.
In addition to that, watch any videos that I have posted
for that week because those help enhance
and animate some of the concepts.
Do a discussion board where you post once and reply twice.
Complete any assignments.
This semester I have shrunk the number of assignments
down to just three, and they all have to do
with analyzing your own personal diet, so keep an eye
on your calendar for those.
Exams are about once a month, and they usually have three
to four chapters on them.
The final is not cumulative.
It is its own little unit of three to four chapters,
so each exam is its own little unit.
And as I said before, don't get behind.
Talk to me a lot.
Make sure you stay engaged.
Sometimes people start the semester with the best
of intentions and they're so excited, and then life gets
in the way, and they just forget to log in,
and then they drift away and they never come back,
and I don't want that to happen to you.
I want you to keep the excitement you have right now
and have it follow you through the whole semester,
so if you feel yourself lulling,
dipping down in energy, connect with me.
Talk to me.
You're even welcome to come to an in-person lecture
because I teach both in person and online,
so just keep it exciting for you, and I think the best way
to do that is to connect it to you personally.
So talk to me lots.
Ask me lots of questions.
You have to do the work for this class.
If you have more than two to three weeks
of not completing assignments,
that will be considered absence, right?
That's just like missing class in a face-to-face class,
so be sure you are completing your assignments every single
week, and if for some reason you're not, connect with me
and make sure I understand why or you, you might be dropped.
You must use proper etiquette, or netiquette,
when you're doing your discussion boards.
Sometimes when things get heated, people have wanted
to use curse words and things like that, that's not okay.
It's just like a normal face-to-face class.
You have to say things in the same manner you would.
It's a college course, so even if you're heated and frustrated,
write it out and proofread your own writing first
and make sure it's kind and respectful.
You do need to participate weekly.
Let's see.
You will be dropped if I see two weeks of nonparticipation
in the weekly activities.
The point breakdown is around about 1,200 points,
and it's divided in many different ways.
I know some people aren't so good at exams,
so I've made a big effort to try and break up the points.
These Learn Smart Modules you can take as long as you want.
You can get hundreds of them wrong if you want,
and as long as you work up to 100% mastery of that chapter,
you will get the 20 points each week, so these are meant
to be much more flexible points where you can work as hard
as you want to get there,
and it takes some people longer than others.
Some people will get there very quickly.
Some people won't.
There's 100 points from assignments.
There's bonus points.
There's discussion boards.
So lots of opportunities there
to earn points in different ways.
I want you to know that this course builds
up from the basics, so we'll start
out with the foundations of nutrition.
What's a carb?
What's a fat?
What's a protein?
What do they do?
And then we'll build up to the more hot topics.
We, we can't talk about low-carb diets
until we know what a carb is, right?
So we will build up to things that are more interesting
to you, but we have to have the foundations first,
and throughout the course we'll be applying everything you're
learning to you and your family, so when we're talking
about carbs, we're going to talk about ok, now you're going
to the grocery store and you're buying bread.
What are the choices you're going to make.
So I try and keep it as relevant to you
as possible for each chapter.
And then the course ends
with where nutrition is going in the future.
So from the genetic modification of foods
to the way agriculture is changing
to organically grown things and all those future discussions.
So I hope you love this class.
I will love having you in it.
I hope that you will ask me lots of questions,
and this is just the beginning, so remember,
start with your orientation tasks, and when you're ready,
move right into the Week 1 work
because Week 1 will be starting right away,
so hope you enjoy it.
See you soon!
Bye!