So again, as you are coming into the Google Meet workshop, will you please put in the chat your name and your ASU or your ASU email. Thank you. Okay, we'll give everyone five more minutes. Definitely. I'm John Webb.
I would say probably typological reasoning skills or critical thinking skills. Again, if you want you can set a poem up with me, but at this moment I have to start a workshop. Okay, okay. On Google.
Yes, I can read. Myself and the presenter is four students in here. Oh yeah, just email me and tell me what day or time is available is good for you. But not after 5 o'clock, we don't have any evening tutoring. Okay, okay, you're welcome.
So again, we're asking all participants if you would enter into the chat box your name. and also your ASU email address. Thank you.
ok so let's take care of some preliminaries we're going to go to a different website today we're going to use what we call Nearpod so I'm going to put in the website address which is join.nearpod.com that's also in the chat and then you have a code that you will put in at john.nearpod.com and that's going to be put inside the chat as well if you don't see it on the screen okay and Nearpod um it works like PowerPoint similar to it um but you have some additions to it like activities other things that you can do and it's a web tool okay So you can open up additional window and just go there to join.nearpod.com then put in the code which is RZTQD. And again, those who are just arriving inside our Google Meet workshop, if you would just drop your name and your ASU email into the chat box. Thank you.
And we want to remind all participants that we're going to be using the web tool called Nearpod for our presentation. So if you were in the second window or another window, if you would put in join.nearpod.com, then you will enter the Nearpod code, which is RZTQD. Those items have always been in the chat.
So I'm going to give some other participants time to get into the Nearpod. George, I never told you, today is my grandfather's birthday as well. Yeah, we were born in the same day.
What a nice special. I know, yeah, and that's the reason why my aunt, she finally realized. I don't know.
I guess I've been telling her for years and she never really put things together. So she said, your grandfather's birthday is today as well. Yeah.
All right. And once again, to participate in our presentation, you would need to go to a different window and put in join.nearpod.com. Then you put in the code RZTQD. It's almost 20 years now. All right, we're going to go ahead and begin, ladies and gentlemen.
So I will, yes, Ms. Thomas. Can you repeat that code again? Yes, the code is RZTQD.
Thank you. Oh, you're welcome. All right, so before we get started, so again, if you're just joining us, if you will put your name and your email address in the chat box. Also, to participate, we would like for you to go to nearpod.com, but we want you to put in join.nearpod.com and you'll put in the code RZTQD.
Those items have been listed in the chat as well, okay? and what I would do I'll go back and add those again just in case we missed it okay so there is the near part website okay and this is the code that you will enter at that website thank you All right, ladies and gentlemen, I am Mr. Anthony here. I'm the reading laboratory instructor at Alabama State University, and I'm here to talk about bringing your A game, navigating ASU via reading.
And there are six important reads that students need to read in order to survive here at ASU. Okay, so let's begin. All right, so you can see what my gift is going on. It says, I think I'm on the top of my game. So let's see.
How you can be on top of your game at ASU. All right, so as a beginning activity, I would like for you to put inside the near pod poster board what it says, how you bring your maximum effort when you do what. So I bring my maximum effort when I, let me put my, when I dress. For work. So I'm gonna post my post in there.
Let's see others. How do you bring your maximum effort? How do you stay on top of your game? Or how are you on point?
Yes, Dr. Holt. Yes. Okay, cooking, cooking. I bet it's delicious too.
Okay, sure. Nothing, okay, eating. I think we all do that Mr. Scholes when it comes to eating. Play ball, play ball.
So we have a baller in the house. I will, you can out ball me, so. Okay, anyone else care to share?
When do you bring your maximum effort or when are you on point on top of your game? When a student does not have a mask. Tutoring students, I agree with that. Okay, dancing.
Anyone else who care to share? All right. Oh, singing, singing. Okay, Caitlin. Okay, Caitlin.
I think we're going to go blow for low for that one. Okay. All right, so these are things that we do that we know that we give it our all. Okay, that's what we mean by bringing our A game. We give it our all, okay?
So we want to give our all at ASU through six different items that we need to read as a student. Okay, so let's go ahead and begin. All right, so bringing our A game, these are the six major things that we need to read at ASU.
We need to read our course syllabus. We need to read our schedule. We need to read our text.
We need to read our emails. We need to read our papers. And we need to read post-it flyers. These are important items or documents we have to read at ASU.
OK, so firstly, let's talk about the course syllabus. All right. So first, you want to know when you get a course syllabus, it's your professor, your instructor, who is teaching you throughout that semester, what day your class meets.
OK, sometimes it could be days. like Tuesdays and Thursdays or Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, or just simply Monday, because some people just have a lab that's on one day, okay? Whether that meeting time is morning, afternoon, evening, I'm a morning person myself, okay? And the length, like is the time, is it 50 minutes? Is it an hour and 45 minutes?
Or is it two hours? Because some of our graduate classes or courses, they are two hours and even longer, okay? And the platform, the platform. Because now since we're in a virtual world, so we have additional platforms now. So we have hybrid, that just simply means that your class is both, is in person and also virtual, okay?
Or it could be just simply virtual or in person. Now, I prefer in person, okay? But we got to go with the flow because of COVID-19. Also, you wanna note the location of your class.
You know, because sometimes we don't look at our schedule, we're in the wrong building. Like even today, you know, a student, you know, she's talking about this class, I'm like, we have that wrong number, but you're in the wrong building. This is Patterson Hall, not Trenton Hall. So make sure you don't location your class. That's very important, okay?
Periodically, you want to review the course of requirements, okay, the assignments, and the textbook, and always observe and adhere to due dates. That's very important when something is due. Okay, because when you can turn it when it's due, you're being very professional, very punctual when you adhere to those due dates. Okay, furthermore review the university's Policies regarding academic dishonesty or sexual harassment, attendance, disability, because we do have to go by ADA, okay, American with Disabilities Act. So, because at the end of your course syllabus, normally there's a sheet where you signed that as a contract, which means that I'm going to follow these procedures, I'm going to follow these policies, okay, because when you put your John Hancock, as we say, John Hancock, that means that you're going to adhere to all the policies okay so that's one thing we read is a course syllabus another thing is our schedule okay and it's similar to your course syllabus so again to reiterate you want to cite the class the instructor the time morning afternoon or evening the platform hybrid in person virtual okay the meeting day or days and the class location okay because that schedule is what's going to take you throughout you know your classes each day okay All right, then there's a third item.
We want to read our textbook. That's very important. Reason why? It contains factual, research, bias, and or statistical information.
Now, some of this information you may not use in your future career occupations, but some of you will see, okay? Not all of it, but some of you will see. Secondly, it aids in class lecture and discussion.
So that way you can get involved with the teacher, the instructor, professor, as he or she lectures and asks questions. You can also go back and answer those by having the information available to you, okay? And it serves as a tool for learning and preparing for quizzes and tests because sometimes your professor may say, we're going to do an open book test, which is nice if you have your book handy.
So it's good to get that textbook, whether your textbook is an electronic one or a hard copy, okay? And lastly, it helps you complete pending assignments and homework, and it helps you pass the course by having that textbook, okay? Which means that you're the one student that is ready, okay? And that you're on top of your game with that textbook, okay? So we've gone over three different reads here at ASU.
Are there any questions or comments? You may come up mute if you would like to. Any questions or comments? So again to reiterate we need to read our course syllabus, need to read our schedule, and also read our textbook.
Now we have a during activity. So, my question I pose to all of you, which reading source is the most important to you? This is not a wrong answer or a right answer. All you have to do is tell me which one.
Is it your course syllabus? Is it your schedule? Is it your textbook? Okay? So just tell me which one.
Which one you think is important to you. So it. Hey, someone so far says my schedule. Someone says my textbook. No one thinks the course is that important.
All right, anybody else would like to give their opinion? Because this is an objective question, so you can just give your opinion. No right or wrong answers.
We can speak. Yes, you can also choose Ms. Thomas. So Ms. Thomas, which reading source is most important to you?
I said my schedule because nobody else has my schedule. People that take a class with can have the same syllabus and textbook. So nobody else has my schedule. That's why I picked my schedule. Yeah, if I had to choose one of these, the schedule is the same thing for me as well.
I think that's very important, you know, especially during the first day of class. That's the main item that you want to have that you should be reading. okay because if you don't you'll be lost so i totally agree with you miss thomas even though there's no right or wrong answer okay now anybody else would like to share a comment okay so let's go ahead and continue with our last three items all right so a fourth item is we need to read our emails okay this is the main system i wish We communicate campus-wide, so that's why I always tell students make sure that you know your email address and your password or else you end up going to OTS and they have to reset it for you, okay. This is very important because your instructors, they also send out information or they can let you know also we're not meeting or we're going virtual today. So it's important that you always read your emails, okay, and you get things campus-wide.
So it's just coming from a variety of places you know you get the menu you also get um urgent messages you know especially from ocs when things are down and when they're going to be brought back up okay so you're going to receive a plethora and i said a plethora i mean many emails okay i've gotten some today and i'm sure others have gotten some today from asu from some department okay but do not overlook these emails okay and when you do get the email don't just browse the subject line only or just look at the content you know haphazardly or just the sender okay so what you want to do is you want to open the email you want to read to see if there's anything specifically reading pertaining to you also you can skim and scan sometimes you have to read verbatim that is word for word you can just skim and scan you know for the place you know the time the date the location and any other pertinent or important information okay Now, also, if the email you need to keep because you have read it and say, this is high priority, this is very important, you may want to create another label folder within that for future reference. And I've done that. You know, I have some that I keep that I need to refer back to from time to time. You know, especially when it comes to these workshops, you want to keep that email so that way you can go back and click on the link to join that workshop.
You don't have to worry about looking for the link or asking, like, could you send me the link? Okay? All right. So reading our emails here at ASU are very important.
All right. Fifth, we want to read our papers. And I'm sure Ms. Luster, our reading director, can totally agree.
Give me a thumbs up, Ms. Luster, if you agree with me. Yes. Okay. So every paragraph, essay, and even letter you compose needs to be clear and concise.
Okay. We need to understand it. needs to be brief and straight to the point.
Okay? Now spelling and grammar checkers alone do not correct every error. So don't depend on Microsoft Word to do it for you.
You're going to have to read that essay or that paragraph or that letter yourself with your physical eyes. Okay? Now as you're doing that, you want to listen to your enunciations.
That is the clear articulation of your words. and pronunciations the way words are pronounced because that's very effective okay now also you want to read whether silently or aloud now i suggest you read aloud because that's if you hear with your ear okay notice that with the ear we add the h to it it's here because that's what we do with the ear we hear okay because you can hear if there's any problems with incorrect subject verb agreement or pronoun at the seating agreement or a sentence structure And then as you're reading and you're sightseeing, you can see if a word is misspelled. And then sometimes we can overlook a problem when you come to words that are homonyms, okay, such as blue and blue.
You meant to put B-L-U-E, but you typed B-L-E-W. So definitely reading does help, okay? So we want to make sure we read our papers all the time before they are published or before we hand them in to our instructor or upload them through Blackboard.
Okay and lastly we want to read posted flyers. I'm sure you've seen some flyers already around campus. Okay and these flyers didn't come out the spur of the moment you know any given time. Okay so to be aware of such happenings you want to glance at flyers that are posted in your dormitory, on bulletin boards, inside buildings, and stream of marquees, and also within the Hardy Center which we normally call the Student Center.
Okay, now just like an email when you read a flyer, you want to make sure you get the gist of it. That is the main idea. That is the who. The what, the when, the where, and the why.
Okay? Those five steps. And sometimes the how.
All right? All flyers will answer either all or most or some of these questions. Okay?
They have to do that because you have to be well informed what it's all about. Okay? Because when you receive that email, they talked about the writing assignment, you know, the Black History Writing Assignment that you can get some money for. It gave you the who, it gave you the what, it gave you the when, it gave you the why, it gave you the where, where you need to send it.
So that was very important. And how, how you should write the essay, okay, all these pertain. So that was our last three things we need to read.
So are there any questions again at this time? Open mic as well. Oh, Ms. Luster, you're here.
I don't have a question, but your last comment was about that writing contest that I really want to push. If you need $100, write an essay and you turn it in. There are flyers out.
And if you don't have one, you can come to the writing center and get one. The contest ends on the 18th of February and I sure want to give out that $175. $100 for first place, $50 for second, third place gets $25, free money. Thank you, Mr. Hill. Oh, you're welcome, Ms. Lester.
I wish I was a student because I could sure use $100. Okay. All right. So, everyone, let's do a final activity. Okay.
All right, so this time you're going to be matching up what I just discussed, which is those six important reads here at ASU. So you're going to be timed, so you need to be quick and accurate, and you have one minute. All right, so let's go.
Ms. Thomas would you like to come out from you and let's do it together? Yes. Okay so read your schedule. You see answer choices that deal with read your schedule.
Read what I match with it? Yes we're going to match uh-huh. Look for the instructor, class location, meeting type, time and days.
Okay, let's see. Okay, so you said that one and that one. Good. Okay. What about reposted flyers?
Oh, wait. It's in my time up. Yeah, time is up. I was doing good, though.
I was doing good. When you called me, it kind of slowed me down. But thank you, though, Ms. Thomas. I know you probably got 100%.
Yeah. Okay, so that ends our presentation. So, again, I want to remind everyone, so in order to be on top of our game and to give our maximum effort and give it our all to bring our A-gamer in, she want to read our course syllabus, want to read our skill, We're going to read our textbook, read our emails, read our papers, and read those posted flyers.
Okay? So, before you leave, I would like for you to take the survey. You can use the QR code with your camera phone, or you can go to use the link.
So I'm going to do, I'm going to copy the link and put it inside the chat for you. Okay? So, I'm going to go ahead and copy that.
All right, and it should be posted at this time. So if you click on the link and you give us your feedback about the presentation. And I want to thank all of you for your participation.
Okay and once you have finished that or if you have it, you're welcome to be dismissed and I hope you have a great day and thank you for attending Bringing Your A-Game, Navigating ASU Via Reading.