NOTE: Doing the Scavenger Hunt is required!
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English L115 Scavenger
Hunt
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This Scavenger Hunt is
designed to assure us that you have the computer skills and equipment
necessary to function in English L115--Literature for Today. In hunting up your answers, you will test
the abilities and equipment actually involved in what you are supposed to do
for the course. If you are at a
workstation connected to a printer, it could be useful to print this
screen. In any case, keep reading on
the Web so that the links will work! NOTE: The Scavenger Hunt takes at least an hour
to complete!
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Section-specific
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You are encouraged (but
not required) to complete the scavenger hunt before the semester begins. If you submit your answers by Friday 1/17,
I will have a chance to check them before the required class. Deadline: If
you complete the Scavenger Hunt successfully by posting answers before 11:59pm
on Saturday, 1/18 , you will earn 20 points. (See syllabus
for explanation.) If you complete the
Scavenger Hunt successfully before 1/17/03 and send it to the
instructor with a digital picture of yourself, the face-to-face meeting on
Saturday, Jan. 18 is optional for you, though you are encouraged to attend. NOTE: If you see ==, it means that information has not yet been entered, so contact the instructor at hschwart@iupui.edu . Also contact the instructor if you need to make alternate arrangements for the face-to-face session because of distance or conflicts. |
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A few Safety Net reminders: |
If you "attend" class at a workstation
other than the one you test with the Scavenger Hunt, make sure it has the
capabilities needed to function: a
CD-ROM drive, an Internet connection, a sound card and a recent version of
Real Player (downloadable for free at http://www.real.com/
but be sure to look for the FREE download). Remember that all public labs at IUPUI
should be suitably equipped, but be sure to bring plug-in earphones so
that you do not bother those working around you if you expect a sound
segment. If you need help with technical matters, I suggest
you try the following for answers (in the order listed
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Let's begin the Scavenger Hunt! If you are having trouble, try doing these directions at an IUPUI lab and ask the consultant for help. (The folks at the MLRC at 319A CA are especially dedicated to students in our class.) |
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ACTIVITY and item # for
Hunt answers |
SKILL and Help |
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1 Gaining
access and resizing windows |
At your workstation, open
a word processing program (Word is used in example directions) and
resize it to fit on the right half of the screen. Then put your name and email address (for example, washakes@iupui.edu or goodstudent@aol.com ) and "Answers
for English L115 Scavenger Hunt" at the top of the screen. Make a list, numbering from 1 to 14. Then log onto Oncourse
through http://oncourse.iu.edu/ and
resize the screen so that it fits on the left half of your screen. Suggestion: When you get to the login screen, bookmark the site as one of
your Favorites.
In Oncourse, note the
first 4 words in the Announcement (not counting the date) in the announcement
about the course that greets you. Task 1 Click
on the screen of the word-processing program to make it active. After 1, enter the first four words in
the Announcement.
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Resize screens so you
can use several programs at the same time.
To resize, go to the right of the topmost line on your
screen and click the middle square.
Then resize by dragging on the lower righthand corner of the reduced
screen. See that you can have
many windows open at once, but only one active window on which you can enter
information. If you have two programs
running in two windows, the active program has the cursor blinking. To make the inactive program active,
click once in its window. Know your IUPUI userid
and password. For help, contact the Help desk at 274-HELP or go to http://www.iupui.edu/~support/email.html
and click on "Frequently Asked Questions about IUPUI E-mail." Guest users: If
you need to continue without an IUPUI userid, login by going to the Oncourse
site for English L115 as a guest. Be
sure to choose the particular section you are registered for (or want to
register for)--in Spring 2003 it's B902. Note: If there is a problem with your IUPUI
userid and password, get help from a consultant at 274-HELP and tell the
instructor as soon as possible. To
get grades in the course and full access to course materials, you will need
to get this problem cleared up.
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2 Using
Oncourse (syllabus) and printing a
window's contents. |
Make the Oncourse program
active (by clicking on it) and read our syllabus. Print and keep the syllabus. Task 2 Make the word-processing document active (by clicking on it) and after the numeral two in your list, write the total number of points possible to earn in the course (under "Grading Structure"). |
To get to the syllabus,
click on the button marked Syllabus at the top left of the Oncourse
screen. (You may have to click first
on the "Continue" link if you are still on the Announcements
screen.) To print out a web
screen, click on File and click on Print. |
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3 Becoming
familiar with Oncourse Class and completing your Profile |
Click the Oncourse window
so that it becomes active. Click the
Class icon at the top of the screen.
Find your name and count to find out your order in the roster of
students. (That is, if you are the
first name under Students, you are 1; if the 10th name, you are 10.) Task 3 Click
on the word processing document to make the window active. After the number
three, enter the number for your order in the class listing as well as
your email address. (If you are
not yet on the class roster, enter the total number of students enrolled--and
your email address.) Click on the Oncourse
window to make it active, and click on the icon (top of page) labeled
Profile. Click on "Create/Edit
Contact Information" and fill in your email address (and any phone
numbers you want to make available to class members). (If you have logged in as a guest, you may
have to re-log in under your IUPUI userid.)
Click OK. To continue in Oncourse,
you will have to click again on the course listing. (If you are a guest, you'll have to logout and re-log in.)
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Check out the class
roster and fill in information on your profile. |
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4. Using the
Oncourse Calendar |
Click on Schedule in the
Oncourse menubar. Notice that the
listing is out of order by due date.
Pretty confusing, eh? Now click on "View
Schedule Calendar" at the top of the Schedule page. Click on "Scavenger Hunt" for January
13. Note the deadline for submitting
your answers for 20 points credit.
(Hint: The answer is NOT January
13.) Task 4: Click
on your word-processing window and for number 4,
enter the deadline for submitting your Scavenger Hunt answers.
(You might want to save the answer file now and every time you add an
answer--just in case. Please call
your file <your initials>shunt.
For example, my file would be called hjsshunt.doc) |
Learn to use the
Schedule Calendar. Assignments are generally
due on Tuesdays and Fridays by 11:59pm.
You may submit work early. For assignments that get
points (not grades), remember that you don't get full points if the work is
late or if it is not at least a C.
Group work must be on time to earn any credits, but other
ungraded work gives some credit (but 50% or 75% off!) For graded assignments,
you lose 3% of the grade for each 24-hour day late. Hint: You
will get 30 "sick day" credits for the class, but you may also want
to sign up for extra credit assignments explained in the syllabus. |
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5 Using Oncourse Mail |
Click the Oncourse window
and then click the In-Touch icon at the top of the screen.
Task 5 Switch to the Scavenger Hunt list (by clicking in
the word processing window) and paste your mail message as answer #4. |
Send a message to the
Entire Class. (Note that the Entire
Class includes the instructor.) It's important to use
Oncourse Mail for all course related work since all Oncourse messages you send and receive are saved in a Sent
folder and can be searched for. You
can delete messages (to keep your Inbox tidy), but they will be saved in a
Deleted folder--a handy safety net! |
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6 Using mail selectively |
Address an email to the
instructor and the person under you in the list. (If your name is not on the email list, send to the person who
would have been under your name if it were on the list.) In the message, list your favorite novel
or movie. Copy that answer and then
send the email. Task 6 Click in the Scavenger Hunt window and paste your favorite
novel or movie into the list as answer #6.
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To send to selected
people, keep the Ctrl key
down while you click on the people you want your message sent to. Remember the Ctrl key
for this handy skill or you will lose your first choice (the instructor) when
you click on the student on the list!
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Notification of L115 course mail |
You can have Oncourse
notify you when there is mail in your L115 inbox. This is handy so you only have to check when you know there is
mail--for example, when you are notified of a grade or points for an
assignment. Follow directions (in the
right column) to set this feature in Oncourse. |
With the Oncourse window
active, click on InTouch and Oncourse Mail. In the righthand column at
the bottom, click on the link "Change preference." In the box, type in the email address
where you want notification sent (for example, astudent@iupui.edu or astudent@aol.com
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Preference." |
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7 Using a Forum |
On Oncourse, go to
In-Touch and under Discussion Forums click on Instructor's Corner. When you see the next screen, look in the
left-hand column, for a little box with a plus in it in front of
"Instructor's Corner" and click on it. To read the first entry "Weird factoid," click on it
and then type your own weird factoid in the Reply Form and SEND it. Make sure that your factoid appears as a
REPLY TO "Instructor's weird factoid," not as another main
entry. (If you did not REPLY to the
instructor's factoid, delete what you've posted and try again. You are the only one who can delete
something you have posted--except for the instructor. But it is my policy not to delete any
posting unless you request it or unless it is objectionable.) Task 7 In the word-processing window, copy the instructor's weird factoid into your list as answer 7.
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Use and respond to a
Forum entry. In this class,
InTouch:Forum:Instructor's Corner means to go to InTouch in Oncourse for
English L115, then click on Forums, and then click on Instructor's Corner. To Reply to a message, click on the entry you want to see and then fill out the Reply box under it and SEND. |
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8 Multi-tasking |
Open another web browser
and go to http://mypage.iu.edu/~hschwart/ You should be aware that most postings for
the class are available through this site (as a backup if you are having
trouble getting access to Oncourse).
Click on your
word-processing window. Task 8 Enter
the university where I got my Ph.D. as your eighth answer.
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To open a new browser
in Oncourse, click on File in your
current browser's menubar and click on New: Window. To go to a website, type the URL into the Address or Location box near
the top of the browser. |
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9 Using web resources |
Click the browser showing
Helen's resumé and click the Back arrow on the browser to return to the Home
Page. Go to Shakespeare materials for
this class at http://www.iupui.edu/~elit/shakes
You will be asked for a
userid and a password. For both, use
the following: shakespeare Be careful to spell the
name correctly and to use all lower-case letters. This will allow you access to the materials. Click on Hamlet. Then click to choose Lectures: Part One.
Look around the site--for example, by clicking on the button Text or
Story. Look at the caption of the
picture on the lefthand side of the screen, from Branagh's 1995 production of
Hamlet. At the end of the
caption you will see two names = the owners of the copyright on the
picture). Copy both names. Task 9 Switch
to the wordprocessing document. Paste the names of the copyright owners as answer
# 9. Make the Shakespeare website active. Close the window. Still open should be the Oncourse window and the word processing window. |
To close a window (on a
PC with Internet Explorer), click
on the little box with the x in it on the topmost line, in the
right-most little box of three boxes.
(The middle box shrinks or expands the window on your screen. The underline box shrinks the window but
keeps it available on your bottom-most line of your PC.) |
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10 Using Drop Boxes |
Click on the Oncourse
window to make it active and then click on the In Touch button on Oncourse's menubar. Then scroll to the bottom third of this page to the "Drop
Boxes" section. Click on the "Scavenger Hunt" link. Click on your word
processing window to make it active. Create a new Word document. Type the
title of a book you have read recently. Save the document as your name. Make
note of the location where you saved the Word document and close the
document. Click on the Oncourse
window to make it active. On the
Scavenger Hunt Drop Box screen, click on the blue arrow pointing up adjacent
to the words "Upload a File". Click the gray "Browse" box
and locate the file you saved on your disk or hard drive. Double click on the
file. The file name and location should appear in the "File to
upload" box. Click the gray "Upload Now" box once. The
"Upload Completed" message should display within 60 seconds. Click
the "Return to Drop Box" link below the "Upload
Completed" message. Your filename should now be displayed. Task 10 Click
on your word-processing window. For number 10,
enter the name of the book you used in your uploaded file and the date
and time next to your file in the "Scavenger Hunt" drop box.
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Put a Word document in
a drop box. Many assignments will be turned in using a drop
box. It is important to remember you cannot modify a file after you put it
into a drop box! If you have difficulty
finding the file you want to upload and you are using Windows: 1. Right click on the "Start"
button at the bottom of your screen and click "Find.".
NOTE: If you try to deliver your assignment
after the due date, the drop box will probably be closed. In that case, cut and paste your answer
into an email to your instructor of include it as an attachment (directions
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11 Using the
Gradebook |
On Oncourse, click on
"Tools" in the menubar and then click on the gradebook. Note the name of the 2nd assignment. Task 11 In
the word processing window, write the heading for the second gradebook
assignment as # 11. |
Get used to checking
your entries for the gradebook. Give me about a week to get points up, and
then ask if you don't see something you've turned in. You will get mail with your grade on
assignments. Once you get mail, check
the gradebook to make sure it is posted there, too. |
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12 Using class chat |
Click on the Oncourse
window to make it active. Click the
In Touch button on Oncourse's menubar. Then scroll to the bottom of this page and
click on Class Chat. You may use
class chat to meet me and other class members for an online office hour
(directions in 13 & 14). In the Message box, type
in a sentence long enough so that you see what happens when the cursor gets
to the end of the entry box. Then
click on Send. Your message should
appear in Class Chat. Now note
what is listed in the area labeled Users on the right. 12 Click
on your word processing document and enter exactly what you see under Users
as answer 12. |
The main part of the
chatroom screen is divided into two big areas: Class Chat and Users. At the bottom left, you will see the label Message and a
one-line entry window (wide and skinny).
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13 Practicing
for a live webcast |
Open another web browser
and go to http://www.iupui.edu/~elit/L115/webcasts.htm
You should now have three windows open (Oncourse chatroom, word processor and
L115 webcasts page). On the webcasts page, find
the row for "test webcast" in the 3-column table and click on
"Test of Written Materials" in column two. Note the punchline of the joke. Click on your
word-processing window. 13. Enter
the punchline of the joke as your answer 13.
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Open a new browser
window (for the webcast). Test your reception of audio webcasts
with Real Player. Have written
materials open while the webcast is open. To open a new browser, click on File in your current browser's menubar and
click on New: Window. To go to a website, type the URL into the Address or Location box near
the top of the browser. |
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14 Hearing
an archived webcast |
Still on the webcasts page
at http://www.iupui.edu/~elit/w315/webcasts.htm
find and click on the Webcast in column 3 for the test webcast (from
2/5/01). When the Real Player comes
up and starts, look for the information that keeps track of elapsed time in
minutes and second. Note the time
when you first hear Helen Schwartz.
(You may have to start the audio again if you miss it.) 14 Click
on the wordprocessing window to make it active and enter the time in
minutes and seconds as your
answer 14.
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15 Using attachments in Oncourse
mail |
In the wordprocessing
window, save the Scavenger Hunt list as <your initials>shunt either on your disk or in My Documents
on your hard drive. Highlight the
whole document and copy it. Click on the Oncourse
window and go to InTouch and click on Oncourse Mail.
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Send an attachment to
an Oncourse mail message. Remember, when you are sending mail to several people, hold
down the Ctrl key until you have clicked on all the recipients' names. Provide a Subject for each
assignment delivered by Oncourse mail.
(It helps me to check assignments in batches. And it allows me to see which messages are
urgent.) NOTE: I cannot access attachments of Word
Perfect files, so be sure to copy any assignment done in Word Perfect
into the body of the message. Alternative to
attachments: Save your work as an html file and upload it into
your Oncourse account via Class:Profile:FileManager. Then put the URL into an email message.
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I will reply to you on
Oncourse telling you whether you have exempted the technical session at our
required face-to-face meeting on Saturday, August 24. Even if you earn credit, please consider
staying as a consultant to your classmates during the technical session. Hope you had fun!
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