Basic Course Technologies




110 Points
Learning Objectives

This assignment introduces fundamentally important concepts for completing the rest of this course.
You will begin to develop a digital technology toolkit that will serve you well in your career.

After completing this assignment you will be able to use your laptop to:

  1. Create purposeful folder structures
  2. Create and annotate screen shots using the Snipping Tool
  3. Connect and configure multiple external monitors
  4. Perform various software installations
  5. Install, configure and log into an Adobe Connect web conference
  6. Create and manage a GitHub account
  7. Subscribe to D2L calendar feeds using the Microsoft Outlook desktop client
  8. Connect to the WSU network from off-campus using Virtual Private Network-VPN, technology
  9. Create and combine PDF files
  10. Compose and send appropriate email communications to the professor
  11. Connect to the WSU network from off-campus using Virtual Private Network-VPN, technology


1000 points  con

Action Inquiry Report

For detailed information on this report refer to Project 2.

1. (25) Prior background. Have you ever before participated in a similar journaling project?

2. (125) After completing the 'Noticing' exercises describe your reaction. Did you view this as a positive or negative experience? What did you learn? Do you plan on continuing such an exercise? Did you learn anything new about yourself? Would your recommend that others participate in such an exercise?

3. (100) After completing the 'Naming' exercises describe your reaction. Did you view this as a positive or negative experience? What did you learn? Do you plan on continuing such an exercise? Did you learn anything new about yourself? Would your recommend that others participate in such an exercise?

4. (100) Journaling- Take some time to reflect.
Start a journal. Note-you will not have to hand this journal in, it is personal to you.
In this journal think about and record significant incidences during your lifetime, with another person or a group, that have had unsatisfactory outcomes.
Create a list of 6 of these incidents.
These incidents can be at work or home, with family, friends, coworkers, sports teams, church members or from some activity your participate in.
Recurrent difficulties with a particular person with whom you will continue to interact are particularly good to examine closely.
After creating your list, choose one incident to analyze.
Write the name of that incident below.

5. (200) Incident Summary-Analyze your chosen incident.
Frame -intent or vision.

Reference, Incident Summary Example

Your Actual Frames Your Actual Actions Actual Results
     
     
     

 

Your Desired Frames Your Desired Actions Desired Results
     
     
     


(150) Did this exercise help you to put the incident into better perspective? Did you view this as a positive or negative experience? What did you learn? Do you plan on continuing such an exercise? Did you learn anything new about yourself? Would your recommend that others participate in such an exercise?:

6. (100) Description of proposed solution:

7. (100) Issues that arose during investigation, and how your group resolved these issues:

8. (100) Comments, thoughts, suggestions for improvement of this project: