Communicate

To register for this course, visit Distance Learning.

If you have already registered and this is your first time in the course, you should:

1. Make sure you meet the technical requirements listed on the help page and get the required plug-ins.
2. Make sure you have a required NAU DANA account.
3. Read Constructing your own course path to learn how the course will be delivered.
4. Look at the overview of the course.
5. Read the syllabus.

Instructor Contact

Phone: (928)520-2951 NAU office; (928)567-0899 Home

Email: Janne.Ellsworth@nau.edu

Please leave a voicemail or email me at Janne.Ellsworth@nau.edu if you can't reach me in person.

Student Internet Access

New students are required to obtain an account on the student unix computer DANA. DANA gives NAU students, who agree to abide by proper ethical standards, access to the internet including electronic mail, the Cline library on-line catalogue, world wide web home pages (httpd), and usenet news.

Accessing these sort of Internet services requires establishing an electronic identity (essentially an electronic mail address). This can be done by acquiring a computer account on the DANA machine. Any currently enrolled student, who is willing to use these resources responsibly, is permitted an account on the DANA machine.

If you are an Arizona Resident, NAU has several local modem pools throughout the state. If these modem numbers are not local to your area, you should select a local internet service provider (ISP) to avoid long distance phone charges.

You are responsible for paying any phone charges (long distance and local) and ISP fees incurred as a result of taking this web course.

Group Communication

Group work is an important part of ESE425, "Behavior Management of Exceptional Children".

• NAU WebCT

  Group Communication in this course is accomplished via WebCT

  When you come into the WebCT from now on, you will be asked to enter your DANA login and password.

  If you would like more information about features of WebCT, click on the "Help" button at the top of any page.

About Chatting

There are many chat rooms besides the one for the class.

Feel free to look around until you find the chatroom that is best for you. It is a good experience to try chatting, and it is a requirement of the course to connect and write a message in a chat room.

It is not a requirement that you continue to chat. That is completely up to you. If you do find a great place to exchange ideas, feel free to post the address in the WebCT and tell others in the course why you like it.

About E-mail

Electronic mail - e-mail - is probably something you are already used to using. In our course, it is a good back-up for assignments if you are uncertain about whether you were able to post your work.

The course is set up so that a response comes back to you to let you know that you were able to get a message to the instructor. Occasionally the response doesn't come through.

Please let me know if that occurs, by sending the address on the server that you were working with when the assignment sender seemed to fail. You can do that by going up to the http or address bar, copying the address and sending an e-mail, explaining that something seems to be wrong with the sending mechanism.

I like receiving pertinent messages - questions or statements about the class, information about you, the student or person. I like to know when things don't suit you - when something doesn't work or is hard to understand. All of these kinds of e-mails are suitable, appropriate and functional. It's even nice to get greeting cards, quotations, and inspirational stories.

Because there are so many things wrong with attachments, I do not open them. If you send an attachment, I will not get to receive your message. There are just too many viruses and worms that get introduced to machines through that process. You may want to consider doing the same. They often take a lot of time to download and a virus can be expensive and take a couple of weeks to fix - wipe out all your files, sometimes even corrupt your hard drive beyond repair.

You may want to seriously consider getting some form of virus protection for your system as well as a back-up process. . . even a couple of floppy disks that you copy to and from each time you finish the day will likely save you frustration and work in the long run.

You may want to have two different kinds of e-mail - one using your dana account and your service provider, and one that you set up with a free provider such as hot mail. Sometimes it is helpful to organize your course work so that each time you go into the mail room you know if it is course or friend related mail.

E-mail is such a powerful tool. It is easy to get hooked. I hope that is your experience.

How exciting to think that you might wake up in the morning, wondering if you have mail about your assignments.

Wouldn't it be great to be so excited about a course that you could hardly wait to get the time to go on to the next module? That's how I feel about getting your assignments. I can hardly wait to see what you think - and the exciting thing about a web course is that I will really get to know what you want to tell me. Web courses give students a chance to comment on every concept, every lesson, every idea.

E-mail J'Anne Ellsworth at Janne.Ellsworth@nau.edu
Course Created by J'Anne Ellsworth & CTEL

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