Okay class, welcome to the winter session.
This is Wellness for Life.
This is an online class and my name is Doctor Kason O'Neil.
My office, if you would like to contact me, as you can see in the syllabus, 216 A
in the Mini Dome.
There's
my phone number, extension 4632
but best to get me via email.
So, I do have virtual office hours that
I'm basically taking all the morning times from nine to 11
almost every single day to redo
and take a look at all your work.
It says Tuesdays and Thursdays on there,
but anything you need, usually I'll take care of work in the morning.
So just
email me.
I do have physical office hours, so if you would like to come see me, please
arrange
a meeting and we can look things up
in my office or if you need to schedule a specific appointment.
The required text, as you can see, is going to be the Fit & Well text,
the 11th edition, and I recently sent
emails to connect you to that.
You're going to go on to the
class website through D2L and
in the content section you will find the McGraw-Hill upload.
You will click on the campus and it will take you through the process.
You need both
the ebook and the Connect System.
The Connect System is kind where we do all
our assignments,
and the ebook is where you're going to do all your learning
and all your reading.
So, moving on,
the course description is very general but we're really covering everything to
do with health and wellness,
and personal fitness, personal wellness,
and the components of being fit, being well, being healthy
and active.
So, you can see from the course objectives, we're going to go through
a lot of
different things.
We're going to talk about what is wellness in general, what types of behaviors lead towards
healthy sustainable life,
and you can see that you are going to do a bunch of different things.
So, I'm not going to
go through every one of these but we're going to talk about
cardio-respiratory fitness, we're going to talk about stress,
we're going to spend a good portion of time on
flexibility
and muscle strength and body composition.
Really, kind of the major point of the first half
of the class is looking at those five components of physical fitness,
health-related physical fitness, and
then we're going to move on to more nutrition based components and looking at
cardiovascular disease
as well as looking at the effects of alcohol, tobacco, and drug use on the body.
So the course content section you can see is a review there
of what I just stated.
We're going to go through a good chunk of these and we're
going to do it pretty fast.
So, there's a lot of reading and there are labs that I
will address
in a few minutes.
So let's talk about the nuts and bolts of the class.
This is an online class.
You are expected to be on D2L on an almost daily basis.
Now, most classes or
professors
in a general semester wouldn't have this requirement but we have so much work that's
done
in a short period of time that you really need to be on here
daily.
If you have technical problems, you need to address them with myself
or with OIT at...
through ETSU.
So you need to handle that immediately.
As you can see, our D2L system is the
next section and this is an online class, so
everything we do is online.
All assignments are clearly laid out in D2L and through the Connect system.
We are using
the pairing of both
systems, but it's pretty easy to access once you've figured it all out.
Alright, so now we're going to talk about the course activities and everything that's
going to be due
in our class.
The really...
what you need to know.
First, we're going to have 4 tests that will
be given out throughout the class.
These are tests through D2L.
So everything will be on D2L, ll four exams,
they're all going to be open from day one.
They have no
open date.
You can take them whenever you want.
So you can work ahead,
but they do have specific due dates and their due each Monday throughout the
course
which you will see in the calendar in a little bit.
So every Monday, you have one that's due.
If you want to do it a couple days early, that's
fine.
If you want to do it a week or two early, that's fine.
You have one shot to take the exam.
You only have 30 minutes so
I can't say that you are allowed to use your notes if you would like to,
but you're going to have a lot of information in the exam and you're not going to have time
to
look everything up.
So you are going to have to
review and study for the exam.
We're going to have
discussions each week.
So, how it's going to work is
every single Friday, by midnight
on Friday night, you have to respond to one discussion each week.
So you're going to have four discussions.
It's going to be...
I'll have the discussions, the questions up on D2L,
you're going to comment and reflect on the question
in one to two paragraphs, and then you can submit that by Friday night.
You'll have from Saturday through Monday to respond on D2L to your peers'
discussions.
So, if one of your peers wrote a paragraph
discussion on what they think the benefits are to lifetime physical
activity,
and you thought...
saw something that was thought provoking in their
response, you are required to respond.
Hey,
Joe, I liked what you've said here.
I really agreed with point A,B, and C, and I think
I
would like to...
and so on.
So you can see you have to do
two reflections on your peers, and those are due by Monday night as well.
That's also listed in the calendar.
So the other thing,
bullet point 3 is going to be the Learn Smart interactive reading.
This isn't just
regular reading.
What you're going to do is you're going to go through the Connect system
and in Learn Smart, it's going to have every chapter, all the chapters we cover
in class.
And its going to take you - it's an interactive learning platform - so you're
going to read and you're going to answer questions as you go.
I, as the instructor, am going to see how much you've read and if you completed it.
You need to complete each chapter to ninety percent completion.
So,
maybe you're taking forever, you're just not quite getting a certain chapter,
most of you will have no problem with this.
That's why I put it at ninety percent,
so it shows on my end of things how much you've read, and
if you done all the interactive reading.
What it comes down to is, you have to read the chapters,
and through this Learn Smart system using Connect, I can tell what you've
read
and you can access again through D2L.
There are no set deadlines, so week
by week,
I'm not telling you when you have to read.
What I'm going to do is go at the
end of the semester
and make sure you've read everything.
So it's really only due by the end of class.
The next bullet point is going to talk about the labs.
Once again, through Connect, the McGraw-Hill Connect system, there are going to be a
bunch of different labs you're going to have to do.
These are, a lot of them, are going to be great ways for you to earn points.
They're going to be such things as assessing your
personal wellness or your body composition
or taking a look at your local fitness center and what
amenities they have.
They're pretty easy assignments and they're good ways to rack
up
points.
You can see that they're due every Tuesday of the week.
Once again, that's going to be listed in the calendar.
That's going to be your
big take home, it's going to be to look at the calendar.
But these labs are
all listed currently from day one in Connect.
You can do them all
on the first day of class if you wanted.
Only looking that they're due
by the due date.
You can do everything in this class
early, as long as everything's due by at least by the due date.
And the final big chunk is going to be the writing assignment.
There's going to be a writing assignment that I will discuss.
It's going to be a
paper
and that's going to be due by the day before class, January 15th.
So you can see the grade assignments and the final break down of points
and that also coincides with the points in D2L,
and then the grading policy, A through F, and you know how to
do well.
So, everything is done
through D2L with the submissions.
So, if you have issues, I would like things in Word
or
PDF, you can see that.
If you have issues with that, please contact me.
It shouldn't be an issue for
most of you, it's what we deal with
in most all of our other classes, and in red there,
how I want files to be listed.
I want it listed as last name,
with the underscore, and then the first name.
So you can see from the example,
it says O'Neill dash lab two, that's just for
example.
That's not an assignment you would do but
that's how I want them to read when you upload
assignments, and you're going to upload all assignments to Dropbox
in D2L, as you would in all other classes.
So, I briefly already covered this about the exam and tests.
They're going to cover the chapters in the book.
They'll have a 30-minute
limit, and you just need to complete them before the
end dates.
It's really the big thing to know, and they're all online.
You see 1 through 7 of these tips on taking your test.
I highly recommend you
don't use wireless internet.
The issue,
kind of the big thing to take home from this one through seven is that, if you start
an exam,
and your internet crashes, your wireless,
and something happens, that's your one shot to take the exam.
So try to get on a hard line computer if possible,
come into one of the labs on campus if you need to take the exam,
but you really need a secure connection for when you take your exams, and those are
going to be...
remember those are due every Monday.
Save your exams a lot as you're taking them,
and you only have one shot to do each.
They are all going to be multiple choice, and
true/false
questions.
So scrolling down to page six,
this talks about all the services we have at ETSU, I'm not going to
cover all of these but
if you have special needs, Office of Disability Services has
information for you, you have OIT if you need
D2L help, technical help is all here listed for you,
and this is just kind of the standard...
this page is kind of the standard protocol for
all
classes here at ETSU, for the most part,
so that should be review, and then the next page, page 7, is just going to talk about
the
more resources for you for as the student,
we have tutoring, library services for when you do your paper,
they have a lot... use the library and through their
Resources page to find journals, and then the next section is going to talk about
academic dishonesty.
We are goign to be turning our papers in through Turnitin which is a plagiarism
detection software
and other than that it's really do your own work.
Don't copy things off the internet.
Turnitin is going to catch all that.
Alright, so, the important notes here in this section is looking at
me as the instructor.
I might change things a little bit
and it's your responsibility to know the changes
and what that means is, is I'm going to email you anytime there's a change to a date,
an adjustment.
If we need a little bit of flexibility with something because of
the holidays,
you'll all be notified via email.
Your email is the number one contact source.
I'll also always put things on the
news page right on the front of our D2L, but I think it's also important to get it via
email.
So, but this important note just shows that I have the right to change things
and that you will be notified.
Alright, the big piece for you to look at is
page 9, and that is our course calendar.
So you can see the breakdown of everything we have in this class
and it's going to start off on the first day.
On Wednesday, you're going to take a look at the
syllabus, you're going to listen to this
recording and have questions and we start right off
every Friday night you're going to have a discussion due.
Every Friday night there's a
discussion
due, and you can see from week to week these are the exact same.
Everything is the same from week to week.
So, starting with week two, you can see on
Monday,
your responses are due.
You have to respond to two of your peers.
Your exam is due, and it's suggested, remember it's not required till the end of the semester,
but it's
suggested that you do the reading on chapters 1 through 3,
and your labs are due on Tuesdays, and those are all through Connect,
and you can see this repeats over and over and over for the entire course.
The one major point I want to look at is Sunday, the 28th of December,
you have to submit, via D2L,
just your topic for the paper which I will discuss more at length
in other communication.
So you just have to submit some topic, the paper is
going to be on
anything you want in the book, any topic that is of
interest to you in the book, and it's something that you want to go explore.
It's really, I'm leaving it up to you, something that's interesting to you but
the topic is due to D2L by the 28th.
Other than that out, everything else is the same throughout the semester,
until we get to the final week, week 5,
and then you can see that on... your last exam will be Monday the 12th of
January.
So you'll be done with exams, you'll be done with peer responses, discussions,
all that will be due
and done on the 12th.
On the 13th, you'll have your last labs due.
Remember, you can do all of this early if you'd like to,
but you do have your final paper that is due Thursday the 15th,
due by just before midnight on Thursday,
and then I am going to go in on D2L or... sorry... on Connect
on the very last day of class, on the 16th, and make sure you've done all your
reading.
That's it for this and, if you have any questions, I'll be here
and please email me at oneilkm
at etsu dot edu (oneilkm@etsu.edu).
Thank you!