This video I'm going to introduce the basics of how to begin our commercial negotiation class.
Now, because this class has so much online, there are many instructions to follow.
Once you get used to it will be pretty smooth.
In this video, I'm going to go over the requirements what you need to do.
Now basically to get going.
So, what you need to do now? Well, the first couple classes are going to be in the classroom,
So it would be best if the first class especially you could come to class.
In addition to that what we're going to do is begin online.
And the first thing you need to be able to do is access this document and the address is this address right here
I'm going to put that on the screen nice and big so you can see it
And if you go to that address what you're going to see is this document right here
You're going to see this document that was looking at right now
Right here you're going to see this document that was looking at right now
This is the most important part of all of the online information for this class
Because everything is here that you need everything is centralized all the links for year
So if you ever get confused a loss , come back to this page
Now this is located on google docs
So one of the first things you're going to need to do is make sure you have a google account
How do you get a google account or you can have a gmail address is probably the easiest way
You may be able to use other ways but that's the easiest way
Now when you get your google account or you have your gmail account or whatever
The place you can go to is the google drive
Which is located here at "google.com/drive"
And the idea is you can access documents online 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:57,079 If you've never used google drive before I strongly suggest you try using it
Now has a lot of free space you can put documents on there
And used a lot of things online such as spreadsheets and writings software
on google drive in the cloud and we're going to be using that for our class
So it's important that you be able to use this
You don't need to do too much just make sure you can log in and give it a try
Ok so once you're inside of Google Drive it looks something like this
On the left side is kind of some general topics and some categories and these are my folders
and then on the right side are the sub directories and folders
I think you're very familiar with this kind of ideas you've seen this before probably
So it's very easy to organize maybe use something like Dropbox
or maybe use something like Microsoft onedrive
It's all the same kind of ideal
The first thing you need to do is make sure you have a google account
and specifically you need to make sure you can access google drive and you know how it works
So you're going to come and get this document here by using this link
which is our class schedule and introduction and outline all of the details about class
Now on here let me go over some of the links first
This is very important so one by one I'm going to go over these links
The first link is of course this document we're looking at right now.
This is the class outline and schedule so that is most important.
The next one is class grades, schedule , updates etc..
So this is going to be the document that is always changing
depending on grades and how you do in the class,
and I'm always going to be keeping that up to date.
So if I click on that and go to that page
what I'm going to end up here is I have a spreadsheet here.
And this spreadsheet is a Google sheet
I need google drive to use it
and you'll need google drive to use it also so compact us a little bit
So you can see here what we have is student's numbers and grades and we can go over and
see all of the great this is the previous semesters class
and we can go all the way to the end seeing what their grades are for all of your assignments
Ok now when you come here it's going to be empty
So there's not going to be anything here
You need to do something real which is you need to put your name in here
So we're going to ask for your English name your Chinese name
and your gmail address or the e-mail you like to use now. Again,
Which email should you use? Well, you should use your gmail just to keep things easy
because your gmail links to your account where you can use google drive so that makes it easy
so if you don't have a gmail go and open up a gmail, I will also be emailing your school address
But the point here is please pay attention you need to come here
First, you need to put your name on this list
English name
Chinese name and then your email address,
and for email the best thing would be your gmail account that's linked to everything you do in google.
So these are the three things we need one two and three
we're also going to need your student number, so put your student number and there's four things
All right so let me just repeat that one more time how do you get there ?
From the schedule and outline of the class
that's just one page where everything we do will be on this page 這只是一個頁面，我們做的一切將在這個頁面上
Everything is linked to this page, this is the one page where is this page as
here is the address for this page.
So this page will tell you everything this is the main class schedule the main class outlines
where we go from here the second link down here is your class grades and schedule
Alright, so how do we do that? Click there and open it
and if you have google docs, that will open and you'll be able to see this is our student list
What do you need to do? You need to come in and fill in the English name
Chinese name, student number and your email. Four things you need to put in
Ok, so I think that's pretty straightforward
If you don't do that I won't know who you are
and i won't be able to open permissions for you to access other documents that are very important
Now you don't need to form groups yet but we will be forming groups eventually
Probably the second week will be forming groups
You can see here we have some group letters or group numbers but I'm going to take that off for the beginning
For now just at the beginning of this class
Just give me those four things: your email address, your English name, your Chinese name and your student number
down at the bottom you can see there's another tab down there
and down at that tab down there
It says buy book so we have a book and software we need for this class
So what I need you to do is after you put your four pieces of information into this tab student list
which is your email address, your English name, your Chinese name, your student number
and I need you to come over to the back buy book section tab
I need you to go ahead and put in your English name, 我需要你填入你的英文名字、
the Chinese name if you have one and again same things for the student list.
You do not have a Chinese name and to leave it empty, your student number
and then I need you to specify 接著我需要你指定
do you want a paper book or an Ebook? If you want paper just write the word "Paper"
If you want to have a Ebook just write "Ebook"
The price is same. Except the Ebook will be a PDF, in the paper book will be paper
So personally I think Ebook as much easier to use
much more portable and easy this also pays for our software so we get a two-in-one deal.
So go ahead and do that. We'll talk more about the details of that in class,
but we do have all of the necessary links on this page again. 而在這個頁面上確實有我們所有必要的連結
So where am I have come back to this page here, which is our main page write our schedule and outline of the class
Ok, where do we just go? we just went over to look at the schedule
and grades page, which means this page over here is going to have our class list,
our student participants are book list, and if I have any schedule changes that will go over there
Ok, the next link on this page is our textbook.
And as I said, you can put your name on the list to get the text book and you specified you want an Ebook or a paper book
and the easiest way would be we collect that money together all at once in the class.
The total amount is going to be 590 NT dollars, so NT dollars 590 that will pay for the book and the software.
That's actually just the price of the book, but I've negotiated so we get the software with the book.
So you won't have to do anything else , so we could do that together. That would save a lot of your trouble I think.
So please go out of your way for the first class and second class
See, if you can remember to bring 590 NT dollars to the class.
Ok, now let's go ahead down list here and see what else we have four links
So those were the important links to start the class out.
Now we're going to go to writing assignment so this is information about the writing assignments.
Remember one third of the class is practicing writing business communications for negotiation
So the software page that we're going to be using for our cloud software, for our cloud
writing assignment is quick business letters or QBL, which is located at this address.
You will not be able to use it until you get your registration number, which is after you pay for the book.
So once you pay will be able to give registration numbers.
You can go ahead and go there though and download the help manual in Chinese or English,
and there's also videos there for help in Chinese and in English.
Next, we have another link here which should think through the quizzes.
Now here's an example I go ahead and I open that up and I scroll down,
and here we have a list of links to quizzes.
And what this is, is a list of eight quizzes that we're going to have.
However, if you click on it now
go ahead and click try to open it. It's not going to open because it's not time yet.
It will only open during the time that the quiz opens, and for us that will be usually a six-day period.
You need to read a chapter and take a quiz. You have about six days to do that for the eight chapters we have.
Okay, I'm going to close some things up here clean up a little bit.
Okay, so here we are back at the outline page and we just solve the link to the quizzes and to the writing assignments.
Ok, so that's all the individual work in this class
Next, what about the lectures
remember the lectures are not going to be in the classroom they're going to be online.
So if lectures are online where is that going to be? what I'm going to be on YouTube
And there are also going to be on our school system, but here we have a very easy link to the youtube links
to. Llet me show you that
online video lectures and you can go ahead and click this link to go to lectures.
Right there, you can see it opens up and it's going to give me a list of all the lectures.
So this is a playlist on YouTube that will help me, 、
help you quickly see all of the lectures and they will be numbered by chapter and topic.
So it depends on the topic and the chapter and you can see all the videos there
You just click on the places like any YouTube video.
We also have a lecture introducing the RPG game and you can go there to watch the RPG games
Click that link if you're curious and you want to get some information beforehand.
And we don't just jump ahead and yes you can see some of the details there.
Ok, so I go over it step by step,
giving you the idea of course we're going to do this in class also,
but it's a great way to do it online, to get up to speed on it.
And if you want to check things out before you decide if you want to take this class,
you can check this out very cool, very fun activities that I think you'll enjoy.
It really does a great thing of learning by doing. That's key.
The key to this plan learning by doing not just talking about, but doing it and it makes it fun and interesting.
Ok next, we're going to go down and we have our upload evaluation sheet
remember I told you in a previous video that we have an evaluation sheet
and this evaluation sheet is on google drive and I can go ahead and upload my groups sheet there
and you can see here is a group from the previous year
and every time they had an RPG game, they uploaded their evaluation sheet
which is one group one evaluation sheet.
How does that work? People who participate
the way you want them to that you're satisfied everyone in the group is happy they get 100.
Everyone in the group and have 100, that means everyone equal.
Tthat's the participation,
and they're going to get that percentage
or less of the grades if you give them 15 they're going to get 15 percent of that activities grades.
It's very serious and a really great way to keep your group organized and working together.
And to be fair, I think
One activity, one RPG game, one evaluation sheet per group and you only evaluate your own group,
and you all agree on it, so just everyone together says: Yes you did a hundred percent
you did one hundred percent. We're all hundred percent, everybody gets one hundred percent. That's normal.
In fact, it's unnormal is unusual, abnormal to have something different,
but maybe you have bad luck in someone lazy. You can punish for that
Ok. Lastly, we have some negotiation information. So if you want to learn more about the negotiation
there's an excel sheet. You can download here, and there is also a RPG PDF sheet for buyers and sellers.
The game is divided clearly between buyers and sellers,
so that's how you would go ahead and take a look at that if you want to get it early
or you want to begin to learn about it now.
OK, so what's left? I think the last thing I want to look at in this video is the schedule for the class.
So let's go ahead, and on this outline schedule page, we have the actual schedule.
And here we go...
Let's take a look at the schedule, and once you see the schedule
I think you'll like it a lot. Remember the goal of this class is
to make it as easy as possible for you to learn to gain information, to gain some know how
and to learn by doing. That doesn't mean we have to be in the classroom.
So on the schedule, you can see this red colors kind of light red that means in the classroom
And this light yellow means online classes, and of course we have 18 weeks, which is the normal taiwan semester. 而這個淡黃色的意思是在線授課，當然在台灣一學期有18周是正常的
And out of that, we're going to have one, two, three, four times in the classroom, only four.
So the very first class is in the classroom I really hope you can come to the first class ,
because we're going to be moving quickly, in that we want to get right up to speed and then shift to online right away.
Lots of students missed the first class because they're like well whatever I'm just checking things out.
I don't mind you come and check things out, and don't come again.
But please do come the first class if you're even considering the class
because there's so much to cover to get going online to make sure to help you
the second week. We're also online. I mean in the classroom
The second week we're in the classroom. The first week we're in the classroom.
The first week is very basic introduction.
Show you the list, show you the class outlines show you these things I'm talking about.
But in the second week are group formation, so we're going to make our groups
and then we're going to also test out how do you take a quiz.
How do you do the QBL online writing assignment, and how do we do the RPG.
What are the basics of the RPG game?
So that's the second week. So if you come in the second week
but you did not attend the first week, you won't even know that you need to have a google account
you'll be like... well... what do I do now where do I begin?
So that's a little bit trouble, so the first week in second week are going to be in the classroom,
and hopefully you can make the first week.
Third week is online. We actually do an RPG game, our first one at practice one. The grade doesn't count
We're just practicing.
Why do we meet then? to review what happened in RPG tounderstand how the game works a little bit better
and answer questions for anyone had a problem or issues.
so that's really that's all there is for the classroom. Everything else is going to be online.
We have a holiday here and then you can see the rest is online.
So if you follow me down here you can see what it looks like. For example,
we are going to have a chapter and the chapter is part two,
and you need to go ahead and read part two, and then you need to complete the quiz.
You can see there's a quiz there,
and then during the week is an RPG game to play.
And we have a special time that begins the game which is our class time,
which is a monday morning nine, and we begin the RPG game
until you're done. For example, if you're a seller until you've sold all of your product
If you are a buyer until you brought all that you need, you want to buy.
And then we go ahead, and the last time is Sunday night is when it's closing
So if it's past Sunday night then it's not going to. It's over game over, right? game over
So that's pretty neat-- that's Monday to Sunday, so it's pretty cool.
Of course groups that are aggressive and get going fast have an advantage.
If you sit around and wait until Sunday you might not be able to find any offers or came to offer.
So you're a buyer, and you're in the market to buy
but the sellers have already sold all their inventory,
and you went to Sunday, there's not going to be anybody selling anymore.
So that's kind of the idea, but it's up to you how you manage your time and how you do things.
All right so then this is our last time in the classroom is to review that RPG.
I see you got one more time so that's the fourth time. I'm sorry I got that wrong
with that fourth time in the review that RPG.
So we come into class, we say who did well, who did not so well.
Why did the people who do well do well, is why the people who did not so well do not so well.
So we're going to review that, get some idea, to get some input.
Then we go right back to the online class which is going to be another RPG here.
And reading the chapters and having a quiz you see, so it's very straightforward.
Read the part 3,
take the quiz, and play RPG which begins right here.
You can see begins at 09:00 on 10/30. That's on Monday, our class time
You do not come to class.
It's online we meet online. We meet inside Google Docs.
and we'll see that you can look at that now when you if you want to look at the video on how to play an RPG. Show you how to do that.
And then we go down through this semester. You can see it's basically the same thing:
Every week you have or every two weeks, you have a chapter to read.
For example, here part number five and then you take the quiz for part number five.
And we may have some exercises to complete inside the book,
which are very straightforward, not difficult ideas to practice, and then you can go ahead and
we'll have an RPG also. And here we can see it begins at 09:00 on 11/21.
11/21-- that's going to be Monday morning, our class time.
But we do not come to class. It's going to be online where we meet inside the google docs.
And it just kind of cycles for that
like that for a while part6, part7, part8, and then we also have here.
You can see the last couple weeks are all writing assignments
Our QBL assignment No.5 and QBL assignment No.6.
So I'll throughout the semester, we're doing writing assignments.
They begin, let me see where they begin, they begin back
QBL assignment 0. That's a practice assignments, meaning it's not going to count
That begins in the fourth week. So the fourth week we begin our writing assignments,
and before that were doing other things.
So you won't even have to begin doing writing into the fourth week.
And then you can see, it's a little writing assignment in the fourth week.
But in the fifth week, there's a holiday and then in the six-week, here
The sixth week, we have no writing assignment. But you do have a quiz, and you do have an RPG
In the seventh week, do not have an RPG but you do have a writing assignment.
And then in the eighth week you have a quiz, and you have no writing assignment but you do have an RPG.
So that's kinda of the way the class is laid out. That
if we're doing RPG game, we are not doing the writing assignment because too much.
And you're not doing the writing assignments when you are doing RPG.
So each week we're doing something.
You're either reading the chapter, taking a quiz and getting ready for an RPG or playing an RPG.
Or you're writing an assignment for a business negotiation letter.
OK, so that's the way the semester breaks down-- 18 weeks
Again, let's review very quickly what we got 18 weeks. Four weeks in the classroom:
first week, second week in the classroom, please try to come the first time
so we can get everything out of the way.
Then we have online, then we meet again to follow up. We have online, we meet again to follow up
to see if there's any problems, and that's it, just four times in the classroom, so very convenient to you
You could be anywhere. You could be in another country for all I know.
As long as you can contact your groupmates, your classmates
as long as you can access google and everything, will be ok.
otherwise you should have no trouble.
Okay thank you very much
On the other hand, if you have someone in your group is lazy doesn't show up give them less
And then we meet in the classroom another time.
And then you go ahead and you play until you finish
If you're going to China, that might be a problem since you have to use a VPN access google.
RPG so each week we're doing something you're either reading the chapter taking
up with and getting ready for an RPG or playing an RPG or you're writing an
assignment for a business negotiation lesson
Ok so that's the way the semester breaks down 18 weeks
again let's review very quickly what we got 18 weeks four weeks in the classroom
first week second week in the classroom please try to come the first time we can
get everything out of the way then we have some online then we meet again to
follow up with some online we meet again to follow up to see if there's any
problems and that's it just four times in the classroom so very convenient to
you.
You could be anywhere. You could be in another country for all I know, as long
as you can contact your groupmates, your classmates as long as you can access
google, and everything will be ok. If you're going to China that might be a
problem since you have to use a VPN access google otherwise you should have
no trouble
OK. Thank you very much.