IMPORTANT information regarding tonight's class!

Students: 

Please be advised that your class session is cancelled due to inclement weather.  I will be in the classroom at 6 p.m. for those students who have already arrived on campus.  You will receive on-line class material to be completed by Thursday asynchronously under the Content area of ecampus.  Our class session today, Tuesday, is therefore considered asynchronous, which means "not occurring at the same time" or "lack of concurrence; absence of synchronism."  In other words, we are all completing the requirements of the class session, but not necessarily together in the same room at the same time.

Another term used to describe this kind of class session enabled by computer technology is ubiquitous, "being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time."  These are terms that every information technologist should be familiar with.  Many colleges and universities, and now some high schools, are requiring all students to take at least one course that is completely online, utilizing asynchronous (utilizing drop boxes and email through an extranet system such as ecampus, as we are doing) and synchronous (utilizing chat rooms on an extranet system such as ecampus) because the accessibility to computers provides a ubiquitous environment for learning. 

In our IT program, we have a few courses designated as hybrid, this means that some classes (usually from 40 to 50%) are online, while the other class sessions require a physical meeting.  You will find the hybrid system in IT 450.  In IT 102, we will hold an online session approximately two times during the semester.  If there is inclement weather, rather than canceling the class, we will hold the class online.  If you are already in the building please join us briefly at 6 to go over the instructions in person, if you are not here PLEASE be safe and stay home, and look for further information to come via both email and in the drop box section of ecampus.

 

Let me know if you have any questions!  I will be monitoring email at least till 6:30.  Exam #2 will not be held until at least next tuesday night the 19th and much further detail will be given in our next meeting on Thursday night.  I had hoped to have the calander many of you asked for updated by tonight, will see if I can get that out but it will much more likely be tomorrow.

 

Sam