Max von Sydow died recently - best best swedish actor of the 20th century
this is his most iconic role and his most iconic scene
The Seventh Seal - by Igmar Bergman

Ok,
got a lot done.


1. Cleaned up the Module Page

​2.  study guides for rest of the year are up.
         
*NOTE* it was decided in class to break up Test 2 into Three smaller parts
So Test 2 is now Test 2 (Greeks), Test 3 (Romans), Test 4 (China and India)
the effect of this is to have smaller tests on more concentrated elements of study guide.
It also means, we will drop the lowest test grade from tests 2-9 (test 1 can not be dropped as it is the test taken under normal circumstances and incorporated the entire first five weeks of material.           

(this is in addition to the already stated policy of dropping the lowest quiz grade)


​3. Due dates for quizzes and tests have been updated.
12 April is now the due date for Quizzes 03, Quiz 04, Test 2, Test 3, Test 4

Quizzes are available to take now.
tests become available the thursday before they are due
All tests  are now due on a Sunday.


4. Quizzes 05, 06 will be available on 13 April and due 10 May
Tests 5, 6, 7, 8 will all be due Sunday May 10.


5. Videos are now up, mostly.

Videos for tests 5-9 (due 5/10) are all up.

Videos for greeks are all up

Videos for romans are mostly up - 2 videos need to be made

videos for india are up

videos for china have to be edited and posted.



6. Tests:
Tests will be 25 questions per test for the rest of the year.
The answers are taken from the video lectures.


7. studying

you need to organize your notes in ways that HELP you when the test arrives.  if you just have paragraph after paragraph or have taken no notes - you will fail.  if your study guide is not arranged in a searchable way - it will not help you.

this is your time to PROFESSIONALIZE your notes, your knowledge.  you either need to review the notes so much that you know the answers blindfolded or you need to create notes that are easily viewable and searchable at t glance.

open note sounds easy.  ITS NOT.  it is far too easy to be lulled into a false sense of

"i take good notes" (no he doesnt),

"i know the stuff" (she says flipping through pages not knowing the sections on the persian wars from the punic wars),

"I wrote everything down" in exactly the same shade of blue, the same bubble script, the same line length, the same full pages, the same, the same, the same so that the whole thing is an indecipherable totem of time wasted.

BE CAREFUL!


​Remaining videos to come during Spring Break Week.

Up First HIS 101-06.

Start with the linking of the videos
then the updating of quizzes.
​then the test study guide

People who had trouble completing exams Tests 1-4 have been emailed.

Students emails had to be cross referenced to gradebooks and then to tests
(don't ask, its a bad canvas waaaay of doing things)


but this means the HIS-DOL classes are ready for the post-coronavirus situation.

Scene from the Big Short.  Why Capitalism + Disaster = Personal Catastrophe.
This is what we are looking at.
This is what I want you to understand,  
The effects are compounded - they lead down the road - they affect everything


The economy is crashing.
Hourly workers are going to loose their jobs
if the govt doesnt help (see French Revolution 102!) ppl will lose thier homes
Suicides will go up
homicides will go up
homelessness will rise
children will drop out of school and never recover that education
women will be physically and sexually abused at higher rates 
minorities will end up in jail for longer sentences
banks will foreclose on houses and credit cards
racism and misogyny goes up and fascism becomes more appealing (102!)

3% of 150 million people is 4.5 million ppl could die at the current rates of infection in europe.  there arent enough ventilators in the country, hospital beds, nursing aids to take care of the elderly (who die at 15% not 2-3% - which is the average)

Be Safe out there.  And Dont Dance over your good fortune.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion_(Blake) for some of the references to William Blake's Poetry

see also one of the Best William Blake References in Movies. 

"William Blake!"
"William Blake? What do you mean William Blake?"
​"I mean William Blake"

If We go Down
We Go Down Together.

Quiz 03,04, 05,06 due dates all updated.

Quiz 03 - extended from yesterday to 12April.

Quiz 4 should be available from today.

Quiz 05, 06 will be available to take the day after Test 2 is due.

gradebook grades changed from points to percentage to make it more understandable for the student

Accommodation time given to all quizzes for all students (now timer is 15m)

Right answer review - suspended for now until after test is due.

All quizzes dates, times, visibility, due dates and preview conducted.

Tests stay the same.  they are available for thursday -> sunday (due date).  if you have a scheduling conflict with the due date let me know BEFORE due date.  As soon as you know.


Reminder - lowest quiz grade and lowest test grade dropped.  this means the canvas grade will be LOWER than the grade in my gradebook (about 3 points on average)




Calendar Updated

Office hours page updated.

All test Study Guides are now available for the rest of the semester​

Updated Office Hours


Office Hours:


Cancelled due to Plague.


Be Safe.


Camden County College Classes Closed for Foreseeable future.  Offices remain open to register for classes for summer and fall semesters.

Updated Calendar Dates


​​All Quizzes and Tests are due by 11.59.00pm of the due date.  All tests and quizzes will be available to take ("go live") day after previous assignments are due.
 
Due Dates:
 
 
2/9 - quiz 00 (syllabus)
 
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2/16 - quiz 1 (chapter 1)
 
2/23 - quiz 2 (chapter 2)
 
3/8 - test 1, test 2, test 3, test 4
 
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4/12 - quiz 3
 
4/12 - quiz 4
 
4/12 - test 5, test 6, test 7
 
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5/10  - quiz 5
 
5/10  - quiz 6
 
5/10 - test, 8, test 9, test 10, test 11
 

update:

Ive gotten started but man its hard.
terrible news everywhere
ignorant ppl not knowing whats happening.


I'm trying guys.  buts its slow.
every 10 minutes something new happens and its worse.

​

ok,

check this site for status updates as I go along.

Starting with:

HIS 101-OL
HIS 101-OL1
HIS 101-OL2

theres about 40 items to do for those classes to get them updated for the rest of the semester due to the corona virus.  


this involves updating the calendars
contacting students about test 1
maintenance on all quizzes, tests, study guides videos.


this should be a few hours.

dow jones down 10%
nasdaq down 8.6%

europe down 4-7%

100,000 people in #disneyworld are now heading home after crowding together without any testing, penned in for fireworks, shaking hands of cast members, and in general creating a plague outbreak.


​good luck people.