LCA-1111 - Reading Project in ARTS (online) (o,w), Lecture, 9.5.2022-20.6.2022

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Teacher: Maurice Forget
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During the course, you will be submitting weekly assignments via MyCourses and receiving individual and/or group feedback from your teacher. Please make sure that you read this feedback.  Submit all assignments via MyCourses, not via email.

Time Management. In this course, you are welcome to set your own deadlines. However, there is a last deadline that is the same for everyone on the course for each assignment. You are encouraged to submit the assignments before the deadline. If you know that keeping deadlines (DLs) or starting early enough on assignments is not your strength, please change the DLs to at least two days earlier so that you have that extra time, in case you need it. These DLs cannot be negotiated (unless illness with doctor’s certificate) and you are expected to complete all assignments and on time. Most deadlines will be on Monday mornings, however not all!

3 ECTs = 81 hrs in 6 weeks -> Please reserve about 13.5 hours a week for this course in your schedule.

The oral part accounts for approximately 1/3 of the workload, the textbook part for about 2/3, with individual variations to be expected.

Once Textbook assignment 1 (TA1) has been accepted by the teacher, you can continue working on the other TA assignments; you can even hand in early if this suits your own schedule better. Generally, however, I send out feedback to everyone at the same time.

Assignments

You can start with the OAs straight away and TA1 (i.e. once you have received a place on the course and the assignments have been opened). You should read (and take into account) the teacher feedback on TA1, OA2, and OA3 and the peer feedback on OA4b before submitting the following assignment/s unless otherwise advised during the course. Throughout the course, it is essential that you read both the group feedback and the individual feedback that you receive from your teacher. All assignments are mandatory.

Course schedule Recommendation from previous students: print this schedule and transfer the DLs to your personal calendar.
Some find the schedule useful, others are happy following the course as posted week by week.

NB! You can work on many of the assignments in advance if you prefer a faster pace. If you need your ECTs by a specific date, please inform the teacher no later than on Monday 23 May.

Preliminary schedule: adding opening and closing dates for the Aalto Webropol course feedback survey to the Table below. If you notice inconsistencies, please let me know.

Note that a course week does not always correspond to a 7-day calendar week. When you read the Table, think of "week" as ending by the deadline. Therefore it also starts earlier so to speak.

Week/Date	Task textbook (tb)	Task oral pitch
	Textbook assignment (TA)	Oral assignment (OA) Elevator pitch (EP)
Course starts 1-19*/Mon 09.05	Course starts Familiarize yourself with MyC, the TAs and the DLs Start on TA1 a.s.a.p	Course starts Familiarize yourself with the assignments and the materials (videos tot approx 1 hour, readings + start adding your summary) Start on OA1
Deadlines 1-19/Wed  11.05 9.00am	TA1: Choose tb
1-19/Thu 12.05 9.00am		OA1a Introduce yourself (recorded w Panopto or zoom and uploaded to Panopto) Cont. familiarize yourself with the materials (read & watch videos, add material summary + read what your peers have posted as support when working with the materials)
2-20/Mon 16.05 9.00am	TA2: Survey tb	OA1b Get to know your peers and reply to at least three. Everyone should receive replies from at least three peers. OA2 EP Part 1 (descr list) (no recording yet) Final deadline for posting material summary
3-21/Mon 23.05 9.00am	TA3: Make a glossary (Let teacher know if you need ECTs by a specific date.)	OA3 EP Part 2, outline
4-22/Mon 30.05 9.00am	TA4: SQ3R study method (start extra early. You need several days for this assignment)	OA4a video rehearsal for peer feedback (video recording 1)
4-22/Thu  02.06 9.00am		OA4b your peer feedback on peer’s video**
5-23/Mon 06.06 9.00am	TA5: Reflection on summarizing and originality check of your text; formality
5-23/Wed  08.06 9.00am 11am		OA4c EP Part 3, video, revised version (video recording 2) (9am) OA5: Reflection statement (11am)
6-24/Mon  13.06 9.00am   midnight	TA6: Reading and Summarizing, revised version (9.00am) TA7: Reflection (midnight)
6-24/Wed 15.06 9.00am	Course feedback and evaluation posted in MyC (frontpage) Please also reply to the Webropol feedback survey sent out by the administration.

*Calendar week

** Negotiate with your peer if this deadline is too tight for you and inform your teacher of the new deadline. Please take into account that both you and your peer need time to finalize your pitches for OA4c.

The course follows strict deadlines. If for any reason you cannot keep a deadline due to unforeseen circumstances, please notify the teacher at your earliest convenience (please avoid missing deadlines though, as this will mean losing activity points that go into your course grade). If you are ill and need to miss a deadline, please present a doctor's certificate.

How to find your way around in MyCourses

To see/hide the different sections in MyC, click on the orange square with white lines in the top left-hand corner.
To find assignments and materials, enter through the section menu Textbook project/Elevator Pitch or by the given week, found in the grey left-hand side menu. For your convenience, the materials and assignments for the oral part and for the textbook part are gathered in separate sections. (Note checking only under "Assignments" "Forum" "Resources" in the right-hand corner below the banner will not show all materials/tasks relevant for each OA and TA in this course.)
To see feedback from the teacher, click on ‘Grades’ in the section menu. Some feedback is also provided e.g., via "Announcements from the teacher".

See also Assignments Overview, link here.