Thread by @michelle_furlow

Welcome to my online #CRJ105 #CRJ107 & #CRJ201 students. I will be posting a brief "Welcome" thread to online learning.

Feel free to follow along & let me know what questions you might have @morainevalley

Good afternoon, friends! Welcome to Fall 2021, I'll be starting an overview to the syllabus & intro to online classes.

What topics are you most interested in learning about?

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Let's get started! This is our #HappySyllabusDay overview of your upcoming online Criminal Justice courses with me.

The goal is to give you a sense of how I use Twitter to encourage our online class to be interactive. Are you ...

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Let's start with a little anonymous 'ice breaker' to get a sense of the class ...

Why are you taking a Criminal Justice course?

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Even better yet, are you a Criminal Justice major?

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Is THIS your first Criminal Justice class?

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Is THIS your first time using Twitter in a college class?

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So to get started, a student will log into Canvas from @MoraineValley home page.

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When you log in, you should see ALL your courses available, select the course which you want to enter

(only YOUR courses will show up on your screen)

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Welcome to our course homepage. You will be able to navigate ANYWHERE in class from this page

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Step One ...

Open the course text. The course text is provided IN the Canvas shell.

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Is reading the course text required?

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The answer is ...

... it's necessary. But here's why!

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Step Two: Read through the syllabus. Better yet, print it out, if you have the printer ink!

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The syllabus is our contract, it is your guidelines for doing well, and it is your guarantee that I will teach this course in a professional, productive, academic manner

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Without being too long-winded & boring, let's hit a few highlights of the syllabus, the front page is pretty standard operating procedure ...

What is required & how is it graded

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Ohhh, the zinger! I don't accept late work. This doesn't mean we can work out life's difficulties in advance, just be sure to communicate with me.

In CRJ, if you're on time, you're late ...

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That "No Late Work Policy" is ...

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The Unit "exams" are called #AfterActionReports. Report writing is the life-blood of good police work, so we get started here. There are 5 or 6 AARs for each class.

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My Pro-Tip: Don't wait until Sunday night to get these exams started. I will hear your tears through the keyboard. The pace is about a chapter or two a week, work as you read.

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We will also have our Twitter assignments.

Each week, I'll post approximately a discussion (this one included!) Follow along live or in your own time.

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My Policing students will be doing something a LITTLE different which I will explain separately.

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My #CRJ105 #Criminology & #CRJ107 #JuvenileDelinquency students will add to a thread specific to their course each week.

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What am I looking for in your Twitter comments? Just as if we were talking in class.

I'm looking for your insight into the discussion.
~ Ask a follow-up question
~ Give your viewpoint on the topic
~ Do you have a real life example?

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Social media can be great.

And it can be not so great.

There are MANY viewpoints about the Criminal Justice system today

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What are your thoughts on social media?

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I welcome ALL viewpoints, supporting & critical of the system, but we must be professional & academic. Our goal is to learn. With limited characters, social media can make that easy or really difficult. So just something to keep in mind. #CRJ105 #CRJ107 #CRJ201 #MoraineValley

Lastly, to promote ACTIVE listening, each course will be listening to a podcast this semester.

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My #CRJ105 #Criminology students will be listening to @dridgen @cbcpodcasts #TheNextCall

cbc.ca/listen/cbc-pod…

My #CRJ107 #JuvenileDelinquency students will be listening to @connie_walker @cbcpodcasts #MissingAndMurdered #FindingCleo

cbc.ca/radio/findingc…

And my #CRJ201 #AmericanPolicing students will be listening to @bearbrookpod @nhpr #BearBrook

bearbrookpodcast.com

The goal of the podcast exercise is to practice our listening skills & try to apply what we know about Criminal Justice to the crime. Listening is a skill many of us take for granted, but it's imperative in Criminal Justice

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Is anyone a fan of true-crime podcasts?

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YOU are in this class for a reason, I doubt just to pass the time. You are taking this class to go on to a bigger, more successful life. I will help you get there, so if you do good work, so will I!

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Someone worked very hard (maybe it was YOU) to make sure you had a seat in a college classroom. I will honor that effort & do everything I can to help you do well.

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Send me your questions, comments, concerns, I am happy to answer here on Twitter, via email, or via office phone.

Let's have a great semester! #CRJ105 #CRJ107 #CRJ201 #MoraineValley

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