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Welcome to Biology 103!

Welcome to Biology 103!. Please pick up a syllabus (if you don’t have one yet) and a clicker at the front desk. You will need to rent a clicker from the bookstore by the end of this week. Your instructor: Dr. Bledsoe Office: NS 220 Email: bledsoek@wou.edu. Textbooks.

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Welcome to Biology 103!

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  1. Welcome to Biology 103! • Please pick up a syllabus (if you don’t have one yet) and a clicker at the front desk. You will need to rent a clicker from the bookstore by the end of this week. • Your instructor: Dr. Bledsoe • Office: NS 220 • Email: bledsoek@wou.edu

  2. Textbooks • Audesirk, Audesirk, & Byers Biology: Life on Earth, 9th Edition, WOU Custom edition Volume 3. • Lab book: Find your Moodle lab page to download lab materials and to take pre-lab quizzes.

  3. Your grade comes from: • Lecture exams: 4 “mini-midterms and a final exam. Cumulative portion of the final replaces one midterm. 60% of your grade. • Lecture activities: End of week online quizzes, and a few in-class activities. Lowest will be dropped. About 16% of your grade. • Lab: 28% of your grade will be the points you earn in lab.

  4. Lab grade comes from: • Pre-lab quizzes, available online from Sunday to Sunday the week before your lab. • Class participation, including clean-up. • Weekly lab quizzes. • Lowest lab grade (pre-lab, participation, quiz added together) will be dropped at the end of the term.

  5. Lab attendance policy • If you miss 3 or more labs (= more than 2 labs), you automatically fail lab. • If you fail lab, you automatically fail the course. • If you must make up a lab, you must see Dr. Baumgartner and arrange a different lab time if possible.

  6. Academic honesty • The short version: Don’t cheat. • Plagiarism means turning in an assignment that is made up mostly or entirely of words that someone else wrote. Don’t to it. • First offense = 0 on the assignment. Second offense = official reporting.

  7. Electronics policy: • NO use of electronics in class, including cell phones and translators. Electronics are too distracting to you and to other students. Any use of electronics during exams will be considered cheating. • Computers: I’ve had students swear they will use computers only to take notes, and instead spent their time on Facebook. Sorry, they ruined it for the rest of you. No computers (except for ODS accommodations).

  8. What can I do about my grade? • Attend class. In Bi 100 classes there is a mild correlation between attendance and final grades (and a significant correlation for those who pay attention instead of texting, Facebook-ing, or napping). Come to class prepared, with a printout of the class notes. • Study, using the provided study guides. There is a significant correlation between study habits and Bi 100 test scores. Schedule two hours of study time for every hour in lecture, and begin studying intensively for exams about 1 week before.

  9. PLTL • Peer-Led Team Learning is an optional, no-cost 2-hour evening workshop led by students who have succeeded in the Bi 100 series. • You do enroll in PLTL as you would a regular course. There is a P/NP grade assigned.

  10. W O R K T O G E T H E R • This is a “Work Together” question. When you see these, think about the question and write a response. You can work with a neighbor if you like. • Weekly quiz questions will be based on Daily Work questions and clicker questions. Some of these will preview quiz and exam questions as well. • However, these questions will not appear in the notes that you download. You must come to class for these questions.

  11. This is a “To Turn In” question. • When you see a slide like this appear, get out a sheet of paper that you can turn in at the end of class. • A “To Turn In” slide will have a point value. It may be graded on participation, or may be graded for content. Some may be old exam questions for practice. Some may be activities. • These questions will appear at random during the term. T O T U R N I N

  12. Clickers • To set your clickers to channel 21: • Press “Ch” • Press “2” • Press “1” • Press “Ch”

  13. This is a clicker question. Have you used clickers before? • Yes. • No. • I can’t remember.

  14. How many midterms do we have this term? • None • One • Two • Three • Four

  15. When does the end-of-week quiz CLOSE each week? • 5:00 Friday evening • 8:00 Monday morning • 8:00 Monday evening • Never

  16. When should you do your pre-lab quiz? • By Sunday midnight before the lab. • By Tuesday midnight before the lab. • Any time before the lab. • Any time during the term.

  17. You will automatically fail lab if you miss MORE than ___labs. • One • Two • Three • Four

  18. True or false: There are study guides for each chapter on Moodle. • True • False

  19. What are you allowed to do with cell phones in class? • Answer them and have long conversations. • Text quietly under the desk or behind your backpack. • Turn them off and put them completely away.

  20. What does “put your cell phone away” look like? • Silence it and set it beside you on the desk. • Put it in your lap. • Put it in your backpack, purse, pocket or other place where you can’t see it or be distracted by it.

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