May 9, 2011
Thank you all for a great job on your presentations last week. We all learned a lot and you clearly did some amazing work. Associate Dean, Nance Lucas, was there for the morning presentations, and she was very impressed with all your efforts. Congratulations!
You might remember that you were asked to identify which community project you would fund if given $2000 to distribute. After doing all the tallies for every student in NCLC 203, below are the total amounts you would give to each organization – and wouldn’t it be wonderful if we really did have some funds to distribute! Note: Please remember that the disbursal of funds is just an exercise to see what communities are perceived to have the greatest need for funding; it does not necessarily mean that the higher numbers match the groups that did the best presentations. We know that all groups did a good job of researching, collecting data, and presenting your findings.
Volunteer Fairfax: $24,722.99
Facets: $87,489.99 (a dominant theme – more milk for the kids!)
Fairfax County Public Library: $23,871.99
OAR: $29,422.99
Centreville Immigration Forum: $45,822.99
Office of Alcohol, Drug, and Health Education: $18,878.99
April 26, 2011
Here are two different rubrics that we will be using next week for our final presentations. The first one is the rubric used by the faculty evaluators; the second is for peer evaluation. See you all in seminar this week.
RING Presentation Rubric
RING evaluations
March 23, 2011
At 3:00 this afternoon some 203 faculty will be available in the Piedmont Multi-Purpose room to talk with anyone who needs support with technology, specific assignments, or anything else that would be helpful at the moment. Feel free to stop by even to say hello.
March 22, 2011
Greetings Everyone,
I hope you all had a great Spring Break and are ready to get back into the swing of 203. Please note that we begin this Thursday in the JC Cinema. We will have a chance to hear about some of the research NCC faculty are doing with the goal to better understand how one combines passion, identity and research to answer significant questions and make a difference in peoples’ lives.
After we finish in the Cinema, we will head to our seminar rooms and spend the rest of the day working on literature reviews and research designs.
See you then,
Prof. Muir
February 26, 2011
As promised, the link to the CITI website, where you’ll do your HSRB (Human Subjects Review Board) assignment is here:
https://www.citiprogram.org/default.asp?language=english
You can find the instructions for registration, etc., at Human Subjects Training, by following the link Mandatory Training for Persons Conducting Research Using Human Subjects.
February 23, 2011
This Thursday, 2/24, we will begin in seminar, divide into 5 subgroups, then rotate through five different research method discussions. The day will end back in your seminar. Below are the rotation times, please be present for all discussions, your attendance will be noted.
9:30-9:45 – Seminar time
9:45-10:30 – Rotation 1 (Grp 1 starts in room A, 2 in B, 3 in C, 4 in D and 5 in E)
10:30-10:35 – Break
10:35-11:20 – Rotation 2 (Grp 1 rotates to room B, 2 to C, 3 to D, 4 to E, 5 to A.)
11:20-11:25 – Break
11:25-12:10 – Rotation 3 (continue rotation process)
12:10-1:10 – Lunch break
1:10-1:55 – Rotation 4 (continue rotation process)
1:55-2:00 – Break
2:00-2:45 – Rotation 5 (continue rotation process)
2:45-2:50 – Break
2:50-3:30 – End in Home Seminar
See you tomorrow.
February 13, 2011
As promised, here is Thursday’s presentation on information management and the collaborative building of research capital . Do look through them carefully, as we had to move very briskly through the presentation and practice. If you didn’t have your computer with you on Thursday, or you are encountering any problems with delicious, do let you seminar leaders know. Enjoy the rest of the week-end!
February 1, 2011
From what we currently know, Thursday should be sunny! We look forward to meeting you in our seminars that day.
Given the schedule change, we were unable to get into the JC Cinema (or any other large space) on Thursday, so instead we are beginning in our seminar rooms.
Please go directly to the Johnson Center 3rd floor atrium and we will direct you to your seminar room. Here is where each of you will go:
001- Assembly Room A
002 – Room B
003 – Room C
005 – Room D
006 – Room E
007 – Room F
Those of you in Prof. Freels seminar (006) should know that Prof. Freels and his wife just had a baby boy (born yesterday!). If he is unable to be with us on Thursday, we will divide his seminar among the other five classes for this Thursday and next. We’ll have more directions about this plan on Thursday morning. So, come to the atrium and we’ll let you know where to go.
Meanwhile, if you haven’t yet read Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, or read the first part of Gray’s text – this is the time to do so.
See you soon,
The 203 Team