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I am Catherine Miettinen Ames, but you can call me Professor Ames. I will be your instructor for this course. I look forward to teaching and learning from each other. You can contact me by email at cames@gavilan.edu.

Technology and Help Resources:

This may be your first time taking an online course or you may need some technical assistance or guidance for set-up of this course. There is a modules that have been created to help assist you called: Online Student Support Services. You can assess to this module and its pages by clicking on the Modules tab found on this page. Additionally, the Syllabus tab has resources called Technical Support and Prerequisites and Orientations.

How to Begin:

Like any new course, please start by reading the Syllabus.

Then please familiarize yourself with the Online Student Support Services found under the Modules tab.

Then, please complete the Assignment - 24 Hour Check In . Note! This will be the ONLY time in the semester that an assignment should be done before reading the pages in that weeks module.

Once in the Modules tab, please notice that throughout the semester there are weekly dated modules. In each module, the first page is an "Overview," which gives concise listed objectives for that week learning objectives. You should work systematically through the module. You will have a better chance of gaining full credit on all assignments by doing this. At the end of each page, please familiarize yourself with the next bottom that will take you to the next subsequent page of the module.

Remember, to find the week's module, please click the Modules tab

Or click here to begin this semester: Week 1 (Introduction) - Jan 31st to Feb 4th

Good Luck!