FIRST DAY OF CLASS

I feel like I have great ideas for the first day of class but I have changed the agenda several times today...but I think I have something great to open with.

Its called TAKING THE FIRST STEP and I found it in our Facilitator's Manual for the  book on page 1-2.

Students will need pens and paper.

1. have them write their full name at the top

2. write a story about where it possibly came from

3. (have a group of 4 whose birthdays are closest go first)  place students in a groups of 4 and have them share their stores with each other.  Once they do, have them choose a spokesperson and report on patterns that they discovered with their names - similarities like they all were named after their grandmother, rockstars, first thing their parents heard on tv. etc...

4. Spokespeople will report on their group to the class about the names of the people in their group.

This activity should take 20-30 minutes.

I will be opening with this and then flow into D2L, how that works, the syllabus, My MTC, MTC EMAIL, JOURNALS, COL Portfolio, Classrom Conduct Contract etc...

If I have time at the end of class, I will have them get our their phones, place them in groups of 2 and hand out an internet scavenger hunt on MTC Website.  The group that wins get to put their hands in a bag of giveaways:))

I am looking forward to the first day and will report on how it went.

Wednesday we will begin Learning Styles, a video and taking the assessment.

Catherine