Course Updates:

Course Number Change: 9.1.11

On September 1, 2011 Fresno Pacific University changed the course number for this course from INT 925 to EDU 914. The course content did not change. Course participants who registered for the course prior to August 31, 2011 will be issued a grade for INT 925 upon completion of the course. Course participants who register for the course after September 1, 2011 will be issued a grade for EDU 914 upon completion of the course. Please call the Center for Professional Development Office at Fresno Pacific University at 1-800-372-5505 if you have any questions.

Website Updates: 6.22.11

Effective immediately, the University is recommending at all course participants "go green" and utilize a digital logbook and the online Submit Grade Form option on the University website upon completion of the course. Utilizing this option will expedite grade processing.

If you registered for the course prior to June 2011, you will still have the option of submitting the hard-copy logbook and the hard-copy triplicate grade form that was included in your course materials packet.

Contact me if you have any questions: bobjost@gmail.com or 559.495.1919

The Course Support Documents section of the EDU 914 website was updated to reflect these changes. Module 8 was updated to reflect recent changes to online search tools.

Primary Course Email Address Changed: 1.17.11

Effective immediately, I am changing my primary course email address to

bobjost@gmail.com

Why? My previous email address(es) have been publicly visible on the web for several years and have been increasingly and relentlessly targeted by spammers (over 18,000 junk email messages in 2010!).

I have been testing various filtering alternatives for the past several months and have found that Gmail currently offers the most robust spam filters which will (hopefully...) identify and eliminate most of that junk email.

This change should be not cause any difficulties for you, the course participant. I will continue to monitor and receive email sent to my previously used address but will now respond from my gmail address.

Please adjust your address book entries to my new gmail address at your earliest convenience.

Listserve Discontinued: 1.17.11

Use of the EDU 914 course listserve has been discontinued. Click here or on the listserve link above for details.

Instructor's "Office Hours"

During the school year, I teach this course outside my duty day with the local school district, I typically respond to course e-mail correspondence early in the morning and again in the late afternoon and evening hours.

I will acknowledge the receipt of assignments that you have sent within 24 hours. You do not need to wait for my response before moving on to the next assignments.

I will make every effort to review the logbooks and projects that have arrived in the afternoon mail on a day-to-day basis. I will sign off and submit the grade forms to the Center for Professional Development at Fresno Pacific University within 24 hours of receipt.

I will notify you via e-mail when your grade has been submitted and will mail the pink copy of the grade forms back to you for your records.

How Soon Can I Get My Grade?

The University processes grades on a daily basis and you can expect to receive your official grade report within 5-10 working days after I have submitted the grade.

If that is not quick enough to meet a looming deadline, it is possible to request a rush transcript as soon as the grade has been entered into the University computer system.

If you are requesting a rush transcript, it is always a good idea to call the office at 1-800-372-5505 to confirm that your grade has been entered into the computer system before contacting the registrar's office.

http://fresno.edu/registrar/transcripts/

University privacy policies do not permit instructors to issue "verification of course completion" letters to your school district. You will need to contact the Center for Professional Development office directly if you need that service. Call the office at 1-800-372-5505.

July 2008

• The EDU 914 web discussion board has been updated. A Username and Password is now required to post messages to the web board. Click here for details.
  
• Using the EDU 914 Course Listserve is now an optional activity. Click here for details.

Junk Mail Filtering

Most of us now have some form of junk mail filtering on our e-mail accounts. Often this filtering is provided by our internet service providers with little or no imput from us.

While this has in most cases dramatically reduced the volume of junk mail that has been appearing in our inboxes, sometimes legitimate e-mail is incorrectly identified as junk mail and deleted before it reaches us.

As those of you who have been working with me realize, I routinely respond to incoming e-mail within 24 hours (usually much quicker...). If you have not received a response to messages that you have sent within 24 hours, please notify me using my regular online course e-mail address <bobjost@gmail.com> with a CC (carbon copy) to my backup e-mail address which is <rwj@fpu.edu>.

If you still do not receive a response, please call and leave a message on my answering machine <559.495.1919>.

It is strongly suggested that you use the exact message titles indicated in the assignment prompts. Junk mail filters are often set to delete messages sent without a message title or with a generic message title (Hi, Hey, Hello, Re: Fwd: etc.)

It is also most helpful if you include your name somewhere in the body of the e-mail message, especially if your e-mail address does not include elements of your name.