Lab 3, TA Notes, CALS 85, Fall 2011,
Sept 12-15, For labs Sept 20-23

BEFORE LAB:
•    Log in to Blackboard and check, & reply to the entries for your lab
•    Meet with your lab partner to go over the lab.
•    Use pine on zoo for email, SET UP SIGNATURE FILE, to get used to it so you are familiar when it comes time to teach (Next Lab).
•    Bring to lab name tent materials, pens, your lab notebook, class list, and graded Power Point Critiques.
•    Bring to lab yellow PowerPoint Presentation Critique sheets for any straggler presentations.
•    Bring a “hat” and have all students (who have not presented) names in it on paper.
•    Bring a Thumb Drive to demonstrate.
•    Draw the conceptual diagram of the connection between the PC and zoo on the board (see example handout).

THE LAB:
1.    Go Early
2.    Pass out name tents and have students make name tents if they don’t have one.
3.    Take Attendance. 
4.    Remind students at least one posting to Blackboard per week.  Pass back the graded Presentation Critiques.
5.    Have any remaining students complete their PowerPoint presentations.  
6.    Make sure students get out paper and pen and take notes.
7.    Everyone have flash drive?  Have students insert into USB.  Open Windows Explorer choose My Computer.  You should see the flash drive.
8.    Explain that most of this lab is review to make sure everyone is at the same skill level.  Encourage students to introduce themselves to their immediate neighbors, and to help show each other how to do things, but that everyone presses their own keys.
9.    Go over Lab assignment: Create folders and sub folders in the thumb drive, copy files into the sub-folders, Notepad, WinSCP.  Refer to drawing of PC to Zoo connection on the board.  Create a PCBackup folder inside the home directory folder if have not done so yet.  Remind students this for academic work for up to 5GigBs.  Upload thumb drive folder contents into PCBackup folder.  Go over how to capture a window (Alt-PrintScreen) and paste it into Paint and print.  For those with Macs, encourage them to do the assignment on a PC or on the Windows OS on their MAC.  For those that insist on using MAC OS: http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/02/28/screenshot.html for screen shots (Command-Shift-4).  For text files use TextEdit, or Word and save as a .txt file.  On keyboard Alt-F14 is the window capture in Windows.
10.    Read assignment.
11.    Explain how the calculator and the Notepad are in the Systems32 sub-folder inside the Windows folder on the hard drives.  Show this to the students.
12.    Go over how to safely remove a flash memory stick (thumb drive, data stick). 
13.    Ask students “How many understand the assignment?  Any Questions?”
14.    Make sure students know they may contact you and meet with you outside of lab if necessary to get extra help with the lab.
15.    Collect Name Tents at end of lab (so you can hand them out at the beginning of next lab).

AFTER THE LAB:
•    Record absences and comments on spreadsheet template. EMAIL ABSENTEES, gently inquire “you are on our lab class list, but you have not come to lab, are you still in our course?”.
•    Meet with your TA partner and look over the student comments and your own yellow critique sheets.  Make sure both yellow sheets are in close agreement.  Assign a grade for the student’s presentation on the top PowerPoint crituqe sheet, staple the student critiques to the two Critique sheets to return to students next week.  Record grade in spreadsheet.
•    Save the spreadsheet in three places: on your PC, data stick, and upload to your zoo account.
•    Contact Dr. L  if students are missing or having trouble with BlackBoard (in wrong lab, can’t log in, etc.)