Week 3, Tuesday: Feb 23 – Daily Course Announcements

"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
Groucho Marx

image shows a botanical drawing of a flowering banana plant and various insects, including a month and Caterpillar. — "Dwarf banana flower (1714)" by Swallowtail Garden Seeds is licensed under CC PDM 1.0

Doesn't time fly when you're having fun? How are we in week three already?

HST271	Everything you need to know for the week is available on the course website, on the page for week 3. If you start from the canvas website, click on the link at the top of the module for week three Tip from one of the students on the week 2 check-in Google form: do not wait until the end of the week to do all your work, start reading now!
HST471	Thanks for submitting your 5 – 15 reports, I will be in touch with updates and feedback as necessary. I have kept today (Tuesday) open on my schedule, if you want to make a last-minute appointment. ( I cannot guarantee this will be a regular fixture during the semester.)

Workshops from the Hive

Tuesday: 7-8 PM: GETTING STARTED WITH HYPOTHES.IS
Wednesday: 7-8 PM: GETTING STARTED WITH BERG BUILDS & WORDPRESS
Friday: 3-4 PM: GETTING STARTED WITH PADLET

(Padlet is a nifty web app to collect multiple cards and comments, maybe useful for a show and tell project?)

Find all the details for theworkshops in this poster

Tuesday tech tip: Add the Canvas Calendar to your Calendar

Canvas has a tutorial with screenshots to add the Canvas calendar to your own calendar. The example here is for Google Calendar, and here is a tutorial for Outlook

I just copied the feed: From the left-hand menu on Canvas, select calendar. On the right under the monthly mini calendar, and under your various canvas courses calendars, you see "calendar feed". Click that, and copy the feed, which starts with https://muhlenbergcollege.instructure.com/feeds/calendars/[here will be your personal user data]

screenshot of canvas calendar to show location of calendar feed — Click on the red calendar feed in the bottom right corner of the calendar page on Canvas

Then I added it to the calendar on iCloud through "New Calendar Subscription". The principle is the same for other calendar applications. The times for the meetings and drop-in tutorials for my courses are all in there for the whole semester already, and I am adding the assignments bit by bit. This may be useful if you are "organizationally challenged," or just like having everything in one place.

Once you are subscribed to the calendar, you can tweak the notifications.