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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0D0D0D">Hello everyone,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0D0D0D">I wish you the very best as your family members and you might be navigating through online continuing education and school courses. I recently recorded several online pesticide
applicator pre-certification modules and well….? They’re not great, but with more practice I hope to someday win the “Most Improved” award. There is a silver lining though. I now have three insider secrets I’d like to share with you. These tips might also
be helpful for students who have recently transitioned to online courses, so please feel free to tip them off as well.
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Just like Santa Claus, the online providers can see you when you’re sleeping. They know when you’re awake. They know if you’ve been bad or good….so pay attention (even if that last part doesn’t rhyme)<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Zoom and Panopto have viewer statistics and attendance data the online providers can review after the course. The data tells them the percentage of time each viewer spent on the presentation or course. Somehow the
programs can even detect when someone starts multitasking, such as when they open their email or start to work on another document. I know it sounds crazy, but it’s true. So the best tip I can give to you is if you know you are a person with a short attention
span, search for shorter courses or webinars that are pre-recorded so you can watch them at a time when you won’t be interrupted and pause them when needed.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Don’t buzz in until Alex Trebek finishes reading the question
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">To build on the above concept, some online course providers set a minimum amount of time they would like you to spend on the course, individual slides or quiz questions. For example, a 1-hour continuing education
course might be a narrated 1-hour PowerPoint presentation with quiz questions scattered throughout. You may have taken the best speed-reading course money can buy, but I’d hate for you to have to take a course a second time because you clicked too quickly
through the informational slides and quiz questions. Please allow the course to run its course.
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Uh, nice shorts<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">If you are going to join a live video meeting or course, pre-select your viewing location, background or better yet, turn your computer camera off. A year or so ago I participated in a live zoom meeting of about
10 committee members. One of the committee members dialed in from her living room. Not a problem and perfectly acceptable. In addition to having the opportunity to discuss the topics on the agenda, we also got to watch her oldest son walk through the living
room in his boxer shorts. Luckily, he was totally oblivious to it all and we didn’t include it in the meeting minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0D0D0D">So there you are – three insider tips when taking online courses. I hope these prove valuable.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Jennifer Weber<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Pesticide Safety Education Program<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Maricopa County Cooperative Extension<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">MARICOPA COUNTY COOPERATIVE EXTENSION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">4341 E. Broadway Road<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Phoenix, AZ 85040-8807<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Office: (602) 827-8222<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">jennyweber@arizona.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">extension.arizona.edu/maricopa<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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