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Congratulations. You've joined TechniCity.
You've made it into the site, and now you may be wondering, how do I make my way
around? Well, fortunately, you've already found
your way to the course preview page. You've followed those instructions.
Each week, we're going to be taking you through a walk-through that will show you
how to navigate through the week and what you need to achieve, for example watching
this short walk-through video. And then we're asking you to read some
things, we're asking you to engage in some discussion; so each week, we'll give
you this list of activities for you to engage in.
Additionally, we've provided this navigation screen on your left with these
tabs that allow you to walk through each item.
For example, video lectures. What you'll see is a list of videos for
each week. Two things I want to point out.
Just click on this particular video, for example, this one shows us our video for
the week. And what we're able to do is we can
choose how fast we want this to go. So for example, if I want to watch this
at regular speed, I can press play. Or I can choose to speed it up if I want
to listen faster. >> You can learn more about it on the
About Us page on the Coursera website. >> Now, in the early emails that you
received from us, we asked you to complete.
>> Now, if you feel like that's too fast and you want to slow down, you can
choose to slow the speed, and you can choose at whatever rate of speech that
you feel most comfortable with. Another thing that I want to know is that
you can include closed captioning, so when I turn on the closed captioning key,
then I can press for English, and what will happen is it will pull up subtitles
that will appear on each video. This is for your convenience, to help you
better understand what's going on in the video.
In addition to the content in the video, we have supplemental materials that are
available. Adjacent to each of these videos, you
will see that there are icons shown here. This particular icon, for example, is
showing us that there are subtitles. In most video weeks what you will see is
a series of icons showing you supplemental materials.
For example, additional readings or videos.
And we encourage you to look at those so you can learn more.
Additionally, you'll see a download button.
This allows you to download the video and save it on your computer for viewing at a
later date. We have a direct link to Mind Mixer, our
engagement platform. I'll be providing you instructions in a
Mind Mixer video later. We have a Virtual Salon link, this link
will take you to where we have organized our Google Hangouts and in-person
meetings. Our live Tweet events, and also a
connection to LinkedIn, so you can learn more about how you can engage in our
series of virtual salons, which we're hosting in order to allow our instructors
to engage with you each week. And this is going to be a fun place to
engage in reasoned debate and polite conversation.
We've also posted discussion forums. These are really for technical
discussions, so for example if you're having a video playback problem, or you
have a question about what's going on in the class.
For example if you didn't understand one of the concepts that was presented in a
lecture, or if you're have some questions about an assignment this is the place to
go. So that in terms of engaging with others
in the class, that's what we're using MindMixer for.
We have a link to the syllabus where you can learn more, and we also have a link
to the glossary. This is a list of terms that we're
going to be using in the course. And you can feel free to look at these.
In the discussion forums you can also post requests for additional definitions
to be added to the glossary. We have a large teaching team that's with
you, you can feel free to learn more about us at the About Us link.
Now, as we get deeper into the course, then you'll see additional tabs that will
appear on the navigation menu. For example, you'll see assignments, and
peer evaluations, and other materials that will pop up, just stay tuned.
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