From: Rick Mosholder [rmosholder@wowway.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 3:50 PM
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Cc: D'Arcy Oaks
Subject: EPL 259D - Week 1a

Hello eveyone,

Welcome to EPL 259D. I'm your instructor, Rick Mosholder. I have taught the course for several years and look forward to working with you this quarter. I have a background in corporate management and also owned my own company before returning to school at OSU to get a PhD in Educational Psychology.

My responsibility in this course is to help you learn strategies to succeed in school. Your responsibility is to do all the assignments, on time, according to the instructions. If you do, you will succeed in this course. In the process, you will become a better student. It's as easy as that.

The course officially starts with this message. My plan is to send you e-mails with instructions for the course on Mondays and Wednesdays. Here are some important things you should do immediately:

1) Familiarize yourself right away with the structure and deadlines for the course. Begin by going to the course home page at http://dennislearningcenter.osu.edu/epl259d-au05/index.htm (bookmark this page) and read "Opening Remarks from a 259d Instructor". This will give you an overview of how the course works. There are many assignments and many due dates. Even though all the due dates are on the course calendar and in the syllabus, I've also attached to this e-mail message a WORD document that includes all the due dates. I suggest you print it out and keep it handy. The course can seem a little complex at first because there are a number of different kinds of assignments, but it will become clear over the first week or so.

2) Send me an e-mail. Please e-mail me at mosholder.6@osu.edu by Friday, September 23rd, confirming that you have received this message, have found the course website at the address given below, and have read "Opening Remarks from a 259d Instructor".  Please send e-mails to my osu e-mail address only even though some e-mails may come to you from my home address.

3) Buy your textbooks. Learning and Motivation Strategies and A Hope in the Unseen are at student bookstores. You'll need them immediately.

E-mail will be our main form of communication throughout the quarter, and you should feel free to e-mail me whenever you have questions. The address shown for this message is a listserve that will e-mail everyone in the class. If you just want to communicate with me, use mosholder.6@osu.edu. I'm looking forward to having you in the class this quarter.

Sincerely,

Rick