Welcome to the course!
In order to get started, please do these (3) things:
1. Think carefully about your presentation topic. Please give some thought to what you would like to talk about. "LC Study Skills: Making Presentations" is one of the most liberal and liberating courses in the LC: it is perhaps the only course that allows you to focus your reading, study, and research on a topic that is entirely chosen by you and reflects your particular interests. Please think about a topic that:
* Is strongly related to your personal interests and experiences. If you have lived most of your life in Oman, your topic should reflect that connection.
* Will let you say something new about it.
* Involves a problem or question that you can answer.
* Is "doable" in about 5-7 minutes.
2. Sign up for Google Docs (GD). GD is free online software that you can use to create, store, share, publish, and collaborate on your documents. It is like a free version of Microsoft Office, but because it is online you can use GD to access your work at any online computer, anywhere in the world. Moreover, for a course like "LC study Skills: Making Presentations", GD makes sharing and collaborating on your presentation incredibly easy. It means saying goodbye to the messy process of sharing paper-based work with your peers & teachers. It also means you will never have to miss an opportunity to work on your presentation because you left your work at home. Once you have shared your presentation with a teacher via GD, they can open and your check your work at any computer. GD is easy to learn to use and can save you lots of time. GD can make study easier. Yay! For these reasons, GDS is a requirement for "LC Study Skills: Making Presentations". If you already have a GD account with Google, you do not have to do anything now. However, if you do not have GD, kindly take two minutes now to sign up.
1. Click GDocs & Spreadsheets, or point your browser at http://docs.google.com. If you have a Google account already, sign in with your Google username and password. You are finished!
2. If you do not have a Google account, click the 'Get Started' button.
3. Fill out the sign-up form and follow any directions that Google gives you.
4. If you have time, watch this short video which explains more about GD. Click to watch the video.
5. Bookmark the "LC Study Skills: Making Presentations" homepage. The homepage is located at http://squlcss.blogspot.com/. Please bookmark this in the browser on your home computer. Also, write down the address some where safe, so that you can access it any time you need to, e.g. your diary, GSM, etc.
6. Buy an A4 file to use as your "presentation folder". This course requires some evidence on paper of work completed, all this work should be kept together in the "presentation folder".
