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I
am available for online, IM, phone, and on-campus prearranged
appointments.
My regular office hours will be
determined once the members of the class have submitted the requested schedule
information.
You may arrange an appointment during office
hours or you may just come by during office hours. Those who have
arranged an appointment during office hours will have priority, of course,
during the appointment but others may join as well. Those who use office hours
as well as those who have demonstrated an interest in learning the course
material may schedule group or individual appointments at times other than the
regular office hours. An appointment may be in person or
by phone; when you schedule and appointment, please let me know if you would
like to arrange an on-campus (in person) appointment, a phone appointment,
or an IM/online appointment.
I conduct face-to-face appointments in my office in Hemenway
Hall, HH304B. I am available for extra help, to discuss Mathematics, and to discuss college
in general. I enjoy speaking with my students, and I enjoy questions. Please
remember that questions are important and that there are NO stupid
questions.
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Communication:
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Please do not leave notes under/on the my office door: unfortunately, a
note slipped under the door could be lost and a note attached to the door could
fall off. Since I would like to be able to receive your communications, it
would be safest to send me an
email or to call
me at my office, 508-626-4785.
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If I am not in my office at the time that you call, please leave a voicemail.
In your voicemail, please leave your full name, telephone number, course number
and course name, and the reason for your call. Please speak
slowly and clearly (especially for your name and telephone number) so that I
will be able to understand your message and and return your call.
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For an email, please make sure that you sign your email with your full name
so that I will know who sent the email; set up your email so that your name is
displayed as the sender. Please remember that there are
lots of , for example, Mary's and Joe's and, since it is impossible for me to
memorize all of your email addresses, I will not know who
spiderman123@aol.com or
sweetiepie28@hotmail.com are.
Since I receive lots of email every day, using a course-coded subject line will
help me to be able to find your emails quickly. To that end, would you
please use a subject line that is course-coded as indicated below?
- "MATH 095 General Mathematics:" for MATH 095 General
Mathematics
- "MATH 117 Intro Statistics:" for MATH 117 Introduction to
Statistics
- "MATH 11 7 ONLINE Statistics:" for MATH 117 Introduction to
Statistics - ONLINE
- "MATH 221 Calculus III" for MATH 221 Calculus III
Please begin the subject line for your email with the course number and name
(as indicated above) followed by a colon and two spaces and then the reason/purpose for the email communication. So, for
example, if you are in MATH117 Introduction to Statistics - ONLINE and you would like to set an appointment
during which to meet with me, you would send a signed email with the subject
line MATH117 ONLINE Statistics: Appointment. Please note that
the quotes used above are not part of the subject line and neither is the
course section. Of course, you may simply used the hyperlinks that I have
set up below -- all you have to do is at the purpose for the communication.
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I have found that by using a particular format for the subject line for my
classes that I can sort my email and access the emails from my students very
quickly and, thus, I can reply to my most important emails, the emails
from my students, first. So, please help me to be able to access
your emails rapidly by using the requested subject line.
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I usually check my email at the beginning of and by the end of
the day -- some days are much busier than others. Of course, I will check
my email frequently during office hours.
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I will login on IM when I am available online. If you add
me, slmabrouk, to your buddy list then you will be able to determine if I am
available for extra help.
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Appointments and Office Hours:
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If you would like to arrange an on-campus/in-person
appointment, a phone appointment, or an online appointment, please
make arrangements for the appointment (especially for the type –
on-campus/in-person, by phone, or online) in advance.
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For phone appointments, we must coordinate who will call
whom and at what phone number; this will help us to avoid a round or more of
telephone-tag.
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For online appointments, we must determine the venue that we
will use for communication – Blackboard’s Virtual Chat or Virtual Classroom,
IM (AIM, Yahoo Messenger, or Windows Messenger), or email.
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If you would like to discuss the course material during office
hours or during a prearranged appointment, please have your course textbook,
notebook, calculator or laptop, if appropriate, writing instruments, and questions ready.
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If you would like to discuss the
course, in general, the course material, the courses that you are considering
taking in the future, possible career choices, mathematics, in general, or
college, in general, please let me know.
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For appointments, please be on time. Please be prepared for your appointment
whether on campus, by phone, or online: have your
course textbook, notebook, calculator, if needed, writing instruments, and questions ready.
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Please remember that office hours and prescheduled appointments,
both on-campus and online, are for you and that
I want to help you to be able to learn and to understand Mathematics. I want to help you
to be able to do the best that you can in you courses, and I want to help you to
know that you can "do" mathematics. If you have had difficulty
in mathematics classes in the past and if you are concerned about how you are
going to do in your mathematics course, please contact me so that we can
discuss your concerns in person, on the phone, or online; I prefer to meet with
you in person -- you must admit that it is nicer to discuss things in person.
Getting extra help will allow you to ask your
questions and work on addition problems -- I would like to help you to
discover that you CAN do mathematics. If you think about it, the
"worst" thing that can happen when you get extra help is that you
might just find out how much fun mathematics can be. (Hey, it could
happen!!)
Again, there is no such thing as a stupid question!
All questions are important.
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