Hello, my name is Mike Farrell.
I'm an electronics engineering technology
instructor at Clackamas Community College.
I want to talk to you a little bit about this
fall.
Classes this fall at Clackamas are going to
be online, and I know that can be scary and
a little intimidating to think about taking
technology classes online.
I want to tell you some of the things that
we're planning to do to help you become a
community and to be engaged and to facilitate
your learning in these classes.
One of the primary things we're doing is we
are putting together lab kits with a small
power supply, and a piece of test equipment
to send home.
So that the circuits that we talk about in
class, the circuits you're doing homework
you can build, and we will have you demonstrate
those circuits to the class.
And that can be intimidating because most
of them won't work at first, but that's actually
good because what we want is for them not
to work, because we learn a lot more about
how they work and why they work, when they
start off not working.
So that will be something that you're going
be able to do at home.
And then we will have in Zoom chances for
you all to get together as groups and talk
about what worked and what didn't, with an
instructor there and without an instructor
there, so that you can feel comfortable either
way.
So that's probably the biggest thing we're
doing to help with your engagement.
I hope to see you in the fall, and if you
have any questions, feel free to contact us.
Thank you.
