Student Resources
Listing of Required Textbooks
May 28, 2009
Looking for what textbook you need to get? We now have a Textbook Listings page set up for Summer 2009 NMSU-A Classes. Check it out. If you have any questions or comments, please Let Us Know.
New Student Orientation
May 18, 2009
If you are attending NMSU-A for the first time, you are required to attend a New Student Orientation. Orientations are held in spring and fall. If your first college experience with NMSU-A is during the summer session(s), please plan to attend one of the two fall New Student Orientation Sessions. Location, dates and times are posted below. Please note that parents are encouraged to attend.
How Will It Help? It will make the transition to college more comfortable because you will know what to expect. You will also learn how to be successful at NMSU-A, and you will have the opportunity to meet staff, faculty and other new students.
What Will Be Covered? You will learn about services, academic expectations, strategies for success, and take a campus tour. Bring your schedule to locate your classes. Optional one hour workshops in time management and online/Blackboard training will be offered during the last hour of the New Student Orientation.
Students enrolling for the first time, in the summer or fall, please arrange to attend one of the following sessions:
Location: Rohovec Fine Arts Center
Thursday, August 6, 2009 From 1pm-5pm
OR
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 From 9am-1pm
For more information, please contact Manuela Heberle at 575-439-3726 or mheberle@nmsua.nmsu.edu.
Three New-Style Communication Classes A’Coming!
May 1, 2009
By Wanda Wakkinen, Communication Studies Faculty Member at NMSU Alamogordo.
During Spring 2009, I offered a new class called Cyberspace Communication. We met in the virtual world of Second Life and, I must say, it was a great success! One student, Sharon DiLeo, put it well, “It does appear clear that the power associated with a visual representation of another person fosters a very real feeling of closeness not necessarily felt in my online classes. It is as though, we are all neophytes growing up together in Second Life and are thus less strangers to one another.”
I will be offering Cyberspace Communication again this fall (Fall, 2009) and invite those of you whom we call early adapters to come find out what the excitement is all about. Learn about communication in and how to communicate effectively in virtual worlds, social networking sites, on field trips in Second Life, etc. The class, COMM 291-20, will meet once per week on Sunday evenings from 6-8 PM. Join me for a new, innovative classroom experience!
During Fall 2008, I taught a COMM 265 Principles of Human Communication pilot class as a hybrid class. We spent half of our time online and half of the time in the classroom, practicing communication skills learned as we progressed in the class. It also was very successful. Therefore, I will do it again, twice, this coming summer (Summer, 2009) during the second 5-week session. Join me in COMM 265-A60, Monday and Wednesday from 3-5 PM, OR COMM 265-A61, Tuesday and Thursday from 10:20-12:20. Enjoy the best of both worlds. Do half of the class work at home on your computer, and, even on class days, be home for lunch or dinner!
Call me at 439-3752 or e-mail me at wandaw@nmsu.edu for more info.
