!!!IMPORTANT!!!

1. Students who do NOT submit the Orientation Quiz by midnight Saturday of Week 1 and the Unit 1 Quiz by midnight Sunday of week 1 may be administratively dropped from the class unless you've made arrangements with me.

2. As of Monday morning of Week 1 (or maybe a day or so earlier), registered students can log in online to this course by going to http://classes.lanecc.edu.  Once there, you will be asked for your "L" number as well as your password (perhaps just the first 6 characters).  Next you should see the title of this course as well as any other online courses you're taking.  Click on the title then look at the materials and activities beneath Week 1.

INSTRUCTOR:  Tamberly Powell, MS, RD

COURSE: Sports Nutrition, FN 190

COURSE CREDITS: 2 credits

CLASS MAIL AND EMAIL: The best way to reach me is to use the mail system in our Moodle class.  You will get the quickest response messaging me in Moodle.  If for some reason you can not access moodle you can e-mail me using my lane account which is powellt@lanecc.edu.  E-mailing me is best for personal questions.  If you have general questions regarding the class, please post those questions in the dinner conversations. 

OFFICE HOURS:  Monday & Wednesday 1:00-2:00 (Building 4, Room 229)

PHONE: 463-5525.  I only check my voicemail when I am on campus.  Please contact me via Moodle.

MOODLE URL: http://classes.lanecc.edu

STUDENT HELP DESK (SHeD) for getting help if needed: 541-463-3333 http://www.lanecc.edu/icl/shed.htm

REQUIRED TEXT:  Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook, 4th ed. by Nancy Clark

There is a Calendar of reading posted in moodle above Week 1.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course focuses on how active individuals can develop an eating and hydration plan to support athletic performance and to stay well-nourished. We will discuss the role of a variety of nutrients in maintaining a body that is healthy and that supports athletic performance.  Skills are developed for improving personal eating habits and for evaluating nutrition information in the mass media.

COURSE OBJECTIVES: Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

1. Develop an eating and hydration plan that enhances health and athletic performance.
2. Identify the role of a variety of nutrients in maintaining a body that is healthy and that supports athletic performance.
3. Navigate healthfully through grocery stores, restaurants, food courts and home kitchens.
4. Have a collection of healthy recipes and menus for healthy eating during an active lifestyle.
5. Evaluate current food, diet and supplement options and understand which are best based on individual goals.
6. Maintain healthy attitudes about food and weight.
7. Understand the role of exercise and nutrition in the management of some chronic diseases.
8. Considering the online (Moodle is the name of the program we'll be using) component of this class, my goals are for you to:
   • Have fun with it and be successful.
   • Be respectful of fellow students' written and oral communication.
   • Be able to get help quickly from me and/or fellow students when frustrating problems happen.
   • Find it a very effective way to learn.
   • Have the technical skills learned be useful in the future.

COURSE FORMAT: I'm aiming for the class to be interesting, practical, fun and interactive. It will be organized into Units that are posted each Friday afternoon and end the following Sunday at midnight. Expect to put in the same amount of time for the course as you do for one that is on-campus. Much of your time will not be online but will be spent doing reading and assignments.

WHAT THIS CLASS IS AND ISN'T:  Sports nutrition is an elective class designed to complement the Nutrition class, FN 225. That class focuses on what specific nutrients do for us. This class focuses on how active individuals can develop an eating plan to support athletic performance and to stay well-nourished. This class does NOT satisfy the nutrition requirement for the nursing OR the dental hygiene program.

WHY ALL THE COMPUTER STUFF?  This class is sort of like taking a class in a very foreign country- you usually want to first learn a bit about the country you're in. If you went to a nutrition classroom in the jungle in a remote part of South America, before you could begin learning, you'd probably want to get comfortable in your surroundings. Without electricity, what are you going to use for light at night, how will you get handouts without a photocopy machine, what are the new vocabulary words you need to know... will there be snakes? You'd be in new territory, with a great potential for new types of learning... and new frustration. So during the first few weeks of this class, sometimes you'll feel like this is a computer class rather than a nutrition one. That's because this way of learning may be foreign to some of you and you'll want to know the language and the "hows" to get the most out of this class. In addition, I'm hoping you'll get confident and comfortable being in a cyber classroom (if you aren't already), and leave at the end of the term with a few computer skills as well as lots of nutrition information that you'll use over and over again during your lifetime.

The Student Help Desk (a.k.a. the SHeD) offers technical support for distance learning students. 463-3333

INTERNET ACCESS:  If you do not have a computer at home with Internet access, you can also find computers at the following locations:

• the Instructional Computing Lab in the library on the 30th Ave. campus. To save trees and money printing may be limited.  If you have printing difficulties in the computer lab, let the staff know and also tell them you're taking an online class.  The following link has information about Lane's Instructional Computing Labs and access to our wireless network:  http://www.lanecc.edu/icl/
• the Downtown Center (Rm. 232) http://www.lanecc.edu/mpr/locations/dc.htm
• at Lane's centers at Cottage Grove http://www.lanecc.edu/mpr/locations/cg.htm
• and Florence http://www.lanecc.edu/mpr/locations/flo.htm 

BROWSERS: Moodle works best on Macintosh OS X or above using the browsers  Safari or Firefox 1.5.  With a PC, Internet Explorer 6 or higher is supported.

QUIRKY COMPUTER: Sometimes your computer may have trouble handling certain features of the class and it might start "acting up". If that happens, try closing all applications and re-starting the computer.

HYPERLINKS:  There are two ways you might tell if a word is a "link" (also known as a "hyperlink").  (One way is that the words become underlined and in color, meaning they're a "link" (also called a hot link).  You can also roll your cursor over the words, and if they are hyperlinked, an icon of a little hand appears. Clicking on a "hyperlink" takes you someplace.)

COURSE DESIGN, EVALUATION AND GRADING

I have worked very hard to write clear instructions and past students have helped with them. The most serious problem we continue to have with instructions is that THEY HAVE TO BE READ AND USED and we human beings just aren't inclined to do that. Many of us prefer:

• someone to tell us (or better yet show us) or
• to muddle through and figure it out on our own or
• to just guess.

In an online class, just telling or showing you is not possible, unless you want to frequently come see the instructor. And you can choose to "just muddle through", but if you decide to do that, you may end up with lots of frustration and with a poor grade in the class. You can also end up with a poor grade if you decide to just guess. So I'd suggest that if you'd like to efficiently get the most out of this class and earn a good grade, you pay close attention to the instructions in each Unit.  You'll be able to interact with me, your classmates and the course material with a minimum of frustration and a maximum of success if you do that.

STUDY QUESTIONS:  A major part of this class are the Unit Study Questions, and the questions are usually based on the assigned reading. In the UNIT PREPARATIONS document for each week, I will tell you specifically what the questions will be and I will tell you where to find the answer.  I will post the UNIT PREPARATIONS document the Friday before the week is to begin.  For example, the Unit 4 Preparations document will be posted on Friday of Week 3 beneath Week 4.

Once you have prepared by filling out the unit preparations and WITH YOUR ANSWERS IN FRONT OF YOU, you can answer the questions online.  You will be timed, so you must have the unit preparation questions filled out before going to the computer to submit your answers, or you will run out of time.  Study Questions will always be due on Sunday before 11:55pm.  However, they will be available to submit through moodle until Tuesday (11:55pm) with a point deduction.  Unit Study Question results, with access to the correct answers and comments, will be posted about a day after the due date.

You can take the Orientation Quiz two times, but everything else can be submitted only one time, including the Study Questions and Exams.

My expectation is for you to prepare for and answer the Study Questions and Exams individually, although you can ask me or your classmates questions if you're having difficulty with a particular question. Students who cheat face penalties determined by Division and College policies. It will be considered cheating if you:

• copy answers from someone
• allow another person to submit the Study Questions or Exams for you
• submit Study Questions or Exams for someone else
• submit Study Questions or Exams with a partner
• allow another student to copy your answers
• If working on assignments with fellow classmates, I expect that you will not have the same exact wording on assignments.  If assignments have the same exact wording, both assignments will receive a zero.

OPINION QUESTIONS:  Each week you'll be asked to answer Opinion Questions  related to the course content.  I am interested in your honest opinions.  Please do not answer these questions with what you think I want you to say. Instead, give your honest opinion.  We'll look at the results for the class as a whole the following week.

DINNER CONVERSATIONS:  We will also be taking advantage of several unique advantages of the online component of this class to enhance learning. One is the ability of ALL of us to interact (about a topic ALL of us have experience with) and learn from each other. Moodle calls these FORUM discussions, but we're going to call them DINNER CONVERSATIONS. In each Unit, I will ask you to first read specific sections of our book. Then in the DINNER CONVERSATIONS, I will pose questions for you to respond to based on this reading.   You can respond either to me, or to a comment posted by another student.  You will be expected to make 2 postings per week, with one posting being before Friday.  I will divide the class in to groups so you won't have so many postings to read through. 

One former student said in their class evaluation that what he or she especially liked about this class was "the interaction in the dinner conversations, you could learn from everybody".

Keep in mind that I will be monitoring (and occasionally contributing to) these conversations and you should make only respectful, appropriate and relevant comments. Any distasteful or offensive communication will be dealt with harshly and could result in being expelled from the course or the college.

EXAMS: Twice during the term, you will have Exams which will be a random selection of the Study Questions. Exams will NOT have new questions. 

WIKI:  Once in the term, you will be participating in a WIKI in order to work with other students on a CASE STUDY.  Just like in a campus class you might work on an activity together in class to apply the concepts being discussed.  There will be more information on the WIKI  later in the term. 
 

AN OVERVIEW OF THE ACTIVITIES (All online. NO scheduled campus times.)

• Unit 1: Orientation Quiz- 4 points; Unit 1 Quiz: 5 points; Opinion Survey 1: 1 point
• Unit 2: Quiz- 9 points; Opinion Survey 2: 1 point
• Unit 3: Quiz- 9 points; Opinion Survey 3: 1 point
• Unit 4: Quiz- 9 points; Opinion Survey 4: 1 point
• Unit 5: Quiz- 9 points; Opinion Survey 5: 1 point + Practice Exam- 1 point
• Unit 6: Quiz- 9 points; Opinion Survey 6: 1 point. EXAM 1- 10 points
• Unit 7: Quiz- 9 points; Opinion Survey 7: 1 point. Recipe Contest- 5 points
• Unit 8: Quiz- 9points; Opinion Survey 4: 1 point
• Unit 9: Quiz- 9 points; Opinion Survey 9: 1 point. Case Study- 5 points
• Unit 10: Quiz- 9 points; Opinion Survey 10: 1 point
• EXAM 2: 10 points.

TOTAL POSSIBLE POINTS: 131

TIME COMMITMENT:  It is expected that you will have just under 3 hours of work per week for every credit, which for this class, works out to about 4-6 hours of work per week for A quality work. From talking to other instructors for online courses, it seems that the single most difficult task students face in online courses is planning their daily and weekly routines so they have this kind of time.

You will probably have the most success with this class if you log on at least 2 times per week, similar to the number of class sessions we would meet if this was a traditional campus course.

LATE POLICY:  Unit Quizzes are DUE Sundays (11:55 pm) but are AVAILABLE to be submitted until Tuesdays (11:55 pm) with a deduction of points. After Tuesday at midnight, Unit Quizzes will NOT be available at all online.  If you miss the Tuesday deadline you can e-mail me your answers through moodle to receive partial credit.  You can do this ONLY ONCE.

The week's Survey always stops being available on Sunday at midnight, since I download the results Monday.

Students are advised not to wait until the last minute to post assignments. You might also want to check your computer's clock to see if it's accurate.

ACCESSIBILITY:  If you need support or assistance because of a disability, you may be eligible for academic accommodations through Disability Services.  For more information, contact Disability Services at (541) 463-5150 (voice) or 463-3079 (TTY), or stop by Building 1, Room 218.