Title: 5. What You Will Be Doing in the Course
Course: Open EIC225 Programmable Controllers

Learning Activities

View/Read/Listen: this area of the course will include a variety of activities:

- Voicethread presentations- These are my interactive presentations about applied PLC's. Voicethread is a good place for these because you can participate by asking questions about the content or adding information much like you would in a face-to-face classroom.
- Textbook Chapters – One focus of this course is to learn the terminology and theories associated with PLCs-you will get that information by reading the textbook that I chose specifically for you.
- Videos - These will typically be for demonstration or instruction. I will either make these for you or use guest speaker presentations. Sometime the videos may be interactive requiring you to at least think about the material presented and to sometimes take notes or answer questions.

Troubleshooting Forums: Sometime just one little thing can hold you up in life and in programming. These forums will give us a chance to discuss issues you may encounter and challenges you are running into.

Design & Troubleshoot: This will be where you will find your programming challenges-the "meat" of this course. so in addition to reading and talking about PLCs, you will spend much of your time doing these hands-on assignments.

Assessment: There may be a couple of types of assessments but you can expect a test each module. Tests will generally be based on your textbook reading and other activities in the Read/Watch/Listen area. Also the Getting Started Assignments will fall into this category.

Resources: In this category of learning activities, you will find a list of useful resource links for use in this class and in your future as well. If you find resources you think we should add to this list, you can add them yourself because this is one page that is editable by students!

Final Project – This project will be announced within our course but you will find it very relevant to you and your future!