• Academic Calendar
• Student Handbook
• Computer Use Agreement
• Student/Patron Ethics Agreement
• all of the above and more can be found at WWW.NVCC.EDU 

Each campus has its own schedule of finals. Shortly after mid term you'll be notified concerning the final exam date. If you are in one of my traditional classroom students you final will be at the same time and date as your regular class, and you'll be reminded several time about that date during the last few weeks of classes.

If you are in one of my ELI courses, be informed that I follow the same accademic calendar available to you from the NVCC web site. Please don't wait until few hours before the due date to turn in your work. This is not like turning in hard copies of your work, the graphic files attached to your email can flood my mailbox, in other words it can fill it quickly in a matter of hours, or even minutes, preventing me to receive further mail. At that point I will have to delete some of the email to free some space.  That can created a very messy situation. To avoid these problems send me your work every two weeks, and don't wait until the end of the semester to submit your work. Keep in mind that if you do so that may raise my suspicious about the origin of your work, and why you waited until the very last minute to sent it to me. Provided that I get to see it at all, if my mailbox is full, you may be out of luck, and I may not be able to see it at all, therefore you will not be credited for that work.

Summer classes final's date will be communicated to summer students via email. You must activate and use your campus email.

OFFICE HOURS

My office is located in the CM building, room 366. My phone # is 703-323 2135. Fax 703-323 4248.  If you need to see me in person, please call or email in advance for an appointment. 

Office hours. Morning hours: M and W  8-9 a.m. Afternoon hours 3-4 pm M W, I also have 5 flexible office hours available to you, please be specific in choosing you appointment time, and let me know that in advance.

If you are taking one of my ELI courses the same office hours shedule listed here above will apply. We'll need to communicate often, preferably once a week, that communication should be originated by you. You need to tell me that you have been reading the syllabus and that you are working on the assignments . If you need help with your course material I'll be happy to meet with you, make sure that happens early/mid  semester and not when it is too late.

My Summer schedule may be quite different and it may vary from year to year. I also may be off for part of the Summer, but hopefully I'll be able to read my campus email from home, or maybe from where else I may be, therefore don't hesitate in getting in touch with me.

The courses I teach at the Annandale campus are available in two different formats:

 Traditional Classroom                Web Based Hybrid  

Hybrid courses represent a new concept in education. Hybrids are, for all practical purposes, home study courses, conducted under my supervision, and with material available to you from this site. This is the same identical material also available to my traditional classroom students. At the completion of an hybrid course's work, you will receive the same credit as that awarded in traditional classroom course.

• My hybrid course are not taught through ELI courses. They are offered through our Liberal Arts Division, therefore they are campus based. I do not use Blackboard. You will not get a "packet" from me or NVCC. My courses material alone is available only through the WWW, on a continuous basis, and it's hosted by NVCC. Keep in mind that the difference between ELI and campus based hybrid courses would be only in its format and presentation not in its content.

• The enrollment for my hybrid courses is not continuous, it follows the same time frame as my traditional classroom courses, 16 weeks, for Fall and Spring semester and 6 or 12 for Summer.

• The course material consists of tutorials that will introduce you to the nature of each assignments, and the tools (traditional or virtual) necessary for their execution.

• This material is original, and it is not edited. It may contain spelling and grammatical errors, but it is legible, and it addresses specifically what I want you to do. It is your obligation to point out to me errors or contradictions, do not hide behind them or use them as an excuse.

• What I value the most is your understanding of each assignment, secondly your willingness of producing some work within the assignment's guidelines, and thirdly your effort in going above and beyond the assignment bare requirements. Above and beyond what you may have done in high school, or in the past in general.
• Personal learning styles should be directed toward resolving a course's assignment.

My hybrid art courses are not self paced, nor they are the type of course where the word "learning" seems to represent an exemption from "doing". I am referring in particular to courses where the use of CG software is involved. If you are trying to figure out the software on your own, after a course is already begun, you are already on the wrong track. It may take you weeks or months before you can lean a CG software title to the point where you'll be able to work on the course' assignments, let's hope that will not be your case.

If this is your situation, you should consider acquiring the required software ahead of time as well as doing  some of the course work also ahead of time. The support material you'll find in these pages will always be available to you.

College Policies, and student email accounts.

You must activate your NVCC email account and use it to communicate with me.

The VCCS has advised us that students should use student's officials college email to communicate with their instructor. For issues concerning your email account, SIS, and general help concerning computer issues please contact the IT help desk.

For counseling, library services, and general information about the College go to the NVCC main page

• During my classes cell phones must be off.

• No guests or visitors are allowed to take part in classroom activities, take notes on your behalf or "hang out" in the classroom.

• No electronic devices, allowed in the classroom during class. I don't want you to loose track of what is going on in the classroom, or miss out on my comments. If music becomes a way for you to shut your self out from the real world, and not paying attention, I would have to say no to that.

• No talking or chatting allowed during the instructor's presentations, I don't know how else to put it but it is simply disrespectful.

• The classroom is not the place to carry on about your personal problems, or things you do outside class, things that have nothing to do with what you are studying or learning in the classroom.

• Internet access and emailing  is not allowed during class.

• Computer labs have their own set of rules along with the ones listed here. You'll be informed of those in the classroom.

• You must be aware of the Classroom-Lab Rules and Guidelines  including the Technology Student/Patron Ethics Agreement, for the classroom version of this course. Some of these rules are posted on each computer desk top, those rules must be respected.