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Often, in the workplace, people must collaborate with fellow
employees at a great distance. When I worked payroll in Omaha,
one of my best friends was the Human Resource coordinator in New
Jersey, and we never met each other in person. A couple of summers
ago, I collaborated with a colleague on a presentation we gave
at the American Accounting Association. She lives in California.
Sometime before the due date (see calendar),
AND, after drop and add , I would like each of you to e-mail
an introductory letter to your team.
I will send you an e-mail when it is ok to send your letters....shortly
after drop and add is over.
Tell the class where you live, your major, what you plan to do
for a living (or ARE doing for a living). Do you have a dog? A
garden? Do you smoke cigars? Did you vote for Nixon? Were you
even born when Nixon was around? Were (are) you a hippie?
note: these are examples
of what you might write...please ... do not
simply answer the above questions.
Make it fun, make it interesting, and send me a copy of what
you send your teammates, thus introducing yourself to me also.
tim.nygaard@kctcs.edu
You only have to write one E-mail, sending the same letter to
all of your teammates and me at one time. Copy and paste instructions
for the addresses are on the community
page.
Here's an example:
Hi Folks!
I'm Tim
Nygaard, and I am a Professor
at Madisonville
Community College. I'm looking forward to teaching this class.
This is my 38th semester teaching Payroll Accounting online, and
that this course has been on-line. I look forward to meeting students
from all over the world. It's really interesting working with
students from different areas with different points of view. This
class has had students from Japan, China and Dubai, UAR in it
in addition to fine Kentucky folk.
I'm married, one daughter, four grandchildren (the cute one's
name is Timmy, but I forget the rest of their names). Tim graduated
from Marine boot training and is now stationed in Japan. I live
on half an acre outside of Hanson, Kentucky. You can see where
I live here.
Mine's the house with the semi-circular driveway. Maggie
(a dog, not my spouse), sort of a black lab-shepherd mix, lives
there too, along with Lita, a Basenji
(dog). A Pixie-bob
named Valvoline owns me. Valvoline has extra toes (9 total) on
each of his front paws and uses the extra pads as opposable thumbs.
A total of 28 toes. Being polydactyl is such a dominant trait
in Pixie-bobs that this is the only breed accepted for show with
more than the usual number of toes. Another cat is Axle Beam (cat).
he's pretty ordinary.
I went to the University
of Nebraska (The
Bugeaters) graduated 1973, with a
B.S. in Business Administration, and in 1987, with an M.P.A. (Master
of Professional Accountancy). Personally, I have always thought
it was pretty cool that my graduation certificate was signed by
James
Brown. I also have 18 graduate hours in Computer Science from
the University
of Kentucky and 3 hours in Educational Psychology from the
University of Hawaii.
I garden some, mostly tomatoes
(store-bought are like styrofoam).
I smoke cigars occasionally
no, not Roi-Tan… Arturo
Fuente, Aliados, CAO,
Romeo y Julieta, etc.), and
like to drive
fast.
I'm looking forward to reading all of your introduction letters!
Thanks!
Tim ~(:-) === ~ ~ ~ ~
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