Links:

• Greensheet
• MUSE Student Success Programs
• Color of the Sea Discussion Groups
• Link to Turnitin.com
  • How to use Turnitin.com
• Link to Blackboard
• Online Tutorials at the Library
  • SJLibrary Basics
  • Plagiarism
  • Peer-Reviewed Articles
  
  
  
• Online Game Collections (including backgammon, checkers, chess, othello, go, and others):
  • Yahoo Games
  • MSN Games
  • Checkers and Other Board Games Online
• Chinese Chess
• Hex (you need a Java add-in for your browser for these games)
  • Hex 7
  • Arthur's Hex Game

Assignments and Materials:

1. Printable Game Boards
2. First Journal Assignment: Letter to My Future Self, due 9/1
3. First Essay, due 9/10
4. Other Journal Assignments, due 9/24, 10/15, 11/12, 12/3
   • University Scholar Rubric
5. Oral Presentation.
6. Five-Year Planning Assignment due 9/29.
   • Five-Year Course Planner with Co-Curricular Competencies
   • Five-Year Course Planner spreadsheet
7. Second Essay, due 10/6
8. Snakes and Ladders SJSU Game, due 10/8.
9. Final Essay, parts due 10/22, 11/5 and 11/19
10. Hex-Board War Game, due 11/24
11. Final Project: "The Game of SJSU," due 12/1

Figure out your own grade, by downloading the following Excel file (requires Microsoft Excel program or another spreadsheet):

• Grade Check spreadsheet with instructions

Online Readings:

• SJSU Library's Electronic Reserves
  
  • To view, print, or download these articles, you will need to enter your SJSU/SJPL library card number and PIN
• Soubeyrand, Christine. "The Game of Senet."
• Kowalski, Wally J. "Roman Board Games."
• Schädler, Ulrich. "Some critical remarks on an Internet Site about Roman Board Games."