EMT Instructor Student Announcements

With the new chat room feature, there will be a separate room available for unmoderated chat for students in your course.  If you would like to meet each other, get ideas, discuss teaching strategies, etc, you can set up chats using this feature.  To discuss this with your fellow students, use the student forum inside the course itself and arrange dates and times to talk. 

Since this chatroom is unmoderated, please refrain from using foul language or being derogatory, demeaning or inappropriate in any way while in our chat rooms.  We do have the ability to monitor without being seen and if any such behavior is observed or reported to us by fellow students, your access will be removed and you can suffer discplinary action in your course.  We don't want to sound harsh but sometimes we find it is necessary to remind folks to be respectful of each other.  Thank you for your cooperation and enjoy the new feature!

PERCOM has purchased some new software for our chat room live interactive feature for all initial training courses. This will require that you register the first time that you enter again using the Chat Room button on the right side of this screen. It will take you to the login page. It will be in a popup box window so you will need to turn off your popup blocker prior to entering the chat room.

The first time you will use the Register side of the screen in the popup box to set up your user name and password. We want all students using the SAME FORMAT for screen names. Please use your first and last name with appropriate capitalization and spaces, i.e. John Doe. Select your password and reenter it as directed. Then click the Registration button when finished, and it will take you into the chat room. On further accesses, use the login section on the left side of the popup box using the user name and password you entered each time.

We hope you enjoy the features. If you have any difficulty or find that something is not working well with your particular computer platform, please email Jerry at jerrydinsmore@percomonline.com .

You should mail the DVD/CD of your final work projects, final exam, etc to your instructor at the following address:

Kenneth Harris

159 Cresthill Circle

Valley Mills Texas 76689

Please do NOT mail them to the PERCOM office as mentioned inside your course and do NOT send them fedex.  We do recommend priority mail or some method with tracking but preferably NOT return signature, as sometimes no one is present at that address to sign.  Thank you.

Please welcome Mr. Kenneth Harris as your new EMS Instructor course Lead Instructor.  PERCOM has been BOOMING lately, so the duties of the Program Director, Mrs. Dinsmore, have expanded greatly.  This has unfortunately created delays in answering and grading emails from the Instructor students.  So we have hired a new seasoned educator to fill this role so that you, as students, can receive more timely service.  It will not change our normal grading and response policy as posted in the "Welcome Page" inside your course.  However, it should help avoid any unnecessary delays and may help speed things up for you.

Mr. Harris has been an educator and EMS Coordinator for many years.  He just retired from Navarro College as their EMS Program Director.  He is very knowledgeable and interesting as well as a fine educator. I think you will all enjoy him.  Please send him an email to welcome him to the program.  His email address is kennethharris@percomonline.com.  Be sure to get the correct address from him to mail your course completion packets directly to him.

All outstanding emails and homework assignments have been forwarded on to his mailbox but please give him a few days to plow through it and catch it all up for any of you who have been waiting a few extra days.  Thank you all for your patience.

To clarify, these two projects are SEPARATE projects.  The Skills Project is in two parts - developing your own skills criteria and checksheet that is not a predeveloped one already in existence and then video'ing yourself, teaching, testing and critiquing that skill on a mock student.  The Final CE Project is the 1 hour CE presentation just like you were really teaching a CE class.  It requires development of a syllabus, knowledge objectives, lesson plan, handouts (if needed), presentation (powerpoint preferred), quiz, key, and your own version of a course evaluation for for your student(s) to use to evaluate you as well as a 50 minute lecture presentation that must be video'd and an essay of 750-1000 words critiquing your own performance after YOU watch your video. 

You can send the skills criteria and checksheet to me in advance by email attachment or fax.  All other items including both skills and CE video and all the development and delivery items mentioned above should be saved in electronic format (pdf or Word, for example) on a CD or DVD and mailed to the instructor all at one time.  Please do not email them individually and electronic copy is preferred on the disk because otherwise we have to scan each individual page up for your student e-file.  So please send them all on the disk together.

If you are having ANY difficulty logging in to the JB Course site or any other technical difficulties, please email programdirector@percomonline.com.  Do NOT email JBCourse' technical support. MOST of the issues are resolved easily on PERCOM's end, as most of the issues are related to incorrect user names or passwords, or minor tech issues related to PERCOM material, not JBCourse material.  If we are unable to resolve the issue, WE will contact JBCourse and copy the e-mail to you to help resolve the issue.  Also, if you are utilizing an email account through yahoo.com, be aware that yahoo email has some very strange spam filters that for some of our students block emails from us all together, for others it puts them in the trash or spam or junk mail folders, and for others it seems to work fine.  If you have NOT been receiving answers to your e-mails from us, then please check your spam/junk/trash folders. If you see no response there, it may be necessary to find you a different email account carrier.  Hotmail is a free e-mail service as well, and we don't see the same issues with it that we see with Yahoo.  Please notify us if you find it necessary to change your e-mail account.