User talk:Tessa A. Morris

Week 1 Feedback

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  • I can see that you modeled your template after the main template for the course. Your template looks good, but does not have quite the information that I intended for student templates. I would like your template to contain a list of links to the Assignment pages, a list of links to your individual journal entries, and a list of links to the shared journal entries, as well as a link to your user page and the BIOL398-04/S15 category. I would prefer all of this information appear on your actual user page (and in subsequent weeks on your individual journal pages as well) and not on a separate page. The reason for this is that it helps me navigate the wiki while I am grading all 10 students' assignments. Having to go to an extra page takes additional time when I could just go there directly. You can still keep the header in place, but provide these links elsewhere on the page. Let me know if you need assistance formatting this.
  • You can also remove the OpenWetWare automated text from the bottom of this talk page.

— Kam D. Dahlquist 17:56, 29 January 2015 (EST)

Answer from Dr. Fitzpatrick

You asked What is the course you like teaching the least and why?

When I was a master's student, teaching business calculus was part of the reason I left grad school to work in industry. The students whined and complained about everything. They treated every grade as an opportunity to negotiate, a process I really came to dread. I'm older now, with thicker skin, and such things don't bother me so much. Teaching precalculus is hard, because I never saw anything difficult about it. Helping students through hard material is easier if the teacher can understand what about it confuses the students. From calculus up, I can at least have some empathy for student difficulties, but below that it's tough for me to connect. Ben G. Fitzpatrick 01:43, 21 January 2015 (EST)

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