User talk:Tessa A. Morris

Week 7 Feedback

• Your Week 7 individual and shared journal assignments were both on time.
• You fulfilled all of the hyperlinks required for the assignment (back and forth to user page, to assignment, category).
• Your electronic notebook was minimal. The intent of an electronic notebook is to record what you did so that you or somebody else could reproduce what you did based on the information there. Your notebook was only a description of how you and Alyssa worked together, with very little detail of what you actually did in terms of the modeling. In addition to the MATLAB files, you should have described what values you used for each run of the model and why you chose them. In addition to the plots, you needed to interpret what they mean.
• You needed to perform an analysis of the steady state.

— Kam D. Dahlquist 13:09, 17 March 2015 (EDT)

Week 1 Redux

• I have reviewed the changes you made to the Week 1 assignment. You have made all of the changes requested by the deadline. You have also made comments in the summary field for 100% of the last 50 contributions; keep up the good work!

— Kam D. Dahlquist 19:43, 10 February 2015 (EST)

Week 1 Feedback

Here is the feedback to your Week 1 journal assignment.

• Thank you for submitting your Week 1 assignment on time.
• The grade for this assignment is posted on the MyLMUConnect Grade Center for this course. You will be able to earn back the points you missed on this assignment by completing the requested revisions below by the Week 3 journal assignment deadline of midnight on Tuesday, February 3 (Monday night/Tuesday morning).
  • You are doing a very good job of typing something in the summary field each time you make a change to the wiki--keep up the good work.
  • You did not use and "third" level subheadings (three equals signs or more). Be sure to utilize this feature to organize content on your journal pages.
  • Please "comment out" a section of your wiki code.
  • Please remember to sign your comment on the shared class journal page with your wiki signature ~~~~.
  • The file you uploaded to the wiki is just named "CV". Many users could potentially upload a file with this name and overwrite your file. It is good practice to include your username (and the date) in every file you upload to the wiki to make sure that your filename is unique.
  • 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)

I've answered your question on my User talk page. — Kam D. Dahlquist 21:29, 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)