Finish
Our course has reached its natural conclusion and I am ecstatic. We worked hard to produce our course. In reading your final extra credit, many of you found value in our course. I certainly did.When we last met, our discussion of field hockey reflected how much most of you have learned. Your comments and thoughts reflect more than passages from text. Rather, it shows how much knowledge you have accrued. That is fantastic.
Some general comments about the grades and your feedback:
Grades: Final grades are posted. Please keep in mind that your total points reflect 45 extra credit points from five assignments in addition to 8 bonus questions from the four exams that were worth 24 points total. I am pretty comfortable with the grades for this summer.
Participation Points: For this course, I raised the participation point total to 200 to reflect the emphasis I place on sharing knowledge. Gaining knowledge and keeping it to yourself does your group, your institution, and ultimately society no good. Knowledge is a two-step process: acquiring and sharing. Participation points reflect the latter while exams reflect the former.
You earned points if you showed up to class, turned in exercises, and said something or posted content during the course. You cannot participate if you are not in class. It is that simple. Most of you maxed out the 200 points, and a lot of you got 175. I really liked the level of participation, and tried to give all of you as many methods of contributing. Looking at your comments, most of you took advantage of these methods.
Power Point: A lot of you like the slides and found it helpful in acquiring information. There were many minor issues related to this technology. In summing these minor issues, I will make my own slides instead of editing slides provided by the text publisher. And next time, there will be no sound effects. ;-)
Exercises: Most of you liked the amount and level of difficulty. I tried to balance some exercises that required more effort against exercises that required very little effort. When I teach another summer course, I will find a few cases and weight those heavier to reflect many of your comments.
Blog: I liked the blog, and so did many of you because the blog accomplished my primary goal: give you a chance to share your knowledge. As expected, some of you took advantage of this forum and others did not. Then again, some of you like speaking in front of others and some of you do not.
I am not sure if I can get more out of the blog. This could be a limitation of the resource. Perhaps there is another resource that could be combined with this resource to create something that otherwise would not exist?
Finally, thank you for the time and effort. The course required a lot of energy. You guys more than met the challenge; you succeeded. I could not ask for anything more than that.
Have a good summer.
cheers,
Michael
posted by Michael @ 7:54 AM
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