Assignment
Due on or before Wednesday, November 5.
Preparation
None.
Background
As you recall, it was discussed in class on a few occasions that one important skill that a person should take with them into any future career is the capability to listen to a presentation, take notes, and otherwise learn from that presentation without the usual classroom aids, such as handouts or access to electronic forms of the presentation, such powerPoint slides or web pages. We rely on many such resources in modern teaching and learning, and (most of the time) for good reason: such resources can aid in learning if one takes advantage of them.
However, one downside to this approach is that students may not learn good skills for listening, capturing important points, and taking their own notes to help them retain and learn from less formal presentations (e.g., team meetings) that will occur often in real life. You will recall that it was also said in class that web sessions were left intentionally blank for a while to have students practice their own knowledge acquisition skills, such as note taking. As a result, you will notice that the session links on the website for most of October are blank.
This assignment is one that will help both you and me understand this issue better.
To Do
You are to turn in your notes taken in class for the sessions that are missing from October. There are three levels of detail at which notes can be turned in:
- Full notes, representing your entire take on the class sessions, by date.
- Topic notes, representing just the main topics of each class session by date.
- No notes. You can simply turn in a page that says, "I didn't take notes," or "I did take notes but my handwriting is so poor that I can't read them."
There are various ways that notes can be turned in.
- You may simply make copies of your notes and turn them in.
- You can turn in typed, edited notes, thereby eliminating the incriminating pictures you were drawing of me in between note taking.
- You can turn in a typed edited outline of the topics covered in each of the missing sections.
To Turn In on Friady, November 7
Your Java program in a form ready to demonstrate.
Special Notes
- This assignment will not harm your final score. For example, if you have not taken notes, your final score for the class will not be adversely affected. Also, if classes were missed so that no notes were taken on that date, this will not harm your final score.
- This assignment could help your final score. If you have taken notes that appear to be ones you could learn from, whether primarily in outline form or with more detail, you may receive a score that will replace another, lower score for assignments.