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    Class Discussion: About This Class

    Please do me and your classmates and yourself a favor. Use this discussion forum — add comments below — to make suggestions, complaints, compliments, comments, or whatever. If you don’t want anybody but me to see it, say so in the comment. I read all of them, of course, but they don’t become available for anybody else until after I read and approve them. And, the other side of the same coin, If I don’t want the rest of the class to see them I won’t post them up here either, but I will see them.

    Here are some of the areas you might want to comment on:

    • The classes: my style, content, slides, speed, class discussions. Are there topics you’d like to see more of that we already covered, or topics you’d like to see that aren’t on the schedule? Am I boring? Add some comments here.
    • The readings: too much, too little, something I’ve missed?
    • Guest speakers: somebody you’d like to suggest?
    • Assignments: too much, too little.
    • Grading: does it creep you out that you don’t really know until the end? I figure you can’t complain about grading directly, because I don’t do it until the end; but maybe you don’t like that. Or maybe you do like it.

    Or anything else … although you might look at the other discussions first, because you might find one that fits the “something else” better than this one.

    Summary: comments welcome! Bring it on.

    2 Responses to “Class Discussion: About This Class”

    1. Name edited out says:

      I am concerned about a possible pop quiz next week that you mentioned in class on wedensday about the readings. I received your email to order our coursebooks during Spring Break. I ordered them through amazon and have still not received any of them. I have watched your videos online and read half of the Art of Start Ch 1 online but I cannot complete the other required reading. I am not trying to slack off but I won’t be able to understand the quiz without my books.

      Thank you!

    2. Tim Berry says:

      Hooray, I’m so happy to see you’re onto this site and using the comments area that you just got yourself an exemption from any pop quiz that might happen this week. Which, I promise, won’t be on Monday anyhow — which doesn’t necessarily mean it would happen on Wednesday either — but definitely not Monday because we have Joanna Van Vleck as a guest speaker on Monday, and I don’t want anybody to miss class.

      Tim