Assignments

These assignments are mostly for your mind, less so for your own students. It is important to recognize that this is an MA program and not a series of workshops. So this course intends to extend your abilities to work with computer systems. It is a very practical course. Since we have a long way to go to reach Larry Cuban's vision of computers that "just work", and schools continue to under-budget for technical help, you will often encounter situations in which the technology does not go, and help is not easily accessible. You can empower yourself to better handle these situations by making serious efforts to learn as much as you can in this course -- I'm here to help you.

All assignments must be completed on time, or prior to, their due date. Active class participation, which accounts for 30% of your grade, means that you should take an active role in course discussions and presentations. In this course, missing four consecutive hours results in a grade reduction by 3%, regardless of make-up work, due to the lab notebook contribution to grades.