Category Archives: Announcements

Quiz review, and information

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A question was asked in class yesterday whether I could return your “pop quizzes” to you after you complete them in class, so that you could use them for review.  Remember that the pop quizzes are used to record your attendance.

I’d prefer to keep the quizzes that you have written, but to help you review I have posted copies of the last two pop quizzes, with solutions, in a new folder here.  I also posted solutions to the most recent “daily quiz”, again to help you review.  If enough people find that useful, I can continue posting these solutions.  Please use the comments to respond whether that would be useful to you or not.

The folder for the quiz solutions is also now linked from the “Course Notes” section of the Resources tab.

 

Events Schedule, Week 5

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Here is the schedule for the fifth week of class.

  • Monday 2/9,  2:30 – 3:20, Class Unit  2.1 (115 Osmond)
  • Monday 2/9, 4:00-5:00, Kaley Weinstein’s office hour and tech support (101 McAllister)
  • Tuesday 2/10 3:30-4:30, Sara Jamshidi’s office hours, 419 McAllister
  • Wednesday 2/11 2:30 – 3:20, Class – Case Study – “Bad Math” John Roe (115 Osmond)
  • Thursday 2/12, 10:30 – 12:00, John Roe’s office hours, 204 McAllister
  • Friday 2/13, 2:30 – 3:20, Class Unit 2.2 (115 Osmond)
  • Friday 2/13, midnight,end of first blog grading period

Readings for  classes are available at

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hcybveug0txcrdh/AAANwF70aqdBlqlD5

Alternative office hours are available on request by contacting me.

Seminar about student farming

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Could be interesting…

Seminar: UC Davis Student Farm Director
Friday, February 13, 12:20-1:10pm in 101 Ag Sciences and Industries (ASI)
Q&A hour to follow, 1:30-2:30pm in 118 ASI


We are excited to announce that Mark Van Horn, director of the UC Davis Student Farm, will give the first talk of the Sustainable Ag Seminar Series this spring. We invite you to come learn from Mark about the the development, operations, and lessons learned from this highly-ranked student farm.

 

http://extension.psu.edu/plants/sustainable/events/mark-van-horn-student-farm-seminar

Sustainability Institute seeks public comment on University goal setting process

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I’m not sure this is directly relevant to the course, but students may be interested:

“Penn State’s upper administration and the community have looked to the University’s Sustainability Institute as a convener of conversations and engagement processes around various sustainability issues, such as the concept of zero-carbon communities and a stakeholder assessment of the recent natural gas pipeline controversy. To that end, the institute commissioned and is now publicly releasing the results of a recent project that proposes a new community and stakeholder engagement process for setting University-wide goals for sustainability, starting with energy. In order to explore how the process might best be adapted and refined, the institute is seeking public comment on the report until Feb. 18; details on how to access the report and where to submit comments, can be found below.”

Read more here

 

Events Schedule, Week 4

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Here is the schedule for the fourth week of class.

  • Monday 2/2,  2:30 – 3:20, Class Unit 1.6 (115 Osmond)
  • Monday 2/2, 4:00-5:00, Kaley Weinstein’s office hour and tech support (101 McAllister)
  • Tuesday 2/3, 3:30-4:30, Sara Jamshidi’s office hours, 419 McAllister
  • Wednesday 2/4 2:30 – 3:20, Class – Case Study – Richard Alley (115 Osmond)
  • Thursday 2/5, 10:30 – 12:00, John Roe’s office hours, 204 McAllister
  • Friday 2/6, 2:30 – 3:20, Chapter 1 Review (115 Osmond)

Readings for  classes are available at

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hcybveug0txcrdh/AAANwF70aqdBlqlD5

PSIEE Water Symposium

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I received this announcement from PSIEE (Penn State Institute for Energy and the Environment), and thought it might be interesting to those who want to follow up on last week’s topic.

WaterSymposium

 

 

 

Join the Penn State community this Earth Day, April 22, 2015, as we highlight and celebrate the wealth of water research and study at the university. We are planning a full day of interdisciplinary presentations in the HUB. Limited space is available, so RSVP as soon as possible.

Speakers, research posters, art pieces, performance, or other exhibits/presentations related to water are welcome. Please see attached flyer for details, and you can RSVP directly here: http://psiee.psu.edu/support/rsvp_water_symposium.asp

Campus departments or organizations that would like to participate on a larger level can email psiee@psu.edu to inquire about opportunities.

Please forward to anyone you feel appropriate. For questions, contact psiee@psu.edu.

Penn State Institutes of Energy and Environment, Land & Water Research Building, 1A.  Ph. (814) 863-0291

Events Schedule, Week 3

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Here is the schedule for the third week of class.

  • Monday 1/26,  2:30 – 3:20, Class Unit 1.4 (115 Osmond)
  • Monday 1/26, 4:00-5:00, Kaley Weinstein’s office hour and tech support (101 McAllister)
  • Tuesday 1/27, 3:30-4:30, Sara Jamshidi’s office hours, 419 McAllister
  • Wednesday 1/28 2:30 – 3:20, Class – Case Study – Al Matyasovsky (115 Osmond)
  • Thursday 1/29, 10:30 – 12:00, John Roe’s office hours, 204 McAllister
  • Friday 1/30, 2:30 – 3:20, Class Unit 1.5 (115 Osmond)

Readings for  classes are available at

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hcybveug0txcrdh/AAANwF70aqdBlqlD5

Events Schedule, Week 2

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Here is the schedule for the second week of class.

  • Monday 1/19, No Class – Martin Luther King Day
  • Tuesday 1/20, 11:00-noon, Kaley Weinstein’s office hour and tech support (Deike Building)
  • Tuesday 1/20, 3:30-4:30, Sara Jamshidi’s office hours, 419 McAllister
  • Wednesday 1/21 2:30 – 3:20, Class – Case Study – Water (115 Osmond)
  • Thursday 1/22, 10:30 – 12:00, John Roe’s office hours, 204 McAllister
  • Friday 1/23, 2:30 – 3:20, Class Unit 1.3 (115 Osmond)
  • Friday 1/23, midnight, second blogging assignment must be completed

Readings for  classes are available at

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hcybveug0txcrdh/AAANwF70aqdBlqlD51ebT8tEa?dl=0

About the blog grading

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I MODIFIED THE “CUMULATIVE SCORE” IDEA that was in an earlier version of this post.  See below for details.

This post is to explain how to read your blogging grades on ANGEL.

As is explained on the syllabus, the blogging component is worth 35% of your grade.  There are three five-week “blogging periods” ending 2/13, 3/27 and 5/1, each of which will be assessed separately.  The best score over the three blogging periods will be counted towards your grade.

When you look on the ANGEL gradebook for your course, you will see three “assignments” for blogging, one corresponding to each of the three blogging periods.  When each blogging period is completed, the assignment will record your score for that period.  This will be scored out of 50, and then scaled to represent 35% of the total grade points available.

The instructors will meet each Monday to review the blog postings for the previous week. However, the grade is awarded for the blogging period as a whole.  After some thought, I’ve decided not to award week-by-week cumulative grades, as they could be confusing and also because we want to assess your contributions for the whole blogging period in terms of the qualities listed in the grading rubric.  You are welcome to consult an instructor in office hours or elsewhere for feedback about your blogging contributions.

If you have questions or need more information about a particular grade, you are welcome to contact me or one of the other instructors.