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Handout: Lectures/Quizzes/ILDs
Physics 122, Spring 2011
Prof. E. F. Redish
A lot happens in lecture in this class -- including some activities you get
points for: clicker questions, quizzes, and ILDs.
Lectures:
- Lectures will not be traditional! Lecture will include considerable class interaction and will cover material in a way that is decidedly different from the text (indeed, from any text). Lectures may include
- material that is not in the book
- demonstrations that may be the basis for an exam question
- class discussions that may be the basis for an exam question
If you miss a lecture
you are still responsible for finding out everything that was done from
a friend or colleague in the class. (Another good reason for working closely
with a group!)
- The PowerPoint "lecture
notes" are
not the whole story! -- The night before every class (mostly
-- sometimes I forget), I will post the PP slides to be used in the
next day's lecture. Note that these are not the complete content
of the class but only a "skeleton
outline" of
what is being done. You can use them to take lecture notes on, but
printing them out is not a substitute for attending lecture.
- You will contribute
to lecture! -- In lecture we will be using
a Remote Answering Device (clicker). This is like a TV remote control
that will let me ask questions and get answers during lecture. The computer
records your answer and you will receive one participation point for each
click. Although we expect you to give your best answer, you will not be
graded on whether the answers you give are correct. Note that these points
are given for participation not for attendance. You are contributing
your answer to the class's discussion of possible answers. If you attend
class but forget your clicker you do not get
the participation points.
The clicker we use
is an RF clicker from Turning Point Technologies. This is the campus
standard. If you have one from another class, you are likely to able to use
it here. If you have an iPhone, you will be able to get an app that allows
you to use it as a clicker.
In order to get participation credit from using your click you must register
it. Information on how to do this will be given in class and by email within
the first few classes. If you join the class late
be sure you register your clicker!! If you change you clicker,
be sure you re-register and let me know by email so that I can download
a new list of participants.
ILDs and Quizzes:
- ILDs will produce
structured interactive lectures! -- Some days we will have Interactive
Lecture Demonstrations (ILDs) during lecture. During these you may
fill out and hand in individual worksheets or work in groups. These are
not grading, but you will get 5 points for participating in each ILD.
- In-lecture quizzes
will provide feedback! --
Since the orientation of this class is different from what you might
have become accustomed to in high school or introductory college
science classes, and to provide you with regular feedback on how
well you're making sense of what we're trying to do, most weeks we
will give (graded) quizzes on Mondays. Quizzes will focus on
important -- and sometimes subtle fundamental issues (often from
the previous week's tutorial). Each quiz will be worth 10 points.
There will be about 10 of them and the lowest quiz grade will be
dropped.
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Edward F. Redish
Department of Physics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Phone: (301) 405-6120
Email: redish@physics.umd.edu
Last revision 27 December,
2010.