Star Trek

I just saw the new Star Trek last weekend and thought it was pretty decent. I liked the special effects a good amount. I have never seen anything else Star Trek related, but wanted to know what Star Trek fans thought of the movie?

Confirmation

Just to be sure, the syllabus says our final papers are due on Friday (exam week friday). However, for some reason I have the strongest feeling that they were due exam week wednesday. So, just to be sure, are we following the syllabus for paper due date or was the date changed?

A legit post: Kubrick fans unite!

Okay, here is something I'm not confused about. While doing research for my final paper, I came across a really good Stanley Kubrick website. It's called the Kubrick Corner. All fans of Stan the Man should check it out.

Do we have posts this week?

Again, I am confused. I don't see any posts. Do we have any this week? What's going on?!

Class today?

Do we have class today? I checked the syllabus, and it said that we do. Although I thought we were just watching Dr. Who or something, and the syllabus said something different. I'm so confused.

Online evaluation form

Thanks to the five of you who already have filed an online evaluation form for our class, for a 42 percent response rate, five out of 12. (I can't see who the evaluators are, nor the evals themselves, only the response rate.)

I'd like the response rate to approach 100 percent, as I would love to encourage the university to keep doing evals this way. Online evals are more efficient and environmentally friendly, and how they work this semester in the test classes (including ours) will help determine whether the program expands in future semesters.

So when you get a chance, do that by the deadline of Friday, Dec. 4, please. I've appended the university how-to boilerplate below. I'll remind you of this when I see you in person Wednesday, Dec. 2. I look forward to it. Happy Thanksgiving.

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PLEASE SHARE THE FOLLOWING WITH YOUR STUDENTS
This course will be using a new online system for collecting the end-of-semester Student Opinions of Instruction questionnaires instead of in-class paper forms. Your response is very important and is used to assess curricular and instructional quality, as well as to identify opportunities for improvement. Your responses are confidential; only a summary of all student responses without individual identifiers will be provided to me and college administrators.

The new online system enables you to:

complete the questionnaire anytime, anywhere, at your own pace allowing for more thoughtful and constructive responses; and

save and return later, as well as review and edit completed questionnaires prior to the end of the collection period.

Beginning November 15, 2009, most Student Opinions of Instruction questionnaires will be available. The questionnaires for Nursing courses will be available on November 22, 2009. You may access them in either of two ways:

Login to myBama then select the Student Opinions of Instruction channel on either the Academics or Student tabs. Once in the system, you will see a list of courses you are being asked to evaluate.

An email invitation and up to 2 reminders will include a link to the online system; reminders will only be sent to those who have not submitted all questionnaires.

Meow

IBM has designed a supercomputer that accurately replicates the cerebral cortex of a cat...onward to Skynet!

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