CEM 141 Blog

1. Sign up for a 10 minute ‘interview’ with Dr. Ott. The sign-up sheet is on his office door.
2. Download and read the syllabus and complete your first homework assignment.You will email your answers to Doc Ott at the address given in the syllabus. Please send your email to him from your PREFRERRED address (jcc […]

Here is your first homework set, due 11am (in class) 8/19. It is worth 10 points and covers the syllabus and course blog. I would read the entire syllabus first before you even look at these questions. This is NOT to be done as a group work exercise. You must do these on your own.
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If you would like me to respond to e-mail, you need to have a little bit of etiquette. The most obvious is to indicate who you are. I do not memorize your email address, so I cannot recognize thedudeman99@whatever.com as you. Pretend this like a semi formal letter. All you have to do in mention […]

A nice little website with some good info

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Since I am behind in the second draft screencasts, here is the link to all the first draft screencasts for the course, broken down by chapter.
http://www.docott.com/files.141/screencasts/

SOme great suggestions here.
5 ways to make lectures note more readable

This blog is an effort to make things move a little faster, be a little more current, etc. It is meant to be a collection of all the pertinant information for teh class.
Some postive side effects:
1. This page can be updated quickly. When a student asks […]

I found this short article on a website I monitor. It talkes about how your location of studying makes a big difference. When I was working on my Ph.D. thesis I spend long hours at a particular restaurant eating fries and drinking coffee. SInce that was all I ever did there, it was easy to […]