Is it possible to extend the deadline??

Sorry, the deadline of the quiz is Dec 4th or 7th?. It shows 4th on the front page.
Thanks.

Hi Prof Chan and Becky,

If I wanted to cite something a student said in a comment section in my Stage 4 personal reflection, how would the in-text citation and bibliographic citation look like since this would not be from a lecture?

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If I were to cite something discussed in an interview you did with Prof. Mary Abukutsa-Onyango (link: >http://vimeo.com/channels/openaccess/10169351), how would the bibliographic citation look like if the in-text citation would look like this?: (Prof Mary Abukutsa-Onyango, personal communication, March 15th 2010).

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I think the workload is 2x compared to other equivalent courses.. the workload is TOO MUCH!!

can we change the quiz to multiple choice instead of essay answer?

this is another essay instead of a quiz..!

thanks

I think the true issue is not that this is an essay question or not. i think the real issue has been that assignments have all been due within the same weeks. we hand in every week one part of the assignment and then a quiz, we did that last week and then we did it this week again.
i think it's double the work and the assignments should at least alternate between due dates. if 12 pages maximum of the final stages of the assignment were due last night plus the personal reflections, clearly we have all had only that assignment on our minds. without any down time to focus on any other courses or those of us that have a full time job that we have commitments to daily, within two days we then have to prepare another two page essay to submit for a quiz by midnight on Friday. I think in all fairness the quiz should AT LEAST be extended until Monday as the deadline so we can disconnect from the final stages of the assignment and focus at least over the weekend and produce something of quality.

In view of the workload pressure from this and your other courses, I am happy to extend the deadline of quiz 4 until Dec. 10 (Monday) at midnight. Note that this is the absolute deadline required for course work submission by the college. I don't have any flexibility about this date and all late submissions will have to be through a petition at the registrar's office.

IF you have already submitted your answer, feel free to modify and improve your answer as you see fit.

Again, when reading over your own answer, see if you met the 4Cs requirement: providing the context (setting the stage in your introduction), providing a Complex explanation (taking multiple factors into account) and making Connection (between ideas), and conclude by providing the Connotation (meaning) of your discussion. To accomplish these, your answer doesn't have to be long. In fact, the more concise and succinct, the better.

And be sure to cite your sources, even materials from the course wiki pages, including materials from your fellow classmates. Anyone caught cutting and pasting from other sources and copying without attribution will be dealt with in the strictest terms, particularly for those who had been warned already.

I did not want to end the course with a Multiple Choice quiz as the format doesn't allow me to get the proper feedback in terms of your understanding of the themes of the course. I also think this kind of thought exercise allows you to develop important skills in the electronic environment where the ability to make succinct argument backed by evidence are increasingly important.

Look forward to reading your responses, and good luck with your other exams!

Professor, I am not writing on behalf of an extension or even to tell you how bad the workload is. I am writing to you to Thank you, Because i really do appreciate the work load we have got for this course, others might forget but i definitely acknowledge how flexible you have been throughout the course, extending deadlines, reducing weights on quizzes we performed bad in and helping us throughout the entire course. I have my finals too, in fact one in two days, i have assignments and have tons of work, but i knew thats what i signed up for when i got into university. I don't think this course is unfair, in fact i have enjoyed it and really did gain from all the information , quizzes and exercises we performed. Thank you!

I realize that everyone has a lot of work to do but I think we should also take a minute to show some gratitude to the professor. I have never had a professor (or even a teacher) be this lenient with things. He has constantly granted us extensions and has even given us the opportunity to switch around marks based on weight. I, like everyone else, have a lot of things to get through this week (as it always is like in University) as well but I doubt that the professor’s intention was to make it worse on us. Quite the contrary, I think the break downs of marks and the various small assignments were to help us and divide the work up so that one thing isn’t worth 40%+ like other classes (at the risk of doing badly). Just wanted to voice my opinion on that :) and say thank you Professor Chan for making this course great and allowing the immense student input in that you did!

Professor Chan please do not take us in the wrong way. We all know that you have been extremely nice to us when it is concerned to the flexibility of the course. Thank you for making this course a knowledge enriching experience and not a typical course that we have enrolled for at university!
Also to everyone who think this course was too hectic, please take a minute to think about the time this course required us to devote as compared to the others...

And how nice it is that we don't have a final exam which leaves us with more time to focus on other courses during the exam break.

On the other hand, what my peers and I mean when we are saying that the course load is heavier than other B-level courses is that though in this course we have a variety of tasks with small weights ( which is a good thing as Khan indicated and I agree with it as well), the required time commitment for each task, at least appears to be taking relatively more time. For students like myself who are process-oriented, it is hard to complete variety of tasks within a limited time and I admit that I should work on that skill.

Thank you very much professor!

I got confuse about the due date of quiz 4, you sent us two email about the due date, one says Dec. 10 (Monday) at midnight, and the second email says "Completion date and time: Dec. 7, 2012 midnight". So, which is the real due date for quiz 4???

It is December 10th, before midnight.