Guest Lectures - Feb. 12, 17, and 19, 2009

Classes held Tuesday and Thursday 11:00-12:15
Cramer Hall 224

Thursday January 12, 2009
Guest Lecture by Tim Sheard
Due Today:
Announcments:
	Native American Film Festival, Monday Feb. 16, 2009
Class Topic:
	The Scientific Method
	Scientific Method Activity - explaining experiment results.
	Creating a scatter-plot in Excell.
	Excell example
	Computing the expected results
Mentor-session Activity:
 Lab experiment instructions.
 tally sheet
Assigned today:
	Read chapter 2 and Chapter 9 from "Seeing Through Statistics"

Tuesday January 17, 2009
Guest Lecture by Yves Labissiere
Due Today:
	Reading chapter 2 and Chapter 9 from "Seeing Through Statistics"
Announcments:
Class Topic:
	Stistics and making graphs and pictures.
Mentor-session Activity:
Assigned today:
	Read: Cordwainer Smith's Alpha Ralpha Boulevard
	 Eileen Gunn's Stable Strategies for Middle Management, and
	 China Mieville's Foundation
		 To be the basis of class session Thursday. Bring hard copies to class

Thursday January 19, 2009
Guest Lecture by Grace Dillon
Due Today:
	Read short stories
	 Alpha Ralpha Boulevard
	 Stable Strategies for Middle Management, and
 Foundation.
 Bring hard copies to class.
Announcments:
Class Topic:
	In this session, we will be discussing together three short stories: Cordwainer
	Smith's "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard," Eileen Gunn's "Stable Strategies for Middle
	Management," and China Mieville's "Foundation." Please go ahead and read them before
	this session and bring hard copies to class so that we can discuss them in more
	detail. Note that they are available electronically at the "Assigned today:" section
	for Tuesday Jan 17, above.
Mentor-session Activity:
Assigned today: