This tutorial for my Dundee group is going to be essentially another run of the one I provided in Aberdeen a few weeks ago. The material will still be relevant, and in fact the students will be more familiar with the content.
However, there were improvements that I wanted to make.
For the exercise on interpreting geological cross-sections I wanted to prepared set of sketches showing the evolution of the location. Unfortunately these did not exist in the Tutor Notes for the original use of the question in the 2008 TMA. I drew my own set using MS Paint and the pen of my Tablet PC. These images were then inserted into a PowerPoint, which I can run at the tutorial.
For the radiactive decay exercise I added a few points to the Tutor Notes to remind me to review nuclear structure, and to describe decay in terms of particles, and in terms of numbers of nuclei and the half-life. I also found some more 1p coins to give the possibility of more points on the graph.
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Another S104 Earth science tutorial
Monday 8 April 2013 at 13:31
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Are you aware - and you should be if you are a tutor - that this is a Personal Blog for all OU students?
Web log = blog. An online journal with thoughts, experiences, gossip. http://answers.yahoo.com.
or that:
2.10 Posting assignments on websites
Posting your own assignments and/or tutor comments on an Open University forum or on
any other website is not allowed unless you are required to do so as part of your assignment or you have received written permission from the Module Team Chair. Advertising assignments for sale is also not allowed (see Plagiarism and cheating in Section 2.3).
or that:
You have posted reams and reams of work on this PB that discourages other students from entering their own posts?
Just saying...
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Thanks very much for your comment, JoAnn. However, I am not quite sure what point you are making. The blog facility is there for tutors to use as well. I have run several other blogs here over the years. There is nothing in the posts that is confidential. In fact, I have been encouraged by my colleagues to run this blog here.
The blog is just an account of the process of preparing tutorials.
Tutors spend a lot of time dealing with the same academic material as their students, but from a different perspective. I also know that many students are teachers themselves. Therefore I would expect some students to be interested in the content from either a subject or from a professional point of view.