For the new class, the draft Syllabus clearly says at the top: Version 16.00 . Why on Earth would I write a whole new syllabus for teaching the same Physics class for the 16th time? (grin) In fact, all my syllabi are chock full of standardized sections in common. Things that absolutely don't need to be rewritten from scratch every time.
What I needed the Version 6 syllabus (http://homepages.wmich.edu/~kaldon/classes/ph207-6-syllabus.htm) for was to check on when I was running dates for exams, etc., since the 7½ week schedule is very different than the 15 week regular semester. Of course what gets handed out in class is a properly formated word document, not HTML as in the previous link, as in this PDF from my last class (http://homepages.wmich.edu/~kaldon/classes/ph207-14-15-syllabus.pdf).
T'ain't plagiarism when it's a work in progress. (grin)
But what you're talking about is very different. (double-grin) The idea is not for students to get complacent and try to get out of work. That said, in the real world lots of people rework and upgrade papers over their careers, so it is more about trying to get the students to do new work at that point.
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Date: Saturday, 22 May 2010 01:58 (UTC)What I needed the Version 6 syllabus (http://homepages.wmich.edu/~kaldon/classes/ph207-6-syllabus.htm) for was to check on when I was running dates for exams, etc., since the 7½ week schedule is very different than the 15 week regular semester. Of course what gets handed out in class is a properly formated word document, not HTML as in the previous link, as in this PDF from my last class (http://homepages.wmich.edu/~kaldon/classes/ph207-14-15-syllabus.pdf).
T'ain't plagiarism when it's a work in progress. (grin)
But what you're talking about is very different. (double-grin) The idea is not for students to get complacent and try to get out of work. That said, in the real world lots of people rework and upgrade papers over their careers, so it is more about trying to get the students to do new work at that point.
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