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                 Math 8 End-of-Semester Reflections



        Please answer the following questions electronically in the Week 14
slot by Sunday, May 5, at midnight.  Comments on group projects will be
available by May 9 at the end of your Week 14 file.  If you prefer to
answer one or more of these questions privately, you may respond to me by
e-mail.

        0) Have you submitted responses for weeks 5 through 13? (This is
the minimum requirement for satisfactory completion of the course.  Folders
should be complete by Sunday May 5 at midnight.)

        1) How has your view of yourself in relationship to mathematics
changed over the course of the semester?

        2) For you, what are the most positive and the most negative
aspects of the course?  Would you suggest any major changes in structure or
emphasis?

        3) Comment at length on the concept of the paperless course.  What
are the advantages or disadvantages of this approach?  In what ways could
such an approach work in other courses?

        4)  Comment on your experiences with the technology used in the
course.  What can be done to make things easier in the future?

        5)  Describe your experience with the weekly assignments and the
"response from Prof. B." feature.  Comment on the public nature of these
interchanges, and the possibility of linkings among student work and
communication with the other class members.  To what extent did you read
the submissions of other students (and/or the professor's responses)?

        6) Describe in some detail your activities as part of your final
project team.

        7) In the old days, the final project was mostly an individual
effort, on the order of a ten-page paper.  How would you characterize the
experience of working on a team, and how did that affect your effort in the
final project?