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Your 'question form' report has been received. Scroll down through the document to see any comments I might have inserted, and my final comment at the end.
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Q_-_Reply_2_re_testing,_status
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I'm writing to follow up on my Feb. 24 and March 3 emails re: labs (copied/pasted here, with my contact information removed per your instructions not to put my identifying information in this or subsequent form fields).
Copy (placing information in a single [message] field): Email sent Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 2:39 PM
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From: [name and address redacted from form-submitted version]
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 01:28:05 -0500
Subject: [Backup: Fwd.] Re: Supervised Study Spring 2013: Testing, status in your distance course
To: dsmith
'access: 09-62-939
'name: [redacted from form-submitted version]
'title: [Backup: Fwd.] Re: Supervised Study Spring 2013: Testing,
status in your distance course
Hmm, it appears that I may have needed to paste access into my email
of February 24 (forwarded below) along with the other two prompts.
Your email of Jan. 3 listed the following as what I should paste in
(note the absence of access in the first line):
' : 09-62-939
'name:
'title:
However, I see that in emails to which you replied in summer 2013, I
did paste access in the first line before the colon.
I'm trying this version of the pasted material in case my email of
February 24 didn't get through earlier; the Feb. 24 email's text
appears below.
Thanks again,
[name redacted from form-submitted version]
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From: [name and address redacted from form-submitted version]
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 13:48:27 -0500
Subject: Re: Supervised Study Spring 2013: Testing, status in your
distance course
To: David A Smith
' : 09-62-939
'name: [redacted from form-submitted version]
'title: Re: labs (Re: Supervised Study Spring 2013: Testing, status in
your distance course)
Thanks for this update. Re: work progress, you had mentioned earlier
that you'd be sending out detailed instructions for the completion of
collaborative labs and lists of student teams who would be
collaborating. I don't think that I've received any emails fitting
that description, although of course it's possible that I've
overlooked one or more that you sent out.
If you've already sent this information, would you please accept my
apologies and re-send it? If not, should I wait for further
instructions, or should I begin completing the labs on my own? I now
have all the lab materials (except for the rental probes), so I'm able
to get started, and I'd be happy to do so if you'd prefer.
Thanks!
[name redacted from form-submitted version]
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I really need to get started on the lab work and am still awaiting instructions about the collaborative process and assignments of people to work with.
I estimate that my collaborators and I need to get started some time during the coming week if we're to finish the labs in time, especially given the intra-group communication delays and bottlenecks that are almost inevitable when collaboration is involved. By the same token, I'd be happy to just do the lab work individually if a) it doesn't look like the collaboration setup is going to work out this semester or b) for some other reason you would prefer that I work on my own, but if I'm to do so, a) I still need to get started quite soon and b) I'd like to have some kind of green light for setting out on my own.
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Would you please let me know your preferences re: how I should approach the lab work? If I don't hear from you by Wednesday (3/13), I'm going to default (in the computing sense) to working individually; that way, I can a) make sure that the work starts getting done and b) have something to bring to any group process that does eventually get under way.
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As I believe we discussed earlier, I'm expecting to provide you with alternative labs using probes and a Vernier interface. I had intended to have that available before now, but it turns out that certain interfaces were bought with trust fund money, which prevents their leaving campus. I had anticipated that I would have the numbers of those interfaces by Friday, but I haven't received them yet. As soon as I know which ones those are, I'll get them to the bookstore.
I'll be able to double-check Monday with the person who will be giving me the information.
The first round of collaborative labs is underway. The process is a little complicated due to a few students dropping the course. I didn't include you in this round, my thought being that once we get the results part of your task will be to corroborate them with more accurate equipment.
Get back to me on this Monday and I'll give you an update. I have everything together so I should be able to get everything set up with the bookstore as soon as I have the numbers.
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