Week 1 Tasks - June 24, 2013

PART 1


For each number, write your feedback for the questions below in the comments section.
Please answer the following questions for each number:
(so your responses will be 1a, 1b, 1c, ... 2a, 2b, 2c, ... etc)

a. How interested are you in this link? On a scale from 1 for 5 (5 being the highest)
b. Do you understand the content in the link? On a scale from 1 for 5 (5 being the highest)
c. Do you remember any content from ESA classes or other classes at Oakland High?
d. What in this link do you find most interesting?
e. What in this link do you find least interesting?


1. Explorations in Science Research (EISR) workshop.
http://scienceconnections.berkeley.edu/

2. Professor who ran the EISR workshop.
http://www.atmos.berkeley.edu/~inez/

3. Stat 20 at UC Berkeley Summer 2013.
http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~tchilders/stat20/stat20.html

4. Professor Deb Nolan
http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~nolan/

5. Stat 20 with Professor Deb Nolan
www.stat.berkeley.edu/~tchilders/stat20/stat20.html

6. R Programming Language we will be working with.
http://www.r-project.org/


PART 2


Write down any questions or comments you have about the items below.
(Ex: 7. I don't really understand the goal)

7. WHAT IS THE GOAL OF THIS PROGRAM?
The goal of this program is to design a workshop and/or class to allow Oakland High students and UC Berkeley Undergraduates to do REAL research using mathematics, statistics, programing, and science.

8. HOW WILL YOU HELP?
You are the test subjects!
This is something brand new and exciting! We would like your impressions and feedback.
Please keep this work confidential. I will help you write something cool to put on your resumes.
There are some really cool research projects for ESA so I will also be bringing in Jordan and Noonan in on our meetings.

9. FOR CAL FRESHMEN IN THE GROUP
Email me back soon so that I can have you meet with the PDP people on campus so you can enroll in the PDP Calculus 1A section. They said they will make space for you because you are my students : )

10. OUR BLOG
I will be adding information throughout the summer so we can all keep in touch.
Here is the link.
http://statisticsexplorations.blogspot.com/

11. OUR CALENDAR
You have all been invited.
Here is the link.
Please add your availability.
http://statisticsexplorations.blogspot.com/2013/05/student-calendar.html


12. THIS WEEK's TO DO LIST
a. Check our all of the links and comment on the blog with your impressions.
The blog will be updated with instructions on how to comment by June 26th.
b. Update your availability on the calendar.
c. Email me with any questions! Please hit reply all so the questions aren't repeated.

Summer 2013 Statistics - WEEK 1, Jun 24, 2013

Hi Wonderful Students!

Here is the first weekly update for the Summer 2013 Statistics program.


1. We should come up with a better name. Maybe you will have some suggestions by the end of the summer.


2. I have just finished the following Explorations in Science Research (EISR) workshop. Please check out the link.
http://scienceconnections.berkeley.edu/

Also read about the professor who ran the workshop. Please check out the link.
http://www.atmos.berkeley.edu/~inez/

I will show you some of the final posters and you will be meeting with a researcher from the workshop this summer.


3. I am now taking Stat 20 at UC berkeley. Please check out the link.
http://scienceconnections.berkeley.edu/

This is the same class that Deb Nolan will be teaching in the fall at Princeton.
She would like your feedback on HER version of the course.
Here is the link to her course.
www.stat.berkeley.edu/~nolan/stat20/index.html. Please check out the link



4. Here is the professor we will be working with. Please check out the link.
http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~nolan/



5. Here is the programming language we will be working with. Please check out the link.
http://www.r-project.org/



5. WHAT IS THE GOAL OF THIS PROGAM?
The goal of this program is to design a workshop and/or class to allow Oakland High students and UC Berkeley Undergraduates to do REAL research using mathematics, statistics, programing, and science.


6. HOW WILL YOU HELP?
You are the test subjects!
This is something brand new and exciting! We would like your impressions and feedback.
Please keep this work confidential. I will help you write something cool to put on your resumes.
There are some really cool research projects for ESA so I will also be bringing in Jordan and Noonan in on our meetings.


7. FOR CAL FRESHMEN IN THE GROUP
Email me back soon so that I can have you meet with the PDP people on campus so you can enroll in the PDP Calculus !A section. They said they will make space for you because you are my students : )


8. OUR BLOG
I will be adding information throughout the summer so we can all keep in touch.
Here is the link.
http://statisticsexplorations.blogspot.com/


9. OUR CALENDAR
You have all been invited.
Here is the link.
Please add your availability.
http://statisticsexplorations.blogspot.com/2013/05/student-calendar.html



10. THIS WEEK's TO DO LIST
a. Check our all of the links and comment on the blog with your impressions.
The blog will be updated with instructions on how to comment by June 26th.
b. Update your availability on the calendar.
c. Email me with any questions! Please hit reply all so the questions aren't repeated.

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