First Lab - Math 37
I also feel it is important to get the students working on the computers
immediately. Our labs meet once/week in a separate room (with smaller class
sizes). In the first lab, my goal is to introduce them to the computers
in that lab and to have them start using the computers in a friendly, informative
manner. We go over the course
webpage introducing all of the resources available to them from that
page. Their main assignment in the first lab is to fill out the course
questionnaire
. When they submit the form the information is emailed to me and is
(relatively) easy to convert to an Excel spreadsheet for further use. For
example, some of this data is used in a future class example. Students
are also introduced to the lab
manual for
the course.