In HTML and PDF formats. 

This narrative was developed during the Teaching Portfolio Workshop, offered by the Teaching Resource Center at the University of Virginia in the spring of 2005.  With the exception of the aforementioned narrative, as well as the course materials and teaching awards listed below, the rest of the materials on this page have not been updated since then.

Appendix A: Course materials

For each course, the following can be found in the table below: a copy of the syllabus, the course website, course evaluations, and the end of course memo (EOCM) is included.  With the exception of the websites, all files are in PDF format. My courses currently in progress are listed, but won't have much filled in until the semester ends.

A few important notes:

• I aim to include all of my course evaluations, not just a few selected "good" ones - I believe that all instructor evaluations should be made public.  Occasionally, however, some students submitted comments that were not appropriate for public viewing (due to inappropriate language or mentioning themselves or somebody else).  These parts of the comments have been redacted.  Some of them are awaiting redaction (I need to get the right program -- Adobe Acrobat Professional -- to do it, and haven't yet paid the $50 to do so.  I have the Mac version, and it just crashes whenever loaded up.  Stupid piece of software.).  They'll be there eventually.

• The Rodman Seminars (the ENGR 307 and 308 classes) that are listed below are taught by somebody else -- I just do the coordination. Thus, I don't post those evaluations, as I feel it is inappropriate to post evaluations about somebody else.

• Student comments can be found in the evaluations for each course. For the fall 2004 semester, the students comments were manually entered (by myself), and are listed in a separate PDF file. For the other semesters, the student comments are the last questions in each of the evaluations.

• For CS 101 in the spring semesters, the comparison statistics are not really usable, as my students' responses constitute half to two-thirds of the responses for the SEAS 100 level courses, due to the class size. For the overall instructor rating in the spring of '05, for example, I had 4048 of of the 6318 total responses (64%).

Appendix B: Humor

I have included my humor slides in both PDF and Microsoft PPT formats. This is the slide set that I used in the spring, 2005 semester.  As mentioned in the narrative, part of the humor is in the showmanship of the presentation, but a general sense of the humor can be gleamed from the slides. For various reasons, these files are password protected - you will have to request the password by dropping me an .

Appendix C: Discrete Math Oral Exam

A sample oral exam from the fall 2004 semester of CS 202 is available here. Note that to preserve student privacy, to view the video you will need to get a valid username/password from me via .

Appendix D: Contributed Assignments

Throughout the course of the semester, I developed a number of additional assignments and exams for the students, and have included a few selected ones here.

• CS 202: final exams from fall '04, spring '05.  These exams manage to cover a lot of material while focusing in depth on the important topics.
• CS 101 (spring '05)
  • Lab 1: This lab is meant as an introduction to the laboratory procedures and our online grading system.
  • HW J1: The introduction homework, it is designed to be the first computer program that the students write.
  • HW J5: This homework requires a bit more problem solving, as well as class creation.

Appendix E: Online References and Links

The reference for adult attention span is here: see the Pike reference in the middle of the page (under number 3, 'Factors to Consider') and again at the bottom.

Lionel Giles' translation of the Art of War by Sun Tzu. The quote I used in my narrative is from chapter 3, verse 18.

The Sherlock Holmes joke mentioned in the narrative was rated the second funniest joke by LaughLab.

Appendix F: Online Grading System

These pages include some sample views of the online grading system that I developed.  A few notes: the links and forms in these pages do not work, all student IDs and names have all been modified for anonynimity, and you will have to have Javascript enabled to view many of these pages.

• Student view.  These are the pages that the students in the course see.

  • Submit page.  The students use this page to submit assignments.  Only the currently due assignments are allowed to be submitted.  Note that if you choose HW J7 from the drop-down box, a survey will appear (more on the surveys below).

  • View grades script.  This page lists all of the student's grades for easy reference.

  • Regrade submission.  If the students feel that their assignment was not graded in accordance with the grading guidelines, they can submit a regrade.
     

• Grader view.  These are the pages available to the TAs and graders.

  • Login page.  This is the page that the graders must use to log into the system.

  • Grader home page.  Once the graders have logged into the system, they see this page, which lists the assignments that they have already graded, and the ones that they still need to grade.

  • Grade entry page.  This page is what the graders actually use to grade an assignment.
     

• Administrator view.  These pages allow the administrators (typically, the professors of the course) to modify the aspects of the grading system.

  • Grader admin page.  This is the main control page for the system, and it allows control over all the aspects of the system.

  • Survey results page.  This page lists the results of the survey questions (see the submit page, above).  The comments at the bottom of the page are from the fill-in questions.

  • Graphs of results: graph 1, graph 2 (these links are pop-ups).  These two graphs show the survey results for easier viewing.

  • Regrade handling.  This page is where the regrades are handled.  Note that the first regrade listed has not yet been handled, whereas the other four have.  Students receive an e-mail once a regrade for them has been handled.

Appendix G: Teaching Awards

• ACM Professor of the Year award, 2008 (University of Virginia). This award is a department-wide award voted upon by the students.

• Trigon Engineering Society's Thomas Hutchinson Faculty Award, 2006 (University of Virginia).  This award is an Engineering school-wide award voted upon by the students.

• Rodman Scholars Teacher of the Year award, 2006 (University of Virginia).  This award is an Engineering school-wide award voted upon by the students.

• ACM Professor of the Year award, 2006 (University of Virginia). This award is a department-wide award voted upon by the students. (link)

• ACM Professor of the Year award, 2005 (University of Virginia). This award is a department-wide award voted upon by the students.

• Teaching Assistant of the Year award, 2000 (University of Pennsylvania). This was a university-wide award, for which I was nominated by students and voted upon by a selection committee. (link)

• Teaching Assistant of the Year award, 1999 (University of Pennsylvania). This was a department-wide award, for which I was nominated by my professors and voted upon by the department faculty.

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