| Welcome to my AP4010 Class Blog | | Date Created: Sep 01, 2004, 04:22 PM |
 This is a new idea for me: Create and maintain a web "blog" for our class AP4010 Introduction to Nuclear Science. Today's students and faculty are busy, balancing activities at multiple sites and keeping very full schedules. The idea of a "blog" is to have one on-line location for informal, up-to-date comments about our course, materials, homeworks, comments, answers, and corrections. The blog will not replace class handouts; it will not replace or serve as a substitute for our classroom discussions and lectures; and it will not replace any one-on-one conversations that you may wish to have with me about our course (or anything else about Columbia.)
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Like other blogs, I intend to write the material with a "first-person" point-of-view. Often, I will give some personal comments about what excites me about our lecture topics. I'll include links to supplemental materials. Since I love the historical context of the development of nuclear physics during the last century, I also intend to include links to relevant biographies, papers, and insights by some very remarkable scientists.
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Like other blogs, I want to make comments interactive. Interactive class "blogs" are not yet available at Columbia University (although this feature has been discussed!) I am not yet sure whether or not this feature will be helpful or not. For one thing: it is not private! We may get comments from medical physicists and students from around the world. Alternatively, you may email your comments to me mauel@columbia.edu. I'll post your contributions to the blog if two conditions are met: (1) you have to give me permission to share your question with others, and (2) your comments/questions must be judged by me to be relevant or interesting.
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I'm really looking forward to our first class next week. Until then, best wishes...
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