Unknown: Once again we ended the last
video with some of the parts and themes
of this astronomy class that I'll be
focusing on as we go toward had two
columns here. And one of my funnest ones
here to help you become a better camera
by familiarizing you with the night sky,
which we'll do. Anyway going on a couple
times now, both in the first video I've
mentioned something about these things
called the question so what am I talking
about well, if you look on canvas once
again. And as promised, there's a whole
list of questions on there. There's
about 48 of them in total, and you could
see what I'm talking about, like, we
first asked the question, what's the
difference between astronomy,
astrophysics, astrology, and
astronomology, things like how are
rainbows form. Why is the sky blue Why
are since it's red. Why is the sky and
the moon black wire telescopes advertise
about that power, you know, things like
that. And so these are questions that
I'm definitely gonna be putting on the
final exam, and will be answered, sort
of one by one piecemeal as our video
lessons go on. And so, when I'm doing a
video I might say something like, some
reference to like Question number seven.
And when I do that, you'll want to have
this sheet sort of out and ready to go
because I might just start talking about
what is a mirage and how does it form so
the answers to these questions will
definitely come out in the videos as we
go. So as I sort of record these videos
and have them. I have this document
here, printed and put in sort of a clear
paper protector so I always have it
ready for me I can always refer to the
question so as you know, question number
three, question number nine, you'll see
that come up as we go through the
quarter. Lastly, then we're almost
lasted a couple of books. This is one of
my favorite books on astronomy how to
read the solar system, it'll be the
primary one that we'll be reading here,
you could definitely find it online for
less than $20. I absolutely don't like
very expensive textbooks at all so I try
to keep these very cheap. You can find
sort of an E book copy of it so you can
view it just immediately on your laptop
or your phone or your Kindle or wherever
you happen to be using here. And there's
another free open Stax astronomy book
that sort of put in the syllabus, as
well that you can sort of read through
as a reference if you'd like, but
there's no required reading out of this
one so it'll be sort of like, more or
less two books, but this one right here
is definitely the required one, and this
is the kind of book that I hope you like
because it's just sort of sold at the
bookstore it's not really stuffy science
book was a very enjoyable reading book
about astronomy very enjoyable book to
read. Lastly, just a bit on the calendar
so we get started again you can find
this on canvas as well as always another
document on canvas here, I've got to
sort of categorize according to week we
here we are, April 6 getting started
here, and this is the reading column
here. So you'll see that this week I'm
sort of hoping or expecting that you'll
read chapters one and two of that, how
to read the solar system book. I'm not
sure exactly what I'll do with these
boxes we go on like fill the topics or I
might just leave them blank but the two
dimensional calendar sort of gives you a
perspective of where we're going to
class and in particular. You can see
that. I'll have a so called Big Dipper
lab coming out week from Monday on
April, 13. We'll have our first exam on
April 12, that's basically the Thursday
of week three and this will be where you
have to sort of do something with the
rest of the class like off the exam.
Again, on canvas. An online exam through
Canvas so it's online through Canvas
here, but I will only be offering it on
April 23 Thursday from 2 to 3pm or
normal class time so just make sure
you're ready for this. and you're
available because it won't be offered
any other time, and also sort of what's
not on there maybe it should be but it's
definitely on the syllabus. I'll put
these little stars in here, but
definitely every Monday at 12pm. That's
what these deadlines refer to here,
homework is always do and I hate to keep
sounding like a broken record, but the
homework is on canvas as well. Usually
multiple choice questions that have to
do with the reading primarily to make
sure you keep up with the reading.
That's always due on Monday. And also,
what's due Monday at noon is any credit
for videos that you can get by checking
on the app like for example I'll just
sort of circle, any videos that are due
this week. You're supposed to be
watching this week if you want the
credit for them you have to watch them
basically by this Monday as well or
shorter I'm not exactly sure but always
make sure you check the deadlines on the
videos because I want to keep those
rolling. And I want to make sure that
they don't pile up, and you just start
to watch you know several hours of
videos, the day before the exam so
anyway calendars online, let me know if
you have any questions about that.
Lastly, on the syllabus here where the
credit comes from. Basically the credit
for watching the videos is 15%. You can
see quizzical here. That's not exactly
what that's supposed to say these are
sort of the
canvas questions once again, you have
your three midterms your final exam and
in those labs will have you dealing
that's sort of where your course credits
will come from classes and curve are
definitely going on the 90 80% sort of
grade scale, and I do use the plus minus
system in there which roughly is a
third, a third, a third of each grade
core category so keep that in mind.
Also, if you have any problems with a
grade you think something should be
corrected or was graded wrong, make sure
you tell me within one week of that item
being graded. Or else I can't make any
changes after that. And that believe or
not, is the end of my class
introduction.
