Wednesday, March 21, 2012

	Finals Week - Spring 2013. Next week is "finals week" at De Anza College. A few important highlights for Music 1A students: Monday, June 24 is a regular class meeting day - not part of the final exam schedule. We'll do several very important things in class on this day: Retake of quiz 10 Presentation of two topics that are not fully presented in the text. Extra credit reviews for weekend events are due. After Monday we switch to the final exam schedule. For Music 1A students this means: If you are in the 9:30 class:  Your final exam session is at 9:15 a.m.-11:15 a.m. TUESDAY, JUNE 25 - attendance required. If you are in the 10:30 class: Your final exam session is at 9:15 a.m.-11:15 a.m. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26 - attendance required. Note that final exams on not at the same times as the normal class meetings. Important Monday (6/17/13) Deadlines. There are some important deadlines coming up this next Monday, June 17. Not all of them will affect all Music 1A students, but for some of you they could be very important. Please take a moment to review them today. Deadline for the optional second concert report.* If you want to improve the concert report portion of your grade, the optional second report is your opportunity. If the grade on the optional report is higher than that on your first report, your overall concert report grade will be higher, based on a weighted average of the two grades that favors the second report.  Deadline to resubmit one earlier listening assignment. You may resubmit one of the earlier homework assignments from among assignments 1-8 and if you earn a higher grade on it this will replace the original grade on that assignment.  Deadline to request a retake of either test 1 or test 2.* You must turn in a written request at the Monday class that includes your name and specifies when test you would like to retake - either test #1 or test #2. Note that this is primarily to benefit students who failed one or more earlier tests - see the note below for an explanation. Be sure to read the additional details in the course calendar regarding each of these options and other critical upcoming dates, assignments, deadlines, and so forth. * The primary beneficiaries of the second report and the test retake option are students who might not otherwise be able to produce one non-failing concert report grade and two non-failing test grades - which are both requirements in order to earn a passing grade in Music 1A. Be sure to speak to me right away if you have question about this. Also... Note that two listening assignments are due next week. #9 is due at the start of class on Monday - the only Monday assignment deadline this quarter! #10 is due on Wednesday. Maximizing Your Grade Near the End of the Term. We are now in the home stretch of the spring 2013 term, with about three weeks of classes plus final exam week remaining. If you are focusing on your grade at this point, there is still plenty of time to take steps that can make a difference. As we focus on music of the Romantic and 20th-Century eras, take to heart what I've been suggesting about how to make sense out of the increasingly large number of composers and diverse ideas about music and how it is made. You can get a handle on this by working methodically now on your studying and review - and using some of the methods of organizing the material that we have talked about in class. Be sure to complete and do your best work on remaining class work. In addition to the test, this includes the remaining listening assignments and the weekly quizzes. Your attention to timely and careful studying will help you on the quizzes, and review in preparation for retake quizzes can help a lot. If your grade on the first concert report was not as high as you hoped or if you did not do the first report, make sure to do the second optional concert report. (Important note: Since a non-failing grade on one concert report is REQUIRED in order to earn a passing grade in Music 1A, you must do the second report if you earned an F or did not do the first report.) Attend your concert this weekend. Write a rough draft of all or part of the report right after the concert. Make an appointment to review this draft with me at an office hour during the first half of next week. See the course calendar for information about an option to retake one of the first two tests if you earned lower than a C grade one of these tests. This is especially important if you missed a test or earned a failing grade on one test since you must earn non-failing grades on two tests in order to earn a passing grade in Music 1A. See the course calendar for information about resubmitting one homework assignment from assignments #1-8 for a higher grade. Source: Music 1; Updated: 9:29AM PST.

	Music 51: Optional Resubmission of One Quiz. This quarter students in the Music 51: Introduction to Electronic Music class will have the opportunity to raise their grades on one of the earlier quizzes, including quizzes #1, #2, and #4. (Quiz #3 is not eligible.) If you wish to do this you must: Print a new, clean copy of the quiz you wish to re-submit. Write the word "RESUBMIT" in large print across the top of the quiz. Submit the completed quiz at the start of class on Monday, June 17. No late submissions of the resubmitted quizzes will be accepted. If you earn a higher grade than you earned on the original version of the quiz, the higher grade will replace the original grade. Music 51: Intro to Electronic Music Quiz Update. As announced in class on Monday of this week, the due dates for quizzes #3 and #4 have been reversed, with result being that quiz #4 is due before quiz #3: Quiz 4 - Due next Monday, June 10 Quiz 3 - Due the following Monday, June 17 Note that test #2, based on these two quizzes, will be on Monday, June 24, the last regular class day of the quarter before the final exam schedule begins. Cloud Storage Alternatives to Flash Drives. As an alternative to using Flash drives to store backup copies of your class work and transfer it among computers, you might consider using your existing cloud storage or signing up for one of the free cloud storage accounts. These include: Google Drive Dropbox copy.com To the best of my knowledge, copy.com currently provides that largest amount of free storage, though both Google and Dropbox have been around longer. (I have accounts with all three, and all three are web-accessible.) Source: Electronic Music; Updated: 6/11/2013.

	Bertrand Russell "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." - G Dan Mitchell (noreply@blogger.com) H. H. Williams "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." - G Dan Mitchell (noreply@blogger.com) George Orwell "Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." - G Dan Mitchell (noreply@blogger.com) Source: The Quote File; Updated: 12/23/2012.

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