GDocs at the heart of Symposia Group Registration for my Animal Behaviour class

GDocs at the heart of Symposia Group Registration for my Animal Behaviour class

Awaiting me in Week 1 of the new semester every January is a registration exercise I run for students taking LSM1303 Animal Behaviour. This cross-faculty module sees students coming to the department from several different schools and faculties of the National University of SIngapore. The 2013 cohort breakdown In order to take the module, however, students struggle to avoid clashes with time-tables. It helped that I halved the 24 hours of practical time to free up time for students to make observations of animals in the wild. They present the result of those in one of three symposia after Recess Week. Before Recess Week, we help identify a question and settle on data collection strategy. TAs are project advisors and not supervisors and this year I will see if I can work with just three! Students work on their projects in groups of five, but may have joined the module with ...

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