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Online reading assignment question: interesting, confusing student topics (Cuesta College, fall semester 2010)

Astronomy 210, Fall Semester 2010
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA

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Wordle.net tag cloud for interesting astronomy topics, generated by students at the end of the semester (http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2933581/Untitled). Notably "planets" and "moonphases" responses, while common here, were not selected as common interesting astronomy topics at the start of the semester.


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Wordle.net tag cloud for potentially confusing astronomy topics, generated by students at the end of the semester (http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2933673/Untitled). Notably "moonphases," a common topic here, was not selected as a common confusing astronomy topic at the start of the semester, while "math" was at the start of the semester.


Students have a weekly online reading assignment (hosted by SurveyMonkey.com), where they answer questions based on reading their textbook, material covered in previous lectures, opinion questions, and/or asking (anonymous) questions or making (anonymous) comments. Full credit is given for completing the online reading assignment before next week's lecture, regardless if whether their answers are correct/incorrect. Selected results/questions/comments are addressed by the instructor at the start of the following lecture.

(The following questions were asked after the last lecture, but prior to the final exam.)

[Responses have been edited to consolidate common related subjects.]

Discuss the most interesting aspect of this course, and explain why this was personally interesting for you. (Graded for completion.)

Student responses
Sections 70158, 70160
planets
expansion
planetformation, starformation
lookbacktime, universe
planets
blackholes
everything
starwheels
everything, stars, constellations, moonphases
planets
constellations, starwheels
universe
ETlife
planets, stars
ETlife
lookbacktime
stars, planets
jovianplanets, MilkyWay
stars, nebulae
moonphases, eclipses
CO2
flashcards
planetformation
Pdog
moonphases
moonphases, eclipses
starformation, blackholes, galaxies
constellations
bigbang
starwheels
bigbang, expansion
stars, starwheels
blackholes
constellations
cosmology
ETlife
planetformation
flashcards
nebulae
expansion
stars
planets
history
moonphases
blackholes, whitedwarfs, planets
moonphases
blackholes
moonphases
bigbang
planets
supernovae
moonphases, constellations, bigbang
bigbang
starformation
cosmology, bigbang
blackholes, stars, nebulae, planets
planets
blackholes, universe
blackholes
expansion
bigbang, expansion
planets
bigbang, stars
Sun
bigbang, expansion
everything
planets

Discuss the most confusing aspect of this course, and explain why this was personally confusing for you. (Graded for completion.)

Student responses
Sections 70158, 70160
galaxies
halo, metallicity
cosmology
moonphases
nothing
math
prograde, retrograde, stars
telescopes, MilkyWay
stars
galaxies, spacetime
Sun
expansion, redshift
spectra
nothing
retrograde
blackholes
telescopes
planets, stars
cosmology
planets
nothing
moonphases
flashcards
everything
homework
Pluto
?
everything
bigbang
telescopes
nothing
blackbodyradiation, spectra
nothing
planets
moonphases
moon
distances
blackholes
blackholes
bigbang, flashcards
moonphases
Newton'slaws
moonphases
everything
starwheels
starwheels
spectra
moonphases
exams
starwheels
quantummechanics, spectra
stars
moonphases, retrograde, planetfinding
everything
nothing
Sun, spectra, moonphases
darkmatter
everything
moonphases
stars
history
starwheels
planetfinding
everything
everything, stars
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