A few people have expressed surprise to me that I’m not reiterating material from your readings in lectures.

That’s not accidental, it’s intentional.

It doesn’t make sense for me to repeat the material from the readings to you in class—you need to read those yourself, and I assume that when you walk into class that you’ve read the assigned materials.

Think of me in lecture as the “color commentator,” not the “play-by-play” person. The focus of the lecture is to provide some context for why you need to know the things in the readings, not to replace or regurgitate that content.

I spend a good bit of time thinking about what readings to assign. I review lots of materials before I choose the specific readings for each class session. I wouldn’t assign something that I didn’t think had relevance and importance in the context of the course materials and objectives. Please read them.

That being said, I apologize for not yet having the readings for next week posted. Those should be online later today. (I’m guessing most of you are still working on your individual assignments, and haven’t been too concerned about next week’s readings.)

And, as a special reward bonus for those of you who actually read to the end of this message, I won’t be grading the projects until Saturday morning, so you have until I get up (usually around 7 or 8am) on Saturday to get the midterm site completed and uploaded.