Professor Jennifer McStotts’ Blog

All,

I’m having a problem with WebCT - when I reply to people’s emails, my browser crashes. This has been happening since late last week, so I’m going to be reinstalling software over the next few days to try to eliminate the problem. I’ve replied to many emails, but if you haven’t gotten a response, either (1) wait a couple more days if it wasn’t time sensitive, or (2) email me outside of WebCT. You can also ask many questions of Meagan, who probably isn’t having the same issue.

I was sick over the whole of the weekend, so I am not where I’d like to be on grading. If you ask, the answer will be “I’m working on it.” I’ll post here when anything is graded and returned.

The PowerPoint for PLE for today is up.

Thanks - Prof. McS

In Wednesday in Urban Planning, we talked about teardowns. I promised to share some links and articles, so here they are. Please feel free to share your own in the comments below.

• An article on teardowns from the NY Times - subscription required.
• The Naperville (Chicago area) comments we discussed.
• The notorious teardowns.com
• The NPR piece, including the audio files.
• The unfortunately dated Save-Hillcrest blog.

Sorry so late.

All,
Please swap next Wednesday and Friday’s topics and readings.
What was:
W 9-Apr Green Building Eco-Architecture [WebCT]
F 11-Apr Teardown Trend NTHP [WebCT]
Is now:
W 9-Apr Teardown Trend NTHP [WebCT]
F 11-Apr Green Building Eco-Architecture [WebCT]

All grades and comments are now posted. I double checked and all files seem to be in place and openable. As I said before, if you got an A+ or did a PDF, or if I said in the comments box that I had no comments on the document, then you did not and will not get a file back.
If after the thesis crunch is over, anyone would like to come see me about patching any holes in these projects to use them in portfolios, come see me not next week but the week after.
Great work!

Tags: grading

All,
Grades are posted (so as to end the suspense), but the comments are not all returned. Some of your files are so large (upwards of 100MB) that I cannot upload the commented versions back to you from home or wireless. I will finish the uploads as soon as I can establish a secure and stable enough connection. If you did a PDF or PPT, there are no comments to be returned besides those in the grade post. The same is true for the four of you who got A+ grades.
I’ll post again when the grades are completed.
Prof. McS

Tags: grading