A s s i g n m e n t s
Skill/Project
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Notes
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Survival Kit
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Botanists do some of their
work outdoors. This can be dangerous, even in situations where
you might think it must be safe. A mini-survival kit should
have the materials that you need if you are injured or get
lost. They should help you survive overnight, minimize further
injury, assist your recovery, and add some comfort. You are
expected to design and build an appropriate survival kit.
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| Start a fire |
Being able to start a fire
is a critical survival skill. You will be expected to
demonstrate that you can do this under typical field conditions.
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| Business
Cards/CV |
You must develop a basic CV
for use in professional situations (applying for grants,
fellowships, employment). You also need to have business cards
that present you as a professional.
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| Web Site |
A personal web site can
serve many functions. Done will, they can support your graduate
program and help you secure future employment or further
education. You are expected to develop a substantial basic web
site that describes who you are and your educational
activities. It should consist of several pages and consist of
links to key resources.
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| The 100 Trees Project
The
following skills relate to a single project. The overall
goal of this project is to locate, document and disseminate
information about Honolulu's 100 Exceptional Trees.
This will be a class project. You are expected to
organize so that all members of the class contribute to each
activity.
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| GPS
navigation |
GPS navigation
includes recording key waypoints and being able to navigate to
these waypoints. Record the locations of the 100 Exceptional
Trees and save these locations in a format (on the Web) so that
people can download the locations into a GPS and navigate to the
trees. These locations must be independently verified by
using the downloaded coordinates.
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Digital
Images
& Digital Darkroom |
Digital photography is not
the same as film photography. You must be able to demonstrate
that you can take a digital photograph, perform basic image
editing and add metadata that describe the image.
Photographs of the 100 Exceptional Trees will be
the subject. These photos will be used for Web pages and
PowerPoint presentations. As a result, they must be sized
for both these uses.
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| PowerPoint |
PowerPoint has become a
near-universal medium for professional presentations and is
often use for lay audiences and classroom instruction. There is
considerable potential to make excellent use of this program, as
well as to misuse it badly. You are expected to build a short
PowerPoint presentation that demonstrates you know how to use a
variety of PowerPoint features appropriately and avoid
incorporating techniques that negatively impact a professional
presentation. The 100 Exceptional Trees will be the
subject of each presentation..
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Important Background Information
Professional projects always require several
rounds of drafts, criticism and improvement. You can see from the
course schedule that each homework exercise involves at two round of
review. This means that each exercises in this course need to be
submitted, evaluated and then modified and re-evaluated.
We expect to receive criticism and learn to
follow advice in improving your work. By the time you resubmit your
work, it should be substantially better than the first submission.
This does not mean that you should be careless with your
initial submission! It does mean that we expect highly professional
results by the time you have finished the exercise. Ordinarily,
this should be done in two rounds. If it take more than this, we
will schedule additional review rounds.
Note that it is important that you provide
constructive criticism on the work of other students. Everyone
learns when you help another person improve their work
Meeting deadlines is a skill. If you are late
submitting a homework exercise, you will not be able to benefit from
class feedback. Substantial penalties will be given to homework
exercises that are not ready by the time they will be discussed.
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