User talk:Hivanson

Week 4 Feedback

• Thank you for submitting your work on time!
• All of the requested content was provided on your NeMO Week4 page, except for the following:
  • When practicing your wiki skills, make sure that you check the page layout after you save it to check for any inconsistencies in formatting. You have some "stray" bullet points that occurred because you used "**" without having a line with "*" first.
  • Make sure to invoke your template on every individual journal entry, including those you make with partners!
  • Make sure to sign your class journal entry with your wiki signature ~~~~.
• Hopefully the deeper dive with Dr. Dionisio gave you an increased understanding of relational databases, and we will learn more about the Deception at Duke case.

— Kdahlquist (talk) 15:15, 18 March 2024 (PDT)

Week 3 Feedback

• Thank you for submitting your shared IMD3 journal page on time!
• Be sure to invoke your template on each individual journal entry, even those that you are doing with a partner. Because the template did not get invoked, you were missing the category for "journal entry" at the bottom of the page.
• You wrote something in the summary field for 59/61 edits (97%), this is excellent work! Don't stress if you miss one here or there. The idea behind these is that someone should be able to read the history page to get an idea of what has been changed.
• All of the requested items for the gene page have been completed.
• The formatting of the acknowledgments and reference sections was done appropriately.
• The word "algorithm" is an interesting one. At it's base, it simply means procedure or protocol. A recipe to make a food is also an algorithm. That base-level meaning probably won't change, although, as you note, connotations will.

— Kdahlquist (talk) 12:40, 13 February 2024 (PST)

Week 2 Feedback

• Thank you for submitting your work on time! I see that you added additional references late, but the main part of your assignment was on time.
• All of the requested navigation links were present and you invoked your template on your individual journal page.
• During the period of review, you made 38 edits to the wiki and wrote something in the summary field 100% of the time. Excellent--keep up the good work!
• All of the requested tasks were completed appropriately, except for the following:
  • Electronic Lab Notebook
    • Your purpose is a little general. While what you said is correct, your purpose needs to be about a more specific question. Besides learning the inheritance pattern of all the colors, the purpose of this assignment was to make a purple flower and to be able to explain why it is a purple flower.
    • Your methods are a little brief. You cited the instructions and wrote a short summary of what you did. In the notes that you uploaded, it was a little difficult to follow the crosses you performed since you gave the flower ID instead of the phenotype/genotype. It would be difficult for someone else to be able to reproduce exactly what you did from these notes. For example, for each cross you could have explicitly said "I crossed parent 1 and parent 2 because of this reason, and I got these results (colors and proportions of offspring). I interpreted these results to mean..., which led me to the next cross, etc.
    • Your conclusion was worded well. Note that in your conclusion you are answering the question that was posed in the purpose.
  • Specific tasks
    • It would have been more clear if you had explicitly referenced questions (a) - (f) on pages I-9 and I-10 in your answers.
    • (a), (b), and (c) were in your notes. Presumably the dominance table was your answer to "What rules can you find to explain the data above?"
    • I did not see where you explicitly listed the answer to (d), i.e., the genotypes of the starting strains.
    • (e), and (f) were stated in your conclusion.
  • Your Acknowledgments and References sections were completed properly.
• With regard to Nirenberg's filtration method, a big motivation in inventing new techniques is saving time in the lab! I used that technique in grad school for an protein-RNA binding assay myself!

— Kdahlquist (talk) 15:35, 6 February 2024 (PST)

Week 1 Feedback

• Thank you for submitting your assignment on time!
• All of the tasks from the assignment were complete, except for the following which were incomplete or could show some improvement. You will be able to earn back points that you lost by making these corrections by the deadline for the Week 3 assignment.
  • Your submission for the Week 1 assignment was scattered over several different wiki pages. Instead, there should have been only three pages involved in your assignment (besides the question posted on my talk page):
    • Your User page
    • Your template
    • The class journal page
  • You have already posted your class journal contribution to the class journal page. Please consolidate the rest of your content submitted for the Week 1 assignment onto your User page, including Hivanson Resume, Hivanson Week 1, Hivanson Week 1 Credits, Hivanson Week 1 Journal Page, Hivanson Week 1 References and Acknowledgments, Hivanson Wiki Skills. In other words, all of the content, except for the shared reflection answers should have gone onto your User page.
  • Also, the goal was to show all of the wiki skills within your user page, naturally incorporated into that content.
  • Once you have moved the content, please delete the extraneous pages.
  • Please include your full name on your user page, not just your username.
  • If you are going to use the Department of Chemistry address, please include the full address with the city, state, and zip code.
  • I was impressed to see your published paper! It would look better as a resume for you to include the complete citation (APA format), not just the title of the paper.
  • I only saw two levels of headings, and the "==" level was missing. Please incorporate the "==", "===", and "====" levels all on your user page.
  • Please include a numbered list on your user page, not on a separate page.
  • Include the "Journal Entry" category on your user page (or better, on your template which you will invoke on your user page).
  • I see that you have already updated your template with future assignment, journal entry, and class journal links. You should include the "Journal Entry" category there as well.
  • Please include the Acknowledgments and References section on your User page. In subsequent weeks, you will have these sections on each individual journal page.
  • You wrote something in the summary field 15/19 (79%) times during the period of review for this assignment. This is pretty good, but remember we are aiming for 100%. Also, the number of edits is a little on the low side. Think about saving more often with smaller incremental edits.
• I'm glad the Janovy reading inspired you to think of yourself as a biologist!

— Kdahlquist (talk) 12:40, 25 January 2024 (PST)