PROJECT+SUGGESTIONS+&+STARTERS

Hello from Fort Collins, Colorado? It appears Jason & I got our signals crossed; the intention was to get this into your hands sooner, but here, nonetheless, is a list of (15) potential project "starters", meant to stimulate your imaginations, about (any of) which I would be glad to speak to any of you at greater length, here or in person. This project of yours does not have to be – in fact, //should// not be – of particularly large scope; you should in most cases just choose a simple question to address, and address it simply. I notice from my viewing of some of the talk on the wiki that there are potential project ideas percolating here already, the main //caveat// I would raise with respect to which is: don't get too complicated, or too grandiose! If you try to look at too many "variables" or influences, you won't be able to see what's going on with any of them with any clarity!

At the moment this project starter document is just a link to an html file (and/or a pdf file); I would have preferred inserting it directly into the wiki as a bona fide page, but at this wee hour it wasn't crystal clear how to do that, and rather than fuss with niceties, I thought I'd just do what I could to get the information from "point A" to "point B". Niceties later. In fact, just to be sure you all see this ASAP I am going to email it to you directly, erring on the side of redundancy. This placeholder will still be here, in some form or another.

Last but not least: The 175 "project" doesn't have to take the form of an experiment at all – see the syllabus (a very informative document btw). It can also look more like a research paper or a "microworld" or some web-multimedia thing the form of which I haven't even spelled out.

- gjb