Learn to fish

There is a very widely known saying:
'Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.'
Variously attributed to 'Unknown', 'Chinese Proverb' or 'Lao Tzu'.

This saying is very pertinent to teaching. Sometimes it's a lot easier to hand out fish! However sometimes it's easy to teach a few fishing tricks. Here's one that you can use for the rest of your Berkeley career, and beyond, that surprisingly few people seem to know about. I may mention this in class on Wednesday but you read it here first.

Now that the Internet has calmed down a bit from its initial birth pangs many sites have fairly reliable url's. These include websites for large classes such as Bio1B. For example the Bio1B website has been http://ib.berkeley.edu/courses/bio1b/ since 2001. You can use a site like the Internet archive to go back in time to look at the site in the past. Why would you want to do that? Well you can easily pull up reading lists from the 6th or 5th edition and you can find some past quizzes that might be useful for review. You don't need to restrict yourself to the summer you can look at sample exams that might have been posted by others that teach this course. Of course they may cover some things we don't and vice-versa but there will be a LOT of overlap - we do compare notes and syllabuses you know!

This time last year: Brave New World