Here are the syllabus documents for our Spectrum classes. You can click on each title to download that syllabus.

• Chemistry 201
• Chemistry 201 & 201L Calendar
• Math 101
• IT 101 & IT 102--Microsoft Word and Excel
• Math 116 Statistics

You could also click on my MSU directory and download from there if it's more convenient.

My apologies for the delay--I've had some Internet connectivity problems.

Crochet in Plaid, My Favorite Color -
Here's another crochet-skills-building exercise I've worked through. These place mats are rectangles of crochet mesh, and my big accomplishment is that I have the same number of stitches on each row. At least in the case of mesh stitches worked in yarn, I'm now able to create actual rectangles, sporting lovely parallel sides.

Hello, SPEC 10 students! You can get the Math 102 syllabus and the IT syllabus by clicking on these links:

• SPEC Information Technology 100, 101 and 102
• SPEC Math 102 Syllabus

I was interested to find this projection on where ebook prices will eventually land. I hope these guys are right!

Pricing innovations are inevitable in the digital world as well. Prices of e-books should be shaped by cost structures and customer demand rather than by comparison to traditional p-book pricing. A stand-alone electronic book business has radically different economics than the print business: If we assume that the average retail price of a print book is $10, then the average wholesale price is $5 (the $5 difference represents the retailers’ costs for store rent and personnel, including a profit of, at most, only 50 cents for the retailer); the costs of paper, printing and binding are roughly $1, the author’s royalties (15 percent of retail price) $1.50, internal publishers’ costs (including marketing, sales, warehousing, inventory management and distribution) of approximately $2, on average, leaving a publisher’s margin of 50 cents.

Here are some Excel spreadsheet tutorials, reference sheets, and other resources. Enjoy!