Lecture Plan: Axons and Dendrites
What this document is
This page is a build plan for an instructor assembling a lecture on this unit. It gives the slide sequence, per-slide timing, the points at which figures belong, and the speaker notes that carry the argument. It is a design document, not a rendered deck: there are no slides on this page to project, and nothing here is written to be shown to learners as it stands.
A separately maintained Marp deck for this unit does exist, and it is linked at the foot of this page under Rendered deck artifacts. That deck was authored in its own right and does not follow this plan slide for slide, so treat this page as the teaching design and the Marp file as one existing implementation of it. The learner-facing material is the unit page linked under Connections.
Session profile
- Audience: annotation and QC teams handling process-type decisions.
- Duration: 75 minutes lecture + 15 minutes edge-case adjudication.
- Output: axon-vs-dendrite decision matrix and confusion analysis.
Slide-by-slide lecture plan
- Slide 1 (2 min): Title and decision impact on graphs
- Slide 2 (5 min): Why process misclassification propagates error
- Slide 3 (6 min): Morphology cue library
- Slide 4 (6 min): Organelle and synaptic-role cues
- Slide 5 (6 min): Multi-cue voting strategy
- Slide 6 (6 min): Continuity checks across slices/branches
- Slide 7 (7 min): Edge case I: thin dendrites
- Slide 8 (7 min): Edge case II: en passant boutons
- Slide 9 (6 min): Edge case III: truncation and missing context
- Slide 10 (5 min): Confidence schema and escalation rules
- Slide 11 (5 min): Team calibration protocol
- Slide 12 (5 min): QA metrics and confusion matrix interpretation
- Slide 13 (5 min): Activity setup
- adjudicate three ambiguous examples.
- Slide 14 (5 min): Debrief and bridge to glia boundaries.
Figure integration points
- Primary shortlist:
course/units/figures/06-axons-and-dendrites-selected-v1.md. - Include side-by-side cue panels and at least one contested case.
Speaker notes (expert-level)
- Avoid single-cue decisions; require convergence or explicit provisional labels.
- Quantify downstream impact (motif counts, edge direction errors).
Assessment and artifacts
- Deliverable: decision matrix with evidence fields and confidence tags.
- Rubric dimensions: cue integration quality, consistency, and auditability.
Connections
- Unit page: Axons and Dendrites
- Journal club: Technical Track Journal Club
- Dictionary: Connectomics Dictionary
- Existing module overlap: module04, module09
Rendered deck artifacts
These are the separately maintained Marp deck artifacts for this unit. They are not generated from the plan above, so their sequence and timing differ from it.
The HTML deck presents directly in a browser. The Markdown source is the one to
take if you want to adapt it — it renders with Marp.
For PowerPoint, run ./scripts/render_marp.sh --pptx; the exports are not
committed because the full set runs to tens of megabytes.
Batch render helper: ./scripts/render_marp.sh