Exam Link - http://duxtech.pbwiki.com/f/YourName-CourseName-Fall08Exam.doc
Quick Simple Problems
Make a QuickSimpleProblemCard
Use the Quick Simple Problem process to identify and solve as many problems as you can in one period. Use the card to keep track of the problems, and identify future problems you will need to solve.
In your online documentation, write about how the process of using Quick Simple Problems is working for you.
At the end of the period, hand in:
Quick Simple Problems
Make a QuickSimpleProblemCard
Use the Quick Simple Problem process to identify and solve as many problems as you can in one period. Use the card to keep track of the problems, and identify future problems you will need to solve.
In your online documentation, write about how the process of using Quick Simple Problems is working for you.
At the end of the period, hand in:
What is the simplest thing that you can test that will help you on your project?
Write a description of how you would choose something easy to test, form an idea of what to test, test it and evaluate the results.
Identify several quick simple problems that you can work on. Cycle through them as quickly as you can. See how many you can solve in one period. If you run out, identify more Quick Simple Problems you can solve on your way towards your larger project goal. Don't get bogged down in complexity.
Follow your plan.
If you have external dependencies or other problems, speak up!
Work your plan
Looking for high school mentors
Interested in having a workshop on the vinyl cutter next week?
Monday works best.
Need: a plan, possible participants, publicity
Looking for high school mentors
Interested in having a workshop on the vinyl cutter next week?
Monday works best.
Need: a plan, possible participants, publicity
What is your plan?
You should have an online version of your plan. It should be publicly visible by the end of this period. Print a copy of it and hand it in for a grade.
The plan is there to help you focus on doing independent work and getting the assistance you need. The plan helps you work towards a goal, not to move away from things you don't want. The plan helps you work towards YES. If you need help, supplies, advice, you need to ask for it. you should be able to explain how your needs and activities fit in to your overall plan. Our discussions should be centered around getting your goals and plan achieved.
If you do not have a plan, we will develop a group plan that a number of people can participate in. There are many possiblities, we will choose a path this period and follow it through. If at some later time, you develop a plan that you would like to work towards, we can negotiate that into your classroom activities.
To work most effectively, it is important that you set out a plan early on.
Good project plans take many forms.
The plan is there to help you to focus on the important tasks.
If parts of the plan become unrealistic, then the plan must be modified to relect changes in technique, supplies, time and other advances or setbacks.
Below are some features of the planning that should help you form this document.
Think in terms of by thanksgiving, by christmas and by the end of the term for the calendar.
The plan must be typewritten and saved online for later use.
Plans evolve, but should be clear enough that they don't have to be thrown out.
Wiki, blog and other online tools are great for this kind of project.
Reflections on the term
Looking Forward
Consciousness of time
Processing is a language that is a lot like java and c/c++ in many ways.
The project listed below encourages people to learn and use processing to make a monster sprite.
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/11/processing_monsters_by_lu.html
Write a reflection about the term that has just ended. Print two copies, one to hand in, and one to bring to your parents. Write in positive, affirmative language.
Some links that relate to the work we have done and will do:
Students may run the discussion
Introductions All around
Explain what you have been working on
Intro to programming for DHS students
People in class should work in small groups to
Work up a plan for how to show a group of students how to program.
Design a project that can be done by these students next week.
Test the project, and have it ready to demonstrate to high school students next week.
Continue with your personal projects
How can you use programming to increase people's awareness of another subject?
Some ideas:
Mr. Connors will be at Maker Faire in Texas until next Tuesday.
http://makerfaire.com/austin/2008/education/
Questions:
What are the most common parts of the computer programs that you have made?
People in class should work in small groups to
Work up a plan for how to show a group of students how to program.
Design a project that can be done by these students next week.
Test the project, and have it ready to demonstrate next week.
Continue with your personal projects
How can you use programming to increase people's awareness of another subject?
Some ideas:
Where can we publicly post our goals for the month and semester?
Scratch game that we all add to?
What can we do to record the facts we find?
What is more important, facts or process?
How can we leave a record of what we find and do?
What can we do to measure the information that people have learned in class?
What questions can we provide for the end of course exam?
Make a tutorial?
Add your work to the gallery of the semester's work
Who would be the audience?
What would we do?
When should we do it?
robo Girl, creepy or incredible? http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1777667.ece
Where can we publicly post our goals for the month and semester?
What can we do to record the facts we find?
What is more important, facts or process?
How can we leave a record of what we find and do?
What can we do to measure the information that people have learned in class?
What questions can we provide for the end of course exam?
Lets set up a presentation system so people can show the work they have done so far
Add your work to the gallery of the semester's work
Who would be the audience?
What would we do?
When should we do it?
Where can we publicly post our goals for the month and semester?
What can we do to record the facts we find?
What is more important, facts or process?
How can we leave a record of what we find and do?
What can we do to measure the information that people have learned in class?
What questions can we provide for the end of course exam?
Lets set up a presentation system so people can show the work they have done so far
Who would be the audience?
What would we do?
When should we do it?
Where can we publicly post our goals for the month and semester?
What can we do to record the facts we find?
What is more important, facts or process?
How can we leave a record of what we find and do?
What can we do to measure the information that people have learned in class?
What questions can we provide for the end of course exam?
As we work on projects, how can we keep each other from Project Hopping?
Project Hopping is when a person gets into a project, then finds it difficult and starts up another project. When this gets out of control, it can lead to lots of busted stuff and not much to show for it.
How can we present our work for the month of October?
DHS, DMS, Duxbury community?
What would we show?
Looking for student leaders link
Timeline of the semester: http://duxtech.pbwiki.com/TimelineOfFallSemester
Personal Goals for semester
What do you want for the semester?
What do you want for the next milestone?
How can we use online resources for sharing information?
All online resources should be used only for the course subject inside class.
How can this be recognized and evaluated?
Deadlines
Criteria
Discussion:
Look at the timeline of the semester: http://duxtech.pbwiki.com/TimelineOfFallSemester
Personal Goals for semester
What do you want for the semester?
What do you want for the next milestone?
Discussion:
What can we show of our work so far?
Discussion:
Cleanup
What do we need in the room?
What don't we need?
What do we need more of?
How can excess materials be disposed of appropriately?
Did you do this for homework?
MIT Swapfest this sunday
Take the survey this weekend for homework
What did you learn?
What was fun?
What was frustrating?
How can we keep everybody in the same ideas?
Cleanup
What do we need in the room?
What don't we need?
What do we need more of?
How can excess materials be disposed of appropriately?
Ideas
Deadlines
Goals
Do for homework:
Scholarship opportunity
http://www.aesengineers.com/scholarships.php
How did it go?
What was frustrating? Fun?
What were the facts?
How could we extend the idea by adding more time and requirements?
Check out the possibilities!
Programming ideas
As a group, we pick the items most commonly held
and the other items we could work towards
These subjects will be placed visibly in the room so we can refer back to them during the semester.
Have you done the survey yet?
Deadline for getting a grade:
Link to survey: link
Who else has a stake in what we learn in this class?
Make a group list
What should we ask them?
Make three questions as a group.
We need to gather some hardware from room 234.
These materials may be what we use this semester.
Cart, elevator key, quiet in the hall, stuff like that.
External expectations
How are you expected to behave in class?
Work individually - Written on paper
Share with another individual in pairs - Written on paper
Share with the group
We will need a scribe to record the results of this discussion.
Do this survey at home:
Here is the link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=3_2f_2bUQ7nwCYoYMcifUhCZkw_3d_3d
9-4-08
Safety form hand in.
Questions about Computers
What is a Computer Program?
What are Programmed Qualities?
How can we organize and classify the above answers?
Program a Person
9-2-08
Welcome Back!
Housekeeping stuff
Safety forms, grading policy, rules
Programming