I'm spending a lot more time teaching other people to code than I am actually coding at the moment. Whilst I like teaching, this is not at all in line with how I want to be spending my time. I TA a mandatory computer course in the management school, and I have a friend taking another mandatory ...
Tonight, I ran my first workshop in Wave. It was nice to have a space to discuss things, and unlike in a chat client it's easy to indicate what you're replying to. What I did was create a slide deck and make it available the day before. Then on the day, I was available to ...
Tomorrow I'm running an introduction to Java via Wave. Because I've had a degree of interest from non-complete beginners in learning Processing, I've split the content so that one session will be Java: Building Blocks which will teach the very basics of Java but does not introduce Processing, and the other session will be An ...
I've been thinking about this a lot lately, given certain circumstances I find myself in. And I've realized that in all my time at university (I'm entering my 6th year) I've had two great professors. The kind that inspire you, the student, with passion. Who explain clearly. The ones who teach the classes that you ...
The class I TA for has to create presentations in Powerpoint using transitions and music. A million miles from Presentation Zen, hey? There are some good examples of stand-alone presentations using transitions and music though - caveat is, stand-alone is an important point. If you tried to present with so much movement behind you, your ...
My supervisor teaches classes in the business school, and is looking for an assignment on Social Networking to use, perhaps as early as next semester. Of course given that I spend much of my time thinking about, reading about and writing about social networking and most of the rest of it actually socially networking myself, ...
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