Design Computing Course Evaluations

Last week, the course evaluation results were made available for Introduction to Design Computing, the course I taught last fall. Unfortunately, the feedback I got was not very positive. In fact, it was outright deplorable. Out of 5, the average score for the course...

Midway Through Design Computing

We’ve hit the midway point in the semester for Design Computing. And I must confess that my first teaching experience had a bit of a rough start. There were a bunch of factors that affected this—planning Emergence, not following last year’s model, Flash C3...

Survived My First Day Teaching

Today was the first day teaching Intro to Design Computing. It was my first day teaching anything, ever, officially. I didn’t die. So hurray! But it was harder than I thought it would be. My throat got dry and we’re not allowed to have any drinks in the...

Teaching Next Semester

A while back Dan Boyarski asked if I would teach Introduction to Computing in Design this fall, and I accepted. The title of the course doesn’t say a lot, and the current description is even worse. But essentially I will be teaching the incoming interaction...

Else/Where Project Complete

Consuming the majority of my school time recently has been the visualization of information space project, which was due today. My space was the book Else/Where: Mapping. Due to all the other stuff I??????ve been up to or had to deal with (like being accused of...