Tag: flash
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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 was 2.09, and for me as an instructor, 1.91. I must…
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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 being very different from the previous version—but to some extent inexperience…
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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 computer lab. And my introduction and presentation…
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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 design students how to prototype in Flash. I can’t say…
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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 intentionally changing server passwords), I did not have the…