Tag: Teaching

  • Design School 2007,
    Me in 2008, and a Blizzard

    Happy new year +3! What follows is my experience in 2007 as a graduate student and the opportunities it afforded me, as well as what I will be doing in 2008. Finally, I mention the blizzard that is about to hit Mammoth Lakes, California, where I currently am. Design School and 2007 Two thousand and…

  • Classes for Final Semester

    Course registration for the spring semester began today. I was a bit sad the past few days realizing that the classes I chose were to be the last of grad school. There are still many courses that I would like to take. But alas… In addition to my thesis project and thesis paper, I am…

  • 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…

  • Teaching Video Sketching

    As part of my Design Computing class, I am introducing my students to video sketching as a prototyping tool. For most of the students, this is new, but something they will end up doing repeatedly throughout their time at the School of Design. Today, John Zimmerman gave a guest lecture on video sketching, complete with…

  • 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…