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By the Antigua & Barbuda Ministry of Education Planning UnitAs part of the IT Curriculum Enhancement Program (ITCEP) Update: Project Resources, 2 June To IT Teacher Workshop participants: Congratulations on your work! Here are share resources for each of your projects, in case you decide to keep iterating… and/or if…
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By the Antigua & Barbuda Ministry of Education Planning Unit
As part of the IT Curriculum Enhancement Program (ITCEP)
Update: Project Resources, 2 June
To IT Teacher Workshop participants: Congratulations on your work! Here are share resources for each of your projects, in case you decide to keep iterating… and/or if prototyping resources become available through MoE or other sources!
- Automatic Teacher Assigner (by The Arrays): It might be possible to make a minimum viable prototype using formulas in a shared, collaborative spreadsheet like Google Sheets.
- Training Instructors & Students (by the Atoms): the MoE Planning Unit is connecting with a Trinidad-based organization called Restore a Sense of I Can, which has an e-waste collection and repair program that could be a good partner for your project.
- Commute Antigua (by the Ballers): if you use Microsoft Azure, they have an open source “Fleet Tracking” codebase that includes a web dashboard and an Android app.
- Teachers’ Aid on Wheels (by the Hummingbirds): Instructables.com has several instructions to make mobile charging carts, including a solar-powered cart and a simple plywood cart. Instructables also has student competitions (with prizes) and a dedicated teachers’ section.
Also: I remembered (a bit too late) that Free Python Games for Python 2 was much easier to install than the current version. Here is the repository as I used it in the NYU Prison Ed Program, though be warned that Python 2 was sunsetted in 2020.
AGENDA: Monday, 30 May
9:00-10:00 As participants arrive:
- If you have a laptop, you could try
- Installing Python: https://www.python.org/downloads/
- Alternatively, you can tinker with an online Python compiler. (Thanks to Janine Edwards of ASC): https://www.onlinegdb.com/online_python_compiler
- Launching Python IDLE (will be installed with Python)
- If you want to tinker with the basics, take a look at the free textbook Think Python 2e. More about this book (including an HTML version) is at here.
- If you want to tinker with games specifically built for teaching, check out Free Python Games. You can read the installation directions in its Github respository.
- If you’re using Windows, you’ll need the Windows command line and you might need to install pip before you can install Free Python Games.
- Installing Python: https://www.python.org/downloads/
- If you have a phone, you can skim the resources above. We will also explore Design Thinking in our workshop:
10:00 Presentation: New IT Tools to Consider
10:30 Break
Please write your name down on your name-tag and sign-in form.10:45 ITCEP Consultancy Findings & Recommendations
11:15 Ideation Exercise
In groups. Please come up with a fun name for your group.11:45 Shareback: Themes & Group Names
Over the next 24 hours, please think about the themes that are shared, try to read more on Design Thinking, and consider forming a WhatsApp conversation with your group.12:30 Lunch, open discussion and tinkering
ITCEP leaders will convene to determine Prototype Challenge Question for Tuesday.1:30: END
For tomorrow, please bring scissors if you can!
Also bring markers, tape, and/or anything you think might be useful to make cardboard prototype.AGENDA: Tuesday, 31 May
9:00 Arrival. As your group members arrive:
- Please discuss the strengths you bring to the Prototype Challenge, e.g. crafting, interviewing potential users, building consensus, presenting, etc.
- More sites to peruse while you wait:
- The Python and Design Thinking sites listed in the 9:00 hour of yesterday’s agenda.
- Google Colab. This site is an online version of iPython (aka “Jupyter”) Notebooks, a popular Python tool for data analysis.
- Splash Robo Club, run by Tiffany Azile
- When Keron John arrives: a demo of Free Python Games
9:30 Prototype Challenge Begins! We will explain
- the Challenge Question
- the Deliverables
- the Judging Criteria of desirability (most important), feasibility, and sustainability
10:00 – 12:00 Prototype Challenge! After you ideate and devise your solution, please be sure to
- Find and chat with at least 1 Power User: a person who is excited to use your solution. They must be a real person who isn’t in your group. Be ready to present their story.
- Make a Paper or Cardboard Prototype.
- If you can, show the prototype to your Power User and get their feedback.
- Put their picture (and any other relevant pictures you want to present) in this shared Google Slideshow.
12:00 Presentations, Judging, Awards
Including lunch
During this time, please fill out the Feedback Form. Thanks!1:30 END
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Announcements Tech check Seating check Giveaways Current upcoming class activity dates: 10/21: Remote class with “Human Subjects” training 10/26 or 10/28: Gowanus (infrastructure), weather allowing 11/02: Visit to Bobst 11/9 or 11/11: Borough Hall (politics), weather allowing 11/16: Remote Environmental and Racial Justice conference 11/23: Visit to Dibner 12/02: Remote…
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Announcements
- Tech check
- Seating check
- Giveaways
- Current upcoming class activity dates:
- 10/21: Remote class with “Human Subjects” training
- 10/26 or 10/28: Gowanus (infrastructure), weather allowing
- 11/02: Visit to Bobst
- 11/9 or 11/11: Borough Hall (politics), weather allowing
- 11/16: Remote Environmental and Racial Justice conference
- 11/23: Visit to Dibner
- 12/02: Remote VPL make-a-thon
- 12/07 or 12/09: Remote Emojis & Inclusion
Interesting Events
- Tomorrow is International Pronouns Day!
- NYU’s Pronouns Guide
- Friday: Intro to LGBTQ+ @ NYU. I’ll probably do this training for you as well.
- This month is Relationship Violence Awareness Month.
- Go Ask Alice! (@ Columbia U Health)
Agenda
- Today: walk to Gowanus? Or Microaggressions training in classroom?
- Microaggressions Training. Get ready to move!
- Video: Microaggressions as mosquito bites (Fusion Comedy)
- Video: Microaggressions (Quartz)
- Microaggressions: Research Papers and More
- Intersectionality came from Technology Issues!
- Intersectionality: Video discussions with Kimberlé Crenshaw (considered to have originated this term)
- Feminist Frequency (who provides an up-to-date overview)
- America’s Assembly Line: Discontent, a chapter on the era on which “Intersectionality Theory” was coined.
- Why Intersectionality Can’t Wait (Crenshaw)
- Tables and Images (if we have time)
Assignment: 3000-word Midterm Checkpoint on 10/21
- I left a comment in your paper if it’s under 3000 words.
- By Thursday, you should have written about 3000 original words, meaning that your total word count will be around 3300-3600. (This is because there were about 300 words in the original template. I’ve also been seeing citations averaging at about 150 words.)
- Please see the syllabus for the grading rubric, which is based on word count and participation.
- I will start reading for content on 10/21 and leaving comments in the coming days. I expect to give you all As for your midterm!
- I won’t be grading for content, but I’ll leave comments using this spreadsheet as a guide, based on the Checklist linked from Project Resources.
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Announcements Tech check No seating check (remote) Giveaways! Last chance for Outside Ideas. Now in the Diversity menu of this site: Resources, Due Dates, Class Recordings. More interesting orgs and events NYU Institute of African American Affairs NYU Veterans Future Lab Asian American / Asian Research Institute @ CUNY Acknowledgement to…
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Announcements
- Tech check
- No seating check (remote)
- Giveaways!
- Last chance for Outside Ideas.
- Now in the Diversity menu of this site: Resources, Due Dates, Class Recordings.
More interesting orgs and events
- NYU Institute of African American Affairs
- NYU Veterans Future Lab
- Asian American / Asian Research Institute @ CUNY
- Acknowledgement to Land Back: The Path to Justice for Indigenous Peoples (Brooklyn Public Library)
- Global Grassroots Leaders Climate Summit
- RSA Cybersecurity Event with Secretary of US DHS and CEO of Girl Scouts (past event)
Agenda: Hour 1
- What terms should you use to describe socioeconomic status (SES)?
- NYU: Capstone Project Guide
- And what is PICO?
- And what is PICO?
- Citing statistics: see Davy’s article in Resources From/For Community Partner Projects
- Resources for Lit/Tech Review projects
- More resources for Qualitative Analysis projects
- NYU: Text Analysis in Digital Humanities
- NYU: Text Data Mining (I started looking at OpenRefine)
- Analyzing Qualitative Data: With or Without Software? (Boston University)
- If you’re interested, try setting up a Taguette account so I can add you to the HAART Taguette project
- More useful guides
Agenda: Hour 2
- Questions 1-on-1.
- Inside since it’s rainy.
Assignment: First Checkpoint
- Please aim for those 1200 words by Thursday! I will start leaving comments soon.
- We will do spot checks in class.
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Announcements All projects are still due today, but I will accept extra credit until Monday 5/24 at 4pm. If you need me to submit your grade today, let me know if you haven’t already. AAPI Forum on May 26 (see bottom of page for poster) Books for Students Internship/job ops &…
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Announcements
- All projects are still due today, but I will accept extra credit until Monday 5/24 at 4pm. If you need me to submit your grade today, let me know if you haven’t already.
- AAPI Forum on May 26 (see bottom of page for poster)
- Books for Students
- Internship/job ops & thoughts
Agenda
- Reminder: for Unity Project 5s, please submit all the project subdirectories as a zip file.
- Reminder: for Unity Project 5s, please fullscreen your environment and minimize the Unity UI.
- Project 5 Presentations and Critiques
- Everyone can share their screens today.
- For each student presentation, I’ll ask two other students to speak: one student will offer a short appreciation and another student will offer a brief suggestion. All students can type additional thoughts in the chat.
- Please limit your comments to one of the following attributes:
- AUDIENCE: would this animation potentially serve or not serve specific people(s)?
- INFORMATION: is a narrative or important data clearly conveyed?
- MOOD: how do the pacing, movement, form, & color establish an environment?
- If we have time: Internship/job ops & thoughts
- If we have time: books
Assignments: only extra credit can be submitted after today. EC cannot replace projects.
- Check the Projects + Extra Credit page for EC options. For any extra credit option, please write up 3+ paragraphs to have your EC count as a full assignment. Three or more fully completed EC assignments can help to raise your grade significantly.
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Announcements Contacting Prof this week AAPI Forum on May 26 (see bottom of page for poster) Books instead of microcontrollers? Agenda (not recording today) 1-on-1s. I’ll speak with each of you 1-on-1 while you work on your project. I’ll give you an update on your grade and make suggestions if…
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Announcements
- Contacting Prof this week
- AAPI Forum on May 26 (see bottom of page for poster)
- Books instead of microcontrollers?
Agenda (not recording today)
- 1-on-1s. I’ll speak with each of you 1-on-1 while you work on your project. I’ll give you an update on your grade and make suggestions if needed.
- Please indicate in the chat if you need to leave immediately at 6PM so I can prioritize you during class.
- If you need or can provide help on the tech topic, you can pop into a separate breakout room; I’ll make 4 multipurpose breakout rooms that anyone can go into.
- If you help another student and they verify that you significantly helped them, you get 1 pt of extra credit added to your overall grade.
- If you haven’t already, please fill out an anonymous Teacher Evaluation for Prof D. Thanks!
- Smartphone: www.hunter.cuny.edu/mobilete
- Computer: www.hunter.cuny.edu/te
- Want extra credit ideas on Audre Lorde?
- Africa-Asia Conference (discussed in her “Notes on the Trip to Russia”)
- Contemporary Woman Poets video: Audre Lorde reads her work
- Recent Audre Lorde exhibit
Assignments
- Project 5 is due before class next week. Please come to class ready to share and say farewell! ?
- The project must be submitted on time. NO EXCEPTIONS without an official accommodation from the Office of Accessibility (accessability@hunter.cuny.edu or call (212) 772-4857).
- Like with Project 3, we will prioritize a more formal critique in the first part of class, in which I’ll ask folks for “appreciations” and “suggestions” for the parameters of AUDIENCE, INFORMATION, and MOOD. I’ll ask for more feedback on AUDIENCE this time.
- If you owe any previous project(s), get them in next week or please discuss an alternate plan with Prof! I will submit grades immediately after class for most students.
Announcements: Extra Credit
- Follow and make up a write-up of 1 or more of the tutorials used by your classmates:
- Tutorials/resources shared in last week’s breakout rooms
- First Person Controller: Spherical Worlds (Nelson)
- Making BREAKOUT in 10 MINUTES (Jorge)
- How to make Fireflies in Unity (Rubin)
- FIRST PERSON MOVEMENT in Unity – FPS Controller (Ken)
- ZenvaAcademy_TheCompleteProceduralTerrainGenerationCourse.pdf (Michelle)
- First Person Camera using Cinemachine (Michelle)
- Making a Realistic Environment with Unity in 1 Hour! (Brian)
- Brackeys Game Dev Tutorials (Doris)
- Low Poly Tree Modeling Tutorial (Cathy. Note the discussion of Level of Detail at 15:45)
- Artstation Learning (Franky)
- Check the Projects + Extra Credit page for more EC options. If any of your projects are late, I strongly encourage you to submit extra credit work.
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Announcements Post-vaccine slowness The last day to request a Credit / No Credit Option is tomorrow, May 7. https://hunter.cuny.edu/students/registration/register-for-classes/credit-no-credit/. Note that you must still submit Project 1 and two of the other projects (2, 3, 4, or 5) to receive credit for this course. A few people still owe Project 4.…
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Announcements
- Post-vaccine slowness
- The last day to request a Credit / No Credit Option is tomorrow, May 7. https://hunter.cuny.edu/students/registration/register-for-classes/credit-no-credit/.
Note that you must still submit Project 1 and two of the other projects (2, 3, 4, or 5) to receive credit for this course. - A few people still owe Project 4. I will DM you today if this is the case.
Agenda
- 3:10
- Project 4 Presentations
- Unity online dashboard
- Breakout groups (and EC opportunity!) to play around with
- Neural Networks in Unity: Chapter 5, Data Visualization in Unity
- Solar System VR tutorial
- Tutorials suggested by your classmates from Project 4 (see EC section)
- Or any technical topic that you suggest in Unity, Maya, and/or Blender.
- 5:00 Break
- 5:10 Please fill out an anonymous Teacher Evaluation for Prof D.
- Smartphone: www.hunter.cuny.edu/mobilete
- Computer: www.hunter.cuny.edu/te
- 5:15
- Breakout share-backs
- Project 5 brief check-in
- Final Conceptual Bits
- Part III of Semiology of Graphics
- Tufte: Envisioning Information & Color
- Office Hours: Audre Lorde
- Prof: share last week’s link
- Africa-Asia Conference
- Contemporary Woman Poets: Audre Lorde reads her work
- Recent Audre Lorde exhibit
Assignments
- Project 4 is overdue! Please submit ASAP if you haven’t already.
- Start or continue working on Project 5 and come to next week’s class with questions. We will do 1-on-1s and have studio time during next week’s session. The usual class policy still applies to this class, so plan to attend the entire class.
Announcements: Extra Credit
- Follow and make up a write-up of 1 or more of the tutorials used by your classmates:
- First Person Controller: Spherical Worlds (Nelson)
- Making BREAKOUT in 10 MINUTES (Jorge)
- How to make Fireflies in Unity (Rubin)
- FIRST PERSON MOVEMENT in Unity – FPS Controller (Ken)
- ZenvaAcademy_TheCompleteProceduralTerrainGenerationCourse.pdf (Michelle)
- First Person Camera using Cinemachine (Michelle)
- Making a Realistic Environment with Unity in 1 Hour! (Brian)
- Brackeys Game Dev Tutorials (Doris)
- Low Poly Tree Modeling Tutorial (Cathy. Note the discussion of Level of Detail at 15:45)
- Artstation Learning (Franky)
- If you’re interested in more about Earth terrain data:
- Check the Projects + Extra Credit page for more EC options. If any of your projects are late, I strongly encourage you to submit extra credit work.
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Announcements NEW (non-Hunter) ZOOM LINK. Please check your email! Vaccinations Emojis as Digital Language was cancelled due to a labor strike. The last day to request a Credit / No Credit Option is May 7: https://hunter.cuny.edu/students/registration/register-for-classes/credit-no-credit/. Agenda 3:10 Project 4 Presentations Unity build chat (using Physics Playground) Unity online dashboard Has…
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Announcements
- NEW (non-Hunter) ZOOM LINK. Please check your email!
- Vaccinations
- Emojis as Digital Language was cancelled due to a labor strike.
- The last day to request a Credit / No Credit Option is May 7: https://hunter.cuny.edu/students/registration/register-for-classes/credit-no-credit/.
Agenda
- 3:10
- Project 4 Presentations
- Unity build chat (using Physics Playground)
- Unity online dashboard
- Has anyone used Zoe without VR?
- If there’s time: Dream Machine rigs and deformers
- 4:50 Break
- 5:00
Assignments
- Technical Stuff:
- Project 4 is overdue! Please submit ASAP if you haven’t already.
- Next week, we will experiment with the Solar System VR tutorial.
- Conceptual Stuff
Announcements: Extra Credit
- Follow and make up a write-up of 1 or more of the tutorials used by your classmates:
- First Person Controller: Spherical Worlds (Nelson)
- Making BREAKOUT in 10 MINUTES (Jorge)
- How to make Fireflies in Unity (Rubin)
- FIRST PERSON MOVEMENT in Unity – FPS Controller (Ken)
- ZenvaAcademy_TheCompleteProceduralTerrainGenerationCourse.pdf (Michelle)
- First Person Camera using Cinemachine (Michelle)
- If you’re interested in more about Earth terrain data:
- Check the Projects + Extra Credit page for more EC options. If any of your projects are late, I strongly encourage you to submit extra credit work.
