Week Fifteen/Sixteen, Almost there.

Remember, Ken will be away for parts of November. But don’t worry I will have lots for you to do:

• Blog, blog, BLOG! Check the rubric which is available here.
• PLEASE fill out the ECOA (evaluation of teachers). Remember that this is an evaluation of the teacher, not the content of the course material and in many cases chosen textbooks. I always aim for 100% participation of my students and I take your comments seriously to help improve my pedagogical practice.
• You should create a blog post (counts as extra post) and a video if you could (YouTube embed on post) as a course review. This also helps me improve my practice.
• Your exam is Tuesday, November 29th at 8:30am until 11:30am. The exam is all of the mastery topics.

Feature Image Credit

Reblogged from my own blog

Post Conference Reflections

I was away for four days of classes last week but I left work for my #TC101 #TC1019 and #TC2027 classes. They shouldn’t miss my presence in front of the room since I’m not the focus of the class. Some of those students embrace that fact but some are still reaching to grok what I mean by this student-centred and flipped (in the sense of flipping roles) classroom.

I know, it is difficult, it is messy, but as my good friend (now I actually met her in person) Laura Gogia says it right on the title of her blog “Messy Thinking“. I was able to rename this blog to “Connecting is Learning” through her influence and that of many other amazing educators at (and not at but present through the wonders of Virtually Connecting) #OpenEd16 in Richmond, Virginia, USA.

Students are People

Continue reading “Week 14 – Rescue Mode? I Hope not” →

Week Thirteen, Reading

Remember, Ken will be away for parts of Novemeber. But don’t worry I will have lots for you to do. Remember that you can contact me anytime via Twitter, Slack, Facebook, email and more.

• No class on Tuesday November 1st and Friday November 4th. Ken will be at the The 13th Annual Open Education Conference. You can see my schedule here, follow along on Twitter with #OpenEd16 and I will be blogging about what I did that week for the conference.
• Classes as usual November 8th and 11th.
• No class Tuesday November 15th and Friday November 18th. Ken will be a keynote at the FlipCon Adelaide Conference in Australia.

Continue reading “Week 13 – Reading” →

Week Twelve, another exam week

We are in exam weeks (last week and this) and then Ken will be away for three classes with you during November for two conferences. Please be sure to be pushing yourself as well as keep in contact with myself and your colleagues via Twitter, Slack and all other methods!

 

• Class as usual on Friday October 28th. We will be discussing tools for a new software development project.
• No class on Tuesday November 1st and Friday November 4th. Ken will be at the The 13th Annual Open Education Conference. You can see my schedule here, follow along on Twitter with #OpenEd16 and I will be blogging about what I did that week for the conference.
• Classes as usual November 8th and 11th.
• No class Tuesday November 15th and Friday November 18th. Ken will be a keynote at the FlipCon Adelaide Conference in Australia.

Continue reading “Week 12 – More Open Source and Tools” →

Week Twelve, another exam week

We are in exam weeks (last week and this) and then Ken will be away for three classes with you during November for two conferences. Please be sure to be pushing yourself as well as keep in contact with myself and your colleagues via Twitter, Slack and all other methods!

 

• Class as usual on Friday October 28th. We will be discussing tools for a new software development project.
• No class on Tuesday November 1st and Friday November 4th. Ken will be at the The 13th Annual Open Education Conference. You can see my schedule here, follow along on Twitter with #OpenEd16 and I will be blogging about what I did that week for the conference.
• Classes as usual November 8th and 11th.
• No class Tuesday November 15th and Friday November 18th. Ken will be a keynote at the FlipCon Adelaide Conference in Australia.

 

Continue reading “Week 12 – More Open Source and Tools” →

Eleven, so of course

We are in exam weeks (this week and next) and then Ken will be away for three classes with you during November for two conferences. Please be sure to be pushing yourself as well as keep in contact with myself and your colleagues via Twitter, Slack and all other methods!

Continue reading “Week 11 – This One Goes to Eleven” →

Yes, Ten

I’m leaving this behind to emphasise this. Please be active helping others and seeking help as well as sharing. That is indeed what learning is about. Let me share you an excellent video by Derek Muller (famous for Veritasium) but also an excellent educator. I share this often with other teachers but feel it is important to share with you as well. Please give it a view:

So we are half way through the semester and doing well. The rest of the semester continues focused on what each of you needs to work on as individuals and small groups. I will include the daily challenges (each class day) here below but first a few points:

Continue reading “Week 10 – Double Digits” →

Half Done

So we are half way through the semester and doing well. The rest of the semester continues focused on what each of you needs to work on as individuals and small groups. I will include the daily challenges (each class day) here below but first a few points:

1. Remember, this is student-centered learning, you need to drive the learning and ensure that I (and classmates) are helping you get what you need and pushing you to keep learning.
2. Keep an eye on this page but even more important, be sure that you are watching our Slack Channel. You could install the app for Android, iOS,Windows Phone, Windows Desktop, Mac or just check the course slack page once a day or so.
3. I will keep posting to Twitter since it brings in outside perspective to our work and helps expose you to your growing Personal Learning Network. I invite you to do the same.
4. I will release the Rubric for partial#2 later this week
5. There will be more readings assigned that I suggest (based on request). As always not required but I will assign only readings (and/or videos) that I feel are appropriate and well written for you.

Tuesday Discussion

All about UML, go check the links in our Slack, really go check there.

Friday Discussion

Design Patterns is the topic for Friday. I would also like to wrap up the AMA that we had with Kent Beck

Next Week’s Topics

Stay tuned for links in Slack but these are our topics for Week 10

• Unit Testing with JUnit
• Open Source Software

Guest Speaker

This week we will be joined on Thursday by Dr. Cam Macdonell and he will talk to us about Python, GitHub and perhaps how to connect Python to Twitter.

You can read a recent article about how Cam worked with the Edmonton Public Libraries on a project with his computer science students.

This Week’s Tasks

Remember that you should already have done your research on who Kent Beck is so that we can all ask him questions this week (Tuesday mostly) in our “Ask Me Anything” that he setup for us on Facebook.

Keep plugging away on your mastery topics.

Meetings with Ken

Remember that Ken has a very flexible schedule (there are those two words again) for you to meet with him outside of class as well as in class time. You can (and should 3 times per semester minimum) make an appointment to meet with Ken one-on-one. Use the scheduling system for that https://kenbauer.youcanbook.me/index.jsp

Weekly Video

Going to take a break on the weekly videos and see about creating the requested videos. I have requests so far for:

• GitHub and how to use it
• Ubuntu Bash shell for Windows 10
• Any other requests? Contact Ken via Twitter using the hashtag #TC1019

Have a Great Week!

Keep working on your deliverables and ask myself and your colleagues for help via Twitter, email or perhaps you could try the Slack that I setup for anyone with an “@itesm.mx” address.

What Happened to Week 06?

Good question….