The End of the Semester
Remember Ken is away for parts of November:
- You have lots to work on, get those blog posts up.
- Rubric is posted
- Reading for this week “How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour“
Image Credit
Week 15 – Down Under
Author: Ken
Week 14 – Rescue Mode? I Hope not
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
Week 13 Open Source
Open Source
We are in exam 13 and I will be away this week at a conference. You will still have much to work on and some of you have catch-up work to do. Remember that there are practical exercises in the previous week posts to check out. 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!
- No class on Wed/Thurs November 2/3. 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 9th and 10th.
- No classWed/Thurs November 16/17. Ken will be a keynote at the FlipCon Adelaide Conference in Australia.
Week 11/12 Exam Weeks
Week Eleven and Twelve
We are in exam weeks (last week and this one) and then Ken will be away for two week 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 Wednesday October 26th and Thursday October 27th (see below).
- No class on Wed/Thurs November 2/3. 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 9th and 10th.
- No classWed/Thurs November 16/17. Ken will be a keynote at the FlipCon Adelaide Conference in Australia.
Week 10 – Double Digits
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:
Week 09 – Midway Point
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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- I will release the Rubric for partial#2 later this week
- 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.
Wednesday Activity
Cracking Passwords with John the Ripper.
Go check the links in our Slack, really go check there.
Thursday Activity
We have a guest speaker (courtesy of Fernando Chávez) who will give his points of view on systems security
The practical activity for Thursday is to install and play around with packet analysis and IDS. Again check the links in Slack, I pinned both of this weeks main links.
Next Week’s Topics
Stay tuned for links in Slack but these are our topics for Week 10
- Encrypting a directory (possible Dropbox) using encfs
- File Integrity Monitoring
Week 07 – Guest Speaker, Catchup, Refactor Course and Ciphers
Guest Speaker
This week we will be joined on Thursday by Dr. Cam Macdonell and he can talk about many of his projects but is particularly interested in asking you students why you chose to student your degree. I am working on a research project to create collaboration between our CS1 courses next winter 2016.
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
Continue reading “Week 07 – Guest Speaker, Catchup, Refactor Course and Ciphers”
Week 05 – Scheduling
Scheduling
One of the key reasons I create a flexible system of scheduling and submission of work in my course is to allow students the flexibility within their own schedule.
Of course, that flexibility can be dangerous for those not used to scheduling.
This Week’s Task
So you are all busy with exams but I think a great task for this week is to lay out a schedule for your work (blog posts for mastery, non-mastery posts, reading chapters or video topics). You can change plans along the way but it is useful to have a plan. I recommend you make a blog post about your plan for the semester in this course and setup a schedule via Google Calendar or another resource.
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
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.
Week 04 – How are You?
Student Centered is about You
As is the case in any course, the students (and teacher) will adjust to each other as the semester moves on. How are you doing? Are you progressing in your growth in programming and in particular in Python3?
Have you visited Ken in (or out of) his office yet? That one-on-one communication is essential to a true student centered experience. You should aim to meet Ken at least three times this semester (so about once per partial). You can arrange to meet with Ken via this link: kenbauer.youcanbook.me
Tools
A List
This is a simple list that I intend to come back and update/edit as we go through the semester. I encourage you to suggest more via the comments below our via a Tweet using #TC2027 and #Tools
- Rescuetime, where is your time going? Fun to look at after about a month of use.
- IP Tables. Setup a firewall on a Linux machine and watch the logs. What traffic is going out and coming in? Why?
- Setup a cheap router with open source firmware like DD-WRT or Tomato
- Port Scanners and Intrusion detection, find your favourite tools but do *not* scan networks without permission.
Week 5 Activity (Sept 7)
Public Private Key Pairs, links follow
- http://www.bitcoinnotbombs.com/beginners-guide-to-pgp/
- https://futureboy.us/pgp.html
- https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/book1.html
What to do?
- Generate your key pair
- Have a signing party
- Encrypt and/or sign to multiple people
- What happens if you lost your private key (or password to private key)? On no, what should you do?
Week 6 Activity (Sept 15)
Filesystem Encryption.
Encrypt a directory on your hard drive and even better how about your Dropbox folder?
