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

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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!

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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.

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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:

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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:

  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.
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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.

Click image for original publication.
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This Week’s Tasks

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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.

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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

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Week 03 – Wake Up

Yes, Wake Up

The natural flow of a semester is week one is settling in, week two is getting comfortable and week three is #OhMyExamsInTwoWeeks.  So this will be short (at late, my apologies).

Key Points

  • Be on time for class. Respect the others that do arrive on time please. There is no required attendance for this class but there is an expectation of contribution to the community learning. Attendance is important to create that community as well. Note that attendance plays a small part in your self grading rubric.
  • The Mastery topics are ALL the topics for the course, some were thinking I only released the work for a few weeks or the partial. Nope, that is everything (minimal, you should push to do more).
  • You should be blogging and getting comfortable doing it. Don’t just do the minimum (again, that point). Dig deep, find the details in multiple locations, look at other posts by your classmates (I admit that you will NOT have time to read them all).
  • Read OTHER students’ posts. Tell them thank you, comment on their blog and share a good post you find via Twitter using hashtag #TC2027 or any other social media you choose to show others examples of good work.
  • Visit Ken in his office or somewhere not in class. This is part of your self-grading rubric. You should aim for at least once each partial and three or more visits in the semester. Can be about the course and often students talk to me about non-course material which is actually more important. Make an appointment via this link.
  • Be a student #AllTheTime but remember #LifeBalance. You should be constantly thinking about your studies, not just when “studying”. Your education is your life, your life is learning. Remember of course to have fun, get involved in other activities on campus and most importantly: help other people.

Video

tldr: plus more video brings more emotion to the discussion. Also, live from Starbucks on campus.

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Comments? Questions?

Ask me in class, ask me out of class, ask others as well and come visit, I am here to help you learn and grow.