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April 28 - Week 14
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In Class:
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Prof. Van Carey of Mechanical Engineering - Will talk about Java and his his research using Java in Heat Transfer and Thermal Systems.
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Due:
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Updates to your Home Pages - Due April 30.
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April 21 - Week 13
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In Class:
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Lawrence Lee - Will talk about his work on Lucas Learning's www.droidworks.com.
Prof. James Landay of Computer Science - Will talk about his research with Palm Pilots. See his research lab homepage at guir.cs.berkeley.edu.
Discuss Midterm Self/Peer Evaluation - We'll talk about the overall results from the self/peer evaluation
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Upcoming Items:
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Prof. Van Carey of Mechanical Engineering - Will talk about his research with Java.
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Reminder:
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May 5 - Final Project Presentation
Follow Final Project Specifications
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Due:
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Updates to your Home Pages - Due April 30.
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April 14 - Week 12
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In Class:
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Preliminary Project Presentation - Each team will make a 10-20 minute presentation of their project. Make sure to keep in mind the Final Project Specifications.
Midterm Self/Peer Evaluation - Fill out the online peer evaluation form by the end of the week. Go to Self/Peer Evaluation Form.
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Upcoming Items:
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Lawrence Lee will talk about his work on Lucas Learning's www.droidworks.com next week.
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Reminder:
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May 5 - Final Project Presentation
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Assignment:
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Self/Peer Evaluation Form Due by Friday, April 16.
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April 7 - Week 11
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In Class:
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Introduction to Digital Video - Guest lecturer, Robert Lettieri will give a brief introduction to Adobe Premier and Apple's QuickTime.
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Assignment:
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Prepare for a 10-20 minute Preliminary Project Presentation for next week (4/14/99).
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April 7 - Week 10
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In Class:
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Final Project Specifications
Introduction to Macromedia Flash - Guest lecturer, Howie Vu will give a brief introduction to Macromedia Flash. Howie Vu's office hours: W 1-5:00pm 226 Kroeber Hall; Th 1-5:00pm in the Mac Lab. (He has a class from 10-1:00pm and office hours afterwards. If there are no questions he only stays at the begining of office hours, so its best for ME39C students to arrange to meet with him or be there at 1:00pm.)
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Assignment:
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Prepare to present your updated storyboards for next week (4/7).
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March 24
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Upcoming Items:
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Happy Spring Break!
Upcoming Dates:
- March 31 - Revised Storyboard and Project Description Due On-line
- April 7 - User Interface Mock-up Due
- April 14 - Preliminary Project Presentation
- May 5 - Final Project Presentation
Class Grading
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Assignment:
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Revised Project Defintion/Description and preliminary storyboard for your project.
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March 17 - Week 9
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In Class:
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Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Work on Projects - Most of today's class will be to work with your project teams.
Team Evaluations - Take a look at the team evaluation form that we will use later in the semester. You will fill these out twice, once a "mid-term" peer review and a final peer review at the end of the semester.
Discuss "Interactivity" Interests
Class Grading
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Due:
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Project Defintion/Description and preliminary storyboard for your project. |
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Assignment:
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Revised Project Defintion/Description and preliminary storyboard for your project.
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March 10 - Week 8
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In Class:
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Review Grading
- Remember you can improve your scores by revising your essays and updating your home pages.
Storyboarding
Work on Projects - Most of today's class will be to work with your project teams.
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Due:
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Project Proposal Postponed till Next Week - Again
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Assignment:
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Write the a Project Defintion/Description and preliminary storyboard for your project. This is due at the beginning of class next week on Wednesday, March 17.
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March 3 - Week 7
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In Class:
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Review What's Hot/What's Not Evaluation
Review Grading
Discuss Project Teams - We should have the teams finalized for class today.
User Interface Design (continued) - We'll discuss user interface design a bit more today.
Storyboarding
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Due:
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Project Proposal Postponed till Next Week
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Assignment:
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Write the a Project Defintion/Description for your project. This is due at the beginning of class next week on Wednesday, March 10.
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February 24 - Week 6
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In Class:
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Review Teaming and Meyers Briggs/Keirsey Temperment Sorter
User Interface Design I
Virtual Disk Drive Design Studio and Disk Drive Dissection
Discuss Project Ideas: We will pick project teams today. Current list of suggested projects.
What's Hot/What's Not Evaluation - On one side of the card write down what you like about the class, on the other side write down what you'd like to see us cover in the class.
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Due:
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Add 2-3 websites that have User Interfaces that you like, and 2-3 websites that have User Interfaces that you think could be improved to your personal website. We'll discuss these in class.
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Assignment:
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Postponed! - Write the a Project Defintion/Description for your project. This is due at the beginning of class next week on Wednesday, March 3.
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February 17 - Week 5
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In Class:
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Brainstorming
Discuss Project Ideas: We will begin working on the class projects soon, here's where we can discuss any ideas that you might have. Current list of suggested projects.
Introduction to Teaming and Meyers Briggs/Keirsey Temperment: What's this all about?
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Due:
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Your personal website is due at the beginning of class on Wednesday, February 17.
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Assignment:
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Add 2-3 websites that have User Interfaces that you like, and 2-3 websites that have User Interfaces that you think could be improved to your personal website. We'll discuss these in class.
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- February 10 - Week 4
- In Class:
- Review Lab Logistics - Any Questions?
- Discuss Case Studies and Essays
- Digitization and Scanning
- Continue Working on Class Homepage
- Review How to Create Your Home Page
- By the end of the class you should have most of the text on your home page completed:
- Have Essay #1 and Essay #2 linked and converted to HTML
- Most of the fields should be updated (e.g., name, e-mail, contact info)
- Due: Essay #2 - Case Studies: Compare and Contrast. Bring the Essay on floppy disk preferably in a Microsoft Word Document format. (You will need an electronic copy to add to your class webpage). If you are able, email it as ascii text or an attachment (Microsoft Word 4.2.x, 95, 97 or 98 format) to mura@needs.org and aagogino@needs.org
before class.
Assignment: Your personal website is DUE by Wednesday, February 17 at the beginning of class.
- February 3 - Week 3
- In Class:
- Review Lab Logistics - Any Questions?
- Your accounts are accessible from outside this lab.
- FTP - How to FTP Into Your Account
- If you're using a Mac and are in a campus lab or in the dorms, you can use the Chooser to connect to the maclab.me.berkeley.edu. Follow the same directions as you use in lab: AppleShare - How to Log Into Your Account using AppleShare.
- If you're using a Mac, running OS 8.0 or greater and connect to the network via an ISP you can still use the Chooser. After selecting Appleshare, you can select Server IP Address. In the box enter 128.32.126.152, enter your username and password as normal.
- If your using Win95/98/NT and are in a campus lab or dorms, you can map your account as a network drive. Ask Brandon for more instructions.
- Continue Working on Class Homepage
- Review How to Create Your Home Page
- By the end of the class you should have most of the text on your home page completed:
- Have Essay #1 linked and converted to HTML
- Most of the fields should be updated (e.g., name, e-mail, contact info)
- Examine Case Studies
- We will be looking at Case Studies in class on Wednesday, February 3,
1999. In particular we will focus on the MMCSweb Case Study Library. In
class we will break into groups and explore the Mattel Case Study. After
examining the case study, each group will then be assigned another case
study to compare with Mattel.
- Assignment: Essay #2 - Case Studies: Compare and Contrast, Due: In Class 2/10, bring the Essay on floppy disk preferably in a Microsoft Word Document format. (You will need an electronic copy to add to your class webpage). If you are able, email it as ascii text or an attachment (Microsoft Word 4.2.x, 95, 97 or 98 format) to mura@needs.org and aagogino@needs.org
before class.
- January 27 - Week 2
- In Class:
- Lab Logistics - Assign computer accounts and How to Use the MacLab
- Begin Working on Class Homepage
- Due: Essay #1 - Using Multimedia and the World Wide Web for Technology Enhanced Learning on floppy disk preferably in a Microsoft Word Document format. (You will need an electronic copy to add to your class webpage). If you are able, email it as ascii text or an attachment (Microsoft Word 4.2.x, 95, 97 or 98 format) to mura@needs.org and aagogino@newton.me.berkeley.edu before/during class.
- Assignment: Bring in information for your personal website by next week 2/3.
- January 20 - Week 1
- Welcome to ME39C! You should check this page throughout the semester, we'll be posting your assignments, any "handouts", and important announcements.
- Course Description
- Syllabus
- Student Survey
- Introductory PowerPoint Slides (HTML and Powerpoint 98)
- In Class: Introduction and Course Goals. Introduction to the Global Network -- Email and the World Wide Web
- How to use Netscape and Searching the World Wide Web.
- If you don't have an email account, you can get one from UCLink for free.
- Assignment: Essay #1 - Using Multimedia and the World Wide Web for Technology Enhanced Learning, Due: In Class 1/27, bring the Essay on floppy disk preferably in a Microsoft Word Document format. (You will need an electronic copy to add to your class webpage). If you are able, email it as ascii text or an attachment (Microsoft Word 4.2.x, 95, 97 or 98 format) to mura@needs.org and aagogino@newton.me.berkeley.edu before/during class.
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