04 September 2011
Slides Week 1 Available
08/09/11 12:14 Filed in: 480
You can download the slides for Week 1 now, either through the schedule by clicking on the link for the topic, or by going to the directory http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~fkurfess/Courses/480/F11/Slides/. The latter is preferable if you want the Keynote version instead of a .ppt file. You can also find last year’s version of the slides for the other chapters. Most likely I’ll make minor changes before I use them in class, but the overall arrangement for a chapter will not change too much.
Blackboard Access Set Up
08/09/11 12:14 Filed in: 480
Blackboard should be available now to most of the 480 students. It’s usually about a day behind with enrollment information, so if you’ve added this class only today, your name may not be on Blackboard’s class roster.
We'll use it mostly for the following:
* Submission of assignments (there's a menu entry "Assignment Submission") and possibly some of the labs,
* AI Nugget presentation (under “AI Wiki”). If you already have a topic, pick a date, and enter your name and topic in the table with the presentation schedule. You'll also add a Wiki page there with your topic proposal, and later the draft and final versions of your presentation material.
* Grades; I’m keeping the grades in a spreadsheet (after losing all the grades in a Blackboard mishap a few years ago, I’ve learned my lesson), but I’m copying them to Blackboard on a regular basis.
Please note that the Wiki and the Discussion Board are part of a different, permanent course ( CSC-0480 ALL RELATED COURSES (CSC-0480-FKURFESS)), and linked to the 480 menu entry. I’ve copied the enrollment to that course, so it will appear in your list of Blackboard courses as well.
Those of you who have added the course later may encounter broken link or access permission problems. If those persist for more than a day, let me know, and I’ll check into it.
Depending on how you navigate, you may also see the menu for that course, which has a darker shade of green as background, and different entries in the list of options on the left.
We'll use it mostly for the following:
* Submission of assignments (there's a menu entry "Assignment Submission") and possibly some of the labs,
* AI Nugget presentation (under “AI Wiki”). If you already have a topic, pick a date, and enter your name and topic in the table with the presentation schedule. You'll also add a Wiki page there with your topic proposal, and later the draft and final versions of your presentation material.
* Grades; I’m keeping the grades in a spreadsheet (after losing all the grades in a Blackboard mishap a few years ago, I’ve learned my lesson), but I’m copying them to Blackboard on a regular basis.
Please note that the Wiki and the Discussion Board are part of a different, permanent course ( CSC-0480 ALL RELATED COURSES (CSC-0480-FKURFESS)), and linked to the 480 menu entry. I’ve copied the enrollment to that course, so it will appear in your list of Blackboard courses as well.
Those of you who have added the course later may encounter broken link or access permission problems. If those persist for more than a day, let me know, and I’ll check into it.
Depending on how you navigate, you may also see the menu for that course, which has a darker shade of green as background, and different entries in the list of options on the left.
AI Nuggets Presentations
08/09/11 12:14 Filed in: 480
If you have a topic for your AI Nugget presentation, you can sign up for it on Blackboard. Go to the “AI Wiki”, and follow the link to the presentation schedule for your section. Instructions are on the Wiki. I will publish the Web pages with more information on the AI Nuggets task soon. If you’re looking for topic ideas, try my collection of Web snippets in the AI Nuggets Evernote Notebook. You may also find some ideas in a related notebook, KM Nuggets, with an emphasis on knowledge management.
Class News as RSS Feed
08/09/11 12:14 Filed in: 480
If you want to, you can follow theses class updates through an RSS feed. Since this is unlikely to be of interest to anybody outside this class, I’m not planning on making it available through one of the popular RSS channels. Let me know if you think that there would be any benefits in doing so.