http://www.idkfa.com/v3 idkfa: syndicated http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=67&msg_id=372 I'm guessing it was about as effective as I imagine my fictional lecture on programming principals would go over for an audience of middle school kids. While I may have found it fascinating when I was that age, I also realize I was a pretty weird kid. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) Status Report, 2010 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:49:00 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=67&msg_id=372 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=67&msg_id=369 When I was teaching kids 'science!', it was very much like the last example. Scrotor@idkfa.com (Scrotor) Status Report, 2010 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:51:50 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=67&msg_id=369 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=67&msg_id=108 Science fiction tells us not that we will do away with keyboards, but instead, will start mounting them on walls and other surfaces that make it difficult or painful to type. Glad to hear you're starting a student website. Is it going to be a custom job, or are you going to put up an instance of something like Drupal/Wordpress? It'd also be pretty sweet to have your video hosted through your student site as well. Oh, Gaggle. We deal some with it here at AT&T, mostly with school districts switching over to it after they get tired of us serving their fourth grader's student inboxes with spam. Hope it works out for you guys. Guest lecturing? Man... a thousand worst-case scenarios just flashed through my head. --- Student: "Mr. Holleman, why was that man such a horrible public speaker?" Mr. Holleman: "We tried, Darlene..." (rubs pain out of eyes) "We tried." -- Josh: "So, kids. Let's start simple. How do you think a computer works?" Student: "Well, there's electricity, and a processor, that does work on the programs..." Josh: "WRONG!" --- Josh: "Well, you see kids, if you traverse your B-tree with a tail-recursive algorithm, that means your interpreter won't have to store the extra code on the stack after every call. This makes your recursive calls more like loop iterations, but with the ability to solve problems more elegantly and efficiently, and potentially over a more complicated data structure. This also has nice properties when it comes to parallelism..." (time passes) Josh: "Well, you see kids, the trick to iptables firewalls is to recognize the order in which the built-in chains are executed upon, and after that, which custom chains you've defined are being called. You also have to keep in mind the processing load incurred with every packet, such that if you have a single chain handling all of your kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) Status Report, 2010 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:53:17 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=67&msg_id=108 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=67&msg_id=107 Well, in some ways, it really hasn't changed. The packaging is a little different. Yeah, kids still need to learn how to type. I think I might have suggested that keyboards would be disappearing by the time you guys got out of high school. Missed the timeline on that one. We have a large plasma screen in the commons area, the school website, and we'll be trying to start a student website with those insightful sort of items a student newspaper once had. The emphasis will be on creating content to fill the outlets. There's a lot more work with video than when you went through. Along the way, Word, Excel, PowerPoint....except we're using a service called Gaggle.net to issue email with a lot of oversight that incorporates Zoho apps. I'll probably focus on Zoho more than Office, per se. Guest lecturer from someone in the profession?? The honorariums aren't high, but you get to pick out which kid looks most like you did back then...... Buzz@idkfa.com (Buzz) Status Report, 2010 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:56:17 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=67&msg_id=107 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=67&msg_id=74 Glad to hear you're getting back into teaching. Your classes were definitely what I looked forward to on a weekly basis. What're they having you teach them? Word processing / Office basics? Any curriculum for advanced students (programming, design, etc.)? kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) Status Report, 2010 Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:11:40 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=67&msg_id=74 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=67&msg_id=67 I'll take the honor of leading off - somewhat ironic in that not only has little changed in the past year, I could generally describe life in much the same way I did decades ago when IDKFA was in its heyday. I still go to Goldenview every workday (and a few others). For the past 4 years I've been "out of the classroom" and focused on making the technology work. This fall I ease back in with a single computer class - the direct descendant of the class a few of you might have taken back in before the day. I would be curious if an GV alumni return, as, once you've gone to high school, most people forget their middle school. But a few do not..... Buzz@idkfa.com (Buzz) Status Report, 2010 Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:30:58 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=67&msg_id=67