Project work continues. My group began coding this week, and by now they have a fairly good structure set up, along with some basic functionality, like the ability to send messages over a network using a servlet (which meant that I got to learn about servlets). They've also started their business plan, including researching their competititors and figuring out how they will make their product superior to the competition. Here, Alex, Anna, Amir, and Waseem work to finish the presentation for tomorrow.
And finally, possibly the highlight of the day:
Explanation: We've been trying to figure out ways to make our kids focus in lab. Last week, Zach and Humberto wrote a script that kills all of the games every 1 minute. Yesterday, they altered the script to mute the computer volume every minute so they'd stop listening to music. Today, however, Humberto and Max figured out a way to kill flash, thus effectively preventing them from enjoying Youtube and other internet flash games. Hehe. The best part? Every flash game, every Youtube video will instead display an animated gif I created that says:"You should be working on your project!"
Excellent.
4 comments:
Think you could hook me up with that for my classroom? Or maybe for home, everytime I open up email instead of working on my masters stuff....
That's so cruel. Yet, the evil side of me wants to know how you did it.
Could you teach me how to do that so I can get Kelsey to focus on her summer reading... I swear it's not because I want to drive her mad.
Oh, well done. Kim, you sound gloriously evil about this. I'm so proud.
Amy
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