Monday, August 11, 2008

Almost there.

So, this is where I apologize profusely about falling behind in the blogging. It seems I've missed recording about 1.5 weeks of MEET, including MEETConf, the Apprentice Event, and 2 awesome Year 2 milestone presentations. Not only that, but I've skipped an exciting trip to the north this past weekend and a spectacular trip to the desert during the previous weekend. What can I say, I've been busy. I plan to work briefly on creating some backdated entries with my own photos, and in the meantime, I'd encourage you to check out Sally's blog, if you haven't already been keeping up with it. Sally, my fellow instructor, is much more proficient on the blogging, and much better at keeping up to date. Definitely read the entry about the lecture we attended yesterday. I couldn't have described it better myself.

As for my students, they're nearing the end of what's been an awesome summer. The Year 2 curriculum culminates in a final presention, which this year is modeled as a pitch to a venture capitalist. This presentation will occur on Thursday, which means tomorrow is the final day to finish everything. This morning, however, my team managed to produce a functioning program, which is able to send both text and drawing messages across the network. The students were positively bubbling with excitement, and it's amazing to see the quality of work they're accomplishing along with their enthusiasm for working together to finish this project. Tomorrow, they'll work to polish their final deliverables (poster, presentation, video demo) and finish up bits of code. It should be an awesome day.

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Also.

Happy Birthday Dad!

2 comments:

Eva said...

Wow. You and Allie both had similar things to say about Israel...and I miss you!
Sounds rather amazing though. The fact that people can just put things together in Java...mmm. Wish I could do that.

POST MORE THINGS or just send us all lots of emails.

:-D

~Eva
(I'm at home and BORED there is nothing going on)

Teknik Informatika said...

What programs do you give students to keep them creative and competitive?