Here is one of the pieces I was discussing the other day:
“In class, I have to power down”
At a recent digital education conference in San Francisco, one of the more memorable remarks quoted came from a child: “Whenever I go into class, I have to power down.” That roughly translates as: “What I do with [...]

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Hey all:
I’ve added the Week 2 notes to the Google Document for your viewing pleasure. Feel free to check them out to help you with your directed reading.

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Hey all:
I’ve added Tuesday’s lecture notes to the Google Doc and near the bottom of the document is the Word Tutorial, which we’ll go over on Tuesday as well. It’s not hard and if you’re nerd-a-rific like me, you might want to give it a shot now.
I’ll be adding Thursday’s lecture notes by Monday so [...]

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Hey all:
I’ve launched a Wiki for the MIN 352 class, where you can put your developer blog (which would make it a developer wiki). I highly recommend using this because we can communicate with each other FAR more effectively.

The Wiki will have ALL of the tutorials for the technologies we’ll be using in this class [...]

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Hey MIN 496:
Your documents for the class are up in the DOCS section; the syllabus will be updated with a timeline when you are finished with that.
For next week:

launch your developer wiki (Please use PBWiki) and then you’ll need to add me with my GMAIL account;
begin to put your timeline together with what you know [...]

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Hey MIN 499 (On Demand)
Next Friday, we’ll need to plot out the timeline for the class; you’ll need to make a decision about what company you’ll use (I would STRONGLY recommend Lightning Source).
That means you need to find a company, read their specs and begin to determine how and when you think you can get [...]

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I’ve added the rubrics to my website: http://www.thedudeman.net

The syllabus is available under the “teaching” tab
The rubrics and descriptions are available under the “docs” tab

The Wiki we’ll use is here: http://min499ondemand.pbwiki.com/

I’ve added you to the Wiki with the above email addresses
I’ve create individual pages for you (Grant, Nikki) and a [...]

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View of Barack Obama’s Speech at Invesco Field in Denver
To MIN 352:
Here’s an interesting take on the start of Barack’s speech last night (please view it in full screen). This combines photography, audio and design together to give us a completely overwhelming view of what it must have been like last night.
To JOU 220:
The question [...]

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Here are your first two proficiency exams (and yes, JOU, it’s not due til Thursday). To see them in their entirety, make sure you click on the individual link

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Hey MIN 352:
I’ll be adding to this list of software that we’re going to delve into on Thursday, Sept 4. There may be a little outside reading, but the best thing for you to do is to delve into this stuff and play around a bit. We’re going to spend some time tinkering with these [...]

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