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POD
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
First message to the tutors
Hello! (FIT1039 tutors)
Golly things have moved fast. First Welcome to the unit - it's going to be a lot of fun, but a bit bumpy to start with - won't take long for it to settle.
Let's have a big meeting next week or the week after week's tutorial. In that I'll give you an overview of the semester ahead. My preference would be for that to be on Tuesday. Please let me know if you have free time Tuesday.
In the labs the students will be doing lots of hands-on work with you. They be doing a heap of web development using HTML and CSS (of course), Joomla and some third party sites (like wufoo.com and wix.com). More on that later.
I'll have all the tutorials up on Moodle in a form that they actually should be able to work through without help - making your life easy (I hope).
The first week's tutorial isn't up yet, but will be soon - and it's a little different. To get ready for that - download a copy of http://www.realsoftware.com/realbasic/, and work through this tutorial: http://oreilly.com/pub/a/mac/2004/11/19/realbasic.html. Yes, they are going to make their own web server (not going to use it for much, but it will help to show what web servers do). That tutorial page is for an older version of RealBasic, the one we actually use will be for the current version, so you'll need to make allowances for that just for the moment while you wrap your head around it. I'll let you know when that's up on Moodle.
As you know (I hope :-) ), we are going to run our classes in the new cool B3.52 teaching space. Should be fun. The downside is that students will need to bring their own laptop. If they don't have a laptop, there is one class allocate to a normal lab. Mostly they'll be using software running on the web - and uploaded onto a student web server (student-web.infotech). In the first week they'll need a copy of RealBasic, I'll burn a bunch of DVD with that on it - but also have it for download via Moodle.
In the first week spend some time getting to know them, show off the room, make sure they all can connect to the network, and then get them to work through the exercise. I'll email a bit more in the next few days - any questions, fire them at me.
Really looking forward to working with you and having a great semester.
POD
P.S. Going to post everything to do with the unit on a blog - fit1039.blogspot.com. If you lose anything, you'll find it there, so bookmark that and use it for reference.
Golly things have moved fast. First Welcome to the unit - it's going to be a lot of fun, but a bit bumpy to start with - won't take long for it to settle.
Let's have a big meeting next week or the week after week's tutorial. In that I'll give you an overview of the semester ahead. My preference would be for that to be on Tuesday. Please let me know if you have free time Tuesday.
In the labs the students will be doing lots of hands-on work with you. They be doing a heap of web development using HTML and CSS (of course), Joomla and some third party sites (like wufoo.com and wix.com). More on that later.
I'll have all the tutorials up on Moodle in a form that they actually should be able to work through without help - making your life easy (I hope).
The first week's tutorial isn't up yet, but will be soon - and it's a little different. To get ready for that - download a copy of http://www.realsoftware.com/realbasic/, and work through this tutorial: http://oreilly.com/pub/a/mac/2004/11/19/realbasic.html. Yes, they are going to make their own web server (not going to use it for much, but it will help to show what web servers do). That tutorial page is for an older version of RealBasic, the one we actually use will be for the current version, so you'll need to make allowances for that just for the moment while you wrap your head around it. I'll let you know when that's up on Moodle.
As you know (I hope :-) ), we are going to run our classes in the new cool B3.52 teaching space. Should be fun. The downside is that students will need to bring their own laptop. If they don't have a laptop, there is one class allocate to a normal lab. Mostly they'll be using software running on the web - and uploaded onto a student web server (student-web.infotech). In the first week they'll need a copy of RealBasic, I'll burn a bunch of DVD with that on it - but also have it for download via Moodle.
In the first week spend some time getting to know them, show off the room, make sure they all can connect to the network, and then get them to work through the exercise. I'll email a bit more in the next few days - any questions, fire them at me.
Really looking forward to working with you and having a great semester.
POD
P.S. Going to post everything to do with the unit on a blog - fit1039.blogspot.com. If you lose anything, you'll find it there, so bookmark that and use it for reference.
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