Posted in Creating Community, Second Life, Teaching and Learning, robotics on January 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Hi folks,
I hope your first week was a great one. I’m sure you are just as busy as I am! As you are going through your class intros this week, can you flag the names of students who are CS/CIS majors? I am going to be doing a lot with the majors this semester and [...]
Posted in Creating Community, Second Life, Teaching and Learning on January 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Last night I was wandering around Morocco with an info fez on that told me what I was looking at. One of my Pepperdine students and one of my Cerro Coso students were there with me as I tried my hand (or foot) on a Moroccan soccer field, jumped on a sailboat on the mediterranean, [...]
Posted in Teaching and Learning, robotics on January 10, 2007 | No Comments »
by Laura Hart-Special to the Sun
It was a rescue scene at the Kern River Valley campus of Cerro Coso College last weekend as heavy equipment moved away some boulders to make way for a temporary bridge to allow rescue personnel to remove a fallen tree from a victim pinned underneath. However, the vehicle used to [...]
Posted in Teaching and Learning, robotics on January 9, 2007 | No Comments »
I just wanted to take a moment to thank the entire staff at KRV for the warm welcome we received there last week. Gayle, Inge, Tim, and Paul were wonderful! We came in on Wednesday and took over half their building for our robotics workshop. At every turn, for every request, everyone at KRV did [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 6, 2007 | No Comments »
Today’s Theme:
Try it out
Talk it out
Work it out
Find it out
So, they all came in this morning pretty confident that it would be an easy day and they would have lots of time to work on other stuff. Haha! They are learning that the devil is in the details… it’s the small things that are causing [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 6, 2007 | No Comments »
“This learning thing is pretty cool.” ~ Jim (KRV Robotics class)
Posted in Uncategorized on January 5, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve really made a point of pushing out to the front one or two of my helpers, and they have stepped up to the plate wonderfully. Josh has taken some ownership over this whole event and is really learning what it means to be on the other side of the looking glass. This is from [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 4, 2007 | No Comments »
We ended up with an unexpected mix of people participating in this class. I thought it had been marketed only to high school kids so all of my planning and expectations had been geared toward a room full of teenagers. Instead, four kids and four adults found their way to the RoboLab. We spent the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 3, 2007 | No Comments »
Busy, busy day, one full of little details and big plans. We packed up our stuff, loaded up the suburban, ran a few errands, and headed out of Dodge around 11:30am. Forty-five minutes later, in another ecosystem, we arrived at the KRV campus. The first challenge was to find out where to get into the [...]
