Posted in Computers, Students Intrigued by Technology on March 31, 2007 | No Comments »
How do geeks spend their first weekend of Spring Break? Parting out old Pentium I, II, and III computers, of course. Our club is working with the campus IT department. We provide the manpower to sanitize hard drives, salvage usable components, and sort parts into recycle stacks. In exchange, the club gets to keep [...]
Posted in Creating Community, Students Intrigued by Technology, Teaching and Learning on March 28, 2007 | No Comments »
I told Gavin the other day that he could only be a card-carrying member of the Nerd Herd when he could recite his favorite quote from Monte Python, verbatim, and with the appropriate accent. We have created a shared culture in this group, one that revolves around Python Quotes, curiousity about new technology, lego robotics, [...]
Posted in Creating Community, Students Intrigued by Technology, Teaching and Learning, robotics on March 27, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m almost recovered (with emphasis on the ALMOST) from the Nerd Herd World Tour. I’m finally recouperated enough to write up the last day. We had a 15 passenger van and a car or two in our caravan, travelled about 700 miles total, visited two University of California campuses, and got to see inside a [...]
Posted in Creating Community, Students Intrigued by Technology, Teaching and Learning, robotics on March 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Stardate Intergalactic Time: 190324.1519.40
Yesterday (Friday) morning started off with breakfast at UC Riverside (again, we got a LOT for our $3!) before meeting up with a campus tour guide to take a tour of the entire campus. We learned the UCR was founded as a land grant agriculture university and that they have created [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Thursday we all piled into vans and trucks and headed south to UC Riverside. After taking the scenic tour of the campus (ie: getting lost walking around) we arrived at the VisLab were PhD candidate Rui Li have us a tour of their research facilities. After that we went to the bookstore to pick up [...]
Posted in Creating Community, Students Intrigued by Technology, Teaching and Learning, robotics on March 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Here’s what I’ll be doing for the next few days. Taking about a dozen of the nerd herd and heading south. It’s gonna be a blast!
Thursday
Arrive at Cerro Coso library parking lot 8:30am
Leave Cerro Coso 9am
UCR Lunch - noon
Tour of UCR VisLab (http://vislab.ucr.edu) - 2pm Led by Rui Li, PhD student
The Visualization and Intelligent Systems [...]
