<Lame!>The usual excuses about being too busy etc</Lame!> here's a quickie for what I've been doing recently:
- Spent the summer supervising a visiting French student, helping him to learn PHP and MySQL programming (I over-estimated what he knew before he arrived, so the project he was to work on proved very challenging ... still, it's 75% complete & working)
- Been to an excellent conference in Southampton from the HEA ICS subject centre
- Joined a project at work to use technology in the classroom for rapid feedback -- used "ppvote" technology once (writing questions is hard!)
- Done some "cat-herding" work with also-too-busy colleagues with widely-varying opinions on the age-old question: Why do some students find introductory programming modules so hard? Arriving at some consensus actions is hard!
- Written two brief articles for our University newsletters: one on computer-assisted assessment and how to tell if it's working, the other on a speech recognition project that I and two colleagues have a PhD student working on (dictating Maths!)
- Did some L&T/feedback work with some guys from an Indian University with which we have a collaborative agreement
- Presented L&T technologies to some visitors from Chile
- Started to teach JavaScript again -- this year the group assignment is to do Minesweeper in JavaScript -- fun!
