As I mentioned in class Wednesday, the class project this semester is designed to provide you with an immense set of resources related to the course content. This means you will have access to fabulous amounts of solved problems and other information useful in preparation for the final exam. This is actually pretty important–the hardest material in this course is yet to come.
I mentioned three options on Wednesday:
- Video Solutions. You’ve seen these, and one option is for you to create video solutions to share with the class. You can borrow my tablet PC, use the Big Screen in my office (if you’ve been to my office, you know what I mean by Big Screen), or you can be enterprising and use a cell phone camera and a marker.
- Mashups. We mentioned the Grey Album in class on Wednesday. Jay-Z’s black album + Beatles’ white album = Grey Album. The Grey Album is just a mashup of different content, digitally glued together to form a new product. I took about 90 minutes last night and made this FBD mashup:
It’s not great, and frankly I can do better given more time. Point is, it’s partly lecture material, partly video solutions, and partly a little bit of new content, all mashed together to tell a story about FBDs. Nice.
- Wiki. You can also participate in construction of a course wiki. I will flesh out the general framework, then you fill in all the content. Last year, the wiki looked like this. Use the “invite key” SomWiki07 to access the wiki. This was good fun and the response last year was quite positive.
Anyhow, the point here is that when you create course materials, you win. You obviously benefit by having to be a content expert in order to create the materials in the first place. But by sharing the materials, you win again…you get access to so much more good course material than would otherwise have been available. All in preparation for the final.
I’ll write more about this next week, but for now, think about this and prepare to create!
1 response so far ↓
1 lew3r // Apr 22, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Prof Berger:
How are we submitting this? Video solutions are too big to fit in an email….Should we just bring a CD to class?
-L. Wildfire
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