Category: Announcements (Page 2 of 4)

Hi everyone,

I hope you all had a nice break.

I’m writing to remind everyone that we are using Slack to communicate about the final project and everyone needs to be checking it regularly in order to make sure that you are staying in touch with your team as things develop. You’ll find that this is a great way to coordinate, to find out who has done what and what needs to be done, and to generally discuss what’s happening with your group’s project. The key is that you need to have this app 1) on your phone, and/or 2) on your computer, with notifications set up so that you can see when people are talking, and sometimes talking directly to you.

Slack is an app available for both iPhones and Androids. I strongly encourage you do download it (it’s free!) and use it. It’s also available as a Desktop app for your laptops, and I strongly encourage to you install it. Once you’ve installed it, you can turn on notifications for just your team channel, or for just your team channel and the #general channel, or for any activity. This way you’ll limit how and where you get notifications, but still keep abreast of developments within your group.

If you have any questions about using Slack or turning on/off notifications, please email me and I’m happy to help you out. I still need someone from the customers group to join the tech committee, and that needs to happen ASAP.

Finally, the blog schedule on the website has been updated on the right hand side–sorry I didn’t get to it earlier this week but everyone who has something due this week should have known about it since the schedule was posted during the first weeks.

-Jake

Hi everyone,

A reminder to please join the Slack team for our class, and then if you haven’t already, please join your group.  We are going to use Slack to coordinate for this project, so please turn on notifications or check it regularly (as you would email) moving forward. If you were absent today, you can see which group you are in by clicking on the channels on the left hand side. The handout from class today, as well as additional info about the project, is here.

Also, please email me with the member of your group who will be on the tech committee, and join the #tech Slack channel.

Have a good spring break!

-Jake

In addition to continuing our planning for the class project on Halal carts, we will catch up on several subjects that we skipped over a few weeks ago. Please take another look at the question sheets on Chapters 3,5, and 7 as well as the New York Times article, “Where Education and Assimilation Collide” and be prepared to discuss.

Hi all,

Thanks for your participation in the website assessment activity in class today, and sorry that we were a bit pinched for time at the end.

A reminder to please write your brainstorm answers into the Google Doc. Just follow the format that’s already there. No need to replicate information, but we’re trying to compile everyone’s thoughts into one central place. From this, we will determine working groups and those groups can use these issues that everyone has come up with to do questions.

Also, one more reminder to please embed your prezis! Detailed instructions are in the last announcement that I sent, so please check there. With ALL posts, it is very important to view your post from the public-facing side of the site (or preview it before publishing) so that you can see whether it looks right or not. Some of you aren’t doing this, since obvious errors are being left in. Remember, your names are attached to these, so you want them to look good!

-Jake

Hi everyone,

I just scrolled through the neighborhood visit posts on our site and it looks like only one group managed to get the embedding correct for the prezi (thanks Evan and Elina!). The whole point of this is that you can embed your prezi right into the post without having to click on a link to other sites, which is what we want. So again, please edit your posts as follows:

On a single line of text, type [prezi id='______']. Check that you are using square brackets and single quotation marks. In the blank space, type your prezi id. To find this, just go to your prezi and copy just the letters and numbers that follow prezi.com/ in the browser address. Do not include any words that follow the next /. Your prezi address should be something like prezi.com/_________/your-title-here. You should only use the stuff in that blank space. Preview your post and make sure it looks right. If you’re having trouble, please email me.

Please do not just paste a link to your prezi, we want them embedded in the post. Also, make sure that your prezi is set to public viewing, which can be adjusted on the main page of your prezi (Annmarie and Lexi, I think this is the issue with your post).

For tomorrow’s class, please everyone bring your laptops, as we’ll be doing some online work.

-Jake

Hi class,

Please upload your Prezi and maps to the same post on the website. To put your Prezi online, just type the shortcode [prezi id='your id'] into your post. Remember, your id is the combination of letters and numbers that follows prezi.com/ in your URL browser bar.

If you have already uploaded a map, just edit the post and add in the Prezi shortcode. If you have not yet uploaded a map, create a new post and be sure to use the category “Presentations.” And if you have made a post but didn’t give it the correct category, just edit your post and change the category to “Presentations.”

If you have any issues with this, please let me know.

-Jake

Hi everyone,

A reminder that today is the last day I’ll hold office hours before your Neighborhood Visit projects are to be presented. I am away at a conference at the end of the week, so I won’t be around to meet with you after today. If you would like any help using our mapping software, Maps Marker Pro, please come by office hours today (12:30-2 in the honors lounge at 17 Lex) and I’ll be happy to walk you through the plugin.

The tutorial for Maps Marker Pro is here and you should feel free to go in and start creating a map to see what you are able to do and whether you run into trouble. I will, of course, be accessible via email all week.

-Jake