{"id":1070,"date":"2008-07-28T00:20:57","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T00:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/alicemedia-comp\/"},"modified":"2008-07-28T00:20:57","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T00:20:57","slug":"alicemedia-comp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/alicemedia-comp\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice\/Media Computation Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love this workshop!&#160; VERY hands on.&#160; However, they didn&#8217;t say until the last minute we needed notebooks which is a problem for a few, but not me.<\/p>\n<p>One problem I did have, is that the notebook I brought doesn&#8217;t have a CD Rom drive.&#160; Had to have one of the student helpers copy the workshop CD&#8217;s to my hard drive which would have been a piece of cake if I had remember that i had actually packed one.<\/p>\n<p>Once I remembered that, it was a piece of cake.<\/p>\n<p>The only problems we&#8217;ve had, have been the casino&#8217;s fault &#8212; we&#8217;re at Circus Circus, and their choice of morning food sucks, but I can a) buy other and b) did bring some food.&#160; Also they didn&#8217;t restock for the morning break.&#160; We&#8217;ll see how afternoon and the rest of the week go.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the casino does a lot of nickel and dime -ing, even more so than the cruise ship we were on.&#160; We have two choices for internet access, room access only for $12 a day, and business center access for $15 for 9 hours.&#160; I do have my phone and am tethering.&#160; So far, I&#8217;ve only hit .2 megabytes this month.&#160; However, the ATT network is blocked badly by the hotel, and I&#8217;m often forced to Edge instead of 3G.<\/p>\n<p>The really good news, is that we don&#8217;t have to go to through the casino to get to the meeting place, the elevator dumps us right there.<\/p>\n<p>I saw Steve in San Antonio and he was equally good today.&#160; We&#8217;re split into two groups each day, advanced and beginner.&#160; I choose beginner Alice, and will probably stay in that track, but will go to the advanced when it comes to Java, because I&#8217;ve been doing it forever (okay, several years, forever in computer years).<\/p>\n<p>I think this is the first time I&#8217;ve had Barbara as a workshop presenter, she is good!&#160; We&#8217;re a bit ahead of the agenda right now, and taking a mini-break.<\/p>\n<p>The pluses on this workshop &#8212; and remember, I&#8217;ve been teaching this stuff for 17 years&#8230;..<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is not an AP workshop <\/li>\n<li>It is very hands on. <\/li>\n<li>It is not an AP workshop. <\/li>\n<li>The software is free. <\/li>\n<li>It is not an AP workshop. <\/li>\n<li>The materials are free until the book is published. <\/li>\n<li>It is not an AP workshop. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes, I get tired of doing AP stuff.&#160; They are covering the same materials as many of the AP workshop but not as extensively and not in the AP way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this workshop!&#160; VERY hands on.&#160; However, they didn&#8217;t say until the last minute we needed notebooks which is a problem for a few, but not me. One problem I did have, is that the notebook I brought doesn&#8217;t have a CD Rom drive.&#160; Had to have one of the student helpers copy the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}