Thursday, April 23, 2020

Programming (Python) meetings

I held 1-to-1 meeting with students. Luckily the kids of problems that students encountered were the kinds that could be resolved with screen sharing. It could have went badly depending on the issues.

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

COMP7004 Meeting about Essay

We held a meeting about the essay

COMP7004 Debate

He had three debates. 0930-1100

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

COMP7004 Debate 1400-1500

We held or first of four debates using MS Teams.

Monday, April 20, 2020

C Programming Lab 1400-1600

Nobody turned up

Physical Computing Lab 08

Lots of students were on TinkerCad working away. But I only had a few log on to MS Teams to ask questions

Friday, April 3, 2020

C Programming lab

Two lab sessions thins morning.

Only 1 customer for the 0900-1100 slot. Nobody turned up for the 1100-1330 slot. I left the meeting at 1143

Thursday, April 2, 2020

COMP7004 Lectures

Posted two videos to YouTube play list

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

COMP7004 Lectures

Posted three videos to YouTube play list

Monday, March 30, 2020

C Prob lab

MS Teams meeting 1400-1600
I invited way more students than are I my lab group. But I didn't want to miss anyone. I think I invited all of SD2 and SDH2.

Nobody turned up by 1415. I left.


Physcial Computing Lab

1000-1200 MS Team meeting for lab group
Reasonable attendance.  No issues.

Friday, March 20, 2020

COMP7004 Meeting

We had a quick meeting with the students who were able to attend to discuss options for assessment and to test the technology.

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

COMP7004 Update

I have posted linked to resources on Canvas.

I have added classes to the YouTube playlist I use for this class.

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

COMP7004 Class 07.2 & 07.3



We watched a documentary about Facebook content moderation policies and the work of moderators at CPL in Dublin.

Afterward we had an interesting discussion about this issues raised. We were not impressed by Facebook's policies.

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

COMP7004 Class 07.1

We continued our look at the GDPR. We spent a lot of time discussing the right to be forgotten.

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

COMP7004 Class 06.2 &06.3



We watched the Nosedive episode of Black Mirror.

We discussed some of the issues it raised.





We watched a video bout the Social Credit system in China.

We discussed some of the issues it raised.

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

COMP7004 Class 06.1

We continued our trawl through the interesting parts of the GDPR

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

COMP7004 Class 05.4

This was an extra class.

But only one student turned up so I called it off.

COMP7004 Class 05.2 & 05.3

We watched the Arkangel episode of Black Mirror.

We discussed a number of issues raised in the episodes: the con flight between child protection and privacy, tracking, filtering.

I asked students to look at the activity Google had recorded for them using myactivity.google.com

COMP7004 Class 05.1

We discussed the DDR and how people in different countries can have different levels of sensitivity to potential abuses of surveillance technology.

We continued our look at privacy and began our examination of the GRPR.