Technical Help /Orientation 2008

To get you comfortable with what DANM has at your disposal and to jump-start your understanding of some technical details of this field of study, we are running a two-week technical orientation starting September 8th 2008 at 10am at Porter College Room 245.

The workshop will run from 10am until 3:30pm every day with an understanding that you will continue to work on things in the afternoon as fits with your schedule. You may use this afternoon time to work more with recording equipment, flesh out your web presence, finish editing that video, or getting some one-on-one time with someone. Though I will be there the whole time I am trying to include many others in the schedule. I am also keeping a lot of space available in the second week to allow you to help shape what we will cover; ideas are welcome.

Here is the planning calendar: https://danm.ucsc.edu/groups/danmpeople/calendar/

Day One, September 8th

Day Two, September 9th

Day Three, September 10th

Day Four, September 11th

Day Five, September 12th

Other Days

Ideas for Topics

• Electronics
• Processing, Lyle or Someone Else --
• Ruby on Rails, Lyle
• Printing at the Cave
• Flickr API
• Grabbing Random Images from Google
• Ask Angela for a basic and then complex flash class (x2!)
• Sketchup simple 3D Art Modeling, Lyle Troxell

Ideas for Lunch

• Riva's Fish House
• Sabieng Thai Cusine
• Saturn

Ideas for Future DANM Tech Orientations

• Pre-Orientation Preparation Guide: send emails to future Tech-O participants, outlining which software/programming languages/equipment we will be learning about, and providing websites for (optional) self-tutoring for those who feel less proficient in them, several months beforehand. Example
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