Report Date: 5/18/2006 10:52:11 AM Tuesday, March 28 -- What work did you do for this class on this day? Grades [90A25CF7E2C346A2BB1C09922914E971] "RESPONSE ID" "NAME" "USERNAME" "DATE SUBMITTED" "FIELD_478AFB75244E4916A10118DC9822A1A5" "FIELD_4D8629CD859649A2A6DFAB5F81BC8063" "FIELD_663E14BF851D4AD7A94EBD2AC69E9651" "3296A13455DC49FF9836E8047A5D5DE9" "Achard, Christopher" "achardct" "3/30/2006 1:59:32 PM" "1 hour" "Looked at the camera stuff becuase I don't know much about it." "I learned about the camera - it was kind of interesting." "56D3F5EB62E14FD4A0834A7806D5F609" "Aigner, Thomas" "aignerte" "3/29/2006 1:30:40 AM" "1.5 hours" "Talked with seth about the blog and some programming. Also looked over beyond botball and did some brainstorming." "I enjoyed brainstorming on botball. The parent who was there (can't remember name) looks like a great resource for that competition." "9EB6AD05DD764585950435470AF49006" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "4/1/2006 11:53:56 PM" "2 hours" "Discussion with group members about ways to build our bot." "Had a really cool idea involving multiple bots. Seems like a really interresting strategy. A neat idea for keeping balls out of their container, and a nice idea for collecting the balls. Probably too complicated, but a nice idea." "408843054A624BA19BBCC1D560C6611D" "Barthel, Paul" "barthep" "3/29/2006 12:31:17 PM" "2 hours" "team meeting, agreements, task list, and so on" "the team's responses on the exercise module assignment were mostly not satisfactory. seabass did a pretty good job, jason's and jacob's submissions were alright, erik did not submit anything at all, even though he had an, in my opinion, easier module than the others - the camera. He shows a totally inadequate work attitude but it seems like no one but me and seabass (not so much) feels offended by that. We still want to try to come up with responsibilities for everyone. maybe that's gonna help but i doubt it." "C70E34857DD94E2EAAD506C160BFD67C" "Blackburn, W. Ryan" "blackbwr" "3/29/2006 3:37:11 PM" "1.5 hours" "Worked on Twiki site and got more familar with it and updated my team that I have been assigned. Work further on long term Botball idea." "Twiki is very wierd, but after awhile I got used to some of it.After some trial and error I was able to update my teams page with the needed information." "CA23306440524F36A147B70BA389A6E2" "Blankenbaker, Zachariah" "blankezd" "4/3/2006 2:01:49 AM" "2 hours" "I spent 1 hour in a team meeting and another hour writing code samples for the schools to use." "No problems were encountered." "48F3220293BD4439818032B3461E29E5" "Boyce, Jonathan" "boycejs" "3/30/2006 8:41:17 PM" "1 hour" "We had a team meeting to work on stuff to talk about to the kids on Wednesday." "- Today's problem was two people playing with legos right in between me and the guy that was trying to show me how to calibrate the camera. My solution was to ignore them as best as I could. - I was sucessful in picking up some stuff to talk to the kids about. - We split into groups to talk about different things, I was in the group working on the camera. - I learned that some people still really like playing with legos, I found this interesting because I do not understand the facination with legos. - I learned that google is my friend for finding documentation on IC library functions. I will continue to use google to find information in the future." "9971C08F5D2B4D32800DF0015EDA4B5B" "Chvojicek, Benjamin" "chvojibc" "4/6/2006 4:57:14 PM" "1 hour" "Went over our team activities." "We're doing well and have some stuff to do with Vigo when they get back." "3D6E8BF7D3AC42ED8DCF59F578B6F06C" "Collins, Mary" "collinmm" "3/29/2006 11:05:12 AM" "1.5 hours" "We met to work on our botball education exercise. I tried to contact my school." "It seems like we each have a bit of an idea who to do some things, but none of us know how to do it all." "59769425560A49FC9316681710CB1157" "Dial, Scott" "dialsa" "3/30/2006 5:17:25 AM" "0 hours" "" "" "6C3955E3AD9F4F70B62A9BB010528EF9" "Dunning, Nicholas" "dunninnb" "3/28/2006 11:33:56 PM" "2.5 hours" "We had a group meeting to discuss and develop further our technical activivty for our students." "I feel that our technical activity is good and I look forward to our students response to the activity when it is delivered. I feel that our team is wroking together well and we are on track and available to help our students." "48C915A6E3CA4F8B85157C21F73DD019" "Ersson, Krishnamurti" "erssonkk" "4/3/2006 3:56:53 PM" "1 hour" "Not a whole lot done today, but I began doing some preliminary research on the IC cheat sheet." "One of the challenges I am finding is that it is difficult to convey or teach the simple concepts of programming, especially to younger students. As simple as programming seems to us, it is only simple because we are so familiar with it. I have a friend who has worked several summers at a camp that teaches simple robotics and programming to middle school students. I am planning on contacting her for ideas on how to help enhance the material we can provide to our Botball teams." "DDF6465DEFFB4B51BE4EC8CD6C454F36" "Garrette, Kimbrell" "garretkj" "4/3/2006 12:04:39 AM" "3.5 hours" "I packed and drove to St. Louis so that I could make it to Lincoln Middle School in the morning to teach the children about the robots." "" "06BEB995DE9A4E39A33648B581757F14" "Halvorson, Christopher" "halvorcr" "3/30/2006 8:21:04 PM" "1 hour" ".5 hr - chance meeting with 2 teammates, discussion of Beyond Botball .5 hr - think it over, decide that after all a theme robot might not be a great idea." "Nothing in particular. We were talking about how neat it would be if we had a Beyond Botball robot that was themed as a pirate ship. Although it'd be fun to do, it wouldn't be particularly useful. If we can do it after we get all the functionality, it'll be good." "72663027652741588F3E540CD3AA9D11" "Hochstedler, Jason" "hochstja" "3/30/2006 7:49:44 AM" "3 hours" "Our group met during normal class time to assign tasks about who would do what module for our long term helpful presentation. I spent a couple hours making my module, which was about lego construction." "Lego-CAD is a very useful tool, although the parts dont always line up like they should, even after you snap them to grid, which is annoying." "D4D24E53D64E42C8AC4AAB4AECD9103E" "Knutson, Erik" "knutsoej" "5/15/2006 5:56:21 PM" "0 hours" "" "" "4F557EA2FFFA4538BC785E0B5B9F4FC9" "Kornienko, Ivan" "kornieis" "4/4/2006 11:40:27 AM" "2.5 hours" "I was out of state during this day, but I still worked alone reading up on the project." "Researching on the web, I read about the regular botball competition and the beyond bot ball competition." "203E6A6583B74292A3B50BF5855B72CE" "Kowalik, Kenneth" "kowalika" "4/3/2006 7:19:39 PM" "1 hour" "Instead of tuesday class, my team met this day to talk about where we were with our teams, and to type up a little something we would send them later." "There isn't really a whole lot to reflect on here this time. Our team met when it wasn't necessary to come to class, and most teams didn't. Hopefully that's a win for us... ?" "AAAD32510B2A4799BEACC9598ABF58AD" "Meyer, D. Christopher" "meyerdc" "3/30/2006 2:39:01 PM" "2 hours" "Even though class didn’t meet the team met and discussed what we would do tomorrow." "Since I am unable to go, I had to disseminate all of the information I learned at the teacher workshop. Even though certain members of the team were present they thought it would be more fun to play with the Legos. This experience was like an unruly middle schooler. It helped me learn to focus him out and help the rest of the team." "D9BEA3D2369A424E9B30C04AF4582777" "Mohling, Nathan" "mohlinna" "3/29/2006 11:11:59 AM" "0 hours" "" "" "A1A8CE3A127B4B2482464873D1F7D8ED" "Musial, Bryan" "musialbk" "3/29/2006 12:39:20 AM" "2 hours" "Today I started on my task, to begin designing a Frequently Used Commands page for our teams. Nothing really notable happened." "Several revisions of this document will be necessary as I discovered I started using CS-level language midway through the document. We decided as a team that the document needed to be in plain english to assist the teams the best." "FF278B6BB2F74376B574EBB90A7941DE" "Myung, Seho" "myungs" "3/30/2006 9:06:20 AM" "0 hours" "" "" "7943596E10AC42FE94F8BA5E16B97B40" "Nicklyn, Nicholas" "nicklynj" "4/7/2006 12:01:49 PM" "0 hours" "" "" "559461625F164365A61974ED813EE37C" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "4/2/2006 6:42:16 PM" "0 hours" "" "" "12EA53B2A3D7479BB225ACD556EB3242" "Pethick, Lindsay" "pethiclc" "4/3/2006 11:46:12 PM" "0 hours" "" "" "718E6CF92EE249E8988E20322BE84FF3" "Phillips, Jacob" "phillijr" "3/28/2006 11:07:38 PM" "2 hours" "Team meeting about long exercise, catching up on surveys :)" "" "3BB7BBFDBF9148508243AFA692601336" "Poehler, Lance" "poehlelm" "3/29/2006 10:59:54 AM" "1.5 hours" "On Tuesday I received an email from Lindsay from Lincoln Middle School about Wednesday’s meeting and possible food. I sent her an email back stating that pizza would be great. We also meet at 1:30 PM in class so that we could finalize what exactly we would be doing with the students on Wednesday." "Tuesday was a pretty slow day. I only received 4 emails from my group. They were all replies from previous emails I had sent out. The one new thing that we decided was that we would have pizza when we went to Lincoln Middle School. When we met at 1:30 we simply just made sure that the program was installed in the laptop we were bringing and that we had simply programs ready to show them." "9924B8CE314C43EAB3A519DD07C914F5" "Sadeli, Jeffrey" "sadelij" "3/29/2006 8:42:09 PM" "1 hour" "team meeting" "team meeting to prepare for the lincon middle school presentation tomorrow/wednesday" "C88CAFDC38AC4063944E501E76E2D42E" "Spencer, Andrew" "spenceal" "4/3/2006 1:26:58 PM" "" "looked around at twiki" "" "77BAFD4E96304B7DA51A3A02CD88E64E" "Stachowski, Matthew" "stachoma" "3/29/2006 4:43:41 PM" "0 hours" "" "" "701E03B88B8F4572B83DBBEC716A4614" "Sullivan, Johnathan" "sullivja" "3/29/2006 7:15:40 PM" "0 hours" "" "" "501757FE97414C29A3ACB3E2311DCC77" "Tharp, Samuel" "tharpsf" "3/31/2006 12:51:05 PM" "3 hours" "1 hr meeting with the team 2 hrs more IC learning problems" "Met with the team to further explore what sorts of problems and exercises we could hand our growing young robotic engineers. As I had figured in my programming from yesterday, very simple and easy to understand IC problems should be introduced with some basic robotic design. (For example, how to use a servo and write IC code that make it do stuff. Simple stuff, but stuff nevertheless). We also discovered that our assigned teams STILL have not contacted us, which is a very BAD thing. After classes, I continued working on simple problems for our assigned teams to work on. Simple questions like "what is wrong with this if statement?" and purposely leave out a colon or a "=" sign for an equivlience operator. Something along textbook lines would be really nice." "B7DA241EEACD47119EC0EE7CEDA16729" "Thayer, Jordan" "thayerjt" "4/3/2006 12:51:39 PM" "2.5 hours" "We had a meeting outside of class during which I learned that really no one else had finished their long term module. I fumed about that for a while then I went and read some of the syntax of posting on twiki. " "If there are no repurcussions for ones actions, then its really hard to enforce a deadline. I suppose for some people there just isn't enough motivation in doing something for the sake of your teammates." "49B734F2D6DF40769942127BAEF36138" "Turpyn, Michael" "turpynmr" "3/30/2006 8:22:03 PM" "0 hours" "" ""