CSDT Work Mon 5/23 - Sunday 5/29

• Monday 5/23 3:30pm-5:15pm: Helped teach first lesson on Anishinabbe Arcs to students at Albany Boys and Girls club.  
• Played life-sized grid-navigating game with groups of students to practice using Cartesian coordinates and understanding rotation
• Students grasped moving in + and - X and Z axis well; may need some more practice with rotation
• Wednesday 2:00pm-3:30pm: Met with Professor Eglash and others to discuss various projects currently underway.  Talked specifically about progress on graffiti and cornrow applets.
• Thursday 10:45-11:45am and 1:15-1:45pm:  Loaded Anishinaabe Arcs applet onto 6 laptops
• Created new user "Protected" with restrictions disabling playing games
• Downloaded Adobe and Java
• Did not realize their were another 7 laptops which needed software
• Friday 3:30-5:15: Taught Arcs software to students at Boys and Girls Club
• Installed software on remaining 7 laptops (did not have time to disable games; not an issue)
• Helped students understand moving arcs around Cartesian coordinates and rotating the arcs
• Helped students create one wigwam-style structure (rotating the arcs and keeping the same center point), one longhouse-style structure (translating the arcs without rotating), and a structure designed on their own. 
• Students enjoyed software.
• Needed to be prompted for how to translate or rotate the arcs, but understood patterns in the design (i.e. add 3 to the z-coordinate each time to build a longhouse)
• Students were proud of their work
• Students saved their files on the local machines; Katie and I are meeting Wednesday, June 1st at 3:30pm to print out screenshots and the coordinate "printouts" given by the program.

CSDT Work Mon 5/16-Sunday 5/22

• Thursday 5/19 10:30-11:00am: Met with Dr. Eglash regarding Anishinabbe Arcs project and Matlab analysis of sound files.  Received permission slips to give to students at Albany Boys and Girls Club
• Thursday 5/19 1:00-2:30pm: Helped introduce Albany B&G Club councilor Brandon to the Arcs software.  Worked with Katie, Richard, Jeannie, and Joe to develop a lesson plan for next Monday