CPC Meeting - March 14th 2008

We held our last meeting of the term today to take yet another look at the shape of the course. Dave had provided some sound suggestions for changes which Lizzie, Clive and I then looked at and made more suggestions and Clive brought order to chaos.

Martin said that we'd filled up his webspace and that the site was more active than he expected. This amuses and pleases me because it means we are actually using the thing effectively though both Clive and I wish there were more people taking an active part. We promised Martin money so that he can continue to run the site for us and update it to the latest version. None of us thought finding the money will be difficult so we'll see. Greg and I wanted Martin to push the update now! button at once. I don't know what Greg's motivations are but mine are that I like chaos.

Clive had produced a very nifty chart to show how all the various permutations fitted into the original document. Nigel showed us how he was putting together a descriptor of the course that would include a rationale and an examination of market, research and so on.

We talked about assessment. The CPC has some inventive ideas for how this might be done and the course could be a very exciting departure; it certainly doesn't sound like the traditional computing course at the moment.

flickr and Blogger still aren't talking... or if they are, Blogger won't listen.

Spreading the word

Clive gave a report on where we are so far to the two computing departments today - SDCN and ISIT. He once again asked for anyone who is interested to join us here at the blog and/or (preferably and) at the internal site.

He also made the first public announcement that the course would come on line in 2009/10.

I guess we're still a little disappointed that not everyone is jumping up and down with enthusiasm at the initiative. But a 2010 start is over a year away and social technology might well seem less of a strange beast then.

I thought we'd have a picture... I can't get flickr to talk to blogger so this is one that has been inserted manually...