Hi All,
Responding to requests by your student reps for additional SketchUp tutorials Harry Margait, Architecture program head, has kindly offered to pay for three tutorial sessions in the second week of the break.
The format of these tutorials will be as follows; Jeremy Harkins and Rosamond Kember will be based on the second floor of the Red Center outside the computer labs, at the dates/times listed below. Students can set up their laptops on the green desks, or in either of the two computer labs. Jeremy and Rosamond will then circulate to answer specific question you have regarding modeling in SketchUp (i.e. not design related questions). Meeting with them will be on a first come first served basis.
If questions can be answered by re-watching the tutorials on the SketchUp training webpage (here: http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/training/videos/new_to_gsu.html ) then they will point you to those. These tutorials are to help you with specific issues/techniques ... not to teach you the basics; the SketchUp video tutorials already do a great job of that.
The dates and times are as follows:
Monday 8th of April; 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Tuesday 9th of April; 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Wednesday 10th of April; 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Final note; please don't leave it until 7:25pm on the last day to ask your 'critical question' ... I assure you it won't end well if you do.
Regards
Russell
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
STUDENT REP MEETING
Hi All,
We discussed a wide range of issues at the first student rep meeting yesterday ... below are my notes from the meeting, and some of the actions I'll take in response.
1. Additional learning support for SketchUp was a topic of interest to all of the groups. There are a few things I can assist with here, they include: investigating the recording of Jeremy's lecture tutorials, establishing a thread on the forum for "SketchUp Tips and Tricks" (including a list of useful plugins, blogs and youtube channels that have good tutorials), investigating if the "Architecture Society" is available to offer advice (if they are actually still going!) and finally, I'll ask if the faculty can support out of class "drop-in" tutorial sessions.
I notice Nick Bucci has already posted a link to an ARCH1101 facebook page; thanks Nick.
2. Two things were an issue regarding the lectures; the volume of my voice and the level of illumination. I'll turn up the microphone to solve the first one (but please shout out if you cant hear at the back, or if it's too loud). I'll contact the university AV people to see what can be done about an intermediate light setting ... currently its all on, or all off. All on is easier for taking notes, but the image quality of the slides suffers a lot so hopefully they'll come back with a solution.
3. There was a request to show more examples of previous student work in the lecture. I'll do this. You can also see all the student work you like from previous years by replacing the 2013 in the blogspot address to 2012, or 2011. Keep in mind the course has changed in a few significant ways over the past three years ... but there are similarities (especially in the drawing and experiment one). I'd also remind you all that plagiarism is taken very (very) seriously at UNSW, so if you see something you like be inspired, don't copy it.
I'll show examples of the best work in the lectures ... so rather than tell you what to look at on the previous years blogs I'll let you decide that for yourselves. It's a good learning opportunity to develop a critical eye.
4. It was felt that the discussion of the Task for Today in the lecture was worthwhile; so I'll extend this to a brief discussion of the Independent Study also.
5. One student rep noted that students who had arrived after the first week (or who had missed O-Week) had/were struggling to find the information they needed regarding course information. Hopefully they have found it now, but to help I'll ask the tutors to go over the course website, blog and forum locations for ARCH1101 in next weeks studio. I'll raise this with the first year coordinator, Paul Hogben, as well.
6. Getting stable access to the internet via uniwide was particularly bad yesterday. A few groups brought this up. Some others weren't affected at all. This is something we need to deliver the course ... so it's critical to us too. I'm going to follow this up with our local IT support (BECU) and the university IT people.
7. Breaks! I'll ask the tutors to ensure you all have a 20 minute break at some point in the class. Our thinking in the meeting was that this should happen for everyone at 4pm. But on reflection I think it's probably best for each tutor to negotiate the best time with their class ... something that suits their group best. I'll also ensure there is a 10 minute break between the end of the lecture and the start of studio (in other words if the lecture finishes at 2pm, studio will start at 10 past). This gives you a chance to grab a snack, or coffee before studio starts.
8. I brought up an end of year "party". We'll talk more about this towards the end of the session.
I think that was everything; but if I've missed something please leave a comment below.
Cheers
We discussed a wide range of issues at the first student rep meeting yesterday ... below are my notes from the meeting, and some of the actions I'll take in response.
1. Additional learning support for SketchUp was a topic of interest to all of the groups. There are a few things I can assist with here, they include: investigating the recording of Jeremy's lecture tutorials, establishing a thread on the forum for "SketchUp Tips and Tricks" (including a list of useful plugins, blogs and youtube channels that have good tutorials), investigating if the "Architecture Society" is available to offer advice (if they are actually still going!) and finally, I'll ask if the faculty can support out of class "drop-in" tutorial sessions.
I notice Nick Bucci has already posted a link to an ARCH1101 facebook page; thanks Nick.
2. Two things were an issue regarding the lectures; the volume of my voice and the level of illumination. I'll turn up the microphone to solve the first one (but please shout out if you cant hear at the back, or if it's too loud). I'll contact the university AV people to see what can be done about an intermediate light setting ... currently its all on, or all off. All on is easier for taking notes, but the image quality of the slides suffers a lot so hopefully they'll come back with a solution.
3. There was a request to show more examples of previous student work in the lecture. I'll do this. You can also see all the student work you like from previous years by replacing the 2013 in the blogspot address to 2012, or 2011. Keep in mind the course has changed in a few significant ways over the past three years ... but there are similarities (especially in the drawing and experiment one). I'd also remind you all that plagiarism is taken very (very) seriously at UNSW, so if you see something you like be inspired, don't copy it.
I'll show examples of the best work in the lectures ... so rather than tell you what to look at on the previous years blogs I'll let you decide that for yourselves. It's a good learning opportunity to develop a critical eye.
4. It was felt that the discussion of the Task for Today in the lecture was worthwhile; so I'll extend this to a brief discussion of the Independent Study also.
5. One student rep noted that students who had arrived after the first week (or who had missed O-Week) had/were struggling to find the information they needed regarding course information. Hopefully they have found it now, but to help I'll ask the tutors to go over the course website, blog and forum locations for ARCH1101 in next weeks studio. I'll raise this with the first year coordinator, Paul Hogben, as well.
6. Getting stable access to the internet via uniwide was particularly bad yesterday. A few groups brought this up. Some others weren't affected at all. This is something we need to deliver the course ... so it's critical to us too. I'm going to follow this up with our local IT support (BECU) and the university IT people.
7. Breaks! I'll ask the tutors to ensure you all have a 20 minute break at some point in the class. Our thinking in the meeting was that this should happen for everyone at 4pm. But on reflection I think it's probably best for each tutor to negotiate the best time with their class ... something that suits their group best. I'll also ensure there is a 10 minute break between the end of the lecture and the start of studio (in other words if the lecture finishes at 2pm, studio will start at 10 past). This gives you a chance to grab a snack, or coffee before studio starts.
8. I brought up an end of year "party". We'll talk more about this towards the end of the session.
I think that was everything; but if I've missed something please leave a comment below.
Cheers
LECTURE THREE AVAILABLE
Hi All,
Please find a link to a PDF of Lecture Three on the Experiment One brief page here:
http://www.russelllowe.com/arch1101_2013/experiment1/brief/brief_exp1.htm
Cheers
Please find a link to a PDF of Lecture Three on the Experiment One brief page here:
http://www.russelllowe.com/arch1101_2013/experiment1/brief/brief_exp1.htm
Cheers
FOUND: Notebook
Hi Cassie,
Vinh Nguyen found your notebook (with the red cover).
I'll leave it at the student center for you to pick up.
Cheers
Vinh Nguyen found your notebook (with the red cover).
I'll leave it at the student center for you to pick up.
Cheers
Sunday, March 17, 2013
IMPORTANT REMINDER
Hi All,
You've probably all received an email reminding you, but tomorrows lecture will be at our new venue:
Science Theater (F13 on this map)
We'll be in the Science Theater for the rest of the session.
Cheers, see you at 12 midday tomorrow!
You've probably all received an email reminding you, but tomorrows lecture will be at our new venue:
Science Theater (F13 on this map)
We'll be in the Science Theater for the rest of the session.
Cheers, see you at 12 midday tomorrow!
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
LECTURE TWO AVAILABLE
Hi All,
Please find lecture two, "The Stair", available for download here:
http://russelllowe.com/arch1101_2013/experiment1/brief/brief_exp1.htm
Cheers
Please find lecture two, "The Stair", available for download here:
http://russelllowe.com/arch1101_2013/experiment1/brief/brief_exp1.htm
Cheers
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
LECTURE ONE AVAILABLE
Hi All,
Please find a link to a PDF of Lecture One on the Experiment One brief page here:
http://www.russelllowe.com/arch1101_2013/experiment1/brief/brief_exp1.htm
Cheers
Please find a link to a PDF of Lecture One on the Experiment One brief page here:
http://www.russelllowe.com/arch1101_2013/experiment1/brief/brief_exp1.htm
Cheers
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