In the Reserves

I was a “Reserve Invigilator” today. This means that you get to sit by the phone in your office waiting to get called in to an exam. Fortunately everybody turned up, and so I was able to get on with some more lovely marking.

My “Revision Tweets” do seem to have had some effect, in that I’m getting answers to some of the questions that seem to have been based on what I said, which is nice. I’ve noticed that students make much less use of things like forums these days, perhaps Twitter is the way to go with this.

50 Things a Design Student Should Know

There is a lot of stuff here that applies to software development, and still more that applies to life in general:

http://www.jamiewieck.com/visual-essays/the-50-things-every-graphic-design-student-should-know/

See Sir Tim Berners-Lee for Free by the Sea

The university has obtained a limited number of places to go and see Sir Tim Berners Lee speak at the Yorkshire International Business Convention on Friday 10th of June at Bridlington Spa. His talk is on Friday lunchtime, so we will be leaving the university around 9:45 and getting back on campus at around 2:00, depending on whether we also go for a paddle or not…

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is widely acknowledged as the person who invented the World Wide Web and is chairman of the World Wild Wide Consortium.

If you are a student at Hull who is interested in coming along please get in touch as soon as possible.

Summer Bash

These are the “slightly processed” prize winners.

We had our last bash of the year today. It was great fun, even though we had some technical troubles. The camera on the PlayStation Move was definitely faulty, causing me to lose at Table Tennis. Fortunately the Pizza arrived on time, and everybody had fun. Some were there with tears in their eyes, with this being their last bash as students in the department.

I took some pictures, there are a few more on Flicker tagged Hull2011SummerBash.

Trying to get the hang of this panorama thing…

Panoramic York

Adventures with Panoramic Cameras in York

We went to York today. It only rained twice. Once for four hours and once for five.