Part 1: Help Your Teammates to Develop Capstone Ideas
My teammates and I discussed various capstone ideas in our weekly meeting. A couple of the ideas stood out:
- A file synchronization app that leans heavy on a flexible
user interface. Everything would be configurable and customizable through the GUI
– many different computers, either on the local network or on the greater
internet, could synchronize any number of files and folder structures.
- A stock monitoring application that, again, leans heavily on its user interface. It would aggregate data from various sources and display a highly customizable ensemble of statistics and graphs. We discussed potential issues with fetching the data, as many such APIs are behind significant paywalls.
Part 2: Keep Up With Your Learning Journal
This week in lecture mainly dealt with creating resumes and cover letters. Students learned how to organize and format the document, what topics to include, what topics to avoid, and what sort of language should be used.
This week in writing lab focused on our ethics argument paper — students posted their rough drafts to a discussion board for peer review. The final draft is due next week, so everyone will be working hard to polish their papers and finalize it for submission.
Students also created the shell of their ILP Portfolio website this week. This website will hold a record of all the major projects we complete throughout the CS Online program.
The various teams have also started working on their final video presentation projects. My team has been assigned the topic of “Right to Repair.” This is a very interesting subject; me and my teammates are excited to start researching and assembling a video to discuss this topic.
The extra credit module dealt with active listening this week. Students watched two videos – one where the listener actively dismissed and was rude to the speaker, and one where the listener applied active listening and made sure to understand the speaker. Students then answered a series of questions regarding how the listener was, or was not applying active listening.