By tim, on April 1st, 2012 at 9:29 am It’s ages since I did one of these navel-gazing posts, but I do still collect the statistics from this blog on a regular basis. It’s not good to become too obsessed with such things but just in case anyone else other than me is interested, here’s the latest update.
There have been just under 22,900 page impressions in the first quarter of this year (counting just those made by real people rather than automated “bots”) – up 3% on the same period last year.
Excluding visits to the home page (4,062) and my OU psychology notes pages (9,051), the most popular . . . → Read More: Blog stats January – March 2012
By tim, on March 26th, 2012 at 6:33 pm Many students are now getting on for a quarter of the way through 6.002x, so I thought I’d re-visit the blogosphere to see what others are saying about the course.
Patrick at Padded Thoughts says that the course is like “suduko on steroids” and adds: “For me the homework has become the driver – quite revealing in itself though not a surprise to find assessment is taking over.” This is definitely true for me too!
Yvonne Belanger argues in “MITx: A view from the inside” that answering the fundamental question of “What would the student experience be like?” is best . . . → Read More: MITx 6.002x – five opinions from the blogosphere #2
By tim, on March 24th, 2012 at 12:48 pm It’s just before 11am on Saturday morning and I’m already through week 3 of the course, having successfully completed the homework assignments and the lab. I’m not sure if it’s because I’m now getting into the swing of the material, or because the course has moved onto digital logic and devices like transistors and diodes that I’m comfortable with, but it seems to have become considerably easier going this week. I certainly find it easier to conceptualize these things than simply chasing mathematical formulae around circuits consisting just of voltage and current sources, that’s for sure.
I’m not sure that . . . → Read More: MITx 6.002x – week 3: So what exactly is an “expo dweeb”?
By tim, on March 21st, 2012 at 6:12 pm The lauch of the Raspberry Pi is beginning to look more and more like the early days of home computing – but this time, it’s not about the excitement of programming, it’s all about delays in delivery. Having been promised delivery by April 30th, it will now be with me “around the end of May”. Oh well. It’s not the end of the world I suppose!
Earlier on today, I found this reminder of the problems that Science of Cambridge had in delivering the MK14. Somehow, the apology from Science of Cambridge in 1978 seems somewhat more sincere than the . . . → Read More: Raspberry Pi – we *have* been here before!
By tim, on March 17th, 2012 at 11:28 pm I’ve just finished hacking my way through the week 2 homework and lab. This week has focussed on the use of superposition and the Thévenin and Norton methods for analysing linear circuits, followed by a brief canter through some basic digital logic.
Three tasks were set for this week’s homework. The first was to find suitable resistance values from the E12 range to complete a voltage divider, which was relatively straightforward. The third task was to complete a truth table for a digital logic circuit and work out which one of three other circuits were equivalent to it. Again, pretty . . . → Read More: MITx 6.002x – week 2
By tim, on March 13th, 2012 at 8:57 am I’m barely a couple of weeks into 6.002x and yet I’m already finding new methods of procrastination. Sigh. Some ways are more fruitful than others, however, and I’ve managed to find a number of people who are also blogging their way through the course. Here’s a selection of some of the more interesting posts I’ve found so far.
In an incredibly enthusiastic first post, Anna Chiara announces that MITx is alive, managing 6 “cools”, 3 “greats” and 3 “amazings” in quick succession. Her motivation for taking the course? “… I’m a real fan of e-learning. It’s a really new field, . . . → Read More: MITx 6.002x – five early opinions from the blogosphere
By tim, on March 12th, 2012 at 8:10 pm
… it could well be as I’m not expecting anything else.
Sadly, I will have to wait until at least Wednesday lunchtime to find out
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