The Digital Craft course 2007 began today

Two hour lecture - February 27 2007:

After Catherine Nelson had presented the excellent self-help guide to healthy use of the computer, we covered the following topics:

The Course Objectives
The Tasks to be completed to meet these Objectives
Task 1 - the tutorial exercises in Archicad, AutoCAD ADT and Revit - plus Viz render
Task 2 - collaborating in the construction of a complex digital model of a daylit gallery
Task 3 - creating a blog and web page to summarise the digital modelling
The Assessment Contract - and its role in reducing stress and workload
Workload management

And an introduction to Web 2.0 - merely promising to talk about it soon.
Web sites mentioned:

• Flickr - look for the tags
• This blog
• The 1998-2005 web sites produced by students in this course
• The 2006 web site/blogs produced in this course
• Del.icio.us - more tags as a means of organising my bookmarks
• Youtube - tagging videos
• Myspace - tagging friends' web pages
  

AND a late night footnote: 'Are you blogging this?'