Hello Yr3,

Well done for handing in your dissertations and folios and i hope your enjoying a well earned rest this week. Semester 2 starts on Monday 30th Jan 11am in Rm 215. This is an important briefing day so don’t miss it! You will get a full timetable on this day in your semester two handbook.

Best,
Ben.

PS i have almost finished marking your work and have been really pleased with some of what i have found so good work and looking forward to semester 2.

Happy New Year and all of that. Hope the season of festivities passed with festivity. Welcome back!

We are looking to pull together our dwindling Arduino resources to help us deliver a workshop in data visualisation next week. Please help fortify our 6 Arduino by bringing in all those that have been out on loan.

Hello All, I know you are all working hard, below are the details for Monday’s submission & Crit. Collaborate is submitted by boards and we will hold a selective presentation in semester two so you can see the work. Boards can be handed in mounted or in a portfolio as sheets its up to you.

You will submit you portfolio for assessment for semester One it will include:

- Media boat project pitch / boards
- DAAD “Germany 2051″ project pitch / boards
- Collaborate Project & presentation boards
- 4AD Client Brief project pitch / boards and assets.

- YOU WILL ALSO PRESENT YOUR CLEINT BRIEF FINAL PITCH IN A CRIT
11am start for ALL: 10×10 Pecha Kucha style presentation format

Click “Read More” for notes on hand-in and afterwards:

PS Ask any questions in the comments to this post.

 Friday 13 January to Sunday 15 January 2012.

For this weekend, the Library’s opening hours will be:

Friday 13 January         8.30am – 8.00pm

Saturday 14 January 10.00am – 7.00pm

Sunday 15 January 10.00am – 7.00pm

Happy new year!

Groups for Monday’s Group Feedback Tutorials: Client Brief (4AD) with myself and Vaughan are after the jump and there is an extra track on the same link as before this all i have at present from 4AD more to follow.

Click on “Read More” left for groups.

Below are all the sessions left for semester one. YOu will need to plan the next few week carefully as you have a lot to do!

Thursday 15th: Last Collaborate Crit
You will need to show work in progress in a 10×10 Pecha Kucha style presentation (powerpoint 10 slides 10 seconds per slide see: http://www.pecha-kucha.org/what) this is compulsory and part of the unit assessment. Read the link and if you have any questions post them in the comments to this post.

Monday 9th Jan: Small Group Feedback Tutorials: Client Brief (4AD)
You will present work so far for the client in a 1 hour group tutorial
(groups to be posted).

Monday 16th Jan: CRIT: Client Brief (4AD) & Semester One portfolio Submission

You will submit you portfolio for assessment for semester One it will include:
- Media boat project pitch / boards
- DAAD “Germany 2051″ project pitch / boards
- Collaborate Project & presentation boards
- 4AD Client Brief project pitch / boards and assets.

- YOU WILL ALSO PRESENT YOUR CLEINT BRIEF FINAL PITCH IN A CRIT
11am start for ALL: 10×10 Pecha Kucha style presentation format

Friday 20th Jan: Dissertation Hand In

Ask any questions in the comments to this post.

Hello all,

Many of you have noticed unacceptable levels of down time over the past month, including early morning on hand in day at the end of last term, and most of this week. This has been due to a variety of issues related to the Apache web server that we use to serve pages to you from our Mac Mini in Portsmouth.

Although we don’t like making our excuses it is important to realise that none of us are professional server administrators and yet we have managed to build what we feel is quite an amazing resource for the three courses. GDNM.org is an experiment in what the ‘bigwigs’ (yes I used ironic air quotes) like to call a VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) like Blackboard (a.k.a. myUCA) but sometimes experiments go a little wrong, and we are doing our best to make it awesome!

Speaking of awesome, we’ve been working extra hard this last week to get GDNM.org back on the rails. Starting with a impromptu visit to Portsmouth to spend the day poking the server into life again and working long hours remotely to reconfigure the server to work, and we’re not done there, we plan to visit the server again in the next week or so to install more RAM and hopefully a new remote reboot option so we can remotely push the power button via text message no less!

We are extremely sorry for the problems you’ve been experiencing with the website and while the site is backup now we aren’t fully confident that we are out of the woods yet.

We you to go about your normal business on the site so we can test the server over the next week or two and see how things pan out, if we experience lots more issues we have a backup plan to move the site to another server in London however this is troublesome so we are holding it in reserve.

If at any stage the site goes down as always you can email admin@gdnm.org (hosted separately from the main site) and you can follow us via Twitter @gdnm_uca.

Hopefully no one noticed too much as you were too busy enjoying your holidays and we hope you enjoyed them, we are hopeful the worst of the issues are behind us for now but please bear with us as we work to resolve these issue and have a happy new year!

Tom, Luke and Ben!

p.s. Admin Cat (a.k.a. Smudge is doing much better and it turned out he had a nasty virus but he is recovering now!)

UCA are having severe server issues this morning, please try to have all your work ready for hand in before coming to site incase you cannot use the systems you would like to as detailed below from IT…

From IT Service Desk:

Please note that we currently have major connection problems at Farnham and Epsom this morning. This is affecting most internal systems on those campus’s, including:

Email
Printing
Internet

Access to internal files should be ok, but access to shared files from any of the Kent sites will not be possible until this has been resolved. BT are continuing to try and resolve the problem. We will keep you informed as much as we can. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.