CSUMB CS Online Learning Journal Blog
Review of Other Teams’ Projects Orion Analytics‘ short video was done very proficiently. They gave a clear and thorough presentation. They gave adequate research to the presentation. The quality of their video was high and was interesting. The level of jargon used was appropriate for the target audience of general viewers. However, most of the … Read more
Video Project Planning This week, my team began planning for our final video presentation. We met over Zoom and used a collaborative Google Doc in order to create an outline for the videos. This outline contains each section of the video, how long these sections should be, and which team member will be responsible for … Read more
Teammate’s Capstone Ideas This week, my teammates and I discussed potential capstone projects over Zoom for our upcoming CST 499 course. Michael and Katie had interesting ideas. Michael described a community mental health crisis app in which someone who needs help could post their issue and other local users can assist with this crisis. Katie … Read more
Comments on Teammate’s Goals My two teammates Michael and Katie offered unique goals to read and contrast against my own. My comment on Michael’s goal of becoming an educator: I think that the education path is an excellent decision for you. From the time we spent together at community college, I could always tell you … Read more
Part One: Setting My Educational Goals After my computer science education, I want to be able to write code that I am proud of. I want to be able to have the ability to create programs, applications, and websites when I have the idea without feeling frustrated due to the lack of knowledge of how … Read more
Part 1 In last week’s learning journal prompt, I highlighted that I need to work on my time management skills. In this week’s prompt, a site was provided which gives tips for specific study skills. This site’s article on time management offers a good variety of tips to help with this. One tip I find … Read more
Review and Reflect Learning Strategy In the article “Effective Study Skills”, Dr. Bob Kizlik discusses various study strategies for students. Among these strategies, I noticed some that I have used in the pass with great success, and some that I have either not heard of, or ones that I wouldn’t consider to be a strong … Read more
My first week with CS Online! The first course in the program is CST 300 Major ProSeminar. The purpose of this course is to fill the university GWAR writing requirement, as well as being a study of the industries related to Computer Science. This week we learned about the school itself. I had no idea … Read more