This morning I taught my first class as a graduate student. It was pretty cool. In case you aren’t in the know, my job while I’m here at school is to be an Associate Instructor (which is basically code for “Teacher’s Assistant”), and this semester my class is the Undergrad intro to HCI design course. Along with the other AI, Tony, I taught about frameworks for design evaluations. Among the many frameworks are: “quick and dirty” methods, formal usability testing, field studies, and predictive studies. You can check out the slides
from this morning’s lecture.

I’m pretty busy lately. There’s a bunch of reading I’ve been needing to do, but I keep putting it off. I also want to exercise…I think I’ll go home and do that in a few minutes.

I found this really cool tool my web host offers called Fantastico…it is rather fantastic. It allowed me to seamlessly install two different types of Wikis (phpWiki and TikiWiki) with 2 clicks of the mouse. I tried to install these last week and worked on it for hours without success…now I can do it in 5 minutes. Who knew? Perhaps I’ll do a little writeup explaining what a Wiki is in the next few days. For now, just check out the definition in the Wikipedia (a cool resource in its own right).