GC's CFE Tutorials *Moved*
I will no longer be adding tutorials to this thread. However, when I find the time I'll be copying these tutorials over to my blog at www.gcsims.com, where I'll also be adding new ones.
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Really EXCELLENT tutorials, GC!! Thanks so much for sharing them with us. I have you bookmarked and will be watching for more.
By the way, if you would ever like to do a "live" class for Zoo U, we would be very honored to have you as a guest professor.
The lessons that you have done in this thread are just what would be expected. The big difference is that you would have a class time and a date and actual students who will be online at that time. You would reserve posts for your lesson and put them all up (just as for a regular tutorial) and then you would stick around (generally for two hours, but it is up to the teacher) to answer questions as students go into their own games to try to apply the things that you have shown in the lesson.
Most people break a Zoo U course into more than one lesson (one or two weeks apart) and assign homework in the interim for students to post on their own homework threads.
It is just a lot of fun to KNOW that there are people looking at the tutorials that you posted (since I know from experience what a HUGE amount of work they are) and to get to interact with the folks that you are helping. Zoo U courses become regular tutorials after the "live" portion of the class is over, but I monitor all Zoo U course threads (which I set up for the guest professors) and if students have a questions months or years later I will attempt to answer it OR contact the professor to see if they can.
Just let me know if this sounds appealing at all. I am SO impressed with your skills as a teacher (which is huge praise from me since I am a college math professor by trade) and would be very happy for you to have your choice of topics, dates, and times if you wanted to teach for Zoo U.
Zoo
By the way, if you would ever like to do a "live" class for Zoo U, we would be very honored to have you as a guest professor.
The lessons that you have done in this thread are just what would be expected. The big difference is that you would have a class time and a date and actual students who will be online at that time. You would reserve posts for your lesson and put them all up (just as for a regular tutorial) and then you would stick around (generally for two hours, but it is up to the teacher) to answer questions as students go into their own games to try to apply the things that you have shown in the lesson.
Most people break a Zoo U course into more than one lesson (one or two weeks apart) and assign homework in the interim for students to post on their own homework threads.
It is just a lot of fun to KNOW that there are people looking at the tutorials that you posted (since I know from experience what a HUGE amount of work they are) and to get to interact with the folks that you are helping. Zoo U courses become regular tutorials after the "live" portion of the class is over, but I monitor all Zoo U course threads (which I set up for the guest professors) and if students have a questions months or years later I will attempt to answer it OR contact the professor to see if they can.
Just let me know if this sounds appealing at all. I am SO impressed with your skills as a teacher (which is huge praise from me since I am a college math professor by trade) and would be very happy for you to have your choice of topics, dates, and times if you wanted to teach for Zoo U.
Zoo
