Date: Friday, 29 Aug 2008 17:38:51 -0500 (CDT)
   From: Mark Jacobson <jacobson@cns.uni.edu>
     To: 810-088-11-fall@uni.edu
Subject:  Maya in StudioIT 1 (ITT 134) starting in week #3...

Hi 088 students,

     MAYA PLE works fine on the StudioIT labs, so we will start having
hands-on classes in that lab during week #3.  This is such WONDERFUL NEWS!

    1. The lab is on 2nd floor instead of 4th floor.

    2. You do NOT have to login to your UNI account, so we can get started
           much sooner.  The machines will usually be already up and
           running.  If they aren't, all we have to do is turn them on.
           They login to a generic account AUTOMATICALLY!

    3. No laptop computers to put away in a cart, and you are closer to
           your next class being on 2nd floor instead of 4th floor so we
           can work until 9:48 a.m. instead of stopping at 9:43 a.m.
           and have 5 more minutes to learn and practice MAYA.

    4. A superb classroom/computer lab teaching setup in every way!
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    NOTE:  During week #2, we will still be in ITT 328 classroom for 
                  -------                      -------   the entire week.

           Of course, week #2 is only a TWO DAY week for us!  :-)
                                       
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Here are the 15 dates for having hands-on StudioIT 1 hands-on classes:
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09/08 Monday     Week #3  <------------ One week from LABOR DAY...
09/10 Wednesday
09/12 Friday

09/19 Friday     Week #4

09/26 Friday     Week #5

10/03 Friday     Week #6

10/10 Friday     Week #7

10/17 Friday     Week #8

10/24 Friday     Week #9

10/31 Friday     Week #10

11/07 Friday     Week #11

11/14 Friday     Week #12

11/19 Wednesday  Week #13

    Two more classes after Thanksgiving, not yet scheduled,
    but probably both on Fridays.

12/05 Friday                       <-- tentative Week #14 day

12/12 Friday or 12/10 Wednesday    <-- tentative Week #15 day choices...

    Note that starting on Friday after Labor Day, we will have
               FOUR classes in a row that are hands-on classes:
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    Friday, September 5th using the cart CS department laptops in our
                          regular ITT 328 classroom.

    Monday, Wednesday and Friday of the following week we will be in
                           laptop lab ITT 134, aka StudioIT One room.

    09/08 Monday -- 09/10 Wednesday -- 09/12 Friday   Week #3 classes
    * StudioIT 1   * StudioIT 1      * StudioIT 1     ---------------
      ITT 134        ITT 134           ITT 134

    Again, the summary of today's class will be done later this evening.
Sorry about the problems getting started this morning.  I should have
skipped making a last minute assignment and setup and tested out the
classroom teaching station to make sure it would work at 9 a.m. sharp!  :-(

    http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/maya/info.html

    The assignment that is due on next Wednesday is linked to from
that page too, and is more nicely formatted than the handout you have.

    http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/maya/assignOneMaya.txt

    Happy Labor Day weekend!  See you in September.

    Mark