Announcement: SAS attendance and video delivery

SAS folks,

To summarize:

• You must fill out the SAS RSVP form.
• You can receive extra credit by delivering SAS a draft video early.
• You must deliver a final video to Professor Littlejohn by tomorrow.

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Currently we have only six of 18 listed as attending the SAS event on Monday, and only four of eight teams with a member in attendance. This isn't a great showing; we'd like to have at least one member of every team attending. The minimum time commitment isn't unreasonable: from 1-4pm.

To this end, SAS team members are now required to fill out our SAS RSVP form whether or not they can attend. If you cannot attend, please explain why not. Conflicting final exams that afternoon are acceptable explanations, but weak explanations may impact your project grade. If you do not fill out this form, your project grade will again suffer.

Keep in mind that attendance will earn you 1% extra credit.

SAS would still like to see one of our videos early. Any team that can share a rough draft video with Lora Edwards at (lora.edwards@sas.com) by this evening will receive another 1% extra credit; by tomorrow morning 0.5%. Copy me and our TA Lingnan Gao to ensure extra credit.

Finally, each team should deliver a short video and a single slide to Professor Littlejohn (dklittle@ncsu.edu) by 5pm tomorrow. Please ensure you copy me and our TA Lingnan Gao with any email. For your video, we suggest hosting on Google Drive. I believe that Professor Littlejohn must deliver the videos themselves to SAS, so hosting at YouTube may be problematic.

I will be free tomorrow morning until 1130 if you would like to show me your video and slide for suggestions. Stop by my Hunt office at 5148 — use the elevator outside the library turnstiles.

Professor Watson

Announcement: deliverables for SAS event, and invitation to attend design Wednesday

Hey SAS folks,

Spoke with Professor Littlejohn Tuesday about the SAS event.

The video that you produce describing your work should be 1/2 to 2 minutes long. It will not be edited into the design video, it will be played separately (after the design video). A screencast demoing your work will be fine. You can find screencasting tools here.

You should also produce one slide over which you will introduce your video at the event, for less than one minute.

Also, her students will be working on their projects and video during class Wednesday. At Professor Littlejohn's invitation, I encourage you to attend in order to to meet and prepare with your design partners.

The rest of the class will be performing a final critique of projects Wednesday before our final presentations on the 12th.

Best,

Ben

Announcement: reminders and more detail on SAS event

SAS folks,

Some reminders. By today, don't forget to:

• Sign this form indicating if you can attend the event — by today.
• Sign the SAS IP agreement either electronically or by hand and scanned, then put it in the matching locker on wolfware.

Details on event: 

• Program
• 9-1145: practice talks
• 1145-1245: provided lunch
• 1-4: presentations
• 4-430: meet and greet
• When to appear
• Just before practice, lunch or presentations 
• Attire: business casual
• From newish jeans and button shirt to slacks and jacket. No sneakers.
• Where to appear
• SAS Building C (maps: 1, 2)
• At gate check in: "For NC State UX collaboration at building C" 
• Talks
• Project by project, design and engineering partner teams go up
• Design and engineering members introduce themselves 
• Design members
• Briefly introduce their work with one slide (< 1 minute)
• Play a video (< 2 minutes)
• Engineering members 
• Briefly introduce their work with one slide (< 1 minute)
• Play a video (<2 minutes)

Professor Watson 

Critique: SAS elevator pitches today

Folks,

A reminder to bring your SAS elevator pitches today.

About two minutes each — followed by several minutes of critique.

Visuals encouraged but not required.

Professor Watson

Announcement: SAS Teams — visiting SAS and delivering video

SAS teams,

Below are the details for the SAS visit. As you'll see, it happens most of the day first Monday of examination week. A couple points:

• If you plan to attend, please indicate so on this form.
• Since I can't require you to attend, I'll offer 1% extra credit if you go. 

As I've mentioned, we'll be showing a few minutes of video content captured from our software prototypes at the SAS event, integrated with design's content. It is up to you to arrange delivery of that content to your design partners before December 8, so that they have time to integrate it well. This is required. Video like this is already a part of what you must deliver for our class projects by December 15. (You can continue to improve your prototype and video after the 8th).

Also, SAS has asked for a quick idea of what our contributions to the event will be like. They'd like it before Thursday! Again I can't require this of you, but I'll give another %1 extra credit to any SAS team that can deliver a rough cut of their video (unedited visuals and voiceover, or visuals and text script) to Professor LittleJohn by then. Just share it with her and me on Google Drive.

We'll be practicing your 2 minute SAS voiceovers about your projects in Monday's critique.

Professor Watson

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Presentations take place in Building C (the Executive Conference Center), off Harrison in Cary, near I40.

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9AM

• Student teams, instructors Deb, Robin, Ben arrive
• Set up and practice in the presentation room.

11:45-12:45PM

• Lunch downstairs in the C cafeteria. The students’ lunches will be covered by SAS. Faculty are welcome to attend.

1PM

• Presentations begin
• Junior class will go first, followed by Seniors

4-4:30PM

• meet & greet in hallway

Announcements: visitors during our final presentations (updated)

Folks,

Currently scheduled as visiting us during final presentations are:

• Ravi Devarajan, SAS
• Alan Cox, David Motsinger & Lee Eason, WebAssign (updated to include Lee)
• Cory Lown, NCSU Digital Library Initiatives 
• Tom Miller, NCSU Entrepreneurship Initiative 

I'll let you know if more decide to come.

Best,

Ben

Guest: Ravi Devarajan will be back for final presentations on December 13

Folks,

Ravi Devarajan of SAS will be back with us for December 13 final presentations.

Best,

Ben

Guest: Ravi Devarajan of SAS will sit in on critique on October 23

Folks,

Ravi Devarajan of SAS Institute will sit in on critique with us on October 23.

Best,

Ben