Lab 4, TA Notes, CALS 85, Fall 2011, 22 Sept
For labs 26-30 Sept, Unix commands, copying a file from dir to dir,
Using Pine, attaching a .jpg image in the home dir.

BEFORE LAB:
•    Log in to Blackboard and check, & reply to entries for your lab, send interesting ones to Dr. L
•    Meet with your lab partner to go over the lab
•    Complete the lab assignment yourself
•    Bring to lab name tent materials, pens, your lab notebook, and class list.
•    Bring graded PowerPoint presentations Critiques.
•    Draw on board (or have poster of) connection from PC to zoo.
THE LAB:
1.    Go Early, Pass out name tents and have students make name tents if they don’t have one.
2.    Take Attendance.  Pass out PowerPoint graded critique forms & Collect Lab assignment.  Remind late penalty (-10% now, -20% next week, No credit after).
3.    Make sure students get out paper and pen and take notes.  Remind: Blackboard entries.
4.    Have students take out their conceptual map of the PC to Zoo connection.
5.    Refer to the “Skills to Teach Lab Four” attached to handout from last week (second sheet, back).
6.    Open Putty (or Terminal).  Explain you would use Putty [windows] or Terminal [Mac] for this.  See link to Fugu and Terminal on Macs.  Follow the Skills Sheet list:
            -Use keyboard only, push mouse away
            -Zoo Prompt
            -Unix commands (case sensitive):
                clear
                hostname
                who|more
                ls
                ls -a
                ls -al
                cp ~jleonard/example.txt example.txt
                pg example.txt
                up arrow to recall past commands
                Ctrl-C  for abort
            -Pine
                I   folder Index
                M  Main Menu
                C   compose a message (send to their netID)
                show how to read/reply to neighbor
                show how to read in (Ctrl-R) a text file (example.txt) into the Message Text area
                quit pine (click NO to save read messages in "received mail folder")
            -Edit .signature file (exit pine to unix prompt):
                pico .signature
                show Christopher Johnson's ASCII Art page as example of text art.  Explain how many images are NOT APPROPRIATE!
                Save in pico with Ctrl-X  Y  enter
            -Demonstrate and have students grab a screen (Alt-Printscreen [windows], or Command-Shift-4 [MacOS]), Paste into Paint, Save-As a .jpg file type
            -Demonstrate and have students upload the .jpg image above into their HOME Directory on zoo.
            -Go into pine again and show how to attach (Ctrl-J) the .jpg image
            -Read Assignment on Lab 3 page
            -Explain (at the end of lab) the file to copy from Dr. L's account is     lab3.txt    have them do the copy and edit it with pico and save it before they leave lab.

        Summary of assignment: Students should send ONE email to you using Pine including the following three things:
            1. Inside the message text should be the lab3.txt file with the answers filled in (file should not be attached).
            2. Attached should be a .jpg image the CLEARLY shows the students' name (home) folder, a BACKUP folder (open) with FILES (not just folders) inside.
            3.  A signature file with some nice detail: name, address, phone(s), favorite quote or lyric, and ASCII Art from Web.

7.   Read assignment.  Tell them the name of the file is lab3.txt and it has questions they need to fill out using pico (and save with Ctrl-X, Y, Enter) before they Read (Ctrl-R) the file into the pine message text area.
8.    Ask students “How many understand the assignment?  Any Questions?”
9.    Make sure students know they may contact you and meet with you outside of lab if necessary to get extra help with the lab.
10.  Collect Name Tents at end of lab (so you can hand them out at the beginning of next lab).
AFTER THE LAB:
•    Record absences and comments on spreadsheet template, answer all emails acknowledging receipt of assignment and if complete.
•    Meet with your TA partner and look over the students’ lab two assignment print outs.  Record grade in spreadsheet.
•    Save the spreadsheet in two places on your PC, flash drive, and upload to your zoo account.
•    Contact Dr. L if students are missing or having trouble with Blackboard (in wrong lab, can’t log in, etc.)