Mentoring Meeting

26 October 2011 Mentoring meeting with First Year Lecturers.

Agreed to set up survey for 1st year students using Polldaddy. The objective of the survey is to collect as much information as possible with a view to spotting students in difficulty.

Another purpose is to provide some kind of baseline data about students for use in the future.

The survey will be run during class time as this is likely to get the highest number of responses.

Galway Careers Fair

25 October - Galway Careers Fair

Attended Careers Fair in Galway with Dara McGoldrick. Large attendance. Good interest in IT Sligo. Not much awareness of, or interest in, Computing courses.

Students were very aware of Childcare / Social  Care / Leisure / etc.

Scratch - The Early Weeks

Week 1: 17 October 11
Started learning about Scratch programming language. Made contact with Clare McInerney from Lero.