Latest revision as of 17:32, 10 July 2023

2023

Week 1

• Absent by agreement with REU directors and mentor

Week 2 (June 5th - June 9th)

Monday 6/5

• Attended RCR training session
• Completed CITI RCR training modules

Tuesday 6/6

• Read background research on embedded Xinu
• Worked on "Beyond CITI" d2l assignments
• Attended presentations and discussion with other REU students

Wednesday 6/7

• Finished "Beyond CITI" assignments
• Attended presentation on Technical Writing
• Read embedded Xinu education research
• Prepared a presentation on Ozobots

Thursday 6/8

• Presented on Ozobots
• Attended and discussed presentations on other K-12 teaching tools

Friday 6/9

• Looked into use of Ozobots to teach other subjects
• Read instructional operating system research

Week 3 (June 12th - June 16th)

Monday 6/12

• Began looking at code for Embedded Xinu
• Prepared a presentation on XinuPi3

Tuesday 6/13

• Presented on XinuPi3
• attended and discussed presentations on other REU students' focuses
• Met with Dr. Brylow and group to discuss project FUTURE

Wednesday 6/14

• Exploratory experiments with Embedded Xinu
• Discussed projects with other REU students

Thursday 6/15

• Continued exploring Embedded Xinu
• Discussed focus points with Dr. Brylow

Friday 6/16

• Tested Embedded Xinu timer interrupts
• Created Ozobot presentation for project FUTURE workshop
• Made my "Bitmoji"

Week 4 (June 19th - June 23rd)

Monday 6/19

• Gave presentation for project FUTURE
• Progress on Xinu timer

Tuesday 6/20

• Answered questions for project FUTURE
• Embedded Xinu timer very close to correct

Wednesday 6/21

• Attended research presentation by Dr. Bialkowski
• Met with poetry group of project FUTURE teachers about what tools they need
• Began poetry template for project FUTURE in Scratch

Thursday 6/22

• Met with another project FUTURE teacher about CS tools
• Finished poetry template in Scratch
• Created code.org poetry example

Friday 6/23

• Presented poetry templates to project FUTURE teachers
• Finished Embedded Xinu timer corrections
• Met with Dr. Brylow about next steps for Xinu project

Week 5 (June 26th - June 30th)

Monday 6/26

• Began designing tools for project FUTURE Connecticut team
• Research on atomic utilities for Embedded Xinu
• Started preparing mini-presentation for Wednesday

Tuesday 6/27

• Prepared mini-presentation for Wednesday
• Worked on Mathletes blockly project
• Met with Connecticut project FUTURE team for updates

Wednesday 6/28

• Presented on progress so far
• Attended other REU student presentations
• Worked on Xinu locks and atomics

Thursday 6/29

• More research on Xinu locks
• Met with Connecticut team to discuss presentable demos for project FUTURE

Friday 6/30

• Xinu lock and semaphore research
• Copied semaphore files into RISCV
• Marked where future work is needed in semaphore files

Week 6 (July 3rd - July 7th)

Monday 7/3

• Continued semaphore progress
• Found resources for semaphores and inter-process communication

Tuesday 7/4

• (Independence Day)

Wednesday 7/5

• Met with Dr. Brylow about semaphores, locks, and mailboxes
• Mapped out next steps for semaphores and files that need to be changed

Friday 7/7

• Began integrating semaphore files into RISCV
• Discovered holes in supporting files, began patching them

Week 7 (July 10th - July 14th)

Monday 7/10