SCC Tutoring

 Hi guys, this week I watched the video on online STEM tutoring.  There were a lot of helpful websites and such for online demos and visuals for STEM subjects.  The one tip that I appreciated the most was to keep commonly used materials saved on my computer.  This includes charts, tables, or textbooks in file formats that can easily be shared digitally.  The presenters shared their combined experiences of problems that took way longer to fix than expected.  I think this is definitely a fear I and many others have.  Sometimes a software can just stop working and all our plans can be spoiled as a result.  The trick one of the presenters listed is simply to be patient.  Prepare half an hour or an hour ahead of time and in the worst case scenario, reassure the students that these things take time. An online session should start with an introduction just like any other tutoring session.  In fact, it's even more important to introduce yourself...

  This Friday, I had the opportunity to tutor a friend of mine who was also studying compsci.  We picked this day during the evening at 8pm since that was the only time he was available to call this week.  Our topic was Data Structures using C++. I definitely needed to review this subject myself and I brought a lot of older materials from previous courses for reference.  I compiled a list of key topics for this course and made sure I had examples for each.  Demonstrations are very important for this topic because following along through abstract explanations can be very confusing.  I checked to see if all the programs were working properly.  The software we used to conduct the tutoring session was Discord since we’ve used it in the past.  It has screen sharing capabilities as well so I could project my Microsoft Visual Studio to showcase the code I was using.  Other than that, it was just making sure I had backup materials in the event that I...