COMP6023 Lab 05 ITS1b

We didn't do anything particular in today's lab. I used the time to meet with each student and give each one feedback the blog.

Feedback on Student Blogs

This week I used lab time to meet with students to give individual feedback on the blogs. Most students are doing fine. But it's really important to re-read your posts, ideally a day later, to check them for typos and errors.

Here are some common errors and things to watch for

i: The first person is always upper case. Even when it's not at the start of a sentence.

': Many people struggle with the apostrophe rule  in English. This site might help. Punctuation makes the difference knowing your shit, and knowing you're shit.

s/he: English is inherently sexist. Most attempts to address this problem have been clumsy. S/he is just ugly. Saying he or she and his or hers (interestingly it's never hers or his) is tedious. Saying he or saying she is fine. It might be an idea to switch the sex from time to time, so long as you don't change any individual's sex mid paragraph. Using the non-gender specific plural, when a singular is required, is wrong too. More dangerous is real sexism. When writing don't assume that all brain surgeons and athletes are male, and all primary school teachers are female.

Proper nouns: All proper nouns in English are capitalized. e.g. Google

Singular vs. Plural: Apple is a company. It has policies. It has products and services. It is singular.

Copyright is usually singular. Copyrights is probably wrong. I'm not sure.

Avoid "me" "you" "we" "the author" "the reader"

Any errors in this post are obviously here for irony.

COMP6023 Class 10 DNET/DCOM

I couldn't get the projector working so we went to C128 to do some PhotoShop. But it was occupied.

I used the time to meet with some students who weren't in the lab yesterday to discuss how their blogs are going.

COMP6023 Class 09 ITS1

I talked a little bit about local search and we looked at the advanced search options that search engines provide.

Afterwards we spent some time discussing the GOMC and the essay. I outlined where students should be at this stage.

COMP6023 Lab 05 DNET

I met with each students and discussed his or her blog entries. I identified the kinds of errors (if any) each student was making and the kinds of things each student was doing well. I also identified what was required to get more marks.

I was missing printouts for 4 students. I will try to get back to those soon.

While waiting most students worked on this week's blog entry and on the GOMC. I do not have up to date information on the GOMC. Please check the list of teams ad companies and advise me of any changes I need to make.

COMP6023 Lab 05 ITM

I met with each student and discussed the kinds of grammar and spelling errors each was making and explained what each could do to improve his mark in the blog.

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Google Ads Keywords

Students should be getting to work on devising campaigns foe the GOMC clients.

COMP6023 Week 05 Blog Suggestions

Week 05

Minimum Requirements:
Students must summarize what we did in class in week 5

Extras (suggestions):

Consider what Google might know about you. If you committed a crime and the police had access to Google's database, what might the profile of the criminal look like.

Consider how this semester has gone for you so far. Did you get off to a good start? Did any of the bad practices that you forswore over the break, return? It's usually about Week 05 that students start to drift. Maybe you could think (and write) about why you are at college, what you are interested in, and where you want to go.

COMP6023 Class 10 DWEB/ITM

We continued our look at search engines.

Next up we will consider Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

COMP6023 Class 09 DWEB/ITM

We looked at search engines

COMP6023 Lab 05 DCOM

We didn't do anything in particular in this lab.

I fielded some questions about assessments and some GOMC groups used the time to make some progress.

I met with each student to discuss the blog and the kinds of spelling and grammar errors that the student was making. Some students expressed concern that the penalty for grammar and spelling errors is so significant.

COMP6023 Class 09 DNET/DCOM

We looked at how search engines work

COMP6023 Lab 05 ITS1a

We didn't do very much in today's lab. Some students caught up on work from last week. I asked students to use the time to make sure that the spelling and grammar in the blogs were correct.

I posted the assignment schedule online and we discussed that a little bit.

COMP6023 Class 08 ITS1

We talked some more about how search engines work.

COMP6023 Lab 04 ITS1b

We looked at how to upload a website to a unix web server using FTP commands.

Students made a simple site and uploaded it to praxis.

COMP6023 Class 08 DNET/DCOM

I couldn't get he projector working.

I talked with students about the GOMC. Some students aren't so keen and asked for the assignment spec for the Plan B.

COMP6023 Lab 04 DWEB

Students made a simple webpage and uploaded it via FTP to praxis.

Students should include the URL for this page in this week's blog entry.

COMP6023 Class 07 ITS

GOMC teams met. There was some last minute horse trading. Teams selected some clients and got the contact details.

COMP6023 Lab 04 DNET

We looked at the unix commands needed to upload a site to a web server using FTP. Students must include the URL for their websites in this weeks blog entry.

GMOC Teams did some work.

COMP6023 Lab 04 ITM

We looked at the unix commands needed to upload a site to a web server using FTP. Students must include the URL for their websites in this weeks blog entry.

GMOC Teams did some work.

COMP6023 Class 08 DWEB/ITM

I spoke a tiny tiny bit about the Google Online marketing Challenge. Despite my having asked students to sort out the groups in the inter-class break, there was still some horse trading to be done.

I asked the groups to review the list of potential clients and to select some they might like to work with.

COMP6023 Class 07 DWEB/ITM

I explained a bit about web servers and went through the unix commands needed to do an FTP.

Reminders

In addition to providing a summary of this week's classes the minimum requirements this week include both, taking the newsU.org online course and sending me the result; and FTPing a website up to the server and include the URL in the blog post.

COMP6023 Lab 04 DCOM

We went through the unix commands needed to FTP a website to a web server. I asked students to make a small page and upload it to the server using the details I gave in class.

Students are required to include the URLs for their pages in their Week 04 blog posts.

There is no lls command in unix. I totally made that up. It's actually !ls

COMP6023 Class 07 DNET/DCOM

I started talking about Directories and Search Engines and how they work, but we got sidetracked and ended up talking about privacy issues. I love it when that happens.

Someone suggested that it wasn't a bit deal, but I asked the class to imagine that being gay was still a crime in Ireland. How harmless would all the information that Google, Facebook, and the mobile phone companies have be, if the government got its hands on it? What if China bought Google?

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

[We got as far as Slide 18]

COMP6023 Lab 04 ITS1a

For the first hour of the lab students worked a it on their blogs, the NewsU course, GOMC registration.

Then we looked at FTP.

I asked students to log into a server, create a folder, and upload a small website. For security reasons, though, the login details won't be on the blog.

Students are required to include the URLs for their pages in their Week 04 blog posts.

There is no lls command in unix. I totally made that up. It's actually !ls

The Hesienberg Uncertainty Principle asserts that a student will be uncertain of how to complete the lab work assigned to him, if he spends his time watching Breaking Bad montages instead of paying attention to the lecturer.

Sent a list of potential GOMC clients

I e-mailed captains who have yet to organize a team, to encourage them to get the finger out.

I e-mailed the captains with teams in place a list of some potential clients. If a team is interested in a particular client, let me know and I will try for optimal pairings of teams and clients. Do not contact nor publicize the list of clients in the meantime.

Teams are free to find their own client too. It might be especially interesting to have a charity as a client as the $250 free advertising might be very welcome.

Sent e-mail to potential GOMC clients

I sent this e-mail to potential GOMC clients today.


Hi ***

I’m e-mailing you because you expressed an interest in participating in the Google Online Marketing Challenge (GOMC) with some of my students at Cork Institute of Technology.  I got your contact details from Virginia Foley at the Rubicon Centre. The GOMC is a competition Google runs to expose businesses to its advertising products.  Students are tasked with managing an $250 advertising budget over three weeks.  If you  participate, a team of students will devise a plan and spend the $250 on your behalf in an effort to drive traffic to your website.  This process will happen over a number of stages.

Students will meet with you to establish the nature of your business.  I will ask them to examine your website to ensure that it is getting as high a ranking on Google as it deserves.  It may be that they will recommend some changes to your website.  However, I do not propose that they would make those changes for you.

The students will devise a plan and submit to Google.  After this Google will credit their  AdWords account with $250. The students have a three week window of their choosing to run the campaign.  However this semester ends in mid May so I would expect students to run the campaign before the end of April. Following that they will submit an impact statement to Google.

I hope to assign a team of students to you soon.  In the meantime, there are some things you could consider.  Is there a particular three week window that might best suit your business?  If you sell chocolate, for example, before Easter would be better than after.  Is your target audience confined to a geographical location, or is it global?  What kinds of people are in your target audience?  These are just some of the questions the students will be asking you.

All the students are in their first year of college.  They may not be used to dealing with clients, so this experience will be of great benefit to them.  I’m grateful to you for offering your time.

You can find more information about the GOMC at 

http://www.google.com/onlinechallenge/discover/index.html

or you can e-mail or phone me if you have any questions or concerns.

Thank You

Colin Manning

Identify weeks on posts

Please name your posts Week 02, Week 03, Week 04 etc. That will make it much easier to identify them when I am correcting them.

COMP6023 Class 06 ITS1

We looked at Directories and Search Engines.
[up to slide 21]

COMP6023 Grammar & Spelling Waiver

Someone asked in one class if students who did not have English as their first language were also required to have correct spelling and grammar in English. They do.

COMP6023 Lab 03 ITS1b

I asked students to read the 10 blogs that come after them in the list and to leave a comment on each. Comments identifying any spelling or grammar errors would be especially welcome by the author.

Students should ensure that their blogs contain no errors.

I asked the Google Compettition Team Captains to start forming groups and to register with Google. They should start a group blog and e-mail the URL to Colin.Manning@cit.ie

COMP6023 Class 05 DNET/DCOM

I identified the team captains for the Google contest and I asked student to make a start on organizing themselves into teams.  Team captains need to follow the link onf the blog and register with Google.

We discussed patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. It was a bit rushed in the end. For a more leisurely discussion, students can watch the recording of the class with one of the other student cohorts.

Today's class was interesting. It's nice when students join in. Although some looked like they had had a rough night.

COMP6023 Lab 03 DWEB

I asked students to read the 10 blogs that come after them in the list and to leave a comment on each. Comments identifying any spelling or grammar errors would be especially welcome by the author.

Some students argued about fonts. That make me very happy.

Students should ensure that their blogs contain no errors.

I asked the Google Compettition Team Captains to start forming groups and to register with Google. They should start a group blog and e-mail the URL to me.

COMP6023 Class 05 ITS

We talked about patents, trade marks, and trade secrets

COMP6023 Lab 03 DNET

I asked students to read the 10 blogs that come after them in the list and to leave a comment on each. Comments identifying any spelling or grammar errors would be especially welcome by the author.

Students should ensure that their blogs contain no errors.

I asked the Google Compettition Team Captains to start forming groups.

COMP6023 Lab 03 ITM

I asked students to read the 10 blogs that come after them in the list and to leave a comment on each. Comments identifying any spelling or grammar errors would be especially welcome by the author.

Students should ensure that their blogs contain no errors.

I asked the Google Compettition Team Captains to start forming groups.

COMP6023 Class 06 DWEB/ITM

We looked at Patents, Trade Marks, and Trade Secrets

Register for the Google Online Marketing Challenge

COMP6023 students should form groups of 3-6 students (I recommend 4) and one student from each group should register for the Google Online Marketing Challenge http://www.google.com/onlinechallenge/register.html.

Registration was supposed to be open from today but there seems to be some delay.

The student that registers should also set up a blog for the group and make the other team members authors also.

COMP6023 Class 05 DWEB/ITM

We looked a collage and how new works can be created from old ones, and the challenges this poses for copyright law. We discussed open source, creative commons, and public domain. We listened the The Avalanches, ray Charles, Kanye West, and Girl Talk.

Question of the Day

Would you give a job to a man who wrote his CV in Comic Sans?

Web Filter

IT Services is trialling a new web filtering system called LightSpeed. It has come across a few students who say they cannot access legitimate websites that would use in labs and for research.

Some of these websites are being blocked by LightSpeed because of the *category* they are in. I.e. “Security” “Adult” etc. If you come across such websites during your labs or lectures could you please e-mail Servicedesk@cit.ie with the website and the *Category* it was blocked under.

This will allow IT Services to relax the rules a bit hopefully and allow the students to conduct their business unimpeded.

COMP6023 Lab 03 DCOM

I asked each student to check the list of blogs to see if the link to his or her blog is correct.


I asked each students to read the 10 blogs after his or hers in the list and to leave a comment on each. If there are any typos, spelling, or grammar mistakes leave a comment for the author.

COMP6023 Class 05 DWEB/DCOM

We talked about creating new works from old, and open source. We listened to some music (Kanye, The Avalanches, Girl Talk) that contained samples and considered what might be reasonable and what might not.

COMP6023 Peer Review

I sent this mail to everyone in the class:

Hi

Please check that the URL I have for your blog is correct.

This week in the labs I will be asking you to read the 10 blogs that come after yours on the list and to leave a comment on each. In particular if you see a typo, spelling error, or grammar mistake, please let the blog author know. Such errors would cost a lot of marks.

I'll ask you to do this in the labs, but the sooner everyone makes a start, the sooner everyone will get the feedback they need.

If your blog is set up in such a way that readers can't leave comments, you might miss out on valuable feedback.

Good Luck

Colin M

COMP6023 Lab 02 ITS1A

I asked each student to check the list of blogs to see if the link to his blog is correct.

I asked each students to read the 10 blogs after his in the list and to leave a comment on each. If there are any typos, spelling, or grammar mistakes leave a comment for the author.

COMP6023 Class 04 ITS

We looked again at copyright and considered collage and making new works from old. We listened to Frontier Psychiatrist by The Avalanches and Stronger by Kanye West, and discussed how the nature of the use was different. Someone said that Daft Punk sued Kanye West and lost, but I don't know that that's the case.

Check your blog

I sent this e-mail to all my COMP6023 students today.


Hi

I have sent this to everyone in the class. That you received it is not an indication that there is anything wrong.

Whoever I would like to to check that you have your blog set up, and that I have your URL on the list on my blog.
http://colinmcit.blogspot.ie/p/comp6023-student-blogs.html

Please check that any nonsense posts that you made to test it are deleted and that all of your posts are in standard correct English. If you have spelling or grammar mistakes you will score very poorly. It is possible to edit posts you have already made.

The deadline for getting your first entry posted covering weeks 1 & 2, is noon of next Monday.

Good Luck

Colin M

Google Online Marketing Challenge

I will be asking students to sign up next week for the Google Online Marketing Challenge. Groups will be of 3 to 6 students and only one of the students should register. You don't need to do anything just yet. I will talk you through the process. In the meantime though you could take a look at

http://www.google.com/onlinechallenge/

COMP6023 Lab 02 ITSb

I talked student through how to set up a blog and customize the layout.

I discussed a bit about what students are expected to do each week.

I asked students to e-mail the URLs of their blogs, and to check the list of student blogs on my blog to ensure that I have it and that it is correct.

COMP6023 Class 04 DNET/DCOM

We talked about copyright. Students seemed quite interested and there was a lot of discussion. It's a pity there's no recording of this class.

COMP6023 Lab 02 DWEB

We looked at how to customize the blog layout.

COMP6023 Class 03 ITS

We began our look at Intellectual Property by looking at copyright.

Slides available on the COMP6023 Slides & Resources page

COMP6023 Lab 02 DNET

We looked at how to customize the layout of blogs in blogger.

I had to leave early yo go to a meeting

Popular Blogs

http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/blogs

COMP6023 Lab 02 ITM

We looked at how to customize the layout of the blog and add widgets.

COMP6023 Class 04 DWEB/ITM

We began our look at intellectual property. Today we discussed Copyright.

Slides: ip.pdf

COMP6023 Class 03 DWEB/ITM

I outlined the requirements for Assessment 1. Students will be expected to keep a blog for 10 weeks.

There were problems with the audio of today's class. So there's no recording online.

COMP6023 Lab 02 DCOM

I asked students to add me to a Google+ circle.

I talked students how to set up their blogs using Blogger. I asked students to email the the URLs for their blogs.

COMP6023 Class 03 DNET/DCOM

We looked at blogs

COMP6023 Lab 02 ITS1a

We looked at how to set up a blog using blogger.

I asked students to set up a blog and e-mail me the URL

I asked students to add me to  a circle in Google+

I asked students to want the YouTube video of the class I gave last week on Blogs

COMP6021 Cancelled

COMP6021 Media Data Formats will not be offered this semester after all, because too few students were interested in it.

That's a pity. But these are difficult times.