COMP6021/COMP6023 JPEG

Here's an online video I made some time about about JPEG. It is largely the same as what we did in class.

This rather unusual logo has it origins in the way JPEG works.

COMP6023 Essay title errors and omissions

Today I corrected any errors in the essay choices of which I was made aware.

Students may no longer chose a topic. That choice was made for them some time ago.

However, if you made a choice, advised me of it, and the list does not reflect that please let me know and I will try to find the e-mail you sent me.

Please check the list to ensure that the blog URL and essay title are correct.

COMP6023 ITM1 Class 23 & 24

Students worked on their blogs and on assignment 2

COMP6023 Add author to your blog

For this weeks blog post students are expected to guest post on someone else's blog. To allow someone to be an author on your blog, you must first invite them.

Take care not to make your guest an Administrator of your blog. That will give him or her total control. Author is enough.

COMP6023 Assessment Update

Essay

If you didn't send me your choice of essay title, one has been assigned to you. You can check the blog list to see what you got.

If you don't like the title you were assigned you will not be assigned another. There was plenty of time to make a choice. If you believe that you sent me your choice some time ago, and that I missed it, let me know and I will have a look.

This part of the process has taken so long that submission of a draft will not be compulsory. However it is still recommended. Details of how to submit will follow soon.


Blogs

I propose to begin correcting the blog posts for week 2-5 this week. If you need to correct errors and omissions in those weeks you have very little time in which to do so.

COMP6023 DWEB1/ITM1 Class 22

We looked at some more at the RGB colour system. Then we examined the Lab colour system and saw how subsampling the colour comment of an image was not as noticeable  as subsampling the luminance component.

We looked at the CMYK system used in printing.

[Recoding failed]

I spoke a bit about image compression. I explained image subsampling and interpolation.

We began to look at pixel depth reduction when my laptop failed. We will pick up again from this point in the next class.

COMP6023 DWEB1/ITM1 Class 21

We looked at digitising black & white images and considered the impact the sample rate (dpi) and number of quantisation level (bit per pixel) have on the quality.

We looked at the HSB & RGB colour systems

COMP6023 ITM1 Classes 19 & 20

Students worked on Assignment 2 by saving the images as GIFs with different numbers of colours, with and without dithering.

COMP6023 DWEB1/ITM1 Class 18

We looked some more at SEO and I showed students Google Analytics data from my blog.

(We got up to Slide 64)

[No recording of this class because I can't record classes back to back]

COMP6023 DWEB1/ITM1 Class 17

We began our look at SEO.

COMP6023 Review of Week 04 / Preview of Week 05

Review

This was a slow week I felt. We didn't do much technically, although maybe the conversations about privacy were worthwhile.

Hopefully those students who need to work on their writing skills are aware of that now.

Students should complete the NewsU online course and post some thoughts on that for the blog this week. Quite a number of students have yet to complete the course. Failure to do so by Sunday evening will very likely cost students some marks. We will return to some of the issues covered by the NewsU course later in the module.

Preview

Next week we will begin our look at Search Engine Optimization(SEO) in earnest.

I won't be able to make the DNET1/COM1c class on Tuesday at 1400 as I have a meeting I must go to.

For next week's blog post students must write a book review. (And not the book of the movie  reviewed last week)

COMP6023 ITM1 Class 15 & 16

Photoshop is working in C134x now, so students worked on the JPEG images for Assessment 2.

I met with each student and discussed any language issues in the blog posts that needed to be addressed. Students are free to make corrections until the posts are actually assessed. (That will probably be at the end of Week 05)

COMP6023 Week 03 Summary

The plan to do an olde school FTP session to a UNIX machine didn't work. The Windows security systems thought we were trying to bypass the local firewalls. We might try again another time.

Students got the images they needed for Assignment 2. Some were able to make a start on gather the data using Photoshop. Others had problems with Photoshop. Those issues should be resolved in those labs by next week.

Students should write a movie review for the blog this week.

Some students have completed the NewsU course. I have marked those students with a 1 on the blog list. I'm aware that the links to the student blogs are acting strange. I haven't been able figure out what's up with the PDF. In the source document they are fine.

The most popular essay choices are booked up now. Students shouldn't take too long to decide. I may have to consider a deadline soon to move that along.

COMP6023 ITM1 Class 11 & 12 Labs

The lab didn't cooperate. Photoshop wouldn't work. So students worked on their blogs and sme took the NewsU online course.

I asked student to read the blogs of the other students in the group and advise the author of any issues they identified.

COMP6023 Week 03 Plan

This week I plan to

• discuss uploading a website to a server 
• get students to upload using FTP during the lab
• look at ways to promote a webiste

This week students should

• read the 10 blogs after theirs on the list and highlight any issues in a comment
• post a movie review on the blog
• start the NewsU course Online Media & the Law

COMP6023 ITM1 CLASS 07 & 08 Lab

Students worked on their blogs.

I recommended that they take the NewsU course Online Media & the Law today if they have time.

COMP6023 DWEB/ITM Class 06

I talked students through the assignment specification.

COP6023 DWEB1/ITM1 Class 05

Last week I asked students to find out a about blogs. At the start of class students met in groups and identified the main features of a blog.

Then I talked them through some of the features and we looked at some examples.

COMP6023 ITM1 Class 03 & 04

Students

• signed up for Google+
• added me to a circle
• signed up for blogger.com
• set up a blog
• modified the default settings
• signed up for google analytics
• connected analytics to blog

A good morning's work

COMP6023 DWEB1/ITM1 Class 02

Podcasting