COM1-CMOD6001 09

We talked about reasons for being at college. Students completed exercise sheets 6 & 87.

We recapped what is expected for the job description assignment that is due on Friday morning at 0600, and what will be expected of students in class on Friday.

We talked a little bit about time management. Students completed exercise sheets 75 & 76.

I briefly outlined what assignments are coming up. There will be a paper, a presentation (group), and a project (group). I will give more details of those next week.

Students were reminded to keeping blogging and to make at least one entry per week.

Web Publishing 09 & 10

We spent time setting up blogs. This was a pity because had spend time on that already.

Towards the end of the class students remotely logged in to a server, created a folder, and FTPed a simple page. They were then able to view the page in a web browser.

Some students we hindered by their total lack of competence in HTML. They will probably have to revise the notes they made in previous modules.

In the next class we will brainstorm about possible projects. Since we appear to have 17 students I will be proposing 2 project groups.

Web Publishing - Blogs

These are the blogs of the students in the class. You should add them to your blog roll.

florencecit
wallacekareeba
helen-liu-helen
leannescollegeblog
mydcom3year
peteranthony1
lovethedice
felixwunderlich
ciaranosullivan
motherwaysblog
notorious-string
dadeodugbose
beckysiboyu
olgalinek
gius78
daviedee
jbumba
darraghpaul
neilo12
xzemx
dbesteva1


{This post have been modified to accomadate new students. List last updated 08 Oct 2008}

Web Publishing 08

(30 Sep 2008)
We started a little late because the machine in the classroom couldn't connect to anything and so I had to do a Shank's mare file transfer.

We had a class on how to transfer files from a local machine to a web server.

notes:
unix-ftp.ppt
Unix ftp man page printout

COM1-CMOD6001 Reminder

Don't forget to e-mail the job description to me by Friday morning and to bring it with you to class on Friday.

This is worth marks.

COM1-CMOD6001 07A & 08A

I asked students to asses their IT skills using the check lists I gave out. Many opf the same gaps in knoweledge appear in this class as in the last. However like the last class I was unable to fill them because I couldn't get the projector working. I suspect though that all of the pieces are in fact present. At least it means I will do exactly the same with both calsses next week, so it's not all bad I suppose.

Students mostly worked on their blogs or on the job assignment.

A number of students already have attendance rates of less than 30%. That's quite shocking so early in the year.

COM1-CMOD6001 07B & 08B

I asked students to assess their own IT skills using the check lists I provided. That gave me an idea of what kinds of things we need to go over. However having figured out what we needed to to, we could not because the cable connecting to the projector had been stolen. Persumably it had been stolen to go with the monitor that was also stolen.

So we'll do that at the next opportunity.

My head hurts

I still have a rotten headache. It's like a hangover that's lasted 2 weeks. I think I'll have to go back to the doctor. If today was a tougher day I think I'd have called in sick. So no partying for me this weekend. I've a load of DVDs to get though anyway.

COM1-CMOD6001 06

We discussed some of the ideas student came up with in the last class about what makes for good teamwork.

Students worked in groups to come up with possible rules for a group.

Handouts: 94, 97, 99

Students did a self-evaluation (94)

We went though 99

Web Publishing 07

We looked briefly at the Wikipedia article on Web Hosting.

We went through a long list of different features offered by several web hosting companies and I explained what they meant.

notes:
web hosting handout

DNC-CMOD6001

We played name tag rizzla in order to get to know each others names. The students didn't seem to be that interested in mingling and 1 or 2 even cheated.

When we were finished with that we wrapped up.

I expect that next week I will have a different number of hours with this group.

COM1-CMOD6001 05

We had to do the roll call twice because it was difficult to hear. And even then I was one name short.

We did an exercise on groups. Students got in to groups of 4 or 5 to come up with suggestions for what make for good working groups. Most students worked well on the exercise and came up with interesting and useful ideas. However when it came time to collate those ideas and share them with the entire class is was very difficult to hear the student contributions over the noise and chatter. I wasn't prepared to shout louder than everyone else put together, so I left at 20 minutes to the hour.

Web Publishing 06

(2 hour labs)
Students set up blogs and added the other students' blogs to their blog rolls.

Web Publishing 05

We looked at blogs. This is an example of a blog :-)

Finally Under Way

I feel like the college year is finally under way. Stuff is actually getting done. There was a fair bit of hassle today with student computer accounts and many couldn't log in even though they had fully registered and paid their money and everything. Admissions told them it might be a few days before the computer system reflects their status accurately. In the meantime we have some dummy accounts so students can get on with things. Having dummy accounts is a bit of a security risk but we have to strike a balance.

COM1-CMOD6001 03A & 04A

I distributed the job descriptions exercise.

In the second half of the class students set up blogs.

COM1-CMOD6001 03B & 04B

Some time was wasted at the start of class with people unable to log in. But hopefully all that will be sorted in a few days.

I distributed the job descriptions exercise.

In the second half of the class students set up blogs.

COM1-CMOD6001 02

We played name tag rizzla so that we could get to know each other's names. It was good fun.

Web Publishing 04

Very short class. went through syllabus and explained what the course was about.

I asked students to decide over the weekend whether they were in or out, so that we could get down to work.

DNC-CMOD6001 01

Our first class.