Colin Manning Munster Technological University

We had a guest speaker from Univ. de Oviedo who spoke about different aspects of usability and UI. We looked at Technology (W08-L1), Task ...

I helped students with their Photoshop issues.

Students worked in the research paper. I met with each studebt briefly to discuss progress. I'm expecting to see some drafts ove...

I explained interlaced video and how it causes problems for modern displays. When I was finished talking students worked on the assign...

We looked at Block Matching Algorithms (BMAs) and how they contribute to the asymmetry of video compression.

I met with each student to discuss how the assignment is going. There was no Photoshop in this lab, so some students deferred working on i...

We looked at video compression

I talked students through the marking scheme I used for the exam. We looked at the code for the Time Game .

I met with each student to discuss progress of the research reports. I am expecting a first draft to be completed over the Easter break.  ...

We looked at transparency and PNG.

We looked at Metaphors (Slides W06-L2), Requirements Gathering (W08-L1) and Prototyping (W08-L2).

We had an in-class exam

I spoke about topic sentences and paragraph structure.  I gave out a photocopy of an article from a magazine and asked students to mark the ...

Is it GIF or JIF?

We looked at how JPEG works When I was finished, students used the time to catch up in the dithering stuff they missed The video b...

I gave out some sample exam questions on dithering. But they didn't mean anything because none of the students in class today were in fo...

Students prepared for the exam tomorrow.

We looked at dithering. We looked at dithering in Photoshop on a 10x10 pixel image. Students The student did some experimen...

There was one student in class. I had a look at a draft of his assignment submission.

I showed students a few more Photoshop party tricks that might be useful for the assignment. Students continued work on the assignment. ...