CMOD6001 Assignment 1 Results

I will make the results of assignment 1 available soon. I was very disappointed with them. The task was not difficult and there were 10 easy marks up for grabs.

A number of students failed to take on board the comments I left on their blogs that could have resulted in them getting higher marks. Up to noon on Monday 8/10 marks were still available. Now this assignment is worth nothing.

Students who did not do well in this assignment should have a long hard think about what they are playing at, and should make a decision about whether or not they are in or out.

A number of students took it seriously and got good marks. Well done.

BBADM3 Web Apps Week 06 Class 4A

We talked about the various different web technologies and tools and how they all fit together. It was a lot to tackle in one class, but we will revisit some of it in more detail later.

webnode.com didn't work in C162. Maybe it needs Java. I must look into it.

notes: web-technology.pdf (ignore last slide)

BBADM3 Web Apps ESSAY TITLES

I have moved these here for convenience

• Marketing in Social Networks - Michelle Murray


• Social networking in the Business World - Tara Carroll, Teresa Casey


• Using YouTube for Business - Isabel Rossiter


• Online Collaboration Tools


• Blogging for Business - Siobhan O Sullivan, Amanda Murphy


• Podcasting - Barra O Connor, Darragh Ryan


• Video Streaming - Laura Hickey, Caitriona Flynn


• Open Source Software for Business - Joan O Sullivan


• Wikis


• Prediction Markets - Tanya Hogan, Karina Walsh


• Business 2.0


• Managing Reputation Online - Julie O'Leary


• Understanding Google AdSense - Patricia O'Brien, Colin Kearney


• Wiki Business


• Business Opportunities using Location Based Services - Micheal Osborne


• RFID and Privacy


• Improving your Google Ranking - Stephen O'Connor


• Cybersquatting


• Privacy Guidelines for Small Business - Caitriona Wrynn


• Digital Terresterial TV (business slant)


• Internet Crime - Aisling Carey, Deidre Lucey


• Blogola


• Business Models for Monetizing the Newspaper Industry


• Online Advertising - Caitriona Flynn, Marian Ahern, David Barrett

BBADM3 Web Apps Week Project

I met with the class rep over lunch. She persuaded me that I should be a bit more flexible with the group sizes and so I will.

She also explained that students are uncomfortable with uncertainty and are worried. So I have put a specification for the project online. We will work though this in class.

BBADM3 Web Apps Week 06 Class 3B

Class was cut short so we didn't get much done.

BBADM3 Web Apps Week 06 Class 2B

Collaboration tools
wikis
edited something on wikipedia
edited the home and away wiki
looked at google documents
talked about cloud computing

Yippee! I got my iPhone back.

Now I just have to wait for it to be un-blacklisted and I can once again be permanently tethered to the web.

BBADM3 Web Apps Week 06 - Class 2 & 3A

Very poor attendance

Collaboration tools
wikis
edited something on wikipedia
edited the home and away wiki
looked at google documents
talked about cloud computing

CMOD6001 Week 06 - Lab DNET

There was not a single complete team in attendance. So there wasn't much point is setting team work, nor tying to develop the projects more.

I met with (some of) Team Aplha Beta. They had the complete wrong end of the stick and thought they were making a board game.

I met with (some of) Team Unknown. They are on their way, but so far it doesn't sound very exciting.

No one was interested in doing work related to this module so I left at 1248.

Students would want to start taking this module seriously fairly soon and get their act together. It is not easy to repeat this module, so failing it might result in a year longer at college.

BBADM3 Web Apps Week 06 Class 1B

We had an exam.

A number of students who should have been in the 0900 class turned up to do the exam at 1000. No problem with that.

BBADM3 Web Apps Week 06 Class 1A

We had an exam.

Electives

I'm not teaching any electives this semester, but I thought this might be useful to students. The mad rush is on to register for electives for THIS semester. The system does actually allow you to register for Semester 2 electives also. But there's no rush with that just yet. make sure if you are registering for Semester 1 that you do not register for Semester 2 by mistake.

Someone took my iPhone from IT2.2

I don't want to use the word stole, because I suppose they could just be keeping it safe until they figure out who it belongs to. But if you wanted to find the owner of a phone you probably wouldn't power it off.

O2 tells me that it cannot now be used. But the kind of people who hang out in CIT computer labs are clever enough to figure out a way, I imagine, to use it as an iPod at least.

It will cost me about EUR600 to replace it and I can't afford that.

I'm actually very sad. It's not that my phone is gone. It's that a computing student stole it. I like being naive. I like thinking that all CIT students are nice decent people.

And I really really need my phone these next few days.

CMOD6001 Week 05 Class 2

We did a group communication exercise (zoom)

CMOD6001 Week 05 DCOM Lab

I asked students to check the entires in the list of blogs to make sure that they are complete and correct.

I showed students how to use Google Documents to preprare and share documents. It is idea for shared project work.

Mid-semester review

It's the end of week 5 and so it feels like the half-way point of the semester, even though it's not. So it seems like a good time to reflect on how the semester has been going, how I have been performing, and how the classes have been going.

I think I have been a bit grumpy this semester. I have been less tolerant of students than I have been in the past. I'm not sure if that is actually a good thing or a bad thing.


I was a bit put out that my teaching assignments changed around so much at the start of the semester. At one point I was teaching CMOD6001 to DNET/DCOM, ITS, and COM. In the end I ended up teaching only DNET/DCOM. I actually I think I was lucky to get the best of the three groups. But over the years I put a lot of effort into this module and it was disappointing to have my hours reduced.

For CMOD6001 this semester I have reduced the workload for students. I used to require them to do a presentation and an essay. Presentation skills and writing skills are very useful things that students will need later in their college and work careers. They will be huge factors in students' future successes. However in the past some students did not take these assignment seriously and failed the module as a result. It has become clear to me however that failure has consequences, not just for students, but for the lecturer that fails them. So I have essentially dumbed down this module. This semester I am even giving 10% for just turning up. Interestingly I have found that just as many good students rise to the challenge of a difficult module, so weak students drop down to the level of easy modules. I would not be surprised if the failure rate for this module is largely unchanged as a result.

I was neither surprised nor disappointed that the COMP6023 Web Publishing did not run this semester. It was offered last year and I think most of the students that wanted to do it, did it then. I was frustrated that my HoD did not take my advice and offer some other elective in place of this one. I was very keen to run the Computing Ethics module that I have been developing. I was also worried that my HoD seems to believe that the lack of interest this module is due to the fact that I was teaching it, and that students are avoiding my classes where possible. I'd be happy to take the Pepsi Challenge any day and subject myself to market forces with some decent elective modules that I'd like to develop and teach.

My web Application module business studies is going well. I have found it interesting how people from different disciplines do things in a different way and I haven't adapted as well as I should have. It has been an education. The bulk of the students are smart, keen, and interested. I didn't have much of a plan going into this module, but I am glad now because I would have had to tear it up. Next week's exam will tell a lot. I think overall it will be a success, and if the chance comes up I think I'd like to teach it again.

CMOD6001 Week 05 Class 1

I talked about how to give presentations.

BBADM3 Web Apps Week 05 Class 4 B

Students were a bit late because they were in the wrong room. That happens me a lot too.

We looked at nested lists.

I distributed DVDs to anyone who wanted one.

Students worked on the sample exam.

I gave out a handout on plagiarism and explained that copying and pasting any part of the essays is not acceptable. I hope people know I am serious.

Class canceled Monday 30 November

I will not be in on the morning of 30 November. Afternoon classes should run as normal.

BBADM3 Web Apps Week 05 Class 4 A

I gave out a handout on plagiarism.

We looked at how to properly nest a list.

We discussed plagiarism.