CMOD6001 ITS/M Lab

I gave out a list of French students. Students spent some time stalking them on Facebook.

We spent some time juggling with groups.

I asked students to check on my blog the specification for the job assignment.

CMOD6001 Groups update

Group K has been dissolved due to lack of attendance, lack of individual blogs, and lack of a group blog. Students who had been assigned to this group are free to join other groups. Other groups are free to accept them or not.

CMOD6001 Procedure for Removing a Student from a Group

If a CIT student

• misses 2 CIT classes or
• misses a meeting or
• does not perform work assigned to them

without a reasonable explanation the remainder of the group present at a meeting may vote by a majority (of 50:50 if the number present is even) to issue them with a yellow card. The student and Colin should be emailed notification of the yellow card and this should be recorded on the group blog.

Once issued a yellow card the student must attend all meetings, all cit classes, and complete all assigned tasks. If they student fails to do so the group may vote to recommend to Colin that the student be removed from the group. The student and Colin should be emailed notification of this decision and it should be recorded on the group blog.

The authority to remove students is not being devolved to students. Only Colin makes the final decision.

CMOD6001 COM1 Lab A

I showed students how Google Calendar worked and I asked them to enter their timetables.

I gave details of the job address

CMOD6001 DNET/DCOM Class 09

I talked a little bit about brainstorming, and each group had a brainstorming session around a particular topic.

I gave out 2 handouts on brainstorming

CMOD6001 COM Class 09

I talked a little bit about brainstorming, and each group had a brainstorming session around a particular topic.

I gave out 2 handouts on brainstorming

CMOD6001 DWEB1 Class 09

I talked a little bit about brainstorming, and each group had a brainstorming session around a particular topic.

I gave out 2 handouts on brainstorming

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SOFT7001 Class 06

We looked at a simple 3-column layout. I asked student to code a simple 3-colum layout of their own from scratch.

We looked at how the BostonGlobe.com adapts its style to page width. This is the kind of thing we would hope to do eventually.

Don't worry! We will be going back to all those tricky selectors.

CMOD6001 ITM/ITS Class 09

Only 15 students showed up so it didn't make sense to put students into their project groups.

I talked briefly about how to have a good brain storming session. Students imagined that they had a paper or presentation to prepare on the topic of illegal music downloads, and they had a brain storming sessions in groups of 5.

CMOD6001 DNET/DCOM Class 08

I pointed out that someone left their dirty coffee cup behind them last week. I asked the students with coffees to put them in the bin. One left, rather than do so. When the other student didn't bin his, I asked him to go too.

I asked students to get into their groups and devise a scheme for dealing with group members who aren't pulling their weight.

Groups should post their proposal to the group blog by the end of the week

Another student arrived with coffee to 0925. When he refused to put it in the bin, I asked him to leave.

CMOD6001 DNET/DCOM Lab

We looked at Google Docs. I started a story, shared it with the class, and we worked on it all at the same time.

I showed students how to set up a group blog.

Elective Choices

Students received an e-mail from the registrar's office requesting them to specify their elective choices. First year student should not have got this. No action is required.

CMOD6001 DWEB Class 08

Students got into their project groups - for the first time it seems.

I asked groups to devise a policy for dealing with team members that are not pulling their weight. Groups should post this policy to the group blog by the end of the week.

I will publish a policy in due course.

I showed students how to create a new blog and modify the permissions

CMOD6001 ITM/ITS

A number of students have applied for RPLs for this module. We discussed how their sudden departure from a group might affect the other members. There were some suggestions for how to deal with that. Since the project work hasn't started in earnest we will hold off for now. But anyone considering an RPL application should get it sorted as soon as possible.

I asked students to get into their groups and discuss how they would deal with team members who were not pulling their weight. [It's not up to them, by the way]. Groups should post their policies to the group blog by the end of the week.

Some groups were clearly meeting for the first time.

I distributed the job exercise to students who didn't have it already.

audio: cmod6001-itm-08-20110928.m4a

SOFT7001 Class 05

Still in section 8 of the W3 specification

I asked students to get to grips with sibling combinators

8.3 

div + p

h1 ~ div

We looked at psuedo classes

a:link    /* unvisited links */
a:visited /* visited links */
a:hover   /* user hovers */
a:active  /* active links */ 

6.6.3 :lang

6.6.4 not for us

6.6.5

:nth-child is very complicated. I doubt we'll use it

:first-child is very useful 

6.6.6 nothing for us

6.6.7 nothing for us

7.1 ::first-line 

7.2 ::first-letter

7.3 nothing for us

7.4 nothing for us

CMOD6001 COM1 Class

I recapped on what students were expected to have done so far.

I asked student to get into their project groups. Today was the first time most did that. Still no word on the Finnish group members.

I asked the groups to
decide which group member was going to set up the group blog
suss out if anyone has a device that can be used for Skype


I asked the groups to devise a proposed procedure for dealing with members who are not pulling their weight. Groups should post their recommendations to the blog by the end of this week. There will eventually be one set of rules for every group.

CMOD6001 COM1 Lab A

We looked at Google docs and how to share them. We all worked on a story together. And we all lived happily ever after

CMOD6001 ITM Lab ITM1-A

I showed students how Google Docs worked. Students couldn't try it for themselves though because the IDP server was down and they couldn't get authenticated.