COMP6023 Class 11 DWEB/ITM

We moved the class to C128 so I could talk students through the Photoshop needed to complete Assignment 2. It was a bit crowded, but any students that wanted to stay and work after I was done talking were able to find machines. Most students stayed for a second hour, to get more of it done.

COMP6023 Lab 06 DCOM

Attendance was sparse but that's not surprising since I had a meeting for the first hour. And those who stayed were't especially well rewarded because we didn't do anything in particular.

I worked with some students on their GOMC campaign.

COMP6023 Class 11 DNET/DCOM

I went through the Photoshop required to complete Assignment 2.

We discussed the assessments.

COMP6023 Assignment 2 Podcast

Over the next few weeks I will go though the image coding theory that students need in order to complete Assignment 2 well. However I have assembled a subset of recordings from another module (COMP6021) in which these issues were covered. Students keen to make a start should subscribe to the podcast in iTunes using this url: http://mcom.cit.ie/staff/computing/cmanning/comp6021/comp6023.xml

COMP6023 Lab 06 ITS1a

I met with each student and gave feedback on his blog posts to date.

I showed students how to use Photoshop to save files for the web. Students will need Photoshop in order to complete Assignment 2. Students can download a 30-day free trial from Adobe.com or use the machines in C128.

I asked students to get to grips with the Page authoring tool in blogger.

DNET LAB 11 ON WED 6 MARCH

I won't be at the lab until aroud 1200.

Monday's DCOM Lab canceled

I have a meeting on Monday so I won't be able to make the lab class for 1600. However I should be available from 1700 to meet with any students that have issues.

COMP6023 Class 10 ITS1

We began looking at Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Slides: SEO3.pdf Google Guide

COMP6023 Lab 05 ITS1b

We didn't do anything particular in today's lab. I used the time to meet with each student and give each one feedback the blog.

Feedback on Student Blogs

This week I used lab time to meet with students to give individual feedback on the blogs. Most students are doing fine. But it's really important to re-read your posts, ideally a day later, to check them for typos and errors.

Here are some common errors and things to watch for

i: The first person is always upper case. Even when it's not at the start of a sentence.

': Many people struggle with the apostrophe rule  in English. This site might help. Punctuation makes the difference knowing your shit, and knowing you're shit.

s/he: English is inherently sexist. Most attempts to address this problem have been clumsy. S/he is just ugly. Saying he or she and his or hers (interestingly it's never hers or his) is tedious. Saying he or saying she is fine. It might be an idea to switch the sex from time to time, so long as you don't change any individual's sex mid paragraph. Using the non-gender specific plural, when a singular is required, is wrong too. More dangerous is real sexism. When writing don't assume that all brain surgeons and athletes are male, and all primary school teachers are female.

Proper nouns: All proper nouns in English are capitalized. e.g. Google

Singular vs. Plural: Apple is a company. It has policies. It has products and services. It is singular.

Copyright is usually singular. Copyrights is probably wrong. I'm not sure.

Avoid "me" "you" "we" "the author" "the reader"

Any errors in this post are obviously here for irony.

COMP6023 Class 10 DNET/DCOM

I couldn't get the projector working so we went to C128 to do some PhotoShop. But it was occupied.

I used the time to meet with some students who weren't in the lab yesterday to discuss how their blogs are going.

COMP6023 Class 09 ITS1

I talked a little bit about local search and we looked at the advanced search options that search engines provide.

Afterwards we spent some time discussing the GOMC and the essay. I outlined where students should be at this stage.

COMP6023 Lab 05 DNET

I met with each students and discussed his or her blog entries. I identified the kinds of errors (if any) each student was making and the kinds of things each student was doing well. I also identified what was required to get more marks.

I was missing printouts for 4 students. I will try to get back to those soon.

While waiting most students worked on this week's blog entry and on the GOMC. I do not have up to date information on the GOMC. Please check the list of teams ad companies and advise me of any changes I need to make.

COMP6023 Lab 05 ITM

I met with each student and discussed the kinds of grammar and spelling errors each was making and explained what each could do to improve his mark in the blog.

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Google Ads Keywords

Students should be getting to work on devising campaigns foe the GOMC clients.

COMP6023 Week 05 Blog Suggestions

Week 05

Minimum Requirements:
Students must summarize what we did in class in week 5

Extras (suggestions):

Consider what Google might know about you. If you committed a crime and the police had access to Google's database, what might the profile of the criminal look like.

Consider how this semester has gone for you so far. Did you get off to a good start? Did any of the bad practices that you forswore over the break, return? It's usually about Week 05 that students start to drift. Maybe you could think (and write) about why you are at college, what you are interested in, and where you want to go.

COMP6023 Class 10 DWEB/ITM

We continued our look at search engines.

Next up we will consider Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

COMP6023 Class 09 DWEB/ITM

We looked at search engines

COMP6023 Lab 05 DCOM

We didn't do anything in particular in this lab.

I fielded some questions about assessments and some GOMC groups used the time to make some progress.

I met with each student to discuss the blog and the kinds of spelling and grammar errors that the student was making. Some students expressed concern that the penalty for grammar and spelling errors is so significant.