COMP6023 Classes 08.1 & 08.2 Lab B

Students worked on their Wordpress websites.

COMP8035 Essay tips

Some things to watch for

• Quality sources.
• link points to make to evidence in literature
• Put a lot of thought into the structure

Style & Language issues

• there is no "we", no "you", no "us" 
• don't use ; unless you know what you are doing
• subject verb agreement are is very important
• don't use commas where full stops are required
• All sentences start with a uppercase letter. Yes. All of them.
• figure out the rule for the apostrophe. 
• i.e. and etc. are best avoided
• Put a space, after punctuation ,not before.
• Every good sentence has a verb
• there's no need to talk about "this report" or "this essay". just say what you have to say.
• you can use "above" or "below" to refer to other parts of the text
•  "With the ...", is a very weak way to start a sentence. Say what you what to say. be direct.
• incredible = cannot be believed

COMP8035 Classes 08.1 & 08.2

Michael gave a presentation on TV2.0

Afterwards I explained about referencing and the importance of connecting the bibliography with the main text.  We discussed the importance of using quality sources.

We discussed each student's essay topic and talk about some different approaches.

I gave out a rubric for the essay.  I had some corrected but those students were not in class.

When I have them all don I'll send an e-mail. My hope (but not expectation) is to have feedback on all of them before the weekend.

I didn't talk about the structure of the essays. But the overall organising structure is really important too.

COMP6023 Classes 08.1& 08.2

Students worked on the website for assignment 3.

Yay!

Interesting article

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21695388-worries-about-fraud-and-fragmentation-may-prompt-shake-out-crowded-online-ad

All Students Required to Wear CIT Uniform

Cork Institute of Technology would like to inform students that from next semester (September 2016) students will be required to wear an official branded CIT student uniform at all times on campus.

More information is available here:

http://www.mycit.ie/student-uniform

COMP6023 Class 07.3

Attendance was poor.

We looked at Google Analytics

COMP6023 Classes 07.1 & 07.2 Lab B

Attendance was poor.  I spoke briefly about content management systems (CMSs).

I asked students to log into the WordPress accounts I had set up for them and to have a poke around.

COMP6023 Class 07.1 & 07.2 Lab A

I spoke briefly about content management systems (CMSs).

I asked students to ling into the WordPress accounts I had set up for them and to have a poke around.

COM8035 Class 06.3

Nobody turned up.

There will be no more Friday classes for this module.

COMP6023 Class 06.4

We looked and transparency in images and PNG

I talked a bit about the assignments

COMP6023 Class 06.3

We looked at GIF and JPEG

Why We Post

This is a very interesting website describing the results of some research in Social Media.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-post

COMP6023 Classes 06.1 & 06.2 Labs B

Students worked on the image compression assignment.

COMP8035 Schedule

For you to be on schedule you should have a draft of you essay completed by the end of the month. Please send it on to me, when you have it done.

COMP8035 Classes 06.1 & 06.2

We had presentations from Jasmin and Kieran.  Albert was scheduled for today, but he will do his another day.

COMP6023 Classes 06.1 & 06.2 Lab A

Students worked on the images assignment. Except for a few who were working on something for another module.

COMP8035 Class 05.3

I met with each student and discussed his/her essay and/or presentation.

COMP6023 Class 05.4

We looked at compression, interpolation, indexed colour and dithering.

After class the class rep told me that some students were concerned because I had flagged blog posts that needed attention, but had not detailed exactly what was wrong with them.  In almost all of those cases there problems were errors of spelling or grammar.  Blog posts with incorrect spelling and grammar will get low marks.  However, it it up to each student check the blog posts for errors.  I did that for the first week, so that each student was aware of the kinds of errors he or she was making. But I won't be doing that for subsequent posts.  Furthermore, the absence of a comment from me is not an indication that it was perfect.