COMP6023 Class 09.1 & 09.2 Lab B

Students worked on the assignment.

If you can't remember the password for your Wordpress and you don't have that much done, the quickest solution is to start again at Wordpress.com. If you have a lot done and want to continue with it I'll ask the technician to see what he can do for you.

COMP8035 Class 09.1 & 09.2

I returned all the drafts I received on time with comments. We discussed some of the common issues.

I hope to have the drafts that were submitted late corrected soon.

COMP6023 Deadlines

I will begin correcting Assignment 1 (blog) and Assignment 2 (images) starting on 25 April. There is no particular submission process. I will go to your blog and expect to find everything I need there.

Please ensure that the URL I have for you is correct
(It's over there ---->)
and make sure that there is a link to your image compression report.

I will begin correcting Assigment 3 (Wordpress) at the begining of Week 13 (9 May).

COM6023 Class 09.1 & 09.2

Students worked on the assignments. (A few worked on stuff for other modules. That's fine)

I met with each student just to make sure everything is going OK

COMP6023 Class 08.4

We had to cancel class because I couldn't get the projector working.

COMP6023 Class 08.3

We looked at copyright

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