BBADM Web Apps Week 07 Class 4 B

We discussed the essays briefly. Some students uploaded drafts to turnitin.com just to check that it worked. At the end of class those students were curious to see their similarity score so I showed them.

We looked at some tips for web site design taken from Steve Krug's excellent book "Don't make me think".

CMOD6001 Thursday's classes are canceled

I will be away on Thursday.

BBADM3 Web Apps Essay Titles

Only 21 students have so far submitted an essay topic for approval. Students should check that the list of essays below is accurate.

Students who have not yet chosen a essay title are now very far behind schedule. The essay assignments for these students is as follows.

Students with surnames from A to H: RFID and Privacy
Students with surnames from I to O: Online Collaboration Tools
Students with surnames from P to Z: Monetizing Music in the Digital Age

Students who submit papers that are at variance from the topics they have chosen or were assigned will be zero marks.

BBADM3 Web Apps Week 07 Class 4 A

We looked at some tips for web site design taken from Steve Krug's excellent book "Don't make me think".

BBADM3 Project Groups

Hi Guys

One of the things I wanted to sort out this morning was the project
groups and blogs. With your help we can still get this done today.

Please
Form a project group
Start a group blog
Email me the full names of all the people on the group and the URL of
the blog

If you are having problems with the group blog please email me and I
will try to track you down in the last 5 mins of a lab class today.
Unless you are in the group that has a second class today , in which
case we can sort it out after that class.

Thanks

Colin M

Colin Manning, Dept. of Computing
Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland

No class Tuesday morning

I have to go to a funeral Tuesday morning. I should be in for the
later class.

Sorry about the short notice

Colin M

Colin Manning, Dept. of Computing
Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland

New Office! Yippee!

I got word of my new office this week. It will be a bit cramped for three people but I will be glad to be out of the prefab after 10 years. Imagine an actual office indoors. An office in a building with plumbing and everything. With kind kind of extravagance it's no wonder the country is bankrupt.

CMOD6001 Week 06 Class 2

Only 6 students in class.

I gave out some sample games I downloaded from the web and passed them out. Students met in one group and shared ideas.

CMOD6001 Week 06 Lab DCOM

There were only three students in class and none of them were in the same group. So there wasn't a lot of point in assigning group work.

I left at 1535.

CMOD6001 Week 06 Class 1

A member of each group to summarized what stage they were at.

Team Aplha Beta 2/4
Is going back to square 1. Theywere making cludo.

There's a plug in the ceiling 3/4
All chartacer set out. Plot and scenario orgainzed. Just need to start writing.

Team Acitmel 2/4
Have characters organised and connections between them.

Warner Bros CSI 1/3
Characters organized. Only one team member in class today. Doesn't seem to have been much progress in the past few weeks.

Team Untitled 4/4
Characters organized.

There was no point in setting group tasks when so many people were missing.

I gave out some projects from last year to see if they could give students some ideas.

By noon next Thursday groups should have
Invitations for the guests including character and costume suggestions.
Inital police report (or whatever) with information about the victim.
see nightofmystery.com for ideas of the kind of quality

These should be-mailed to Colin as PDFs. This is worth 10%.

BBADM3 Web Apps CMS Group Exercise

Learning Outcome 5. Compare and contrast a number of Content Management Systems (CMS).

I am asking each group to contrast and compare 3 free web based content management systems. A table outlining the main features and a brief explanation of any non-obvious features would probably be the way to go. We are interested only in the free features. However if any site has an especially interesting paid feature, it would be worth a separate mention.

The group should also sign up for one CMS, rate it for ease of use, and write a short review.

The results of the investigation should be posted to the group blog.

By the next class Groups and Group Blogs should be in place.

Use this exercise a a test run for your group processes.

Friday is a CIT holiday

Just in case you didn't know. Enjoy the loong weekend.

BBADM3 Web Apps Week 06 Class 4B

We talk about different web technologies and tools and how they all fit together.

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


webnode.com didn't work

I asked students to google "free online CMS" and sign up for a few systems and compare them.

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.