I'm out sick today

Nothing serious

COMP6023 Class 25 & 26

We went through the Photoshop needed for Assignment 2. Students with laptops experimented with the different settings, and I talked a bit about the kinds of commentary that might accompany the data

SOFT6007 Shopping List

Things we have yet to cover in class

Posh horizontal list layout
background images
forms

JavaScript

SOFT6007 Class 27 & 28 WEB

I advised students that the specification for Assignment 2 was available online --->

I asked students to sign up to Dropbox and to create a folder called SOFT6007-Joe.Bloggs and to share it with me colin.manning@cit.ie

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SOFT6007 Class 25 ITM DWEB

We had an in-class exam.

Monday was a holiday

So no classes.

COMP6023 CRN 15762

The CRN for this module has finally arrived. It's 15762. Please check that you are registered.

COMP6023 Essay Choices

Some students have yet to choose an essay topic. I will make the choice for those students soon, if they don't take any action.

SOFT6008 Class 24 COM DWEB

We looked at validating a form and sending its data off to a server.

We also talked a little bit about both assessments. however the spec for Assessment 2 has not been released just yet.

COMP6023 Updates to the Assigment Specifications

I feel the need to modify the assignment specifications in light of events and student concerns.


Google AdSense
Students must attempt to sign up for Google AdWords. Failed attempts must be documented by forward the refusal e-mail or screen shot to Colin. Students who successfully sign up won't get any more marks than those who don't, and will have to settle for huge ad revenues by way of reward.

Public vs. Private
Students who are concerned about their privacy may post an appropriate picture to their profiles in lieu of a picture of themselves.

Students who don't want to post personal information publicly, shouldn't post personal information.

As a last resort students may make their blogs visible only to Colin and the other students in the class. Doing so will not affect their final mark, although it will obviously have an impact on traffic.

Essay Drafts
Seeing as I said students "should" submit drafts, that task is optional. But submitting a draft would be a very good idea.

Deadline
However even when prefaced by a "should" I think it was very clear that not submitting by the deadline will cost marks. The standard CIT late penalties will apply.

Own Work
The work submitted must be the student's own work.

I think that covers everything we discussed up to now. If I do give you an exemption from meeting any of the minimum requirements be sure to insist that I note it here.

COMP6023 Class 24

We talked a little bit more about podcasting.

I showed students how to generate a custom newsfeed based on keywords at the NPR site. This is very powerful since listeners can receive programme segments on subjects that interest them.

Here's a podcast feed about Ireland and one about Cloud. But of course the cloud one can't distinguish between cloud computing and weather talk.

Huffduffer.com is like Pintresting for audio files.

We looked the various tools one might use to record a podcast and saw how audio can be edited. Sample Getting the levels correct is the most important thing

I talked about software post-production noise removal. It works well in certain situations. Here's an example.

COMP6023 Interesting Facebook article

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/1025/1224325671388.html

SOFT6007 Class 24 ITM

Students worked away on various exercises.

SOFT6007 Class 21 & 23 ITM

Some students worked on their HTML in preparation for the exam next week. Others worked on their maths in preparation or the exam today.

COMP6023 Class 23

We looked at podcasting.

We might try to make something tomorrow in class just to see what is involved in the process.

I mentioned that Drew of the Dawn & Drew Show was in a band, but couldn't remember the name. It's Rasputina.

COMP6023 Class 21 & 22

We looked at lossy and lossless compression, pixel depth reduction, and dithering.

I talked students through the use of Photoshop for Assessment 2

SOFT6007 Class 24 WEB

Students continued coding

SOFT6007 Class 23 WEB

I asked students to make sure they were good with lists, tables, and imagemaps. If so then make a start on the three column layout for assessment 2.

SOFT6007 Class 22 COM WEB

We looked at class, ID, float, clear, annd a three columns layout in CSS.

I also talked a little bit about Assessment 2

Unfortunately there was no sound on the recording of the class. So it's not posted.

SOFT6007 Class 21 WEB

We looked at ID and float

Students experimented with IDs and floats. Others caught up with things they missed and other reviewed lists in preparation for the exam.

update:
There's no audio on this movie. Here is another class that covers much the same stuff. Although the use of "clear" isn't really addresses