COMP6023 Class 14 DEWB/ITM

We looked a pixel depth reduction, color look-up tables, and dithering. I felt like many students didn't really get dithering.

COMP6023 Class 13 DWEB/ITM

We bagan looking at how images are stored. We looked at bits and Black & White images.

COMP6023 Lab 07 DCOM

I met with each student and discussed his plans for Assignment 3.

I asked students who will be submitting essays to sign-up for the class on TurnItIn.com 

COMP6023 Class 13 DNET/DCOM

We began our look at image coding schemes.

COMP6023 Lab 07 ITS1a

We went to C128 for the first hour and I talked students through what was required for assignment 2 again.

In the second hour some students worked in the lab on the assignments. I met with some and we discussed the assignments.

I asked students who will be submitting essays to sign-up for the class on TurnItIn.com

COMP6023 Class 12 DNET/DCOM

I skipped the class on advanced search options for search engines because I was keen to press on.

We began our look at Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

COMP6023 Lab 06 ITS1b

We moved to C128 and I talked students through the Photoshop needed for Assignment 2.

COMP6023 Lab 06 DWEB

I met with the GOMC groups and I showed them some of the features available in AdWords.

COMP6023 Class 11 ITS

I forgot to go to class. I was busy correcting and just plain forgot.

COMP6023 Feedback - How am I driving?

We are at roughly the half-way point of the semester. I would be interested in getting student feedback on the module. I will open the comments on this blog to anonymous comments for a few days. That hasn't gone well in the past, but I will give it another go.

Comments don't have to be anonymous. But if you want to leave a comment anonymously make sure you are logged out of Google before you submit it. Comments will be moderated, but I hope to publish all of them.

Try to make the distinction between the module, the delivery of it,  the assessment of it, and the lecturer.  Students often merge all of these concepts.

So any comments, suggestions, or recommendations you might have are welcome. Just leave a comment on this post.

COMP6023 Lab 06 ITM

I met with groups to discuss the GOMC and I met with students doing essays to discuss their plans.

Please identify the week of your blog post

When posting please identify the week about which you are posting. That makes it much easier for me to award the marks you are due. It also allows for the possibility of my being  slightly flexible with the deadline.

Also please the format of the dates so that it says the date of the post, rather than "2 days ago" for example.

COMP6023 Class 12 DWEB/ITM

We began our look at Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

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.

COMP6023 Class 09 DNET/DCOM

We looked at how search engines work

COMP6023 Lab 05 ITS1a

We didn't do very much in today's lab. Some students caught up on work from last week. I asked students to use the time to make sure that the spelling and grammar in the blogs were correct.

I posted the assignment schedule online and we discussed that a little bit.

COMP6023 Class 08 ITS1

We talked some more about how search engines work.

COMP6023 Lab 04 ITS1b

We looked at how to upload a website to a unix web server using FTP commands.

Students made a simple site and uploaded it to praxis.

COMP6023 Class 08 DNET/DCOM

I couldn't get he projector working.

I talked with students about the GOMC. Some students aren't so keen and asked for the assignment spec for the Plan B.

COMP6023 Lab 04 DWEB

Students made a simple webpage and uploaded it via FTP to praxis.

Students should include the URL for this page in this week's blog entry.

COMP6023 Class 07 ITS

GOMC teams met. There was some last minute horse trading. Teams selected some clients and got the contact details.

COMP6023 Lab 04 DNET

We looked at the unix commands needed to upload a site to a web server using FTP. Students must include the URL for their websites in this weeks blog entry.

GMOC Teams did some work.

COMP6023 Lab 04 ITM

We looked at the unix commands needed to upload a site to a web server using FTP. Students must include the URL for their websites in this weeks blog entry.

GMOC Teams did some work.

COMP6023 Class 08 DWEB/ITM

I spoke a tiny tiny bit about the Google Online marketing Challenge. Despite my having asked students to sort out the groups in the inter-class break, there was still some horse trading to be done.

I asked the groups to review the list of potential clients and to select some they might like to work with.

COMP6023 Class 07 DWEB/ITM

I explained a bit about web servers and went through the unix commands needed to do an FTP.

Reminders

In addition to providing a summary of this week's classes the minimum requirements this week include both, taking the newsU.org online course and sending me the result; and FTPing a website up to the server and include the URL in the blog post.

COMP6023 Lab 04 DCOM

We went through the unix commands needed to FTP a website to a web server. I asked students to make a small page and upload it to the server using the details I gave in class.

Students are required to include the URLs for their pages in their Week 04 blog posts.

There is no lls command in unix. I totally made that up. It's actually !ls

COMP6023 Class 07 DNET/DCOM

I started talking about Directories and Search Engines and how they work, but we got sidetracked and ended up talking about privacy issues. I love it when that happens.

Someone suggested that it wasn't a bit deal, but I asked the class to imagine that being gay was still a crime in Ireland. How harmless would all the information that Google, Facebook, and the mobile phone companies have be, if the government got its hands on it? What if China bought Google?

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

[We got as far as Slide 18]

COMP6023 Lab 04 ITS1a

For the first hour of the lab students worked a it on their blogs, the NewsU course, GOMC registration.

Then we looked at FTP.

I asked students to log into a server, create a folder, and upload a small website. For security reasons, though, the login details won't be on the blog.

Students are required to include the URLs for their pages in their Week 04 blog posts.

There is no lls command in unix. I totally made that up. It's actually !ls

The Hesienberg Uncertainty Principle asserts that a student will be uncertain of how to complete the lab work assigned to him, if he spends his time watching Breaking Bad montages instead of paying attention to the lecturer.

Sent a list of potential GOMC clients

I e-mailed captains who have yet to organize a team, to encourage them to get the finger out.

I e-mailed the captains with teams in place a list of some potential clients. If a team is interested in a particular client, let me know and I will try for optimal pairings of teams and clients. Do not contact nor publicize the list of clients in the meantime.

Teams are free to find their own client too. It might be especially interesting to have a charity as a client as the $250 free advertising might be very welcome.

Sent e-mail to potential GOMC clients

I sent this e-mail to potential GOMC clients today.


Hi ***

I’m e-mailing you because you expressed an interest in participating in the Google Online Marketing Challenge (GOMC) with some of my students at Cork Institute of Technology.  I got your contact details from Virginia Foley at the Rubicon Centre. The GOMC is a competition Google runs to expose businesses to its advertising products.  Students are tasked with managing an $250 advertising budget over three weeks.  If you  participate, a team of students will devise a plan and spend the $250 on your behalf in an effort to drive traffic to your website.  This process will happen over a number of stages.

Students will meet with you to establish the nature of your business.  I will ask them to examine your website to ensure that it is getting as high a ranking on Google as it deserves.  It may be that they will recommend some changes to your website.  However, I do not propose that they would make those changes for you.

The students will devise a plan and submit to Google.  After this Google will credit their  AdWords account with $250. The students have a three week window of their choosing to run the campaign.  However this semester ends in mid May so I would expect students to run the campaign before the end of April. Following that they will submit an impact statement to Google.

I hope to assign a team of students to you soon.  In the meantime, there are some things you could consider.  Is there a particular three week window that might best suit your business?  If you sell chocolate, for example, before Easter would be better than after.  Is your target audience confined to a geographical location, or is it global?  What kinds of people are in your target audience?  These are just some of the questions the students will be asking you.

All the students are in their first year of college.  They may not be used to dealing with clients, so this experience will be of great benefit to them.  I’m grateful to you for offering your time.

You can find more information about the GOMC at 

http://www.google.com/onlinechallenge/discover/index.html

or you can e-mail or phone me if you have any questions or concerns.

Thank You

Colin Manning