COMP6023 DNET1/COM1c Class 42 SEO

We returned to the topic of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

COMP6023 DNET1/COM1c Class 41

We looked at Trade Marks and Trade Secrets.

COMP6021/COMP6023 JPEG

Here's an online video I made some time about about JPEG. It is largely the same as what we did in class.

This rather unusual logo has it origins in the way JPEG works.

COMP6023 DNET1 Labs

For the remaining 6 weeks of the semester the DNET1 labs will be taken with James O'Sullivan. I will still see students in the lectures.

COMP6023 DNET1/COM1c Class 26 GIF & JPEG

We looked at GIF & JPEG image formats.

[no recording due to technical problems]

COMP6023 Essay title errors and omissions

Today I corrected any errors in the essay choices of which I was made aware.

Students may no longer chose a topic. That choice was made for them some time ago.

However, if you made a choice, advised me of it, and the list does not reflect that please let me know and I will try to find the e-mail you sent me.

Please check the list to ensure that the blog URL and essay title are correct.

COMP6023 DNET1/COM1c Class 25 Dithering

We looked at dithering. [no recording]

We did an exercise in class. There are other similar exercises in the slides.

I answered a few questions about interpolation.

COMP6023 Add author to your blog

For this weeks blog post students are expected to guest post on someone else's blog. To allow someone to be an author on your blog, you must first invite them.

Take care not to make your guest an Administrator of your blog. That will give him or her total control. Author is enough.

COMP6023 Assessment Update

Essay

If you didn't send me your choice of essay title, one has been assigned to you. You can check the blog list to see what you got.

If you don't like the title you were assigned you will not be assigned another. There was plenty of time to make a choice. If you believe that you sent me your choice some time ago, and that I missed it, let me know and I will have a look.

This part of the process has taken so long that submission of a draft will not be compulsory. However it is still recommended. Details of how to submit will follow soon.


Blogs

I propose to begin correcting the blog posts for week 2-5 this week. If you need to correct errors and omissions in those weeks you have very little time in which to do so.

COMP6023 DNET1/COM1c Class 22

I did a quick recap of HSB, RGB, Lab

We looked at CMYK.

We looked at Indexed colour and palette selections for different images.

COMP6023 DNET1/COM1c Class 21

We looked at digitising grey scale images an looked at coding colour. I explained the HSB, RGB, and Lab colour systems.

COMP6023 DNET1 Classes 19 & 20

Students saved the GIF images they needed for Assessment 2.

COMP6023 Review of Week 04 / Preview of Week 05

Review

This was a slow week I felt. We didn't do much technically, although maybe the conversations about privacy were worthwhile.

Hopefully those students who need to work on their writing skills are aware of that now.

Students should complete the NewsU online course and post some thoughts on that for the blog this week. Quite a number of students have yet to complete the course. Failure to do so by Sunday evening will very likely cost students some marks. We will return to some of the issues covered by the NewsU course later in the module.

Preview

Next week we will begin our look at Search Engine Optimization(SEO) in earnest.

I won't be able to make the DNET1/COM1c class on Tuesday at 1400 as I have a meeting I must go to.

For next week's blog post students must write a book review. (And not the book of the movie  reviewed last week)

COMP6023 DNET1 Classes 15 & 16

Students worked on their blogs. Some took the NewsU course today. 

I met with each student and identified some issues with grammar and spelling that needed to be addressed. 

COMP6023 DNET1/COM1c Class 13

We continued our look at how search engines index sites.

I asked students to discuss for a few minutes the kinds of things Google might know about them. But of course many of those things are not things that one shares in class.

We looked at advanced searches using Google's syntax.

[No recording of today's class]

COMP6023 Week 03 Summary

The plan to do an olde school FTP session to a UNIX machine didn't work. The Windows security systems thought we were trying to bypass the local firewalls. We might try again another time.

Students got the images they needed for Assignment 2. Some were able to make a start on gather the data using Photoshop. Others had problems with Photoshop. Those issues should be resolved in those labs by next week.

Students should write a movie review for the blog this week.

Some students have completed the NewsU course. I have marked those students with a 1 on the blog list. I'm aware that the links to the student blogs are acting strange. I haven't been able figure out what's up with the PDF. In the source document they are fine.

The most popular essay choices are booked up now. Students shouldn't take too long to decide. I may have to consider a deadline soon to move that along.

COMP6023 DNET1 Classes 11 & 12

My plan to do an FTP session didnt' work out because the firewalls on the machines wouldn't allow it. Some students found a workaround using FTP browser plugins.

I got students to make a start on Assignment 2. Students downloaded their images and saved them using Photoshop as JPEGs with quality settings from 0 to 100 in steps of 10.

COMP6023 DNET1/COM1c Class 10

I talked about Directories and we began our look at Search Engines.

We stopped at Slide 35
 
(I was a bit rushed because I was in the queue at the blood bank)

COMP6023 DNET1 Class 09

We looked at some of the issues surrounding web hosting and domain names.

COMP6023 Week 03 Plan

This week I plan to

• discuss uploading a website to a server 
• get students to upload using FTP during the lab
• look at ways to promote a webiste

This week students should

• read the 10 blogs after theirs on the list and highlight any issues in a comment
• post a movie review on the blog
• start the NewsU course Online Media & the Law