Thursday, November 10, 2011

CMOD6001 ITS/ITM Class

Group V was not in a position to present. One student was in  hospoital and another was at a SU meeting.

Group U was not in a position to present. Only one student was present and he was not prepared to give a presentation.

Group T was not in a position to present. Only one student was present and he was not prepared to give a presentation.

Group J was not in a position to give a presentation. One student was missing and they remaining student were not prepared to give a presentation.

Group Q gave a presentation on RFID & Privacy

CMOD6001 DNET/DCOM Class

Group CE gave a presentation on Photojournalism in the Digital Age (only 1 student in)

Group NA gave a presentation on Gold Farming

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

CMOD6001 Paper feedback

If you submitted your paper before this evening, there is some feedback waiting for you at turnitin.com

It's a pity more students haven't availed of my offer of feedback. Most of the papers I've seen will be much improved second time out.

CMOD6001 DNET/DCOM Lab

I  had to insist that a student go seek medical attention, and sent another with him. Both returned within the hour, looking much better.

Group CD gave a presentation on Geolocation

Group CA gave a presentation on Cloud Computing

Group NB gave a presentation on Net Neutrality

CMOD6001 DWEB1 Class

Group WO gave a presentation on RFID and Privacy

Group WN gave a presentation on Open Source Software

CMOD6001 ITS/ITM Class

Group Q was not in a position to present today

Group J was not in a position to present today

Group I gave a presentation on Geolocation

Group S gave a presentation on Cloud Computing

Group R gave a presentation on Photo Editing

Students who were missing today should contact Colin with an explanation. Whatever the reason get in touch with me, and try me. Not contacting me is the only wrong course of action.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

SOFT7001 Class

I completely forgot to go to class. Sorry

CMOD6001 COM1 Class

Group E gave a presentation on Gold Farming

Group F gave a presentation on Prediction Markets

Group Z gave a presentation on Open Source Software

CMOD6001 COM1 Lab

Group B gave a presentation on Virtualization

Group W gave a presentation on Is TV Dead?

CMOD6001 DWEB1 Lab A

Group WP did not show

Group WL presented

Group WM presented

Monday, November 7, 2011

SOFT7001 Class 22

We discussed the assignment. Students need not spend time worrying about content.  Dummy text can be used for the body of web pages, but the menus and structure must make sense.

I met with students individually to discuss their project plans.

K: games site
S: still thinking about it. might do 2 sites
T: still thinking and experimenting
CP: fan site
CM: sports shop
P: online shop
E: food site
O: planed restaurant site. But I advised against it. Need something about 20 pages


In response to a question  I announced that students need only worry about Firefox and Safari.

CMOD6001 ITS/ITM Lab

Groups H & G presented.

Group J was unable to give me slides. 1 person was missing from the group.

Group U gave me slides on time. 1 (to 3) person(s) missing from Group U

Group I was unable to give me slides.

Any student who was scheduled to be in class but was missing should contact Colin to provide an explanation.

Any group that spans across both lab groups should advise me of this.

CMOD6001 ITS/ITM No Presentations on Tuesday

There are no presentations schedules for Tuesday

CMOD6001 DWEB1 Lab B

Group WD delivered its presentation on Prediction Markets

Group WB will present on Friday

I was disappointed at the level of noise in the classroom and that students did not show their fellow students to courtesy of giving them their full attention

CMOD6001 ITS/ITM Presentations

We'll muddle though as best we can this week. I appreciate that some students might be a bit upset and not feel like work.

If groups are available to present, I'll be really grateful to them for doing their presentations. Otherwise we could be at them a long time. I don't expect to be able to stick to the schedule.

But we'll manage

Mind yourselves and each other

CMOD6001 COM Lab B

Groups C and D gave their presentations.

Thank you to Group E for submitting your presentation on time. We didn't get time for you to go today.

Group F will lose a small number of marks for not being ready today and for delaying us.

Saturday, November 5, 2011

CMOD6001 Presentation Preparations

I came in this morning to figure out how to connect my laptop up to the projectors. Some rooms have been acting up lately.

B219
Switch doesn't work
Use PC

B269

Works fine
Only one way to connect up
Can't go wrong

B187

Use chair to reach projector
Bring cable to box on top of PC


C170
Works like you'd expect
Connect laptop to computer socket
Set switch to laptop


Everything will go more smoothly on the day if students let me know in advance if they are using their laptop or mine. All the slides should be sent to me in advance of the presentations. I can take most common formats. If you are using my laptop send a PDF too just to be extra safe.

I have drawn up a schedule for the presentations but I've decided not to share that with students since it would give them the impression that they do not need to be ready on the first day. I plan to do three presentations per class. But I might do four. And if a group doesn't show, another will use its slot.

Just so there's no confusion, the presentations may also take place during the lab classes. And let me re-state that all students must attend their (timetabled) classmates' presentations. If you present on the first day you must still attend all the other presentations.

CMOD6001 Recognition for Prior Learning

A number of students applied for RPL for this module. It's Week 09 and some still have not completed the process. Despite being advised to continue with the module until the RPL was a done deal some students have not done so because they were confident that their RPL application would be successful. It's clear that if the RPL was not completed by Week 09 that that confidence was not well founded.

Students should be aware that failure to attend the presentation with their group will place the students in a bad position numerically, and it will be difficult for them to pass the module by conventional means. It is not generally possible to repeat this module by any means other than attending it in semester 1 of the following year.

Friday, November 4, 2011

CMOD6001 DNET/DCOM

I asked any groups that had their presentations ready to copy them to my machine. None had. I guess that means the groups won't get much time to practice before the presentation.

I told students they could use my laptop or bring their own. I reminded them again that they must attend all the CIT classes next week. I reminded them that failure to turn up and leave on time to all CMOD6001 classes nest week would result in them getting a very low mark for the presentation and it will affect the mark of the group. Attending other students presentations is a minimum requirement for the presentation assignment.



Wed at 1700 is first possible presentation session. Students need to be good to go by then

Group CA
Only one students in his group. And he wasn't in

Group CB
0/4 students in



Group CD
3/4 students in
presentation:
plan to merge slides on Monday
we discussed what will happen if one student misses any of the presentation sessions and how it will affect the group's mark
game:
we spent a long time discussing the groups plans for the game. I shot down a few ideas and we developed a few others. There are lots of options and possibilities.



Group CE
0/3 students in




Group NA
3/4 students in
presentation:
presentation slides just need to be merged
plan to practice next week
please send me the slides as soon as they are done
game:
gone back to the drawing board. no major developments


Group NB
3/4 students in (3/3)
presentation:
problem with 1 student in the group. He as done nothing yet and not made his intentions clear. I removed him from the group.
research complete
slides still need to be done
game:
still brain storming


Group NC
Nobody in

CMOD6001 COM Class

I asked any groups that had their presentations ready to copy them to my machine. None had. I guess that means the groups won't get much time to practice before the presentation.

I told students they could use my laptop or bring their own. I reminded them again that they must attend all the CIT classes next week. I reminded them that failure to turn up and leave on time to all CMOD6001 classes nest week would result in them getting a very low mark for the presentation and it will affect the mark of the group. Attending other students presentations is a minimum requirement for the presentation assignment.

Lab Group B students may be presenting as early as 0900 on Monday.

Target presentation time is 15 minutes

I met with the groups for updates and just to check that everything is on course for next week.

Group F
no one was in
there are some serious issues with this group, but I can't resolve them with people who aren't here

Group B
3/3 students in
nearly finished putting slides together
might practice on Monday

Group X
1/4 students
research done
plan for meeting on Monday to make slides
I will need to see evidence of specific contributions of all 4 students
probably won't get much time to practice



Group Z
1/1 student in
Only one student left in the group. Student only realized this yesterday. This is not a good sign.
Not sure how much has been done so far


Group D
4/4 students in
Just need to merge slides and touch them up
Not clear on plans for practice

Group C
4/4 students in
Just need to merge slides
Not clear on plans for practice
Once student wanted to know what would happen if they were not present on one of the days. I explained that this would result in a very low individual mark and a lower group mark.

Group W
1/4 students in
Not clear on who has done what
plans seem to be well advanced
will merge slides on Monday

Group E
4/4 students in
still researching and working on slides
small bit behind schedule probably won't get time to practice

Group Y
no one in