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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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.