08 RSS Lab
We are going to work through more exercises allowing you to explore RSS feeds and related tools.
Class held on 09/29/2008. Student notes are available on this page. Possible questions are available on this page.
Class structure
- Go through “At beginning of class” information
- No lecture today.
- Work on exercises.
At beginning of class
On your own
- Check who is doing class notes for today — and change your sign-up date. We're not going to have any lecture today so there's nothing for you to write about. Sorry!
- Bring your print out of the search tool data analysis assignment to me at the podium.
- I do not yet have a key to this assignment. I don't know what the answer is. I hope to discuss this next class.
- Go to your grades on the SiteMaker page.
- I have added a menu choice “Basics/Grades” that allows you to access your grades from anywhere within this wiki.
- From the SiteMaker grade page, do the following:
- Choose “Add Grade Record” and then input (and save) your uniqname.
- Within a couple of days I will input your assignment grades (from the data gathering assignments) here so that you can see them.
- Add your analysis assignment under the “Add Wiki Assignment” menu choice.
- Choose “Add Grade Record” and then input (and save) your uniqname.
- I have not yet graded industry reports, notes, or questions. I will have these graded by next class.
- You can check to see if I have recorded any grades for you on the SiteMaker page.
- All blog entries, industry updates, notes, and questions are points out of 10.
- I have several printed blogs for which you have not entered information yet.
- A “9” grade on a blog is what I would call a “normal, high-quality, well-written, informative blog entry.” A “10” means that you exceeded this standard. Your entry was somehow more informative, more insightful, more engaging (don't discount this — I very much welcome reading an interesting well-written entry with a good story integrated into it) than my expectations.
- If you get a “10” on a blog entry, I want you to copy your blog entry from your wiki to my wiki. Create a page with the same name (i.e., “blog:XXX”) but it should be in the class blog. Do this as soon as you see your grade. Thanks.
- I thoroughly enjoyed meeting with most of you last week and discussing your term projects. I'll be checking your wiki home page in the version as of the beginning of class.
- Go over any other announcements you might have missed since last class.
- Check who is doing industry updates for next class.
- Check the start page for any blogs you might be interested in that you might have missed.
- From now on you don't have to “turn in” blogs with a piece of paper. You simply need to record the page within the SiteMaker page. I will be able to see that the page doesn't have a grade and will grade it (with a goal of the next class for the rest of the semester).
I'll go over
- A little feedback about this class compared to last year
- Feedback about blogs
- it's versus its
- inurl versus site
- good examples posted
- Upcoming assignments
- blogs (8 total; 4 by fall break; be sure to refer to this page of blogging guidelines)
- exam (in many weeks)
- term project (2 more mid-term status reports; one coming up in 2 more weeks)
- Industry updates
- Google update: Tim Muir
page revision: 20, last edited: 29 Sep 2008 15:01