CPT202: Digital Technologies for Life

Making a living through YouTube

2008-12-11T21:21:00.000-08:00

Making videos for YouTube — for three years a pastime for millions of Web surfers — is now a way to make a living."

Read more about earning a living by making YouTube videos from this NYT article at the link below:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/business/media/11youtube.html?_r=1&ref=technology

Results of Recruitment Video Challenge

2008-12-03T16:06:00.000-08:00

Below you will find some of the entries for the recruitment video challenge. Great work everyone!

Technology postsurvey

2008-12-03T10:46:00.001-08:00

Could you please take this survey one more time?

http://www.makesurvey.net/cgi-bin/survey.dll/5DED1328F64D426085795403B347202D

I-movie tutorials

2008-12-01T08:25:00.000-08:00

Over the next few days we will be editing your video footage on the Macs. Since some of you are familiar with I-movie and some aren't, I suggest that you familiarize yourselves with it by viewing these tutorials as needed:

http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/#tutorial=create

Finlandia University Survey Test

2008-10-20T09:44:00.001-07:00

Hi please try out the survey at the link below:

http://www.makesurvey.net/cgi-bin/survey.dll/744A59F9C0414E608FD1D86B28C45963

October 15th's assignment

2008-10-15T08:17:00.000-07:00

After you get through writing your survey items, I have two activities for you to do. They will help you with the analysis of the survey results.

First, could you go to the link below and take the survey at:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pNQv91E3D3-TU1RMbAQAcBA

One is to create a Wordle visualization. A Wordle is a visualization of text, where the more frequently a word is used, the larger it is. Below you will find an example of the Finlandia University's Wikipedia text:

So the first activity is to:

1. Go to http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/app

2. Sign in

3. Find some text from a website or anything else you are interested in. A lot of people make visualizations of debate and speech texts.

4. Upload the data and create a wordle visualization.

5. If you are on a windows station, hit print screen and paste (ctrl-p) the visualization into the paint program and save it as a jpg or bmp or whatever and mail it to me. You can get rid of the rest of the screen, by cropping the picture as you want it, then copying and pasting that into a new paint window.

Once you finish that let me know and I will invite you to the example survey about foods that you just took at the beginning of class. Your task is to analyze that data and create a short power point presentation of the results. You might even try using one of the other Many Eyes visualizations if you are feeling adventurous.

CPT202 wiki assignment - a class cookbook

2008-10-08T10:20:00.001-07:00

The last few classes we worked on creating a Wikipedia entry for Finlandia University. Next, we are going to learn how to a wiki of your own design. Wiki's are great for projects that involve multiple people. I have used them to brainstorm ideas, to develop a group set of rules, of to do group classroom projects. They are really, really useful. To get some practice, and to do something useful, I thought that we might make a class cookbook this time.

I have started with the first recipe. You can view it by going to

http://cpt202.pbwiki.com/FrontPage

Your assignment is to create an account with pbwiki, log on to the page above, then add at least two of your favorite recipes to the cookbook. Try to find or create a picture for each recipe. Please don't write down a recipe that looks to scrumptious because I'm really hungry. I haven't had time for lunch yet today!

Justus

Wikipedia assignment

2008-10-01T08:51:00.000-07:00

Hi All,

For the next part of the course we are going to concentrate on Wikis, beginning with editing a Wikipedia entries. Being able to edit a Wikipedia entry helps you on your way from being consumers of information to producers of it!

This week we have an authentic assignment--to edit Finlandia University's Wikipedia entry.

To do that first read and get familiar with "how to edit a page," linked below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page

Then, try out your editing skills in the Wikipedia sandbox:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox

After you are comfortable with that, we will move onto editing the Finlandia University Wikipedia entry. Before that, Karen Johson, the Executive Director of Communications, will visit our class and give us suggestions on how she wants us to revamp the Finlandia University page.

This will be a group activity and graded as a group. I'll give you more details in class!

Google calendar or linked in assignment

2008-09-17T08:45:00.000-07:00

Information on the Google calendar assignment can be found from here:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dghc3vn9_146ct3m54gn

I will tell you about the LinkedIn assignment in class.

Justus

Google websites

2008-09-12T16:40:00.000-07:00

I was browsing this evening and found Google Sites--a new way to create a website via Google.

You can use this resource to create your website if you like it better than the techniques that we have discussed in class. I've tested it a little bit and am not sure what I think of it yet. What do you think? Check it out at:

http://sites.google.com/

Google docs assignment

2008-09-10T09:36:00.000-07:00

The next assignment can be found from the link below:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dghc3vn9_1258w37p3df

Enjoy!

Justus

Google docs

2008-09-10T08:02:00.000-07:00

Here is a video about Google docs.

Enjoy

Test/Blog Contest on Monday!!!

2008-09-05T09:28:00.000-07:00

Hi,

We will be having a test/blog contest on Monday. You can find out the details of what the test/blog contest will be like from http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dghc3vn9_113dz8qh87f

We'll talk more about this in class.

New Information in Blog and Feedreader Assignments

2008-09-05T09:25:00.001-07:00

FYI, I added information on how to add a blogroll and clips of your feedreader onto your blog in the Feedreader Assignment page.

I also added information on how to add a set of links and how to embed video in your blogs on the Blog Assignment page.

We will go over these things in class, but I also included written information in case you want to refer to it later.

RFID VIDEO

2008-09-05T09:12:00.000-07:00

Hi All,

This is an example of a video embedded in a blog entry. To do it I copied the HTML information from the embed section of a you tube video. I copied it directly below in the "edit html" tab of the Posting>Create window of blogger. You can view the You Tube site where I embedded this video from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zj7txoDxbE

Google reader video

2008-09-04T13:43:00.000-07:00

Hi all,

For those of you who missed it, here is the Google Reader video hosted on You Tube.

Assignment due dates

2008-09-03T07:55:00.001-07:00

Please note that the feedreader and blog assignment's due date is 9/5/2008.

Note the extra credit activity at the bottom of the feedreader assignme

CPT202 Feedreader of Class blogs.

2008-09-03T07:53:00.001-07:00

Hi All,

I have created a feedreader of our classroom blogs. It can be found from:

http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/17503646093777124757/label/CPT202%20Blogs

Justus

Welcome to the CPT202 Blog

2008-08-29T08:09:00.000-07:00

Hi all,

This is the first entry for the CPt202 instructor's blog. I'll post announcements and reminders here as the course progresses. We are going to have a great time this semester, I can tell.

Oh, I wanted to show you an example of what a picture looks like in a blog entry. So here's a picture of me on the right.

I also wanted to show you an example of a hyperlink. So I created a hyperlink, using the icon that looks like chain and sitting on top of a globe, to the course webpage:

http://justus.randolph.name/cpt202

That's all for now.

Happy blogging,

Justus