Prep for the final exam
The final will take place on Wednesday, December 14th from 8am to 10am our accustomed classrooom, VMMC 111.
What does a good essay answer look like?
Sample question:
Metadata may be the single most important concept discussed...
Class Notes: December 5th 2011
We started by discussing this article from 2009 on Google Book Search: http://chronicle.com/article/Googles-Book-Search-A/48245/
Google book search was used as an example for the difficulty for transitioning between 2nd and 3rd order....
Class notes: November 28th
Today’s topic: the semantic web
Some links from the lecture:
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/semantic-web.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
Facebook: Open Graph Protocol:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/...
Extra Credit Options
If you are finding yourself concerned about your grade in the class, I’d like to offer an opportunity to do a project and pick up a few extra points.
Here is how it works. You will need to read one of the following two items:
Jaron...
WordPress Project & Essay Instructions
Instructions for the next (and last) major class project are now available.
WordPress Blog Organization Project
Lab: applied communication
Let’s be practical and apply the difference between broadcast and communication to our practice of learning and organizing information in the context of the class. If we consider a lecture to be a broadcast, or a one-way transmission...
Class: Monday November 7
Broadcast vs. Communication
As human activities they are significant
Technological differences are arbitrary
How to they apply themselves to learning?
Do you have a preference?
Class: November 2 Publish, then Filter
Terms and concepts:
User generated content (page 83): What does Shirky define the key aspects of user generated content? Are the files on your local computer ugc? Is the novel Steven King is writing on his word processor? Why or why...
Shirky Reading for Wednesday online
The reading for Wednesday has been available online since yesterday afternoon. It may be found in the course reservers for this class.
Follow this link for the course reserves page and search for DTC356. Use 2awfw4ed as the password...
Ted Talks: Insights from miscellaneous geniuses
Playlist for class, October 26, 2011
Clay Shirky on institutions and collaboration
Yochai Benkler on open-source economics
Jaron Lanier with a counterpoint to the most enthusiastic claims of the collective / miscellaneous futurists
Sir...