Information Science Reading...

We might argue that in the course of

evolution those organisms were most

successful that were responsive to the

widest range of stimulus energies in

their environment. In order to survive

in a constantly fluctuating world, it was

better to have a little information about

a lot of things than to have a lot of information

about a small segment of the

environment. If a compromise was necessary,

the one we seem to have made is

clearly the more adaptive.

November 24: Virtual reality

Hi Everybody!

On Tuesday I will be talking about virtual reality with a special focus on its uses in education.

Check out the article that got me interested in this topic:

"Baltimore debuts Virtual Lab: high School facility blends 3-D virtualization with traditional research skills"

http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6699106.html

OR

Check out a more detailed article which actually describes a virtual reality project in action with students:

http://thejournal.com/Articles/1995/12/01/The-Virtual-Reality-Roving-Vehicle-Project.aspx?sc_lang=en&Page=1

See you on Tuesday!

Katy

If you would like to check out the clips I shared today, they are included below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B4F2V0_yYg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBekKF4PPQQ
http://www2.wecantakeyouthere.com/DTF/dtfrontier/35028/

Also, the link to the Duke DiVE Cave is here:
http://vis.duke.edu/dive

Smartphones - November 17th Convo Starter

I will doing the ever popular topic of smartphones on November 17th for my conversation starter. To get an idea of what I will be talking about check out these links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdwyuNDnO4s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhtYveO-POM

See you Tuesday.

-Sam

November 19: Folksonomies

Next Thursday, I'll be talking in my Conversation Starter about folksonomies, social tagging systems.

For an introduction to the concept, here are a couple of links:
Folksonomy on Wikipedia
Folksonomy, from the person who coined the term

Here are a few examples of sites using folksonomies with which you might be familiar:
del.icio.us
Flickr
Technorati

Software that Fixes Itself

Sorry this is late everyone.

I'm doing my blog on software that fixes itself, i.e. digital ants that find bugs in your system and fix them without you having to take it into the shop.

Read up at:

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/23821/

and

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33509921/

Thanks,

Tessa

Excel practice files are uploaded.

The exercise files are up on the server. Enjoy to practice Excel.

Sanghee

11/5 Conversation Starter

Hi everyone!

I'll be talking about nook, Barnes & Noble's new e-book reader. Here is Barnes & Noble's site for it if you want to check it out before class:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/

~Amanda

Starter for 11/2

Hey all!

Sorry for the late notice. I will be talking about Checksums in class tomorrow. You can check out the wikipedia page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checksum.

Megan

Oct. 27 starter

Hi everyone,

I'll be talking about Wowd, which bills itself as a "real-time" and "social" search engine. It opened a beta version of its service to the public last week.

Here is an article on it:

http://www.technologyreview.com/web/23756/

And here is the site:

http://www.wowd.com/

Check it out!

Task 03 is due to next Thursday (Oct 29)

As we discussed in class last week, the task 03 (MS Word assignment) is due to next Thursday. It was originally next Tuesday, but you have extra 2 days now.

Have fun for formatting the e-books.

Sanghee

Berkeley Device

Well you all are in for a treat on Thursday, if I may say so myself. We will be discussing the acclaimed Berkeley Device (at least that's what the media calls it), an instrument that can theoretically store information for A BILLION YEARS! That's right, I said that.

Even better, it should be compatible with any technology developed in the future. Goodbye hardware upgrades.

So stay tuned for this Thursday!

http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2009/06/03/billion-year-ultra-dense-memory-chip/

October 27 Starter

Hey all, I'll be talking a bit about online backup services, like Mozy and Carbonite. You can check out the wikipedia article on the subject here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_backup_service

Grades are available to view now

I re-uploaded the files of gradesheets on the server. Let me know if you have still a problem to access it.

Sanghee

Gradesheets are updated

Hi all,

Your grades of Tasks 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 and 2.1 are ready to view. Please check your personal folders of the gradesheets.

Sanghee

Starter 10/20

Hey class! I'll be talking a little bit about google wave (which I just learned about and it seems kind of awesome). I don't have a website for you yet, but uh...google it and you'll get the gist.

Starter for 10/15

I'll be talking about Zotero, a Firefox add-on that manages online citations and references. If you're interested in looking into before class, the website can be found here: .

Tomorrow (10/13): Guest Lecture: RefWork

There is a class schedule change for tomorrow. We were supposed to have a MS Word section tomorrow, but it was changed to a guest lecture about RefWork.

So, please prepare for having a guest lecture tomorrow. We will have another guest lecture this Thursday about LaTex and BibTex.

Both applications are citation management tools. They will help you to organize and develop your citations when you write academic papers, in particular, your master papers.

MS Word: Reading

We have two readings for the MS Word session. (It was originally scheduled for tomorrow, but changed for guest lecture. So, we will have the MS word session next Tuesday)

Please skip the first reading, ATN's Introduction to Word. It doesn't not exist anymore. The link is broken. ATN is the UNC help center for helping students to learn and solve problems related to technical issues. I guess ATN doesn't provide the introduction anymore.

Let me know if you have more questions.

Task 2.1: Due to this Friday.

Hi all,

As we discussed yesterday, the new deadline for task 2.1 is this Friday. It is a just one paragraph summary of the topic and scope of your website.

Please see the task description on the class Website.

Subtask 2.1 is to create an initial hard-coded homepage, a page we will use in class to practice other skills

- use the Notepad editor on any Windows computer and type in the text about the topic and scope of your pathfinder (1 paragrah).
- save the file as index.html so that it will display as the first page in an eventual homepage directory.
- place this page in your public_html space by October 9 (Friday), 11:59am and tell me to look at it via an email which gives me the URL to use.

Let me know if you have questions.

Starter for 10/8

Hey folks,
For Thursday, I'll be talking about applications for RSS feeds. RSS feeds send recently updated content from websites to a reader or aggregator in a standardized format. These are useful for frequently updates sites like blogs, news sites, and what I use it for most - webcomics.

I use Google reader: www.google.com/reader
but there are lots of other applications that do the same thing. Some are now desktop based, so that you don't even have to be online to view the content, like the app from http://www.newsgator.com/

See you Thursday.