Pretty unexpected numbers, big difference from just a few years ago:
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Check out these videos of new mocap technology
Looks like we are edging closer and closer to obliterating the "Uncanny Valley"
Big Tech News this weekend
HD DVD is dead, long live Blu Ray:
Chumby now officially for sale:
The full automatic Nerf Dart Gun:
Get at iPod for under $50:
Introducing the Worldwide Telescope!
Ever wanted to learn to program but didnt now where to start? Get the COMPLETE Microsoft Development system (Including game programming!) worth thousands for FREE:
Bill Gates talks about the Dreamspark program (You'll need to install Silverlight codec to see it tho)
Monday, February 18, 2008
Exam 2
Exam 2 is NOT tuesday. It is thursday. For those that missed the links to the powerpoints here they are:
Let me know if you have any other questions!
Friday, February 15, 2008
Fwd: Tentative Semester Schedule
Folks, there was a problem with the copy and past that eliminated our Spring Break period the Week of March 11 and 13, the below schedule is the correct one. Sorry for any inconvenience this has caused.
| 21-Jan | 23-Jan | 28-Jan | 30-Jan | 5-Feb | 7-Feb | 12-Feb | 14-Feb | 19-Feb | 21-Feb | 26-Feb | 28-Feb | 4-Mar | 6-Mar | 11-Mar | 13-Mar | 18-Mar | 20-Mar | 25-Mar | 27-Mar | 1-Apr | 3-Apr | 8-Apr | 10-Apr | 15-Apr | 17-Apr | 22-Apr | 24-Apr | 29-Apr | 1-May | 6-May | 8-May | 13-May |
| Intro | PPt | 1 | 1 | 1 | Exam 1 | Snow | 2 | 2 | Exam 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Spring Break | Spring Break | Exam3 / Word | Word | Word | Word & Pretest | Exam 4 & Excel | Excel | Excel & Pretest | Exam 5 and Access | Access | Access | Exam 6 & buying a computer | More on Powerpoint | Maple/Matlab | Review | No Class | No Class | Final |
For discussion and date breakout purposes only. Tentative, could change radically but should be relatively close.
Sam
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Tentative Semester Schedule
| 21-Jan | 23-Jan | 28-Jan | 30-Jan | 5-Feb | 7-Feb | 12-Feb | 14-Feb | 19-Feb | 21-Feb | 26-Feb | 28-Feb | 4-Mar | 6-Mar | 11-Mar | 13-Mar | 18-Mar | 20-Mar | 25-Mar | 27-Mar | 1-Apr | 3-Apr | 8-Apr | 10-Apr | 15-Apr | 17-Apr | 22-Apr | 24-Apr | 29-Apr | 1-May | 6-May | 8-May | 13-May |
| Intro | PPt | 1 | 1 | 1 | Exam 1 | Snow | 2 | 2 | Exam 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Exam 3 | Word | Word | Word | Exam 4 | Excel | Excel | Excel | Exam 5 | Access | Access | Access | Exam 6 & buying a computer | More on Powerpoint | Maple/Matlab | Review | No Class | No Class | Final |
For discussion and date breakout purposes only. Tentative, could change radically but should be relatively close.
Sam
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
IMPORTANT information regarding tonight's class!
Students:
Please be advised that your class session is cancelled due to inclement weather. I will be in the classroom at 6 p.m. for those students who have already arrived on campus. You will receive on-line class material to be completed by Thursday asynchronously under the Content area of ecampus. Our class session today, Tuesday, is therefore considered asynchronous, which means "not occurring at the same time" or "lack of concurrence; absence of synchronism." In other words, we are all completing the requirements of the class session, but not necessarily together in the same room at the same time.
Another term used to describe this kind of class session enabled by computer technology is ubiquitous, "being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time." These are terms that every information technologist should be familiar with. Many colleges and universities, and now some high schools, are requiring all students to take at least one course that is completely online, utilizing asynchronous (utilizing drop boxes and email through an extranet system such as ecampus, as we are doing) and synchronous (utilizing chat rooms on an extranet system such as ecampus) because the accessibility to computers provides a ubiquitous environment for learning.
In our IT program, we have a few courses designated as hybrid, this means that some classes (usually from 40 to 50%) are online, while the other class sessions require a physical meeting. You will find the hybrid system in IT 450. In IT 102, we will hold an online session approximately two times during the semester. If there is inclement weather, rather than canceling the class, we will hold the class online. If you are already in the building please join us briefly at 6 to go over the instructions in person, if you are not here PLEASE be safe and stay home, and look for further information to come via both email and in the drop box section of ecampus.
Let me know if you have any questions! I will be monitoring email at least till 6:30. Exam #2 will not be held until at least next tuesday night the 19th and much further detail will be given in our next meeting on Thursday night. I had hoped to have the calander many of you asked for updated by tonight, will see if I can get that out but it will much more likely be tomorrow.
Sam
The Ultimate Steal
In case you weren't aware of it, as students of Monmouth U you are eligble to buy and use the complete Microsoft Office Ultimate for just under $60 plus tax and maybe shipping.
Details are here:
Eligibility rules here:
Deal Discussion can be found here:
You can even download it and use it 25 times before you have to buy it.
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Did you know the TSA is blogging now?
It's true!
I still think their policies are ridiculously stupid, but at least they've joined the conversation...
Sam
Sam, Casegrader and Exam #1
The SAM institution code changed between semesters and I didnt update it for our class notes. The new code is: V7247944
To buy Casegrader seperately if you didnt buy the whole pack together:
"Students who do not yet have a SAM and CaseGrader keycodes will be able to purchase them both using Course Technology's online bookstore. Please note that this is a different ISBN for SAM than originally provided to us by Course Technology.
Students will go to www.coursedirect.com
To order an electronic keycode (which will be emailed to them) for SAM 2007 enter ISBN 1423913477. Be sure they have a credit card and they must use a valid email address.
To order CaseGrader for Office 2007, they will use the same ISBN that is packaged with the IT 100 books, which is 1423998561. This will not be emailed to them since this is not yet set up this way. The will receive the keycode in the mail within a few days from when they order it. Please remind students who have used books to go to www.coursedirect.com, have a credit card and order CaseGrader, using ISBN 1423998561. "
Students will go to www.coursedirect.com
To order an electronic keycode (which will be emailed to them) for SAM 2007 enter ISBN 1423913477. Be sure they have a credit card and they must use a valid email address.
To order CaseGrader for Office 2007, they will use the same ISBN that is packaged with the IT 100 books, which is 1423998561. This will not be emailed to them since this is not yet set up this way. The will receive the keycode in the mail within a few days from when they order it. Please remind students who have used books to go to www.coursedirect.com, have a credit card and order CaseGrader, using ISBN 1423998561. "
When using CaseGrader, please remember our policy on Academic Honesty. This software easily detects dishonesty and it will save much time and effort by keeping this in mind.
Regarding the 6 exams this semester... Maureen has already sent out an update to you regarding what is and what is not required reading. There is no way that I or any other MU professor would ask you to read 200 pages in 3 nights, and I'm kind of disappointed that the many ways I had set up for you to contact me if you had any pressing questions that needed fast responses were not followed. Be that as it may, you should now know what is required reading and I stress that the 4 sets of lecture notes that you have had available since day one of this class are the best study guide for exam #1. As noted, due to the flexible nature of IT 102 we do not put exact dates on any class to be tied to the syllabus, and the syllabus explicitly does not call out dates for exams to happen. We have had 3 weeks of discussion of the topics for exam #1 so it should be little surprise that the exam on this material was coming up and I would expect that a confirmation for this date earlier this week should have been sufficient warning.
Exams 1-3 are written exams, all are short answer. There are no true/false questions or fill in the blanks. For exam 1 you should be able to intelligently discuss the parts of a computer and describe the differences between hardware and software, noting the many different roles each plays.
If you have any further questions which need immediate answer, please feel free to reply to my gmail account (sposten@gmail.com), my work email (samuel.posten@l-3com.com) or call my cell phone at 908 461 7181. Again because I work on an army base it is not always possible for me to get to the posten@monmouth.edu address during the day so I have tried to make it crystal clear that the other contacts are your best bet to get any questions you have answered as soon as I see them.
Sam
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Casegrader and Ecampus and Exam 1
To answer some of your questions:
YES, You do need to buy the Casegrader login code.
YES, You do need to take Quiz 1 immediately on Ecampus. This needs to be completed by Thursday night's beginning of class
NO, You do not need to take Quizzes 2 or 3 until after we go to the library as a class. I am working to get that class date for you.
YES, Exam #1 will be thursday night and will cover all of the classes up to and including tonight, and all four of the live lecture notes on the classes home page.
NO, you do not need to bring ALL of the books to every class. You do need to bring the right book to each class tho! You should have a pretty good idea which subject we are covering each class based on the syllabus.
Let me know if you have further questions, otherwise see you in class.
Friday, February 01, 2008
Fwd: SAM
Purchasing SAM codes
Students who do not yet have a SAM and CaseGrader keycodes will be able to purchase them both using Course Technology's online bookstore. Please note that this is a different ISBN for SAM than originally provided to us by Course Technology.
Students will go to www.coursedirect.com
To order an electronic keycode (which will be emailed to them) for SAM 2007 enter ISBN 1423913477. Be sure they have a credit card and they must use a valid email address.
To order CaseGrader for Office 2007, they will use the same ISBN that is packaged with the IT 100 books, which is 1423998561. This will not be emailed to them since this is not yet set up this way. The will receive the keycode in the mail within a few days from when they order it.
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I would like to clarify and expand upon the communication I have received from Course Technology in regard to purchasing separate SAM codes for students who have purchased used books this semester.
If your students ordered SAM online prior to Monday night when I delivered to you the new ISBN, the code will be sent via snailmail.
If, on the other hand, the student ordered online by entering a new ISBN, 1423913477, the student should receive the code immediately via email. However, I have just received the following information from Mary Jo Prinaris:
"There was a glitch in the system and I was told it was fixed yesterday evening. If they don't get them in their email box by this afternoon, let me know."
In summary, please be sure that your students have entered the correct ISBN when ordering. If there is any student who ordered yesterday, but still has not received the code, please let me know. I would prefer you allow the student to initiate this conversation rather than pursuing this information. We want to be certain that the student did, in fact, place the order.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Feb 1, 2008 9:09 AM
Subject: SAM
To: sposten@gmail.com
Professor Posten,
Could you please send me the link to purchase SAM. Thank you.
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