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Notes for Wednesday, December 19

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All groups will give their presentations on Wednesday, December 19. It is essential that everyone arrives on time. At least one member of each group should plan on getting to A453 early to set up the presentation on the instructor’s computer.

Each group must post a link to their project on the course website by 10 a.m. on Wednesday, December 19. Please ensure that your site is public and viewable by anyone. Each student will submit a self and group evaluation; I’ll email you a link to a survey tomorrow. The self and group evaluations are due by 5 p.m. Thursday 12/20.

If any groups wish to use A543 to rehearse their presentations, please let me know; I’ll be on campus all day today and tomorrow.

And again, the order of presentations is as follows:

  1. Charles Baculima
    Dwayne Carolina
    Reno Abraham
  2. Harry Attilio
    Destiny Modeste
    Andrew Dilapi
  3. Maria Hernandez
    Sabrina Martinez
    Emira Marra
  4. Ahmad Woods
    Kenien Spann
    Miguel Olivares
  5. Ismael Sanogo
    Joey Jerez
    Laura Chamorro
    Mariely Reyes

It’s been a challenging and interesting semester. Thanks for all your hard work and thoughtful questions.

~Prof. Leonard

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Online Documentation Project URL

Posted on December 17, 2012 by | Leave a comment

https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/zineproject/

Group Members

Dwayne Carolina

Charles Baculima-Castillo

Reno Abraham

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Order of presentations on Wednesday, December 19

Posted on December 12, 2012 by | Leave a comment

All groups will present their online documentation projects on Wednesday, December 19 in our customary classroom, A543. See the guidelines or ask me if you have questions about the presentation. If groups wish to rehearse presentations in A543 outside of class time, please contact me and we’ll figure out a time. It is absolutely essential that everyone is on time next Wednesday.

Groups will present in the following order:

  1. Charles Baculima
    Dwayne Carolina
    Reno Abraham
  2. Harry Attilio
    Destiny Modeste
    Andrew Dilapi
  3. Maria Hernandez
    Sabrina Martinez
    Emira Marra
  4. Ahmad Woods
    Kenien Spann
    Miguel Olivares
  5. Ismael Sanogo
    Joey Jerez
    Laura Chamorro
    Mariely Reyes

As always, get in touch with questions about the presentation or the project. Good luck, everyone!

~Prof. L.

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Notes from December 10

Posted on December 10, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Today all groups made progress on their projects and completed the first progress report. If anyone encounters technical difficulties on the OpenLab, please contact me or email openlab@citytech.cuny.edu. Or both!

Attendance and class participation this week and next week is critical to your success in this course. Please be on time! We’ll continue to meet in A540 so that groups can work together. If groups wish to work outside of class time in A540, the library’s e-classroom, please contact me to schedule a time.

On Wednesday, I’ll distribute guidelines for the group presentations and review them in class. During class on Wednesday we’ll establish the order of presentations for Wednesday, December 19.

~Prof. L.

 

 

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December 5 – groups for the online documentation project

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Today in class we formed groups for the online documentation project. Group members are as follows:

Information Resource:

Ahmad Woods
Kenien Spann
Miguel Olivares

Maria Hernandez
Sabrina Martinez
Emira Marra

Charles Baculima
Dwayne Carolina
Reno Abraham

Research Game:

Harry Attilio
Destiny Modeste
Andrew Dilapi

Research Tool:

Ismael Sanogo
Joey Jerez
Laura Chamorro
Mariely Reyes

Before next class you should be sure that every group member is promoted to Administrator in the project. If you have persistent issues joining your group’s project or changing your status, contact me as soon as possible. You can also contact the OpenLab team by email with questions.

We’ll continue to meet in A540, the library’s e-classroom, next week so that groups can work. Groups will have a short progress report to complete at the end of each class (I’ll distribute in class). If any groups wish to schedule work time in A540, please let me know and I’ll check its availability. Likewise, if any groups wish to rehearse the presentation in A543, let me know.

Good luck!
~Prof. Leonard

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12.5.2012 Blog Post – Ahmad Woods

Posted on December 4, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Narukami Basic OMB BnB Tutorial and OMB Applications

This particular video is a tutorial for the competitive aspect of the fighting game Persona 4 Arena. It is meant to teach the players of this game people who exclusively play the character Yu Narukami how to optimize and maximize his damage from any point on the stage when performing a “burst”, a multi use and very important mechanic in the game.

The tutorial runs through every possible set up this character has off a “one more burst” into high damaging combos. It starts off with the most basic mid screen combo then goes off into more specialized setups. It begins by teaching the player how to execute the combo properly and how do avoid “same move proration” which causes the combo to drop. It then moves on into a high light reel of the kinds of combos you can do with one more burst.

To say this video is for those with specialized knowledge would be a fair statement. The video assumes you know how to play fighting games, it assumes you know how to play persona 4 arena, and it assumes you know numeric notation and other terminology. This fair game however if you’re playing this particular game in a competitive environment chances are you already know how to play fighting games so those explanations would be redundant.  If you don’t this is the wrong tutorial to for you. Although I would have like an explanation in this video for same move proration since it’s a term that exclusively applies to this fighting game but it isn’t something addressed in the game manual.

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Notes from today, and assignment for Wednesday, December 5

Posted on December 3, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Today we discussed process documentation and critiqued some videos in class. The NEW due date for the final version of the research paper is now Friday, December 7 by 5 p.m. I prefer receiving your papers as email attachments, but if you would like to hand in a paper version, stop by my office (A439b) between 12-2 or 4-5 on Friday. As always, contact me with any questions about the assignment.

For Wednesday, please review the guidelines for the online documentation project  and be ready to decide on a project. I will distribute guidelines in print during Wednesday’s class.

Because of an OpenLab snafu, my blog post summarizing today’s blogging assignment did not go up on time. Post your blog post by 10 a.m. on Wednesday, December 5 for credit. Here is the blogging assignment: locate one example of process documentation in any format, read it, and write one blog post in which you describe, summarize and critique it. Does it document thoroughly and completely the process that it claims to document? If you choose a video, please embed the video into your blog post so that we can all view it easily. You may find it helpful to review the Edge and Robinson articles to guide your selection of a good quality example of process documentation.

Slides from today are available here.

~Prof. Leonard

 

 

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11-21-2012 Blog Post – Ahmad Woods

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Reading an excerpt from Howard’s “Hot Type: A Modern Scholar’s Ailments: Link Rot and Footnote Flight”  describes the purpose of citation and there’s six of them;  acknowledgment, attribution, tracing, validation, protection against accusations of misconduct. I think probably the most important reason for citation is validation.  It’s nice to have that cushion to know someone has done some sort of research on on this because then you know that the topic may be actually worth researching. Needless to say it also makes you look good when you pull out all sorts of references; it validates your research since now you have evidence to support you claims.

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Reading and blogging homework for Wednesday 11/7

Posted on November 5, 2012 by | Leave a comment

By tomorrow we should get an update of how we’ll make up the classes missed due to the college closure during Hurricane Sandy. I’ll let you know as soon as I find out. In the meantime, I posted an updated schedule of readings and assignments. Today we discussed advanced internet searching, including Google Scholar and the importance of setting up Library Links in your Google Scholar settings, various browser add-ons such as LibX for searching and Zotero for citation management, and briefly touched on EasyBib, which we investigated a few weeks ago. EasyBib also has browser extensions for Chrome (and Firefox?) that allow you to quickly cite or evaluate a website or online article or e-book. Please note that the library’s EasyBib demo now ends on November 30. On Wednesday, we’ll discuss searching & finding in library catalogs. Please read Badke, ch. 5 pp. 89-93 and review the Library of Congress Classification Outline.

Please write one research journal blog post in response to the prompt below:

In class today you tried out advanced search strategies and scholarly internet resources from the Badke reading to search for sources on your research topic. Describe 1 advanced strategy or scholarly resource you used. Did you find different information sources than you found doing a regular internet search (just using Google, Yahoo, etc.), and if so, how are they different? Did you encounter any difficulties that you haven’t encountered in a regular internet search?
Slides for today are available here.
Go vote tomorrow! Check the updated list of NYC polling sites that have been changed due to Sandy damage if you think there’s a chance that your usual polling site has been moved.

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Notes from today, and reading/blogging homework for Monday, October 15

Posted on October 10, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Today we discussed copyright and fair use, and briefly revisited open access.
Starting next week we move from our discussion of issues in information and media to a discussion of the organization of information and media. We’ll start with a discussion of metadata. For Monday, October 15, please read the following chapter and two articles:

Badke, chapter 4: Metadata and the power of controlled vocabularies
Dye, “Folksonomy: a game of high-tech (and high stakes) tag”
Harrod, “It’s the playground of narcissistic teenagers and amateur photographers…”

Your blogging assignment is one 100-word comment on a classmate’s blog post or 2 comments on 2 different posts totaling at least 100 words.

Be sure to bring the Developing a Research Topic worksheets with you to class; we’ll make time to work on them further in class. Please get in touch if you want to discuss your research topic proposal. Proposals are due 2 weeks from today at the beginning of class.

Slides from today are available here.

~Prof. Leonard

 

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