• Team Reports
• Final Paper Requirements
• Review Grades
• Course Evaluations

Assignment

Send a Google Calendar invite to me with the Date,Time, and Location of your presentation. This should be sent to me by the end of the day today. If I don’t receive it, I can’t be there to grade it.

• Service Learning Project Topic – Submit for Approval
• Team Organization – Who is responsible for what. Everyone should have a role.
• Project Scheduling – Book your date and time with the DSC for your booth (Week Before Finals)
• Submit to me as a Google Doc your project proposal (1 Per Team). This document should include all of the information listed above. Due to me by next Monday. Be prepared to give a status report to the class (one per team).
• You are welcome to meet as a team later this week and begin work on the project. I’ll try and get your topic approved within 24 hours of submitting your proposal. After today, you’ll have two full sessions to work on the project before the Thanksgiving Holiday. Working ahead is in your best interest.

• Betsy Hart – Office of Community Engagement – (edhart@ualr.edu)
• Complete Presentations
• Service Learning Project Requirements
• Team Assignments

Assignment

Write post about your visit to the Emerging Analytics Center. Discuss some of the new technology you learned about and how it might impact the we work in the future.

• Dr Keith Bush – Computer Science
• Presentation Wrap-Up

Assignments

Blog Post – Reflect on your presentation. What were your strengths & weaknesses? Identify areas you could improve and discuss possible strategies for doing so. Please be thorough. In addition to the post please share the presentation file with me via Google Drive or email.

• Class Presentations

Assignments

1. Blog Post – Reflect on your presentation. What were your strengths & weaknesses? Identify areas you could improve and discuss possible strategies for doing so. Please be thorough. In addition to the post please share the presentation file with me via Google Drive or email.
2. Write a blog post about 5 new tips/tricks you learned from the Power Searching with Google course. Please explain each technique and a situation where you might use it to find valuable information. Due October 13th.

• Resources
• Presentation Technologies
• • Best Practices
  • Powerpoint Overview
  • Powerpoint Workspace
  • Working with the Slide Master
  • Custom Shows
  • Alternate Presentation Formats
  • Extracting and Converting Video
  • Audio and Video

Assignment

1. Be prepared to to present to the class next Monday. Make sure you follow the requirements listed here.
2. Complete the final two sessions of Power Searching with Google.
3. Write a blog post about 5 new tips/tricks you learned from the Power Searching with Google course. Please explain each technique and a situation where you might use it to find valuable information. Due October 13th.
4. Upcoming Sessions
   • 10/6 – Individual Presentations
   • 10/13 – Fall Break
   • 10/20 – Dr. Keith Bush – Department of Computer Science
   • 10/27 – Emerging Analytics Center

• Google Docs/Drive Overview
• Resources

Assignment

1. Complete the third and fourth sessions of Power Searching with Google. Create a Google doc and share it with tswallace@ualr.edu. In this document, I’d like you to take notes from the Power Searching with Google course. Once we have completed the course you will use these notes to craft a blog post containing lessons learned from the workshop. Do not email me this document!. Use the built in sharing functionality of Google Docs. If you do not know how to do this you can look here for help.
2. Please complete the MBTI located at this web site (http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp).  Save your results and bring to class with you next Tuesday for a debrief. Have a nice weekend.

• Google Docs/Drive Overview
• Resources

Assignment

1. Complete the first two sessions  of Power Searching with Google. Create a Google doc and share it with tswallace@ualr.edu. In this document, I’d like you to take notes from the Power Searching with Google course. Once we have completed the course you will use these notes to craft a blog post containing lessons learned from the workshop. Do not email me this document!. Use the built in sharing functionality of Google Docs. If you do not know how to do this you can look here for help.
2. Write a blog post reflecting  on the experience you had during the scavenger hunt last week. Discuss how your team decided to tackle the hunt, whether or not you felt like you worked as a team, and what you would do differently.
3. Please complete the MBTI located at this web site (http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp).  Save your results and bring to class with you next Tuesday for a debrief. Have a nice weekend.
4. Society of Computing and Information Science on Facebook. Join the group for meeting information, Job Postings, and special event information.

• Jennifer Moody – EIT Student Services
• Scavenger Hunt

• Verify VM Access and troubleshoot
• Introduction to WordPress
• Blog Settings
  • Applying a Theme
  • Customizing the Sidebar
  • Widgets
  • RSS Feeds

• RSS Feed Aggregators
  • Feedly
  • Digg Reader
  • Newsblur
  • The Old Reader

Assignments

(Due 8.25.14):

Customize your blog. Apply a new theme. Customize the sidebar. Add a few widgets. Display an rss feed from a site that you frequent.

Write your first blog post reflecting on your personal expectations for the semester. Make sure you categorize and/or tag the post. If you are feeling adventurous try adding a photo to the post.

Send the URL of your newly created blog to tswallace@ualr.edu

(Due  9/8/14)

Watch The World is Flat 3.0

http://video.mit.edu/watch/the-world-is-flat-30-9321/

Write a blog post reflecting on your thoughts of Tom Friedman’s The World is Flat 3.0 video. Do you agree or disagree with the author’s perspective on globalization? Please do a through review of this piece and share your thoughts on the topic. This should be a thorough review and critique.

• Syllabus
• Using the Virtual Machines
• Introductions and Site Orientation
• Getting Started with your WordPress Blog
  • WordPress.com
  • What is a blog?
  • Publishing Content | Video Tutorial
  • Pages vs Posts
  • More Resources

Homework

(Due 8.25.14): Write your first blog post reflecting on your personal expectations for the semester. Make sure you categorize and/or tag the post. If you are feeling adventurous try adding a photo to the post.

Send the URL of your newly created blog to tswallace@ualr.edu