The easiest way to get extra marks from your tutor?

I saw this page the other day and thought you might find it useful. Rashad, this had your name all over it

Well done on your first blog

Well done all those students who came today, created their blog site and posted their first post.  I see there are a few to come, so don’t forget to email me the link so I can find it (and therefore mark it).  The list of requirements is in week one of COMP.4105 on eCampus.  Speaking of eCampus, ensure you have all joined the Comp.4105 eCampus course. Thanks

Also, remember, you can use your blog for whatever you like as well as the posts you need to do for assessments but also remember your blog is now out in the public domain.  Would you like your mother to read what you wrote or see those links and images?  How about future employers?

Don’t forget to personalise your blog, make it your own.  Check out your classmates; all the links I have received have been placed in the student blogroll
Enjoy

Welcome to semester two, 2009

It’s the start of the semester.  O week to be precise and Waiariki  is starting to fill up with students.  That’s nice after being so quiet here over the holidays.

I should be cleaning out my email/eCampus/computer/desk drawers and all those little jobs I thought I would do before the semester started but it doesn’t seem to happening that way.  So instead I am updating my blog in preparation for my new students who will be doing ‘COMP.4101 Contemporary Technology for the Mobile User’ this semester.   Those of you participating in this course will be creating your own blog as part of the course assessment.

I have been busy today trying to integrating a wordpress blog (which I installed in on our student server) into our own ctc website with limited success.  Offers of help welcome!

oh so disappointed my animated gif isn't animating

My first cell phone

Here is a picture of my first cell phone. It was a Philips Isis. It was a 1G/2G phone that could switch seemlessly between the analogue and digital networks. It stored 20 numbers (no names) and couldn’t do text messaging. It cost me over $200 which was a lot for a poor student

hotmail vs webmail

For my students who need to email in assignments, I suggest using your Waiairiki wemail account for a number of reasons

1. hotmail accounts are often blocked by our web marshall especially if they contain an attachment and I can almost garantee it if they have a zip file attached
2. hotmail emails are not always sent to or recieved by our servers immediately
3. if for some reason your tutor doesnt recieve your email, you have proof (timestamped with a copy of the attachment) sitting in your sent items

second time just like the first

Our second class of the semester and I have four new students (due to timetabling errors). Because the blog thing was important and will be used for other assessments and classes I have decided to run through it again.

Only one of my students from Tuesday came back. Where are you guys? See you Friday at 1.10pm.

first things first!

I have started this blog for my students at Waiariki Institute of Technology in Rotorua. WordPress.com seems to offer the best value for money blog (they’re free) and the offer a range of more than 60 themes to choose from. If you’re CSS inclined you can personalise it even further. (I will get to mine at a later date).

Anyway, for first class we are going to start a new blog using our Waiariki email accounts (so you can use your own personal email addresses for your own personal blogs if you desire). You will be using this blog to be uploading thoughts, ideas and things you have learnt during the course. This will be part of your in-class assessment and something things will be uploaded to the blog site (also part of your assessment). So lets get blogging! (ok, no more cheese)