Submit Post for February 29 (Article Review #2)

Please add a comment to this post with a direct link to your second Article Review. Follow the same format that you used on February 15.

Submit Post for February 22 (Article Comparison #1)

Please add a comment to this post with a direct link to your first Article Comparison. Include these three elements on separate lines:

1. your first name
2. subject of articles compared
3. direct url for your comparison

For example, if I added a comment for the sample comparison that I created it would look like this:

Justin
New Mac OS Release
http://webarchitecture-sp12.blogspot.com/p/sample-comparison-new-mac-os-release.html

Submit Post for February 15 (Article Review #1)

Please add a comment to this post with a direct link to your first Article Review. Include these three elements on separate lines:

1. your first name
2. title of article reviewed
3. direct url for your review (pointing to a post on your blog, NOT to the article you reviewed)

For example, if I added a comment for the sample review that I created it would look like this:

Justin
"The Dirty Little Secrets of Search"
http://webarchitecture-sp12.blogspot.com/p/sample-blog-post-searching-for-trouble.html

Second Class Meeting: Creating Your Blogs

Much of our class today will be dedicated to creating your blogs. You'll create individual Blogger accounts to use during the semester.

Your syllabus indicates that a blog title and blog url are due for this session; these will be due by the end of class. Your first article review (blog entry) will be due at the beginning of our next class.

I've posted several links to provide you with information about how to create blog posts (see the "Publishing Student Blogs" module in the right-hand column). Please review these pages carefully as you undertake your first post.

Here's a link to the Blogger site:

Blogger
http://www.blogger.com

Survey Results: Welcome to Web Years

I first used a Web-based survey to learn more about students taking this class in the spring of 2009. Three years later, a few of the questions have changed, but many have not.

This gives us a great opportunity to investigate how a few big trends in technology that you may have read or heard about in the last few years are reflected at a micro level in the classroom. I've pulled a few key questions to compare.

Introductory Survey Results Comparison: Spring 2012 and Spring 2009 (PDF)

Please note: 2012 results are for the group of 13 students present last week, while 2009 results represent a group of 15 students.

First Class: Syllabus, Survey, and Reading

Three important links on your first day of class:

Introductory Survey

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22EMZFXDW37/

Please complete this survey before you leave class today.


Class Syllabus
http://www.capitalistofknowledge.com/adv3560sp12/syll_adv3560_20120201.pdf

A copy of your syllabus will be available in PDF form all semester long at this link.



READING ASSIGNMENT

Please read this brief introduction to information architecture before our next class. It's a short blog post, but there's much in it to discuss. You may also be quizzed on the content, so take a close look.

What is 'Information Architecture'?
by Martin Belam
http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/insideguardian/2010/feb/02/what-is-information-architecture

Next, please read this short historical feature about the origins of the Internet. We'll discuss it in class.

How did the Internet start? (Read first 2 pages)
By Jonathan Strickland
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet/basics/internet-start.htm