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week 3 - wednesday 13 april
Finding and Evaluating Online Communications
- As students arrive ... take this time to read classmate blogs
- Featured blog posts ...
1. I don't feel that newspapers will be phased out any time soon, however. I think there is something about having an actual, physical medium that people will want to hold on to, literally...
2. Two of the "did you know" factoids that shocked [me] was: 1. that advertisers spend $1 billion advertising to kids and 2. that 69% of the population would be interested in blocking marketing ads.
3. ..."Technostress." I finally have a word to describe what I feel when I'm looking up info for a project or researching information about a product I want to buy.
- Lecture / Reading Discussion
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- Lab - Dreamweaver
assignments
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Reading for the next class :
(1) "Being Analog" (formerly published as Chapter 7 of The Invisible Computer) by Donald Norman (1997). (2) (Optional/Extra-credit): "Affect and machine design: Lessons for the development of autonomous machines" from IBM Systems Journal by D. A. Norman, A. Ortony and D. M. Russell (42:1) (2003)
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blog post due by 9.30 am Mon 18 Apr :
How have these readings changed your view of the man-machine relationship?
[ 1 post ] [1 extra credit post]
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Peer review : comments on research proposal due by 5 pm Friday
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Responses (comments) to this week's blog postings due by 5 pm Friday
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