Week 9- This week we did not have any e-tutorials or elab to complete. During class a person from each group stood up to present each of our App ideas.
For my group project, we have decided to design an app to help people find ATMs in their area. It is an ATM locater and uses google maps to show you where your closest ATM is and what bank it is. The app can be used in the areas of UCD campus, Stillorgan, Donnybrook, Goatstown and Clonskeagh.
The app is particularly useful for UCD students, many of the restaurants in UCD do not accept paying by card and therefore cash is necessary!
As a group, we have been using facebook as a means of communication and have been meeting up frequently. We designated roles to each person and have been working away individually and there collaborating together.
Friday, 27 March 2015
Tuesday, 17 March 2015
Week 8-
This week we learnt about the managing of visual social media.
As part of our elab this week and in relation to the managing of social media, we each had to make our own flickr account, upload, organise and edit our photos on it.
I created my flickr account through yahoo and choose photos from my desktop to upload.
Before uploading the photos I organised them into certain albums and added tags. 'Tags' help you to easily search for your photos, while 'sets' allow you to create collections of photos.
I also added a title and description to each one of my photos.
I also created a pinterest account and selected different categories of photos i would like to see on my homepage.
I have pinned some photos i like and added them to boards on my page.
Link to my shared flickr photos:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/130955754@N07/
Link to the editing and organising of my flickr photos:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/organize
Here are some screenshots from my flcikr page with the uploaded and organised pictures:
This week we learnt about the managing of visual social media.
As part of our elab this week and in relation to the managing of social media, we each had to make our own flickr account, upload, organise and edit our photos on it.
I created my flickr account through yahoo and choose photos from my desktop to upload.
Before uploading the photos I organised them into certain albums and added tags. 'Tags' help you to easily search for your photos, while 'sets' allow you to create collections of photos.
I also added a title and description to each one of my photos.
I also created a pinterest account and selected different categories of photos i would like to see on my homepage.
I have pinned some photos i like and added them to boards on my page.
Link to my shared flickr photos:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/130955754@N07/
Link to the editing and organising of my flickr photos:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/organize
Here are some screenshots from my flcikr page with the uploaded and organised pictures:
Screenshot of my Pinterest page:
Monday, 9 March 2015
Week 7- This week we were learning about mash ups, Web mashups are the combination of data from webpages and apps which are used to create a seperate functioning app or webpage. Example of a mashup includes google maps. Web mashups usually have 3 key features such as aggregation, combination and visualisation. Three main types types of mash ups include data, business and consumer mashups.
For our Friday lab this week, we had to visualise some information using google maps.
For our Friday lab this week, we had to visualise some information using google maps.
Sunday, 8 March 2015
Week 6- Screen-casting
This week we learnt about screen casting-
this enables you to capture information on your computer screen and combine this material with audio to create a video. It would be a good idea to include a screencast to show how our app works for our group projects.
We used the website: www.screencast-o-matic.com and firstly, we watched a demo video.
For our individual lab exercise, we created some data/information in word or excel and started recording.
As a homework assignment, we were asked to add audio to our screencasts. Unfortunately, the sound and microphone is currently not working on my laptop and I will not be able to carryout this homework until i get my hands on another computer to use.
Watch this space!
Here is a screenshot from the screencast-omatic demo:
This week we learnt about screen casting-
this enables you to capture information on your computer screen and combine this material with audio to create a video. It would be a good idea to include a screencast to show how our app works for our group projects.
We used the website: www.screencast-o-matic.com and firstly, we watched a demo video.
For our individual lab exercise, we created some data/information in word or excel and started recording.
As a homework assignment, we were asked to add audio to our screencasts. Unfortunately, the sound and microphone is currently not working on my laptop and I will not be able to carryout this homework until i get my hands on another computer to use.
Watch this space!
Here is a screenshot from the screencast-omatic demo:
Although I did not get to create the screen cast for the elab, I got to assist with the making of a screencast video for our group project. I learned how screencasting works and when to use it.
Monday, 2 March 2015
Week 6- Ted Talks-
This week I watched a few more Ted Talks in preparation for the class.
These talks were about crowd sourcing and youtube and copyright.
Margaret Gould Stewart talks about- How YouTube thinks about copyright- she is YouTubes head of user experience and talks about how the video site works with copyright holders and creators to foster a ideally creative eco-system where everybody wins. This talk reminded me of one I had previously watched and mentioned in my blog post from week 3/4 about laws that choke creativity and was given by Laurence Lessig.
The other Ted Talk was about crowd sourcing the news and was given by Paul Lewis. This talk was about how everyone can be a potential new source and about the future of investigative journalism.
This week I watched a few more Ted Talks in preparation for the class.
These talks were about crowd sourcing and youtube and copyright.
Margaret Gould Stewart talks about- How YouTube thinks about copyright- she is YouTubes head of user experience and talks about how the video site works with copyright holders and creators to foster a ideally creative eco-system where everybody wins. This talk reminded me of one I had previously watched and mentioned in my blog post from week 3/4 about laws that choke creativity and was given by Laurence Lessig.
The other Ted Talk was about crowd sourcing the news and was given by Paul Lewis. This talk was about how everyone can be a potential new source and about the future of investigative journalism.
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