Lecture

Week's Image Here

ANNOUNCEMENT:

THE COLLEGE has agreed to move our Lecture Room - just down the hall to Rm 267

Please adjust your schedules

Thanks  MrM

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Highlights

1. see below
   

Student Check List

Review

What do you recall from last week? OK.... Nice and quiet Take a minute, we know what Humans can hear?

Tip of the Day

Ever WONDER when you are at home.. if Labs are available? Wonder NO MORE... thanks Jim VOth for .png https://sites.google.com/site/mrmfall2011/mr-m-s-schedule

Student R&D Department

Thanks students for these:

Terms you gotta know...

Important terms you should know (i.e. with Googling them - like for a job interview, or verbal discussions) Terms: Hz dB Normalize

Lecture TOPIC  - Survey results

OK... you can judge for yourself... is the class learning the basics...

Mr. M. says... not too bad.....

But, if you have put ZERO time into the Open Source Audacity assignment  (upgrade from 3/5)
and if you didn't put anything in your Google Doc...
it is unlikely you will recall anything from the bit of sound we did this week.

One never knows... maybe audio basics will be important to you sometime, somewhere.

Here are results  (PRIVATE, names have been removed)

Lecture Topic: Need a Professional Voice for your Project? - Got $50?

Mr. M. hired Claire here.

https://holdcom.audioproductionstore.com/

Lecture Topic: JUST DO BASICS of sounds

ONLY HAVE ONE TOPIC , main topic

Do what can humans hear

Open the WORD Document.

Is MRM interested in Nature?

why the stuff

Advice from a PRO

Open the WORD Document.

https://sites.google.com/site/mrwinter11/mm-218/week-11/jayrose.dochttps://sites.google.com/site/mrwinter11/mm-218/week-11/jayrose.doc

DO RESULTS OF SOUND SURVEY...

How were your basic skills
Show summary of spread sheet without names



Did Mr. M. buy the DVD



http://www.elephantsdream.org/


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsGEWHNJ3s8


Then
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tyai_Y3woc0




What lessons were learned?

Never start a film without a _______________.

The VO artists changed the way they made the movie.

Where did the amimators live?  (some did move)


Is this legal?
My PC is on Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPejYdBM11I

Lecture Topic - Trying out CMS Open Source

This was in the Lab.

How much time did Mr. M. spend playing with this, and installing.... 
- 6 hours

It takes time to figure things out... don't expect 15 minutes of work to yield much (usually).



Mr. M. to demo
http://www.opensourcecms.com/


In particular
Pixie
http://www.concrete5.org/

Get Simple (YOU HAVEN't scene this before)
http://get-simple.info/

Finally, show Mr. M. possible project:
http://jiffykeys.com  (maybe a MM 400 or MM 462 project - or both )



WHY are we doing this again?


Mr. M. wants you to experience open source FREE - CMS's.

If you want to make money building websites as a freelancer, Mr. M. would suggest you have skills in:

1. Prebuilts Blogger.com  (Yes, people would pay to customize and train them, and maintain)
   
2. Basic knowledge of a Javascript library  (jQuery would be a good bet) - and of course .css and xTHML, and a little PHP, mySQL
   
3. A light weight CMS - as Mr. M. has show the two
   
4. Custom WordPress (but ONLY if clients demands are high)
5. A heavier duty CMS, like Drupal  (but only if you had BIG clients, like College, Bd of Ed etc) - since this takes more time and is complex for client too.

You might choose to specialize in only a few Open Source technologies.


Web development skills demand a knowledge of CMS now a days.

Case study:  NoteHall.com - recall from the SHARKS TANK

The BIG Questions

How much would it cost you to build a
http://notehall.com

Mr. M. would estimate

1. One week, couple programmers, one designer
2. Then one month to test

Could be done with little investment if you had skills and passion - or say $1000 if you needed a lot of programming help.


Would you agree?

The VALUE on the Internet is no longer in the technology or software?

It is about creativity, marketing, open source, ideas and something called "critical mass"


Recall from last year
http://www.jaiku.com/
What is that
See:
http://code.google.com/p/jaikuengine/

So.... The "Value" of twitter just can't be in the software?

by Michael Arrington on January 24, 2009
Twitter, which just recently turned down a half billion dollar acquisition offer from Facebook

A unusual world you guys will be working in? - The "Bits" economy?





So... where do you think the value lies in the "Bits" economy?



Are they using a FREE concept?
http://www.notehall.com/student/register



What technology are they using?

Mr. M. thinks it is a framework (Open Source) because of the short URL's and how frameworks work.


Who built their site?

jQuery? - check out the source


From their Home page:
Intrigo is an (open source) web application house. Our development philosophy is simple: maximum transparency throughout short, well focused, development iterations.


This is curious?

What do they mean by "from scratch" in their home page?

"We precisely engineer web applications from scratch to our client’s exact needs. While we’re experts in PHP + Zend and MySQL, "

Mr. M. thinks this is the NEW definition of "from scratch" - no way they wrote jQuery from scratch etc.


OK... OK.. but surely EXPERTS in PHP/mySQL would write their own company Blog from "scratch" wouldn't they?
ANSWER:
http://intrigo.com/blog/

Q:
Why wouldn't they?

A:
NP.



http://intrigo.com/process
"Gone are the days of huge chunks of cash followed by months of intangible development. "


From their page:
Technologies used: PHP + Zend Framework, MySQL, Authorize.net

eCommerce tip:

You likely want to sub out your ecommerce needs to companies like http://authorize.net - Mr. M. could tell you more if you wish.

The company that designed notehall.com was in the same city as the owners? 

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Movie of the Week

This week's movie: (the movies above) - You saw this last year. 3 minutes Why do people succeed? Is it because they're smart? Or are they just lucky? Neither. Analyst Richard St. John condenses years of interviews into an unmissable 3-minute slideshow on the real secrets of success. http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_st_john_s_8_secrets_of_success.html

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Lab

Movie of the Week

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Lab

Highlights

1. SIMPLIFY Lecture compared to other years
   
2. Earn 3/5 TODAY
   

ANNOUNCEMENT:

THE COLLEGE has agreed to move our Lecture Room - just down the hall to Rm 267

Please adjust your schedules

Thanks  MrM

Mr. M. forgot Lecture Topics

- review Week #01 - quick review
- Course outline,
- any other topics
- Mr. M. has requested a better room for lecture

Lab Topic: UPGRADE YOUR MARK from last week (Sketchup 3/5 -> more

Mr. M. has a sheet... show him before you go... he will record on BB TODAY

Lab Topic: REVIEW - the BASICS of Sound - Audacity

First, because learning is a slow process for nearly everyone, and it takes 3 times to really learn something..

let's review some basics of sound using the Open Source Software

Audacity.

If you have forgotten some of this, here is your chance to record it in a What I learned Documents.

Let's have a good lab!

Please be serious..

If you don't know, or recall the basics just leave it blank or say so..

Last year, many thought it was a joke... that they didn't know..

MrM does like to kid around too.. but not about this..

and Mr. M. said to whole class:

When "employment" is at stake... never be proud that y d k anyt

Let's avoid any issues this year.

Do this survey...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dC1LeWdBZDRNQ1NJNVhzVkZ0Z1o4WGc6MA#gid=0

Mr. M. - the link is in the comments at the top of the Google Form  2012 - do a tiny url to it

Lab Topic: Sound Sing-a-long

Mr. M. will show you SECRET LINK to the Lab work today

MrM it is 

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