Assessment #1, Checklist

Assessment #1 will be held WEEK 6 during your workshops on Thursday.
The total culmination of work/posting/picture uploading is what will be marked.

Attendance for the assessment is compulsory, so by not being present and not supplying the mentioned details to ME a zero (0) mark will be awarded.



How the assessment will work:

50 marks will be awarded as per the mpi104 checklist below, whilst another 50 marks will be awarded for “interestingness”. This means that if you have completed all the task in the checklist you will pass. However if you go beyond this, both aesthetically and through research on your blog posts, your mark will be escalated to reflect this.


For all of the assessments you will have to write a post on your blog before class on the day of your assessment of between 250 – 500 words to summarise what you have done in the subject by that time.


This blog post should detail:

Blogger
• The number of posts on your blog, and some links to your more interesting posts
• The work you have done on the aesthetic look of your blog (templates, colour, fonts)
• Comments that you have made to other blogs – with links to the more interesting comments
• Tags that you have used
• Other work that you have done in Blogger
• link to your blogger

Del.icio.us
• The number of bookmarked web pages
• Why these are of interest to you
• Links to your favourite 3 web pages
• link to your Delicious profile

Flickr
• The number of uploaded images
• A link to your 3 favourite images
• link to your Flickr stream (you tab)

thoughts
•  Any specific thoughts on the subject so far.

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You need to email ME the following to be assessed:


• Your Blog URL

• Your del.icio.us URL

• Your flickr photostream URL

• a link to your 250-500 word post.



(Please email ME at the following email, with, your name and MPI104 number as the subject:
You will need to email ME (with "Your Name MPI104_2012" as the subject) .)


example: Your name MPI104 2012

TO

mattbarron.mpi104@gmail.com



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READ AND ADHERE TO THE CHECKLIST TO ENSURE A PASSING GRADE!!!!!

CHECKLIST
Assessment #1

Google
o User has subscribed to a Google Calender

Blogger
o User has links in side bar
o User has more than the minimum posts (6)
o User has links in posts (minimum 3)
o User has updated profile
o User has uploaded picture for profile
o User has experimented with Templates
o User has experimented with Fonts
o User has experimented with Colours
o User has at least 2 pictures in a post
o User has a Flickr post in their blog
o User has a delicious post on their blog
o Posts have titles
o Blog has a description
o User has added at least 1 other page element
o User has commented on at least 2 other peoples posts

Flickr
o User has uploaded pictures (minimum 6)
o User has progressively uploaded more pictures
o Most pictures have titles
o Most pictures have descriptions
o User has a used tags, including MPI104_2012
o User has created a set
o User has joined a Group
o User has added some favorites
o User has commented on at least one other person’s pictures
o User has uploaded an original image OR acknowledged the source if not original

Del.icio.us
o User has saved MPI104 Links (minimum 4)

o User has Linked MasterBlog
o User has Linked another class members blog
o User has Linked their own Blog homepage
o User has Linked their own Flickr PhotoStream

o User has saved Personal Links  (minimum 4)
o User has progressively saved more Links (over at least 3 different days)
o Most Links have descriptions
o Most Links have tags
o Most Links include the MPI104_2012 tag


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Summing up!!
students must:

1 - write a 250-500 word blog post (on your own blog)

2 - make sure you have completed the comprehensive CHECKLIST

3 - email me at mattbarron.mpi104@gmail.com a working link to:
                          - your assessment #1 blog post
                          - your blog
                          - your flickr
                          - your delicious
             (please make this all one email)


 4 - MOST IMPORTANTLY

you must make a comment on the Assessment#1 page of the master blog
     and it should read exactly like this:




Matt Barron

gmail - mattbarron.mpi104@gmail.com
flickr - www.flickr/mattbarron
"link"
Delicious - "etc etc"
"link"
Blogger - "etc etc"
"link"


This is a link to my Assessment #1 blog post
"link"

Week 5 - Delicious

What is Delicious?

Delicious is the place to collect and showcase your passions from across the web. Save what you like - videos, pictures, tweets, blog posts, or articles - on topics you enjoy and search through others’ collections of links to discover cool stuff!

To get started, drop the Delicious bookmarklet in your browser bar and use it to add links to your account.

The Company

Originally founded in 2003 as a social bookmarking service, Delicious was acquired from Yahoo! in early 2011 by AVOS, a company helmed by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. The site was rebuilt from the ground up and re-launched in fall 2011 with a new focus on curation and discovery.

Delicious is headquartered in a cozy San Mateo, California office within convenient reach of some of the Bay Area’s tastiest ramen.

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THIS WEEKS TASK

1- Sign up for a Delicious account at www.delicious.com
                                 -Username:  yourname           (all one word)
                                 -Password: what ever you wish
                                 -Email: (your gmail account)  yourname.mpi104@gmail.com

                                                                        [JOIN]


2- goto  Profile > Settings
                                  - Ad Profile Pic
                                  - choose file   (crop photo once loaded)
                                  - fill in bio

3- Add link to the MasterBlog :  mpi104-2012s2.blogspot.com.au

4- Add a link to your  - flickr photostream
                                 - personal blog

5- Create a New bundle, group tags together applicable to MPI104, call this MPI104 Links.

once done
6- Create a post on your blogspot about Delicious and ts uses and functions

7- After you have created your blog post (about Delicious) with an image, create a link of your actual post, as a comment to this post on the master blog.

remember: to link from a comment, click your comment Date and it will open up your comment on a separate page, you can then copy the URL from the Address bar in your browser.

create the 'link text' under this naming convention: name, Delicious post. eg: Matt Barron, Delicious post.

Week 4 - flickr

THIS WEEKS TASK

1- Sign up for a flickr account at  www.flickr.com
                  - sign in with your gmail account  (click the google button in sign up)
           for example:  yourname.mpi104@gmail.com

2-  Screen name: your name MPI104

3- Work through the getting started numbers on initial flickr homepage
              1- Personalize
                           - create buddy icon
                           - choose custom flickr URL
                           - personalize your profile
             
              2- Upload your first photo

              3- Find your friends on flickr
                         - click the flickr icon, search for: matt barron mpi104   (add as a contact)

 4- Create a new post on your blog. Include at least one working link to your flickr images – something which relates to your post.

In flickr click and view your image then in the "share" menu, copy the html code and paste it in your post

After you have created your blog post (about flickr) with an image off your flickr, create a link of your actual post, as a comment to this post on the master blog.

remember to link from a comment, click your comment Date and it will open up your comment on a separate page, you can then copy the URL from the Address bar in your browser.

create the 'link text' under this naming convention: name, flickr post. eg: Matt Barron, flickr post

Flickr: what is it?

Flickr (stylized as flickr)

is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005.

In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media.

Yahoo reported in June 2011 that Flickr had a total of 51 million registered members and 80 million unique visitors.

In August 2011 the site reported that it was hosting more than 6 billion images and this number continues to grow steadily according to reporting sources.

Photos and videos can be accessed from Flickr without the need to register an account but an account must be made in order to upload content onto the website.

Registering an account also allows users to create a profile page containing photos and videos that the user has uploaded and also grants the ability to add another Flickr user as a contact.

For mobile users, Flickr has an official app for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 7 operating systems.






On their page.

About Flickr

Flickr - almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world - has two main goals:

1. We want to help people make their photos available to the people who matter to them.

Maybe they want to keep a blog of moments captured on their cameraphone, or maybe they want to show off their best pictures or video to the whole world in a bid for web celebrity. Or maybe they want to securely and privately share photos of their kids with their family across the country. Flickr makes all these things possible and more!

To do this, we want to get photos and video into and out of the system in as many ways as we can: from the web, from mobile devices, from the users' home computers and from whatever software they are using to manage their content. And we want to be able to push them out in as many ways as possible: on the Flickr website, in RSS feeds, by email, by posting to outside blogs or ways we haven't thought of yet. What else are we going to use those smart refrigerators for?

2. We want to enable new ways of organizing photos and video.

Once you make the switch to digital, it is all too easy to get overwhelmed with the sheer number of photos you take or videos you shoot with that itchy trigger finger. Albums, the principal way people go about organizing things today, are great -- until you get to 20 or 30 or 50 of them. They worked in the days of getting rolls of film developed, but the "album" metaphor is in desperate need of a Florida condo and full retirement.

Part of the solution is to make the process of organizing photos or videos collaborative. In Flickr, you can give your friends, family, and other contacts permission to organize your stuff - not just to add comments, but also notes and tags. People like to ooh and ahh, laugh and cry, make wisecracks when sharing photos and videos. Why not give them the ability to do this when they look at them over the internet? And as all this info accretes as metadata, you can find things so much easier later on, since all this info is also searchable.

Flickr continues to evolve in myriad ways, all of which are designed to make it easier and better. Check out theFlickr Blog to stay apprised of the latest developments. The fact that you've read to the end of this entire document and are hanging out at the bottom of this page with nothing but this silly text to keep you company is proof of a deep and abiding interest on your part. What are you waiting for? Sign up now!

FLICKR a History

Flickr was launched in February 2004 by Ludicorp, a Vancouver-based company founded by Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake.

The service emerged out of tools originally created for Ludicorp's Game Neverending, a web-based massively multiplayer online game.

Flickr proved a more feasible project, and ultimately Game Neverending was shelved; however, Butterfield has since launched an online game of similar intent.


Early versions of Flickr focused on a multiuser chat room called FlickrLive with real-time photo exchange capabilities.

The successive evolutions focused more on the uploading and filing backend for individual users and the chat room was buried in the site map.

It was eventually dropped as Flickr's backend systems evolved away from the Game Neverending's codebase.

Some of the key features of Flickr not initially present were tags, marking photos as favorites, group photo pools and interestingness, for which a patent is pending.

Yahoo! acquired Ludicorp and Flickr in March 2005. The reported acquisition cost was $35 million. During the week of June 26 – July 2, 2005, all content was migrated from servers in Canada to servers in the United States, resulting in all data becoming subject to United States federal law.
On May 16, 2006, Flickr updated its services from beta to "gamma", along with a design and structural overhaul.

According to the site's FAQ, the term "gamma", rarely used in software development, is intended to be tongue-in-cheek to indicate that the service is always being tested by its users, and is in a state of perpetual improvement.  A further connotation, more specific to photography and the display of images, is that of gamma correction.

The current service is considered a stable release.

In December 2006, upload limits on free accounts were increased to 100 MB a month (from 20 MB) and were removed from Pro Accounts, permitting unlimited uploads for holders of these accounts (originally a 2 GB per month limit).

In January 2007, Flickr announced that "Old Skool" members—those who had joined before the Yahoo acquisition—would be required to associate their account with a Yahoo ID by March 15 to continue using the service.

 This move was criticized by some users.

On April 9, 2008, Flickr began allowing paid subscribers to upload videos, limited to 90 seconds in length and 150 MB in size.

On March 2, 2009, Flickr added the facility to upload and view HD videos, and began allowing free users to upload normal-resolution video. At the same time, the set limit for free accounts was lifted.