Dark side and Wild Card classes

Remember that this Thursday you’re presenting on a topic related to the dark side of the social internet.

Let’s tentatively plan to present remotely (but don’t get out of town yet).

Please use comments to this post to propose & discuss ideas for the Wild Card class on Dec. 1. It is your class, I am open to all ideas.

TECH 621 next steps

Thank you all for the good work you did trying to get your drafts as complete as possible. Now you get to take a brief TECH 621 breather while I provide feedback on your drafts.

But, I want you to start thinking ahead and be prepared for the next steps, which are:

1. Final project presentation, next week, April 26 – please upload your slides on BB, I’d like to share them with Radian 6 partners.
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2. Final project deadline, exam week, May 3 – that’s when your final-final paper will be due. Look out for another blog post with details.
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3. Blog & social media immersion assessment – make your blog ready. Make sure you have clear tags and categories for your comments and article analyses. I will be grading social media immersion after class next week (after April 26).

Questions? Let me know in the comments below.

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Dr. V

R6 date range

Some students have pointed out that they only have access to the past 30 days of data from R6, not 30 days since the beginning of the semester.

For most of you, this may be more than enough.

But before you contact @vargasl to let her know that you need longer access, please check the following:

Make sure you set up your widgets by specifying a date range, and not by using real-time monitoring. In my account, when I specify a date range, I can go back in time much further than when I use real-time monitoring.

So, check that first. You should be able to go as far back as January of 2011. But, if January and February are greyed out, then you know for sure your account is limited to 30 days. In this case, you may contact @vargasl. She will need your Purdue email to find your account, and she will be able to set access to 30 days since the day the account was set up back in February.

Plan for remaining 5 weeks of class

Following class discussion, here is the plan for the remaining 5 weeks of class:

1. April 5 – Internet culture. Please figure out the order and length of presentations, so that class flows well. Discuss on Jack’s blog. Presentations will be graded out of 4 points. Details below.
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2. April 12 – The Dark Side. This will be another crowd-sourced class. Use this Google Doc to plan it. Graded out of 3 points.
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3. April 19 – Wild cards. We’ll discuss interesting readings that didn’t fit in anywhere else in the class. Have a suggestion? Email it to me. The final project draft is due then.
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4. April 26 – Final project presentations. Graded out of 2 points, coming out of your final project points. Details in a separate post about your final project.

Grading criteria for presentations:

• Presentation is informative and well-informed. It is based on research and sources (even if not scholarly), not purely on personal opinion and personal observation. It mentions and cites sources appropriately.
• Presentation is thought-provoking. It raises questions and issues above the obvious and stimulates the audience to think about presentation topic.
• Presentation is entertaining and pleasant. The use of visual aids,  and the presentation style are smooth, pleasant, and entertaining. Let’s not bore each other to death.  Perform a bit.

Questions? Please ask Dr. V in the comments below.

Snow Storm Plan

We missed a class this week because of the bad snow storm, so we need to adjust a bit and catch up. Here is the plan for the next 2 weeks:

Feb. 8:

• Guest Eric Dietz from C&IT will talk about research problems in the emergency response space, and invite you to work on research projects in that area, using Radian 6. Make sure you know what Radian 6 is and the basics about what it does.
• We will discuss academic research. There are some fundamental definitions I’d like us to be aware of. As part of this discussion, you will also talk about your article reviews. You should have 2 article reviews completed by class time. See previous posts for more information.

Feb 15:

• We will begin class with the Radian 6 demo, which was moved from Feb 1.
• Then, we will proceed with the topics listed on the syllabus. The readings will be posted on Blackboard.

All other due dates and deadlines remain the same. If something is not working out, we will discuss in class.

Stay safe, and I will see you next week!