reports, catch-up, questions.

1. SEO - discussion facilitated by Stephen W. 3:40-4:20

2. Interaction design - discussion facilitated by Zheng. 4:30-5:10

3. Guest Adrian Chan from Gravity 7 on interaction design. 5:15 - 6

To Do for Day 12:

- Finish SM wiki (both tools and research articles/reports)
- Finish draft 1 of your final project (at least 65-70% of your final project)
- Start… Continue

catch-up, final project updates, reports

1. Discuss social media effects on attention, working memory, brain, intelligence.

2. How does attention work?
(self-exploration; neuro-cognitive explanation)

3. Can we have the best of both worlds? Attention training 101.

4. Guest Steve Lubetkin on podcasting

To Do for Day 11:

Zheng: Interaction Design

Stephen: SEO

Send readings to class. Present key points/issues related to your topic.

All:
- do the readings Zheng and Stephen send… Continue

Readings - please focus on the articles, read them word for word. It's OK if this time you only skim the books.

Continue your blogging, twittering, and working on the wiki.

This is the page with information about getting approval to conduct research with human subjects.

Most survey and focus group research qualifies as exempt. You still need to submit the forms and required appendices (instrument, recruitment literature, and consent form) and it will take at least a couple of weeks to get approval.

So, if you plan to get IRB approval for this semester’s re… Continue

I came across an article in the October issue of Wired on a new generation of search engines that give the user real-time information to events that are happening in the world. The article begins by talking about the death of Michael Jackson; on June 25, the day of his death, millions of people flooded Google News for the latest information about what happened. Clive Thompson, the author of this article, feels that this represents a fundamental principal of how the web is changing, and how a new… Continue