update the websites?

Question:

comment about INLS261_001: Can we still edit our websites? 

 Response:
Yes, but make sure you tell me to take another look at it after you have completed the changes.

Free web hosting!

I was about to pay for web hosting when I found http://www.000webhost.com/, which offers free hosting! I was sure there would be a catch, but I signed up anyway. I've been using it for about a week and it's been great so far. Really easy to get set up and literally free. I bought my domain name at godaddy.com and set it up with that. It doesn't come with a ton of extras but it does come with 5 email accounts, so it's perfect for a personal portfolio type of website.

Crediting images

Question:

I have a question concerning proper citation on pictures and sources on powerpoint. I would like to know the best practices in general as no one seems to place full citations in the slides themselves.

Response:
The norm I usually recommend is this:

• If it is important to show the viewer the source of the image, put it on the screen
• If it is not important to show the source, put the source in the slide notes pane
• If you think you might want to show the viewer the source in the course of your presentation, hyperlink the image object to the source so you can pull it us as needed.

Turning in task 06

You will note that task 06 is expected to be like all the other tasks. You are to complete the task, then store it in your web space so I can download it from there.

When you or your team has completed the task, you or one member of a team will store it in a single password protected directory. Each of the members of the team will place a hyperlink to it on their respective web sites (the individual storing it will have a relative link to it, the others will have absolute links to the finished task). When it's ready for me to download and grade, send me a note telling me to retrieve it from your websites.  

Past experience, however,  tells us that some of you all may have difficulty making this happen. If, for whatever reason, you cannot upload and store your completed task 06 in your web space, you may deliver it to me in person in my office in Manning 200 at the time your exam was scheduled (check the syllabus if you are unsure about the due date and time).  I'll make a copy of your work and transfer it to my office computer for review.

However, the best alternative remains being able to package the presentation and to place it in your web space for me to download.

South Korea's "Game Shutdown Law" Takes Effect

As an international student from South Korea, I would like to talk about a article from South Korea.

Nowadays, Korean gamers,whether it is PC or console gaming,got angry with Game Shutdown law by the Korean Govenmment.

The new law prevent children playing games because playing games till late at night affect their studyng and for obvious reasons,it has had a bad effect on their performance in school.

I found one article from a US website, Gamasutra,
This Game Shutdown Law has never existed in other countries.


As of this week, children aged under 16 in South Korea are barred from playing online games between midnight and 6:00 am.

South Korea's government has long been worried about the prevalence of online gaming addiction in its tech-savvy country. Fearing the effects that high levels of addiction could have on its future (specifically, everyone failing school), the government passed a Shutdown Law in April this year which would ban all gamers aged under 16 from playing online games between midnight and 6:00 am. Earlier this week, the law went into effect.


The idea behind this law is that it'll push teenagers towards spending the late night sleeping rather than gaming, meaning that the government thinks twilight gaming poses so great a threat that parental control of power cables and ethernet wires isn't enough of a deterrent. While this law is offensive to the civil liberties of children, it is true that this group need sleep more than most; trying to judge whose responsibility the protection of that sleep-time is invokes a whole heap of ideological questions to which everyone will have a different answer. For now, though, the South Korean government's opinion is crystal clear.


Source: Gamasutra

Youtube leanback

Youtube leanback is an application that allows you to watch high definition videos in full screen as soon as you launch it. It makes watching videos on youtube much more convenient and you can navigate the menu by just using your arrow keys. Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/leanback.

CarrierIQ

Carrier IQ comes pre-loaded on many smartphones from AT&T and T-Mobile, and it's very difficult to disable it. This program allegedly is only for improving performance, but actually records clicks, saves searches, saves text message contents, and tracks phone calls and location information without user consent. It's more than a little scary, and it's been coming pre-loaded on phones for quite some time now.