Wikipedia Edit

Made another edit to the Wüsthof site. This time I added that they are the official partner of the German's Chef Association, that they make a line for the culinary college Le Cordon Bleu, and also how they distribute their products.

Last TCP Edit

Today I made my last edit to The Children's Place Wikipedia entry. I added a couple of things about competition and how the company anticipates to remain competitive as of their 2005 annual report. Unfortunately some of the information I would like to put in is not as up-to-date as I'd like, as the company was late to file for 2006. All-in-all, happy with the turn out but I'll evaluate that as a whole in a later entry.

Enjoy the beautiful weather! (finally)

Also, I just realized my entry is the #15 search return on Google for The Children's Place. Pretty cool!

Wüsthof Dreizackwerk

I just did a new Wikipedia blog, this time on a company I researched for a class last year. Wüsthof Dreizackwerk is a producer of high-quality knives for professional and household use. I added some information about how the knives are made, what their major competitors are, and who the current owner of the company is.

ATL

The title has nothing to do with this post, but rather the fact that I am posting from ATL, Ga! I am currently here for a 3rd step interview. I do have some down time though, so I figured it would be a good time to devote to 477.

I just finished reading a post on Slashdot entitled 'Research points the finger at PowerPoint'. Basically the article suggests that it is more difficult to process information if it given to you in the written and spoken form at the same time. While it is effective to speak to a diagram or chart because that exhibit displays something you cannot explain in words, it is not effective to both hear and see the same words. Essentially there are limits on the individual's brain in processing and retaining information in your short-term memory.

One's working memory can only handle about two to three tasks at once. Past this point, mental tasks are lost and forgotten. In our own daily lives, I think, we can see the decline of effectiveness for PowerPoint as we sit in class struggling to read, hear, and write simultaneously. Throw in some problem-solving, and we have already exceeded the limit that provides for an atmosphere of learning and development. I, for one, love PowerPoint and it's possible death alarms me. In keeping PP as a useful business and classroom tool, we should be well-advised to use it when it is needed, and to refrain from doing so when it is not. Charts, pictures, figures, etc. may sit on the screen, but save what you want to say word-for-word for your index cards.

Also don't forget to check out the site for Stiuqxela.

Stiuqxela

I published my post about stiuqxela in haste the other day before class, but I should probably explain what the term stiuqxela refers to. Stiuqxela is a fictional term that we devised in class that links to the site of the Green Bay Packers. It is part of our experiment for our 477 class, as we will be having a contest for the #1 site for stiuqxela.

Wikipedia Edit

Yea, it's me again. Third time today. Must get some things out of the way since I'll be out of town later in the week for interviews. Yay real life?

Anywho, I just finished another Wikipedia edit. This time I did some more work on my BNL article. I added some things such as how the lab is funded, how it contributes to education, and how it strives to be dedicated to the community in which it lives. I also noted that it is the 5th largest high-tech employer on Long Island. I think my next edit will focus on compartmentalizing what other people have written into more distinguishable subheadings.

Midterm Assessment

I must admit, I was a bit taken aback by the midterm exam before break. I was not much of a fan of all those ‘except’ questions and many of the questions shocked me. I feel like some key questions were left out that I really expected to be, and thought should be, there.

These, in particular, were questions:

• about The Long Tail
  
• relating more directly to the W3C
  
• about the concept the last mile
  
• about the concept of cybersquatting
  
• about the internet and how it affected certain businesses (travel, retail, etc.)
  
• about the traditional communication model in contrast to the www communication model
  
• more directly taken from the books and what we had discussed about them in class

All-in-all, I wound up doing pretty well, but that was in largely due to the fact that I’ve been keeping this blog up-to-date. We’ll see how my actual performance fairs for the next test.

Experiment

stiuqxela