Ebay fraud mainly comes from .....?

Read this article to find out the main source of Ebay fraud

Xmas homework

Remember to load up the software on the CD in your textbook onto your home pc.  It is called Comersus and has a read me file and instructions to explain how to install and setup the application. 

Please read the chapter starting 140 as well. 

Deadline and arrangements

Please give in section 1 of the digital economy in the form of a pdf created from your word file(s).

To create a pdf go to file print, then choose Adobe PDF as the printer.  This will create a file that Mr H will put on his usb pen.

The deadline is the end of the lesson.

Here's a chart showing progress and performance on the digital economy project.


Please make sure that you are working as hard as possible and uploading the right work to your blogs!

Online grades spreadsheet

Here is a link to an online spreadsheet to be updated by Mr H and Miss E

You can see how you are doing and read comments.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pgf77gopxkYUDVf8w0qxDEA&gid=1

Latest marks on video and mp3s and blogs

You are getting better with updating your blogs which is excellent.  Please make sure that if you did not do the video and mp3 linking that this is done today at lunchtime.

Video and mp3s

Make sure that you show me your MP3 and video clips linked into your unit 1 eportfolio, today.

Deadlines!

For this Friday I would like you to make sure that on your blog you have work for unit 2 up to and including Types of Transactions that can be made (p132-5).  If it is already on your blog you don't need to repost it.  No excuses please, make sure your work is uploaded or detentions on Monday.

Assessment guidance for Transactional Website analysis

This is directly from the specification

To be eligible for Mark Band 3, learners must have selected a site to

investigate without any prompting and produced a comprehensive description

of the site’s design, using well-chosen illustrations. Learners must also have

fully evaluated each of the features described, as well as the effectiveness of

the site as whole, considering both strengths and weaknesses.

For full marks in this band, learners will have demonstrated that they are

discerning consumers, who can look beyond the obvious features of a

transactional website and understand what the designer is trying to achieve.

They will have commented on the ‘customer experience’ and have made

some suggestions for improvements/enhancements.

Techniques for enticing and engaging customers

Here are some interesting techniques:

Check to see if your company uses anything similar or for the same purpose, and add it to your write up.

Transactional website analysis

Hello you should be working on this section today and UPLOADING any notes to your blog!

Also upload a brief summary of what you have done in the lesson.

If this does not happen today I will be setting up detentions on Weds Lunchtime!

Your marks for the blogs

Please note that some of you are not keeping your blogs up to date!

Abi yours was last updated at the end of November.

Steph and Natasha yours were updated regularly well done.

I want to see everyone getting a green square for their next piece of work on the blogs next Monday 10/12/07. 

And next week I want to see the blogs updated everytime you have a lesson.

All it takes is a copy and paste!

Topics to cover for the transactional website

Make sure that you have work for all of these sections:

• What is eCommerce?

• Purpose & Objectives

• Structure

• Goods & Services

• Product Information

• Transaction

• Capturing Customer Information

• Authentication

• Techniques used on Customers

• Usability & Accessibility

See the exemplar for the sort of things to write and the length needed and number of screen shots.

But don't copy anything especially if you are working on Amazon as well!  I will be checking!

Using your blogs to keep a diary

All students can you make sure that you update your diary every time you do some research or work on your eportfolio.

Put notes and also any relevant information about what you have been working on on your blog.

This keeps me and Miss Edmunds up to date.  We are using the blogs to monitor your progress and check on your work.

Remember to plan out the coursework see pages 132 - 139 in the coursework.

Also check the exemplar coursework for ideas about how to structure this.

You are expected to have completed the analysis of the transactional site by Wed 19/12/07 to be given in as pdf to Mr Highmore or Miss Edmunds.

Videos - an easier way

Mr H can download relevant youtube videos for you to edit, let him know the tinyurl and we can download them next lesson.

Animation using Fireworks

Fireworks allows you to animate objects and then save As , Animated Gif to insert in a web page, this will add another type of multimedia to your project that is Animation!!

In Fireworks click on Modify, Animate, Selection and then move the object as required.  You can then Save As to Animated Gif and see the result.

This should be attempted for the information age eportfolio!

Editing audio using audacity

See the y12 folder on the network and find the Audacity Portable folder, you can copy this to your pen drive or use the version via the network.  This program allows you to open mp3 podcasts and then edit them to a shorter version for use with your eportfolio.

Please note that using audio/video in your eportfolio is regarded as essential for A grade work.

How to download a youtube video for the information age project

Go to youtube, copy the address of the video then use this site, http://www.techcrunch.com/get-youtube-movie/ 

Then open the downloaded file using VLC from http://www.videolan.org/  to check it is ok, or use Flash 8 in school.

With Flash 8 you can then export the file to a movie format for use in your eportfolio!

Not very easy but worth it in the end, as you get more marks for adding sound and video to your eportfolio.

Shift happens video

Some interesting info, you might want to use some of it in your project work

Here's an updated version

Blog Feedback

Here's some feedback on your blogs:

Natasha 10 - excellent notes

Emily 0 - please sort this out!!! you have no content on your blog!

Alex  3 - this has not been improved at all! This is not up to the standard required at AS level

Abigail 10 - excellent notes

Sam -10 excellent notes

Steph - 10 excellent notes

As you can see some students have done really well with their notes.

Some of you need to improve in order to get a good grade out of this course.

if you are not getting 8-10  for your work you are likely to get a poor grade!!

Emily and Alex please come and see me.

Natasha Dillow Feedback

Generally some good information here and quite a good style of presentation but it needs to be broken down into sub pages and linked together.  This long page of information is not the style that the examination board will be looking for.

So break it into smaller pages and link it.  There did not seem to be enough detail at the moment and some more use of articles from external sources will improve this.

Currently it is D/E as it is not the style and detail needed for AS level.

Sam Warrens Feedback

Some excellent pages, very well designed but with some issues about content and navigation.

Some sections eg cultural factors are not as well done as others.

Social factors is a bit hard to find the hyperlink, but has a good layout and style.

Measures to close the gap is a bit too brief it needs examples and more of a paragraph style of writing.

Some sections are missing so this needs to be sorted out.

Some excellent design ideas but the detail and use of external articles needs to be improved.

Currently B/C overall (but A/B for work so far)

Abigail Watling Feedback

Wow Abigail this is very very impressive!!

Some well laid out pages and some excellent use of articles and comments.

Apart from the missing section at the end this is all pretty much perfect.

Current grade B overall (for pages so far A)

Emily Courtier Feedback

Emily this has been a pleasure to see your website in progress and i am very impressed with how your website skills have improved.

You have not included the pictures when you gave in this work so I can't get the full effect, but the text so far is good.

However you have not included all the sections necessary yet so I cannot give an overall high mark.

For pages so far A/B, overall so far C/D

Alex O Toole feedback

Alex the text content is fine as a starting point but it is obvious that you have just copied and pasted the text from word to dreamweaver and that is not enough quality for AS Level.

You need to be creating separate pages that link together to link the articles and topics.

Remember to do this in future and you must put more effort even into a first draft of coursework.

Currently this is a U (ungraded)

Liam Heard feedback

Well done Liam, this is up to your usual good standards (for some of the pages, not the missing ones!!!) and you have taken on board previous comments about including more articles as evidence. 

You could probably add some more detail to your comments about the articles to improve this.

However there are about 2 sections not loading at all!!  And i can't give marks to work that is not there so.

Currently the overall mark is C/D (for pages so far A/B)

Please improve

Steph Woodward feedback

Your work is good and for a first draft is fine.  However as before we need to have more evidence of external facts and opinions eg from articles from the bbc website.

Currently it is C/B overall as it needs more detail.  Some of the navigation is tricky eg you can go to a page and then there are no hyperlinks to easily get back without using the back browser button. 

Good work so far but obviously some improvements are needed (for pages done so far B)

Homework

Work on your first draft of the digital divide coursework due in on Friday. I will check them in the lesson.

Old smart phone ad

This is an advert for an old smart telephone system

The Digital Economy

Here is the pdf with the course notes so far. http://web.mac.com/shsg/ict_resources/ict_resources/Entries/2007/11/14_THE_DIGITAL_ECONOMY_pt1_files/THE%20DIGITAL%20ECONOMY%20pt1.pdf