Learning Remix http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/learningremix/ A compilation of participant contributions en Copyright 2006 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Creating Your First Google Maps Mashup Here is an article on "Creating Your First Google Maps Mashup", it's late to know but never hurts to know it right !

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=679546&rl=1

]]> http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/kgangapp/2006/12/creating_your_first_google_maps_mashup.shtml http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/kgangapp/2006/12/creating_your_first_google_maps_mashup.shtml creating first google maps mashup your Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:36:47 -0500 Agile vs. Waterfall Waterfall development attempts to divide the work of software development into phases, often with heavy paper deliverables, difficult integration efforts, and a desire to “lock down” or “freeze” requirements early in the schedule. It is not uncommon to see cycles of a year or more before ideas can be turned into working software. In contrast, agile development practices attempt to dramatically increase the throughput of business value, maximizing client ROI through the rapid release of usable functionality while providing the ability to adapt to changing requirements.

See the comparisons here...

Agile vs. Waterfall

Another blog post ...

Agile Methods vs. the Waterfall Method

 

]]> http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/kgangapp/2006/12/agile_vs_waterfall.shtml http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/kgangapp/2006/12/agile_vs_waterfall.shtml agile vs waterfall Sun, 17 Dec 2006 10:43:58 -0500 A thank you note Dear all,

I am not very happy to say that this is my last blog because I check our learningremix.net as frequently as I check my e-mail. I am sure you all must be feeling the same.

I would like to thank Professor Gibson for his innovative ideas like using blogs and all my team members for making our project a real sucess. I thank eventmaps team and everybody else who contributed to our project by their valuable reviews.

Congrats to everybody who completed IS 696 and good luck for your future endeavors.

Miss you,
Raji.]]> http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/rkanduri/2006/12/a_thank_you_note.shtml http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/rkanduri/2006/12/a_thank_you_note.shtml is696 project sucess thankyou Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:13:33 -0500 A thank you note Dear all,

I am not very happy to say that this is my last blog because I check our learningremix.net as frequently as I check my e-mail. I am sure you all must be feeling the same.

I would like to thank Professor Gibson for creating this innovative idea of blogging and all my team members for making our project a real sucess. I thank eventmaps team and everybody else who contributed to our project by their valuable reviews.

Congrats to everybody who completed IS 696 and good luck for your future endeavors.

Miss you,
Raji.]]> http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/rkanduri/2006/12/a_thank_you_note_1.shtml http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/rkanduri/2006/12/a_thank_you_note_1.shtml is696 project sucess thankyou Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:13:33 -0500 Agile VS SDLC thought I will dig a little deeper into the question professor Bud asked us yesterday-
  1. Agile vs SDLC
    1. Is "Agile" just another trend that is slowly turning into a more accepted and practiced methodology?
    2. Is this the beginning of the end for "Formal" Methodologies?
    3. When would you use Agile or Formal Methodologies?
    4. What about "hybrid" culture where Agile and Formal mix together rather than going the full on extreme path of "one or the other"?
To learn the answers for the above questions, click here.

]]> http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/rkanduri/2006/12/agile_vs_sdlc.shtml http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/rkanduri/2006/12/agile_vs_sdlc.shtml agile educationchuser sdlc Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:02:11 -0500 Note from my end… Dear Friends
First of all I would like to thank everybody for making this IS-696 project a big success. I would like to thank other project group members, for sharing info and for providing reviews. Thank you Dr. Bud for all your inputs, feedbacks, guidance and encouragement, and for teaching us the state of the art new concepts and for introducing us to industry buzz words like Ajax, Web 2.0 technologies, Agile methodologies and introducing us to the blogging network.
 
Thanks to all my friends and special thanks to my dear mother and husband who have been constantly supporting me through out my graduate program. And also don’t want to miss thanking all Professors at EMU who have been very encouraging and supportive in teaching basics and expertise as well. All my learning’s at EMU has helped shaping me as an individual and also for my career.
 
Today completing this project and course work at EMU, I am walking away with pride, sense of accomplishment and with a BIG SMILE  ....!!!
 
Hearty Congratulations for those who are Graduating !! Good Luck with your career !!  
 
Best Wishes !!
Kokila
]]> http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/kgangapp/2006/12/note_from_my_end.shtml http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/kgangapp/2006/12/note_from_my_end.shtml end from my note Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:12:21 -0500 Learningremix.net Blog Synthesis Hi All,
Here is a synthesis of learningremix.net blog:
Why Blog ?
 - Web Log (blog) buzz  word
 - Blogs are easy and fast web publishing tool
 - Blogs are an easy & effective way for teams to collaborate or manage their projects, even across geographically dispersed teams.
 - Use blogs as a tool for executive leadership to share news to entire teams.
 - Blog content integrates with existing content management systems or portal applications seamlessly.
 - Blogs provide a permanent record of all communications, freeing the information that's trapped in email today.
We as novice to this blog world at the beginning of this term, started slowly but geared up rapidly to this blogging network. Now at the end of the course, i feel i am missing something if i don't take a peek into the blog posts every now and then whenever i get a chance !
One undergraduate team IS-449 and one graduate team IS-696 used the learningremix.net blog network very effectively through out the fall 2006 term.
Technorati helped us with what's happening on the World Live Web. With Sitemeter anywhere in the world could see and contribute to the topics of discussion. Adding widgets was helpful and fun.
 
Few project groups used the blogs for discussing about their project status, concerns, notes summary, reviews, feedback, interactions, cross team sharing, group communications, track project progress. Groups used it as a professional, integrated network for peer networking and reviews.
total # of bloggers = 18
total # of posts = 1041 (as of 13th Dec 12:00 am)
Various interesting topics ranging from Ajax, Web 2.0, HTML, XML, DOM, JavaScript to sharing info about graduation, thanksgiving were all posted. I find it easier to use blogs compared to keeping track of emails for project discussions.
The idea of using threaded comments to blog posts to promote class interaction is very useful and open interactions help to keep tab of the project happenings.
 
I hope all of you enjoy blogging the same way i do !!
]]> http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/kgangapp/2006/12/learningremixnet_blog_synthesis.shtml http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/kgangapp/2006/12/learningremixnet_blog_synthesis.shtml blog learningremixnet synthesis Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:42:22 -0500 eventmaps prototype3 groupproject Hi All,

Please find the slides and project link for EventMaps prototype -III.

Thankyou all for your reviews and feedback.

Best Wishes !

]]> http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/kgangapp/2006/12/eventmaps_prototype3_groupproj.shtml http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/kgangapp/2006/12/eventmaps_prototype3_groupproj.shtml eventmaps groupproject prototype3 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:09:48 -0500 Recommendations: Education ChUser Unlike EducationChUser which is a school project and is in its initial development stage, the educationsearch.net is a fully functional mashup. EducationSearch.net is a search tool which enables you to search by: Location, Career, and Industry/Salary. It also provides features like personalized searches. The personalized searches can be saved for future references. I think it would be premature to compare the Education ChUser mashup with the Education Search.net.     I think Education Chuser has some great features. Features like Capability to Review a university, providing educational news feeds, and search for apartments feature near to the schools.  This comparison is made to simply identify the improvements that we shall be able to do to the Education ChUser over the ongoing iterations if there are any, I am presenting the following analysis of findings about Education Select.
 
1)      The first one being the Education Search Network covers the Universities or schools located thru out the U.S. Where as Education ChUser is limited geographically to four states i.e., Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois.
2)      The Education Search covers several features like search by location, search by career, Search by Region, Reverse Search. With the Reverse search feature you are able to locate your choice of school or University by providing criteria like which area of career you are pursuing, by salary and also by providing Zip code. When you enter your criteria, a list of majors is displayed and you will choose the major and it provides you with the list of schools associated with the major.
3)      It also provides the student the ability to search by University Name. Apart that, it has a list of schools in alphabetical order. 
4)      The Main advantage of using this site being, Registering to the site to have your own personal account where you can save all the search results. This is an added advantage to a site where you can evaluate your choices at a later time through out the application process and admission process.
5)      The site also has a forum to help the prospective students. The students can post questions to get related information from other members.
6)      The site has published several articles for different areas of students to assist them in their education goals pursuit. Starting from preparation to various aptitude tests until you get admitted to a school, the articles give valuable information and guide the prospective students appropriately.
The evaluation of Education Search site proves that there are no restrictions for improving the site. I am presenting these recommendations on behalf of Education ChUser team, after carefully analyzing the features, Similarities and distinctions between the two sites.
 
1)      Covering all schools spread thru out different countries, which makes your site a global site.
2)      The important feature that can be added to the Education ChUser site is the creation of a personal account to store the search information, by registering with the site. 
3)      The site should provide a feature where the student can enter his academic information into his personal account. The site should also provide a feature where the student shall be able to integrate his academic information along with the School search, to filter the schools that best fits his academic qualification. By doing this, the student would be able to identify specific schools that fit his criteria and he can prepare accordingly.
4)      The Education ChUser site should be able to provide Search criteria by different means, for instance by providing the location, university name, by providing major or by choosing from a list of schools in alphabetical order.
5)      The Powerful way to attract relevant crowd to the site, is by providing the information which helps them at different stages of their educational pursuit, along with other helpful information like providing information pertaining to their boarding and lodging facilities or by providing information about apartments that are near to schools.
 6)   Last but not least, I want to mention the usability of the site and also about the layout.  The site should be userfriendly and with all the features easily accessible with appropirate layout in an organized manner.  Without these it is difficult to convince the user and make him come back. 
These are some of the recommendations that I presume will give the Education ChUser the capability to compete against any other educational related mash up sites.
]]> http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/rnukavara/2006/12/recommendations_education_chus.shtml http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/rnukavara/2006/12/recommendations_education_chus.shtml comparison educationchuser groupproject recommendations Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:05:07 -0500 Re: EducationChUser: ? Raji:

This is not a problem at all.

I was just informing the group that I no longer have the access required to make any updates to the presentation at this point.

]]> http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/enapier/2006/12/re_educationchuser.shtml http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/enapier/2006/12/re_educationchuser.shtml educationchuser Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:53:57 -0500 Re: Education ChUser : Prototype3 presentation Raji:

I have made the changes you requested; this is noted here.

Just let me know if there is anything else you all need.

]]> http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/enapier/2006/12/re.shtml http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/enapier/2006/12/re.shtml educationchuser Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:50:59 -0500 Education Chuser : ? Eric,

It seems to me, you have covered pretty much all the topics we need to cover.   Any one who did last minute changes or updates,  will blog the posts.

 

]]> http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/rnukavara/2006/12/education_chuser_1.shtml http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/rnukavara/2006/12/education_chuser_1.shtml educationchuser groupproject iteration3 presentation Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:39:25 -0500 Education ChUser : Prototype3 presentation
The presentation looks fine to me. I think we covered all the aspects that our professor asked for. I see that  my blog posts which address the "issues addressed" and "what would we do for Iteration IV" are also included into the presentation.

You might have already thought about this but just wanted to mention. Please rename the Final Presentation blog to EducationChUser : Prototype3 Presentation and Website and also give the appropriate tags mentioned in one of the Bud's blogs.
]]> http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/rkanduri/2006/12/education_chuser_prototype3_pr_2.shtml http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/rkanduri/2006/12/education_chuser_prototype3_pr_2.shtml educationchuser presentation prototype3 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:09:07 -0500 EducationChUser: ?
No problem ! I will make changes if there are any and upload them as soon as possible.

I wouldn't be surprised that no body responded because it looks like you uploaded the slides in the middle of the class yesterday and we all do not have access to our computers untill we get home which, in my case, was at 11:30 pm.

]]> http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/rkanduri/2006/12/educationchuser.shtml http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/rkanduri/2006/12/educationchuser.shtml educationchuser Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:53:23 -0500 ? Group:

I have not heard from any of you concerning our presentation (which can be found here).

I am unfortunately at work and do not have access to upload any files (proxy issues), so any changes you all would like to make will have to be uploaded to another server account.

]]> http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/enapier/2006/12/post.shtml http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/enapier/2006/12/post.shtml educationchuser Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:21:08 -0500