I must say this access project has been though. It has taken me a long time to complete this assignment. I had to take 2 extra days just to get the work done. I was unable to complete the project in the projected time due to high school work load and I had the busiest couple of weeks in my business. Which is good news, but it come with a price my school work. Anyways,
This project has thought me how to correctly use access. I have learned to create more queries, forms, and reports. I must say the easiest of the three would have to of been the forms. I enjoyed spending time doing the form; it took no time at all. The reports on the other hand, took me for a loop. I am not even sure I was able to successfully complete the project due to the reports. I thought the wizards were a much needed help through this process. I would have never been able to finish if it wasn’t for the discussion boards and the help button the Access 2007 bar. The project took me forever to import the excel file. I was using 2003 access at first and was not successful in import the data and I couldn’t figure out why. I tried and searched and got aggravated. Then finally it came to me. I had to download the 2007 office, and open every file in 2007. Success.
Finally, I am going to give my two cents on the Microsoft access. I was able to do the entire project very smoothly. I had complaints at the beginning from the reasons above. Except now after I realized my mistake I was able to more smoothly finish the project. I would one of two things to make access more efficient. I would either update the information on past office suites, or try and update all computer systems to the newer software. I know money is the issue, but this way every person will have the best and more reliable and data sufficient sources.
The project itself was great. I ran smoothly through the videos, and was able to complete most tasks without having to rewatch. The one complaint I had about the project is I would have had one other video segment just for troubleshooting. I had so many issues due to stupid little mistake's that could of been prevented. I would like to see in a clip, not long only 5-10 minutes just going through the common problems with this project. As you can see my complaint is not a critical issue, but more of a suggestion to improve the work and learning experience of the student.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Tutorial 3: Internet and Search Engine's
Internet and Search Engine's
There is one common problem every internet user faces on a daily basis. That is correctly searching the internet! Everyday millions of people log onto the internet. Google performs more than 2 billion searches worldwide everyday. That equals out to be 83.3 millions hits every hour. That does even add in website such as dogpile, yahoo, bing and so forth. Today I am going to show instruct you searching the world wide web.
There are many different ways to search the worldwide web for information. First we have “search engines”. Webpedia.com defines a search engine as “a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet)”. The search engine takes your data being searched and runs each word through a computer database. Then it has a program that sorts out each character/letter, each of these characters returns millions of results. The web application collects the results and lines up the best suited order of the words or phrase. This process sounds very complex, but seach engines are able to do this is a matter of seconds. Here are some other examples of search engines: yahoo.com, bing.com, google.com, ask.com, yebol.com, blekko.com
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| Screen shot by James Marcic Copyright 2011 |
Above I have taken a screen shot of Google. I have searched the word "Money". Here is a list of result generated just from Google. Now compare these to screen shot below of Dogpile.com.
Second, we have “meta search engine”. Wikipedia states “A meta-search engine is a search tool that sends user requests to several other search engines and/or databases and aggregates the results into a single list or displays them according to their source. This is pretty search engine type is very simple to understand. Meta search engines collects all the information from other search engines and compiles the best results from every page. This actions has its up's and down's. It has all the best results, which if you are certain of the information, you find the information very easily. The bad side is it does not give a broad search return. Meaning, it only compiles the best results and not a variety of possibilities. In this case will not help the user who is just browsing around. Some examples of Meta search engines are: profusion.com, Kartoo.com, dogpile.com, and surfwax.com.
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| Screen shot by James Marcic Copyright 2011 |
The screen shot above is dogpile.com, we are seaching the word "Money". If we compare the different results given to us. Not very many of the possible examples of the word "Money" is on both web sites. This shows you how vastly different each and every web search engine or meta seach engine could be. I would suggest when searching information on the web always check atleast two seach engines. This will come in very handy. I would go even as far as to suggest searching both Meta and regular search engines.
How does google compile information:
Google for example has these programs called “bots”. You can think of this application as millions of little spiders crawling all over the web domains and collecting data from every URL. These spiders obtains one web address, then that one web address links to two others. Those two link to on continually for millions of web pages. Just think of how complex and long that system of information would be, millions of web pages, billions of articles, trillions of words. The bots then return to Google, where a database copies the information for use. This action is performing 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. These bots never stop working. This gives google the most up to date information on every website.
Here are some articles on these google bots :
Here is a video to you NEED to watch about googlebots:
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
PRESENTATION AND WEB 2.0 PROJECT
Presentation Evaluation Rubric
Name of Presenter: James Marcic
Your Name: James Marcic
Missing or lacking | Meets the minimum but could be improved | Excellent | |
Is there a logical flow and sequence of content? How could it be improved? | Yes. I presented information very well. | ||
Does the presenter anticipate questions and answer them in the right place? At what points did you have questions that were not answered? | |||
Did the presenter grab your attention in the first 30-60 seconds? | Yes, good opening line. | ||
Did the presenter ask questions and spark your curiosity? | . Yes. Interesting subject. I enjoyed the presentation. | ||
Did the presenter set the context with a concise explanation? Is it clear what the presenter is trying to share? | Yes. Helping the economy is emportant. Should of elaborated more though. | ||
Did the presenter validate any claims? | Yes. Good sources and information. | ||
Did the presenter avoid inconsistencies and errors, typos and unbelievable claims? | Yes, all were believable and consistent with presentation. | ||
How well did the presenter avoid clutter? | None. Great job with white spaces. | ||
What did the presenter do to ensure readability? | Yes, very few words, and more talking. | ||
Did the presenter say it, and then show it or did he/she read the slides? | Said the information and then showed it. Well informed… |
The Project
My presentation was to pitch an entrepreneurial idea to a venture capital company. This project has helped me to learn how to set up a PowerPoint presentation. This alone was not an easy task. I was unaware of the extent of how in-depth you can customize a PowerPoint presentation. There is timing involved, page entrances and animation. All of these play key roles in developing a fantastic presentation. I learned how to use web sites such as Authorstream or Jing to transfer PowerPoint presentation into video format. These application websites transferred the PowerPoint into MP4 format, which could be transferred to a Web 2.0 site. I used Youtube to stream my media to the public. Youtube is a great tool for publishing and downloading amateur videos to the web. Youtube has comment boards for people to critique your video to help you become more video proficient. I am a young entrepreneur, and I made a presentation on my small company. This turned out to be a great tool for my company. I am able to get free public advertisement through Youtube, and also I can post link on our website and facebook accounts to hopefully obtain more business. This project also taught me when presenting an idea to an executive board you need to be very clean and clear in your presentation.
Self Critique
My presentation was an idea, an idea that will hopefully turn into an entrepreneurial dream. My presentation was an entrepreneurial pitch to a venture capital company. I pitch a small chicken coop company. The context flow of my presentation was very direct. I answered many question and all before they were asked. I allowed time between the slides to help the listener to compute the information given to him or her. The content was filled with statistics, images, graphs, and information.
The presentation was well put together. The narrator keep ahead of the PowerPoint slides; he knew about the topic. This is a key aspect of presentation success. If the presenter is uneducated about his or her topic the presentation will instantly lose any chance of success. This presentation was very thorough in describing the different coops. The Presentation has a whole slide dedicated to the statistics of the chicken industry. This I thought really helped to push the idea of hopefully sparking interest in the investor. All his claims and statistics were very accurate and he used very reliable sources. The graph helped the investor to envision the possible capital.
The presentation topic was rather interesting to learn about. I could have grabbed the reader’s attention more in the first minute. I tried to start with an unusual approach, by starting off with loud and enthusiastic remarks. This would get a reader’s attention but not enough to keep them entertained by the issues present. The readability of the presentation was very helpful, but I feel like I used too many word. I had too many list. I felt this might have been a distraction for the investor. They would be focusing more on the the presentation said, then the presenter.
Critiquing is a very useful tool for people to view the presentation and give feedback. I learned a lot from other classmate's presentation. What I should include, what should be described more, what not to do. I believe I am more satisfied by my presentation after critiquing other classmate’s projects.
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