Well here we are at week 9 of the material. This week deals with two very interesting things in my opinion. The tweaking of audio files is always something I wanted to play with to see if I was any good at it. This remains much of a mystery due to the fact that I cannot connect to the WinSCP server from the university wifi connection (stupid super firewall). I will have to wait until I get back to the old 9 meter square apartment to try my novice out. I have written a wiki this week on codecs, well it was more of an extension to the definition that was already present. I then read up on the modality principle in the text, which I was already pretty familiar with due to my many hours of learning courses is the psych. department in undergrad school. It seems that this theory hasn't changed much, except the statistics that the text mentions are very strong in favor of the principle (median: .97 average: .72), those are pretty strong numbers in the stat world.
Other than that, I haven't done much this week (actually it's just week 7 in the calendar but anywho). I am desperately trying my hardest to get as far ahead as I can because I probably won't have Internet access for two weeks in the middle of April. This is in fact a good thing because I will be camping in Italy for two weeks!! Alas, I continue to push forward toward the goal. On another note, I didn't really understand the Web 2.0 instructions...maybe that's something I need to email the Doc about. And since Dr. Whitworth is probably the only person who will read this, I'll wait a few days for a comment to save you an email. Cheers!
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Ooops, sorry it took so long to read your post. The Web 2.0 activity for week 9 introduces you to the database. Xampp makes it simple to put an apache webserver, php and a mysql database on your computer or laptop. It's great for local development but there are some concerns for security - that's why it's important to shut the thing down when you're not using it. But if you stay updated with security and have some virus protection such as mcAfee which is free to UNT students and only use the server to develop you should have no problems. I wish i could say 100% so it's up to you on how to proceed. If you try it, then later classes will show how to create forms that collect data and retrieve data. Noone has gone this far so i'll wait till i develop for it further (database driven websites).
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