Other Media + Quiz
DUE Thursday, May 03 – 3 points
(Friday NOON deadline)
For this assignment, you will need to listen to the following:
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How to keep up with web innovations (31:16 – 48:38)
In this episode of Boagworld, Paul expands on the last section of the last chapter of the textbook and discusses in more depth how to … well … keep up with web innovations.
Once you have completed the reading, you will need to take a quiz of ten true-false questions. (There are only ten questions below, so the quiz will be made up of all ten of them. Why not make the last quiz a little more manageable? You can retake the quiz up to five times. Don’t stress about getting 100% on these quizzes: if you get 80% or better, you will be ready to proceed to the next activity and I will give you full credit.)
All questions should be prefaced with an understood, “According to the author of the material … “:
- T/F? The web moves at an incredible rate, and keeping up with what’s going on in the industry is really difficult.
- T/F? Paul considers the Boagworld podcast and the Boaglinks Twitter feed to be aggregator tools.
- T/F? Instapaper is a bookmarking service for web content you want to read later.
- T/F? Paul recommends looking at content filtered through big names in the industry on services like as Huffduffer, Twitter, and Delicious.
- T/F? Paul recommends searching Twitter for a certain topic as a keyword (like “
usability“) along with “http://” to find links about that topic. - T/F? A search on the Twitter web site can be limited to include only tweets from people you follow.
- T/F? All three people on the podcast subscribe to at least 40 RSS feeds.
- T/F? Paul mentions an iPhone application called “TranscribeIt” that will take any podcast and produce a transcription of it so you can read it in places where you cannot listen to it.
- T/F? Paul uses Fever to manage the 100+ RSS feeds to which he has subscribed.
- T/F? Paul recommends NewsStand, an RSS Reader for the iPhone.
DUE Thursday, May 03 – 3 points
(Friday NOON deadline)