A webpage dating back to 1991 has been unearthed, after a plea from CERN to send in files, software and URLs from the web’s earliest days.
What are your earliest memories of the web? What site did you first visit? How old were you? What browser were you on?
My first memory of using the World Wide Web (WWW) occurred somewhere between 1992 and 1996. So imprecise a date, I am astonished! I recall vividly where I made “contact”. Contact was made from my office PC computer in the second new Business Studies building at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand. I used Gopher or Mosaic to view the pizza menu at a pizza delivery store in some town in the USA. That moment was my ‘eureka!’ moment. If I could find such trivial information from half way around the world, then I saw that access to any information would become possible.
I recall using the WWW usefully only when I purchased my first Mac computer, a laptop color screen 5390(?) around 1995-6. Then I used Netscape. I was an early deployer of WebCT, a learning management system, LMS, in my Massey University course Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship, ICE. I must credit my postgraduate student Peter Koziol for setting up the WebCT LMS. By 2000, I was a heavy user of the Blackboard LMS at Unitec Institute of Technology. Now I use Moodle.
My first experience using a computer in a WWW-like manner occurred whilst employed in New Zealand’s national physics and engineering laboratory, PEL. I created and deployed a software application used by my clients to conduct strategic planning studies for the New Zealand Dairy Products processing industry. Using the DSIR Computer Network I could use a rudimentary email service with my clients. This was implemented simply by setting up a text file that would automatically display to my addressee when they logged in to the computer network we shared. That was over the period 1978-2002.
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‘Poor verbal skills and grammar’ presented at an interview is one of the “top four” interview mistakes according to York College of Pennsylvania’s Center for Professional Excellence.
Summary reblogged from
Troyer, B. (2012, May 30). College Grads Lacking Professionalism in the Workplace. Retrieved May 14, 2013, from http://comerecommended.com/2012/05/college-grads-lacking-professionalism-in-the-workplace-infographic/
Generation Y is accustomed to a much more lax atmosphere where sending text message-like emails from their smart phones is second nature. Recent grads are becoming more laid back, but their future workplace may not be.
The job market is as competitive as ever. As recent college graduates have looming school loans over their heads there is no better time to avoid the common mistakes of the rest of the Gen Y’ers vying for the same positions.
The 2012 “Professionalism in the Workplace Study” surveyed a national sample of HR professionals, upper class undergraduates, and managers or supervisors. The study helped to define professionalism and provide numbers to analyze the current state of professionalism in the American workforce.
It is important for recent graduates to take in to account the qualities most sought after by their next interviewer. From an HR standpoint, the most essential qualities of professionalism are listed below:
- Interpersonal skills (33.6%)
- Appearance (25.3%)
- Communication skills (24.9%)
- Time management (20.8%)
- Confidence (20.7%)
- Ethical (15.2%)
- Work ethic (14.2%)
- Knowledgeable (9.3%)
Full source report
York College of Pennsylvania. (2012). 2012 Professionalism in the Workplace Study. York, Pennsylvania. Retrieved from http://www.ycp.edu/media/yorkwebsite/cpe/2012-Professionalism-in-the-Workplace-Study.pdf
The comments on the blog summary are most instructive!
Team Contribution Calculator.
How do you assess the individual contribution of team members on a project that the team members collaborate to produce? … How do you deal with the typical situation where different team members contribute different inputs to the team?
The video demonstrates and explains a spreadsheet-based Team Calculator that allows either a teacher and/or students to peer rate each other’s contributions to a team project. The calculator utilises the ratings combined with the grade allocated to the total team output to produce an individual contribution mark for each team member.
The calculator is designed to minimise the impact of free-loading and scape-goating. This is achieved through using (a) ranking (b) statistical medians rather than statistical means for the calculations. Consequently, extreme peer-rankings (high or low) are eliminated from the calculations automatically.
Download a prototype version of the spreadsheet from here:
Mellalieu, P. (2013, May 13). Team Contribution Calculator - Prototype Version 2.1 [Spreadsheet]. Unitec Institute of Technology. Retrieved from https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49418067/Team%20Contribution%20ver.%202.1%20copy.xls
Technical note
The spreadsheet was first created in Apple iWork Numbers, exported as an Excel file to NeoOffice, and fine-tuned for export as an Excel file to my public Dropbox for sharing. The video was created using Screenflow 4.
An MIT engineer has founded a mechanical engineering company named Rethink Robotics that has developed an industrial robot which doesn’t take months to install and program. [The robot] can simply be plugged in and made ready to assume production-line functions in less than an hour - at a price of just $22,000 (€16,700).
The digital revolution is destroying jobs faster than it is creating them.
But wait … there’s more… snippets from Schulz’s review of Brynjolfsson & McAfee, 2011.
The Taiwanese electronics-manufacturing giant Foxconn, which makes products such as the iPhone, has announced that it intends to gradually install over 1 million robots. Already now, local media have reported that three-quarters of Foxconn workers have been replaced by machines in some departments.
According to the usually accepted rule of thumb, when the economy rapidly grows, unemployment should decline, often by 1 percent for every 3 percent increase in GDP. According to this formula, the US should have almost full employment by now. Instead, even before the financial crisis, no additional jobs were created, although productivity surged at the fastest pace since World War II.
McAfee says that he has no doubt that “the list of activities in which people are better than machines is rapidly shrinking.”
Andrew McAfee: Are droids taking our jobs? (n.d.). Video on TED.com. Retrieved from http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_mcafee_are_droids_taking_our_jobs.html
Brynjolfsson, E., & McAfee, A. (2011). Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy. Digital Frontier Press.
Schulz, T. (2013, March 5). Speed of Innovation and Automation Threatens Global Labor Market. Spiegel Online. Retrieved from http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/speed-of-innovation-and-automation-threatens-global-labor-market-a-897412.html
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