James Cochran’s Blog

After days of typing, rehearsing, and creating a PowerPoint I am finally done with my CIT 499 presentation for my Emerging Technologies class.  If you’ve been following my posts you already know basically what I’ve done and what this presentation talks about.  It runs down how I started the class thinking I’d be able to learn Obj-C and create an iPhone app to turning my focus to the CIT@IUPUI Facebook page.

I had a lot of fun working in this class this semester and learning about all sorts of new tools and technologies.  Hopefully Dr. Ho will keep teaching this class because people seeking a CIT degree need to be familiar with all the different things that are out there.

I used www.SlideShare.net to upload my presentation which is a fun WEB 2.0 site for sharing Powerpoint presentations and it will even allow you to share Keynote presenations from Apple’s iWork software.  Cool!

For posterity I’ve uploaded the PowerPoint Show to my host and you can grab it here http://jamescochran.org/CIT499Presentation.ppsx.  It basically goes over what I had to do to get an email listserv into an rss feed and then how I got that feed to start posting to the CIT@IUPUI.edu Facebook Page.  So if you’re looking to do the same sort of thing this may be worth the 15 minutes of your time to look at.  Beware, the download is about 123 MB.

If you’re looking for an upper level elective to take at IUPUI for CIT I would recommend this class.  I learned quite a bit, got to talk about technology, and had a blast!